Meeting to order at this time and i would like to, if i may, give just a brief overview of what you can expect. We called the meeting to order that would have been an Opening Statement of the chair and Ranking Member, Opening Statements from chairwoman waters and are witnesses will give their Opening Statement and then we will have q and a of witnesses and adjournments. The title of todays hearing is protecting homeowners during the pandemic oversight of Mortgage Services implementations of the cares act. Without objection the cares authorized to declare a recess of the subcommittee at any time. Also without objection members of the committee who are not members of the subcommittee may participate in todays hearing for the purposes of making an Opening Statement and asking questions of witnesses. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times, even when they are not recognized by the chair. Members also are reminded that they are responsible for muting and on meeting
Impacts much of Silicon Valley print our guest reporter is Emily Birnbaum of the protocol. Thank you both for being on the communicators this week. Thank you for having us. Host congressman, as the representative of Silicon Valley how would you describe the reputation of some of the Member Companies in your district right now in washington . Guest well, i think on one hand there is a lot of positiv positives. If you look at the polling the Tech Companies pull about 60, 70 of their approval and there is a sense that these are companies and some are working on vaccines and companies are working on antivirals and they are allowing for remote work, for remote calls that they are engaged in allowing us to have good medication in the time of a pandemic and allowing them to get groceries or information but that said there are a lot of other ethical issues in a sense of essential workers being paid appropriately and are these doing enough combat hate speech and Voter Suppression and are they d
I would like to call the meeting to order at this time and i would like to, if i may, give just a brief overview of what you can expect. We have called the meeting to order and there will be an Opening Statement of the chair and Opening Statements of the Ranking Member, Opening Statement from chairwoman waters and witnesses will be introduced and they will give their Opening Statements and we will have q a and adjournments. The title of todays hearing is protecting homeownerss during e pandemic, oversight of Mortgage Services, implementation of the cures act and without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the subcommittee at any time. E. Also without objection of members of committee who are not members of this subcommittee may participate in todays hearing for the purposes of making an Opening Statement and questions of witnesses. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times, even when they are not recognized by the chair. Members are also rem
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Quorum call quorum call mr. Sanders madam president. The presiding officer the senator from vermont is recognized. Sorry. Mr. Sanders thank you. Madam president , since last week the senate has been quote, unquote, debating the presiding officer senator, were in a quorum call. Mr. Sanders i would ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Sanders madam president , since last week, the senate ostensibly one of the great deliberative bodies in the world, supposedly, has been quote, unquote, debating the 740 billion National Defense authorization act. Its been a very, very silent debate because of the 700 amendments that have been filed to this bill. There has been no roll call votes on any of them. I do understand that in the managers amendments have been accepted, and thats fine, but weve had a vigorous debate but nobody in the world has heard that debate because theres not been one amendment here on the floor. And knowing the way the senate does