This hearing will come to order ask without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Let me say good morning and welcome to our witnesses. Todays hearing on vaccine science and innovation. Smallpox once plague said the worlds population plaguing 300 Million People in the 20th century alone. Smallpox is the only human disease to be eradicated thanks to the development of the vaccine. Another devastating disease, polio, had just 33 cases reported worldwide in 2018 compared to 350,000 cases in 1988. Every day vaccines are saving lives especially the lives of children and other vulnerable population. Theres no such thing as healthy skepticism when it comes to vaccines. Unfortunately, there is a wellfunded, Disinformation Campaign targeting the public and weakening Public Health laws. School vaccination requirements have been common place in the u. S. For generations and exemptions were granted only for legitimate medical reasons. However, in my home state of texas,
A House Committee held a hearing yesterday on how the pentagon investigates misconduct by Senior Officers and leaders in the military. The inspectors general of the army, navy, air force and marine corps testified. Colorado congressman mike coffman chaired the hearing. This subcommittee hearing is called to order. I want to welcome everyone to this mornings military personnel subcommittee hearing. The purpose of todays hearing is to receive testimony from the department of defense in the services regarding efforts they have taken to investigate and hold Senior Leaders accountable for misconduct, and to understand what programs and policies are in place to prevent misconduct. Our military enjoys the highest confidence, rating by far of any institutions in american society. This welldeserved reputation has been earned through the service and sacrifice of millions of brave men and women. One byproduct of this reputation is that the military and its leaders are held to a much higher standa
This subCommittee Hearing is called to order. I want to welcome everyone to this mornings military personnel subCommittee Hearing. The purpose of todays hearing is to receive testimony from the department of defense and the services regarding efforts they have taken to investigate and hold Senior Leaders accountable for misconduct and to understand what programs and policies are in place to prevent misconduct. Our military enjoys the highest confidence rating by far of any End Institution in american society. This well deserved reputation has been earned through the service and sacrifice of millions of brave men and women. One byproduct of this reputation is that the military and its leaders are held to a much higher standard than almost any other institution. And i know that you wouldnt have it any other way. When the misconduct involves Senior Leaders the ramifications are even greater. While one incident of senior misconduct is to ensure that all Senior Leaders uphold the highest st
To answer the question and they continually ask this question. Is this really 100 per day per person. In fact it is actually per person that is affected. Its not an import employee. So if that employee has children, their assumption is also 36,500 per char old grandchild as well. No one will give them an answer from the irs on what that penalty is and how it stacks up. All the big it is a stall from that and we have to get clarification because there are businesses that are out there that do have a problem whether for religious reasons were other reasons. If they miss one, that is a pretty big hit. It is no longer just a fee or a penalty, but that is punitive. 36,500 per person. What i can say from the perspective of my planning is that that is not in my current work plan to address that issue. So that does not necessarily answer your question, and if that is the case, i will take you back. Any guess on a time limit . They have asked for months of clarification. Can we get a time we mi
His charges now now upgraded to seconddegree murder despite calls by many including the floyd family for first degree charges in this case. We gathered all the facts that we could, we reviewed the criminal statutes, we looked at case law, we consulted with each other, and we arrived at these charges. We believe that they are justified by the facts and the wall. Martha we will bring you a live report on the brandnew developments in that case, and josh hawley, reporter for the state of missouri will join us with his analysis. He is also a member of the Senate Judiciary committee, busy day they are as they their first witness in the investigation of crossfire hurricane, the 2016 probe of the Trump Campaign and possible collusion with russia. That is the other developing story as we go through this evening, it is a probe that cost over 30 million and lasted two years with no evidence of criminal conspiracy or coordination between the Trump Campaign and russia. At the heart of the probe the