This hearing will come to order. Thank you all for being here today. One year ago today, lyon air 610 crashed into the sea in jakarta indonesia. All 189 people on board were killed. A few months later, an Ethiopian Air flight departed, and flight 302 experienced problems shortly after takeoff and crashed. All 157 persons on board died. Both of these accidents were entirely preventible. We cannot fathom the pain experienced by the families of those 346 human beings who were lost. Many family members are here today and we appreciate their attendance. I appreciate many of them meeting with members of the committee over time. As chairman of this committee, i promise their loved ones were working to obtain a full answer as to how to prevent future tragedies. These families deserve answers, accountability and action. And the public deserves no less. The type of aircraft involved in both accidents is a 737 max 8. Manufactured by boeing. International aviation safety regulators began grounding
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The committee will now come to order. Before we get started. We have to win this panels this morning. Senator brown and i will give our opening remarks first and then we will hear from Senators Gardner and merkley. Once the senators have finished their statements we will proceed with our second panel of witnesses. Today the committee will hear from witnesses about the challenges that state sanction businesses in the cannabis industry have one trying to access mainstream Financial Services. Under the controlled substance act, marijuana, or cannabis is currently considered a schedule one drug. Being categorized as a schedule one drug means that the possession, distribution, or sale of marijuana or other marijuana derive projects is illegal under federal law. Any protests proceeds from cannabis remain subject to anti Money Laundering laws such as the Money Laundering control act. In the last several years many have used legalized marijuana in some form. Whether legal or recreational. Use
Things that will be valuable to the pilots its not always the case that more information adds to safety. Though in this case we understand this, this is one of the additions going forward. Brazil thought it added to their safety i want to touch a little bit on senator fisher, the question that she raised earlier. All these changes have taken place, of course over the years. And this plane is still working off its original certification from 1967. This is despite the fact that pilots have told me the max 8 is in no way functionally similar to the original 737s that took to the skies 52 years ago. I said in the last hearing that we had, seems to me like theres been so many significant modifications, its almost as if you took a canoe and turned it into a cruise ship mr. Hamilton, can you tell me how many derivative certificates boeing has received for the 737 since initially being certified over 50 years ago . I senator, i dont have the exact number in my head. Its approximately 14. 14 or
Officials testify about Consumer Protection. They looked at Internet Service providers, Tech Companies and Internet Users who repost thirdparty material. The committee will now come to order. The chair now recognizes himself for five minutes for an opening statement. Online content moderation has largely enabled the internet experience that we know today, whether its looking up restaurant reviews on yelp, catching up on snl on youtube or checking in on a friend or a loved one on social media, these are all experiences that weve come to know and rely on, and the platforms we go to to do these things have been enabled by usergenerated content as well as the ability of these companies to moderate that content. Section 23069 Communications Decency act has enabled that ecosystem to evolve, by giving Online Companies the ability to moderate content without equating them to the publisher or speaker of that content, weve enabled the creation of massive online communities of millions and billio