The Ranking Member and i will be recognized for five minutes during the question and answer sessions. Without objections ordered we will both be recognized for three minutes and they will now yield myself threeminute but once again thank you for being here its been seven years since the chair of the Federal Reserve has appeared before this committee and we are very grateful for your being willing to do that i want to make sure that we support the independence and the repeated attacks are unacceptable and dangerous. I look forward to hearing the testimony and discussing Opportunities Congress and the fed have to support the workers and to foster a healthy sustainable economy that works for all americans and with that i will yield to the Ranking Member. It is an honor to have you before this committee as the chairman of the committee has said its been many years since the researcher man has been here and now we are delighted to have you. I will submit my opening comment for the record so
Federal reserve. Thank you, chair powell, for coming to our committee today to testify on the economy. We know youre on a tight schedule and in order to keep you on schedule and ensure all members have an opportunity to ask questions, i ask unanimous consent to deviate from the fiveminute rule. Members will be recognized during the questionandanswer succession for three minutes without objections and the Ranking Member and i will be recognized for five minutes instead of ten. So ordered. Per agreement we will reduce our time for opening remarks and both be recognized for three minutes. I know yield myself three minutes which i will not use, but once again, thank you for being here. Its been seven years since the chair of the Federal Reserve has appeared before this committee and we are very grateful for your being willing to do that. And i want to say at the outset, im going to submit my written testimony for the record to save time. But i also want to make sure you know we wholehearte
Today who are not members of the committee that they be recognized for three minutes to ask questions after Committee Members have asked theirs and note only Committee Members will be allowed to make Opening Statements. Hearing no objections so ordered. The chair recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. First of all, thank you, everyone, for being here this morning. Its an honor for those of us that are not from chicago to be here here. Im anna eschew and this is the midwestern part of my family and its an honor to be here with my colleagues on a very serious issue and this is the first energy and Commerce Committee hearing of the gun violence epidemic in our country as a Public Health issue. This subcommittee has jurisdiction over Public Health issues in our country. I want to recognize first the members of the committee who represent the parts of chicago and the region starting with congressman bobby rush whose district we are in. Thank you, bobby, very much for
Of the whole country so how do they achieve that well one way is to act like all of north korea is one person all 26000000 people or a single pudgy tyrant that is. Now look at these headlines from just a couple weeks ago if you see just north korea executed its Top Nuclear Negotiators according to a report yes the whole nation executed them every every even the baby North Koreans played a hand in the murder of north korean babies just 5. Nuclear negotiators say really and this is my favorite from reuters north korea executes envoy to failed us summit media who told you they were executed media. Media told me you know. They tell us the exit was made the. Point is every. Buddy in america sees this and thinks dear god what a tyrant kim jong un is but oh wait 3 days later we find out north korean official executed over failed Nuclear Summit with us c. N. N. Doing concert. If you were executed would you want to relax with a nice concert i mean why not have some fun youre already dead time t
But dont worry if you were still into the story about how the Nuclear Envoy had been killed and you dont like the part where it wasnt true you can still find the article about how they were executed on the New York Times website right now. This is the opening sentence that is still online as of this taping north korea has executed its special envoy to the u. S. On spying charges as its leader kim jong un has engineered a sweeping purge of the countrys Top Nuclear Negotiators you would think at the very least once the New York Times reporter found out the envoy was alive they might put at the top of the article correction a totally not executed. Order correction everything that follows is utter horse. Diarrhea heated up with a ball on top all right you should not read this you are getting dumber with every sentence you take into your brain ball please. Stop reading this rancid garbage should i mean the government ought to go. Way this way. Back in fact to the New York Times credit of th