Jeff landry, testified before a house judiciary subcommittee. Subcommittee will come to order, without objection declare recess at anytime. We welcome everyone to todays hearing on the weaponization of the federal government and we particularly want to welcome back our friend and colleague, mr. Steube from the great state of florida. Good to see him healthy and strong, back working with us. Weve asked if he would lead us in a pledge of allegiance. We pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. For which it stands one nation under bruce richardson. Justice and justice for all. Thank you, mr. Do be. Chairman recognizes himself an opening statement. 22 days ago, republicans on this committee released a report showing the federal trade commission sent 12 letters to twitter in a three month time span. Happened to be the three months time that mr. Musk had purchased the company. In the first letter, after the first twitter files, the first question was, who are the journal
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In. The house in session today taking up a number of bills this week to coincide with combating trafficking and Child Protection week, you can follow the house on cspan. We are covering coverage of the briefing by the budget director, mick mulvaney, president unveiling the fiscal year 2018 Budget Proposal. We have posted that budget on our website at the top of cspan. Org. You can see the budget directors briefing and all the other related briefings online as well as cspan. Org. Pro tempe senator from utah. Mr. Hatch mr. President , i rise today to discuss International Data privacy. This is a critically important issue that has become all the more important over the years, as weve become more sophisticated. But its been pressing in recent months as a result of the Court Decisions impacting Law Enforcements ability to access Electronic Communications overseas. I dont think it will surprise anyone, mr. President , to hear me say our privacy laws have not kept pace with technological dev
Visitors to the hill. We have a few of them here today with us. Thank you for all the work that you do. We thank you. Now turning our attention to the hearing, we are joined by the 14th administrator of the epa scott pruitt. Congratulations on your confirmation. You have joined a distinguished group. We look forward to hearing your vision and working with you to provide the resources necessary to lead an agency. We are also joined by holly greaves. I believe this is your first time testifying before the subcommittee as well. Welcome to both of you. Before we dive into the specifics, administrator pruitt, you have a tough job here today. 54 billion for nondefense spending to defense side of the ledger. Those are tough lines to meet. And many tough choices were necessary in order to meet those targets. Earlier this morning i along with Ranking Member, miss mccollum and other members discussed the Defense Budget at the hearing with secretary mattis that conversation further underscored th