Will committee on the judiciary subcommittee on constitutional civil rights and Civil Liberties come to order. Thank you for your help getting the door shut and getting people. Care will authorize the recess of the subcommittee any time. Welcome everyone to this hearing on hr 40 and thei will recognize myself or opening statement. Today is the documents the announcement of the abolition of slavery in texas and more generally throughout the confederacy. The news of the emancipation proclamation did not reach texas for 2 years and it was not until 1865 dental they were free. Despite the announcement. Slavery was a crime against humanity one which impacts we continue to grapple with today. This also marks the 400 anniversary of the first african state slaves being brought to america. Slavery was our original sin. Our constitution protected the and various compromises that gave disproportionate power to slave states. The thrift 3 5 clause they were consider personal property and that gave
muller found that individuals associated with the 2016 campaign of the president welcome brushes assistance and adjusted their political strategy. so then candidate donald trump might benefit from russia s assistance. when they were subsequently asked by law enforcement about their activities, president trump s advisors repeatedly lied. in helsinki in july of 2018, however, president trump refused to a knowledge the russian threat to our elections. and when reporter explicitly asked whether he believed putin, for the u.s. intelligence on the issue of foreign interference, and the 2016 election, president trump said quote i don t see any reason why it would be russia. and talked about the deviancy server. the mages say we have two thoughts, you have groups that are wondering why the fbi never took the server, why have they taken the server. why was the fbi told to leave the office of the democratic national committee. i have been wondering that. i have been asking that for m
The deregulation, just that i think that has more to do with the market going up than anticipation of the tax cuts. 22 regulations go away for every new regulation coming on. That has, that has really greased the skids for a lot of businesses in this country. No, youre absolutely right. And the momentum has been building before the tax cuts even went through, david and mary. So, and americans are watching. You mentioned the media earlier as well and how theyre not really reporting on the president s accomplishments. If you are one of those workers who got a yearend bonus of 1,000 david right. Of a number of companies that have provided bonuses, whether youre a republican or a democrat youre going to be taking a second look at what your representative is doing or not doing in terms of whats bestc for americans and whats best for the country. David by the way, one thing else that has been overlooked by the Mainstream Media is the importance of not only neil gore such on the neil gorsuch
All right, bear with me here. I have all this technology but thank you everyone for coming today. Open to the Washington Post, im mike bowes, i cover Washington Congress for the post. Im here today to discuss the nations Opioid Crisis and i know i dont need help the people in this room about the scale of that crisis. The victims, families, doctors, Public Health officials, people that look like me and lawmakers like these have been spreading the word about whats been going on and were going to begin our program today with a discussion of the policy and government response and i invite you all to sit down. So turning me on stage and part me just a moment while i just, first we have Diana Degette of colorado, a senior democrat on the house committee, ranking democrat on the oversight and investigations subcommittee. She cosponsors or coauthored the 20th century jurors act with which put 1 billion of new federal funds into the full viewing epidemic to combat it. Chief deputy whip of the H
The early 1930s. We had a wonderful panel for you today. I dont think i need to name all of them. You have here the bios of each. People well prepared to discuss this very serious topic. Let me just say two more things. One, this event is timed in part to something very unusual, a fulllength regular movie, bitter harvest, coming to a theater near you later this week. You may have seen advertisement for this on tv over the weekend. Ive seen a pic of fact ive more in touch more than once. He keeps your attention a very, very difficult subject. But its not a documentary. Its a fulllength feature film which seems to be the way to catch peoples attention in this post modernist age. Second thing and hepatitis a i did not need to be reminded, you can follow us at hashtag future ukraine. And with that, i think im done. I will just introduce Timothy Fairbanks is a senior fellow nonresident senior fellow at our center will be moderating todays discussion. Tim . Sorry, i knew i would make a mista