Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The ambassador discussed ways russia could be brought to justice and accusations the pentagon withheld evidence of war crimes. This is an hour andn 15 minutes. The. [background noises] the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Il for well over a year noticing the horror of putins illegal unprovoked invasion and the brutality he has inflicted on the people of ukraine. Russian airstrikes have destroyed schools, flattened apartment buildings, killed mothers and babies in maternity wards. We have witnessed bombs on children and caregivers of Government Protection attacks on civilian Nuclear Facilities and a systematic targeting of civilian infrastructure but it is a night here it does not let the current human rights organizations Russian Forces occupied village schools, airport hangers whatever they them find and converted into makeshift torture chambers with a beat, electrocute and threaten to mutilate ukrainian detainees. T
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Nd the process is failing. Individuals and Small Businesses should not have to weigh the cost of hiring outside help against paying the assessment. The only interaction with the i. R. S. Is when they file their taxes. When the taxpayers dont find themselves in a dispute and fair and prompt process. I look forward to working with the Ranking Member and to the hearing from our witnesses as we continue to examine reforms. I yield to the distinguished Ranking Member, mr. Lewis, for the purpose of an opening statement. Mr. Lewis thank you, mr. Chairman for holding this aring involving taxpayers dispute. I welcome you back to washington, mr. Chairman and on behalf of the citizens of georgia and especially the citizens of the 5th district, we are able to welcome hundreds and thousands of people from florida. I went into a parking lot in andtown atlanta on saturday there were so many cars from florida and people were walking their dogs in the parks. Were neighbors. Ms. Wilsonto welcome. I have
Momentarily here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, proceedings will resume on motions to suspend the rules previously postponed. Votes will be taken in the following order. H. R. 452 by the yeas and nays and h. R. 3243 by the yeas and nays. The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15minute vote. Remaining votes will be conducted as fiveminute votes. The Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from montana, mr. Gianforte, to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 452 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 452, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 324 west st. Louis street in pacific, missouri, as the specialist jeffrey l. White jr. Post office. The speaker pro tempore the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 1
[applause] my name is justin desmangles. I am the chair of the before Columbus Foundation. About eight years ago i proceeded in that position, our founder, ishmael reed, we are very fortunate to have with us joining the program today. There were some very big shoes to fill. Of course, i want to thank our friends at the San Francisco jazz center who had been so generous in their support of the american book awards for the last several years. Also our friend at cspan who continue to support the Historical Mission of the before Columbus Foundation and american book awards. I will say a few things about our direction that we embarked on recently. Over the past several years we have expanded our programming to include a number of partnerships in the bay area and nationally, including those with the San Francisco Public Library who i am very honored to say, one of the representatives, stuart shaw who has been instrumental facilitating the collaboration between the before Columbus Foundation