We will now proceed with Opening Statements. I wish you all a good morning and welcome to the fourth hearing in the economic Emergency Management subcommittee. One of the purposes of this committee is to protect taxpayer dollars by ensuring they are spent effectively, efficiently and with transparency. That brings us to todays hearing which is entitled landlord and tenant. You can tell from the title that today we will be investigating fairly unprecedented situation. The federal government owns the building that houses President Trumps d. C. Hotel hotel. Since President Trump has declined, he is essentially acting as both the landlord and the tenant. Before i was elected to congress , over three decades Teaching College students about American Government and politics. Serious discussions about the legislature holding the executive Branch Accountable to the highest legal and ethical standards and that is exactly what we hope to do today. First lets start with some facts. All federal wor
Provision that the Defense Department has been using in order to buy Russian Helicopters for afghanistan. This practice has been met without the action and was objectionable in it again and became more objectionable as the russians continue to supply Bashar Alassad and based upon what they have done in crimea, it should be entirely unacceptable. Also, i just learned this morning that President Hamid karzai announced his support for the russian annexation of crimea and approval of russian actions, which makes her purchase of russian weapons even more outrageous. After all that we have done to support him and the afghans with the u. S. Tax dollars and the lives and injuries to the Coalition Soldiers and after all weve done over a decade of time president karzai reaches out and publicly supports the russian actions. Contrary to ours. This is a nation and its beyond believe the president karzai can support countries like syria and venezuela. His support the russian action when we are there
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To have that wave forked the gag orders. What are the elements in the bill you are think are promises moving tbhard address your concerns . I think the provisions you just described are crucial to the bill, and for that reason we have the aclu strongly supports the legislation. The sense of legislation. You know, one thing ill say on that it got to be the beginning. It cant be the end of reform in this area. There is a lot of surveillance that go on nods are outside the scope of these particular provisions being addressed in the bill. A lot of surveillance goes on under 1233 some of the documents released last night have to do the surveillance. Then there are structure issues that have to be addressed too if youre going to ensure that surveillance is used in the way it ought to be used. Refresh her recollection, you have need stronger protection for whistle blowers. Make sure they feel protected bringing it to light. You have to have some way to ensure that the courts can review what t