Abuse of minors and athletes they are responsible for protecting. [chatter] [bangs gavel] i would like to call this hearing back to order. At this time i vitamins witness, mysteries cologne, ceo of the u. S. Center for safe sport to join us on i like to call this hearing back to order. At this time i like to call the ceo for you is safe sports. Join us at the table. In 2017 Congress Gave safe sport jurisdiction to process all types of abuse and develop policies to prevent all forms of abuse and harassment. Both physical and emotional within sports. This was in the aftermath of horrific abuse cases coming to the publics attention across several sports along with some governing body efforts to minimize or even cover up abuse and the refusal to take action against abusers or even promptly notify Law Enforcement. Safe sport was launched to fix the broken system. We are very grateful to have the seal with us today share safe sports view with the commission and i will now yield five minutes
Members of the public who wish to provide remote Public Comment on this item should dial star three on the phone or click raise hand in webex. Please note you will have two minutes. Do we have any remote Public Comments for this item . We have one caller. Thank you, um. Color your time begins now. Can you hear me again . We can hear you, mr. Pill pill . Yes. Great david. Fill pelican. So um, thanks for being the code of conduct packed for a second round today. I think the language is good. I had a couple of suggested. Edits on the paragraph on x party communications. Um i think it might read better if it says it shall be the policy of the refuge rate board for members to not communicate blah, blah, blah so that it its not whats against the policy, but says what the policy is, um, second point there, i would consider expanding that ban on communications to not just be with refuse companies but also with city departments that receive funds through the impound account with regard to use o
Threaten just their system, that is, it was just, you know, such a vivid manifestation of an already dying system, which is afraid of any steps, even to save itself, and in the end, i think that just this, that what happened then at the chernobyl accident, this completely failed attempt to cover it up scale, it became such an earthquake that started cracking throughout the system and led to its collapse. After the orange revolution, and then after the revolution of dignity, in fact, ukrainians began to gain access to the archives of the kgb, to those materials that were, unfortunately, inaccessible before, and which shed light on the chernobyl disaster. A lot appeared, including scientific works, your articles appeared, so to speak, which formed the basis of research later. Chernobyl disaster, was under the auspices, under the auspices the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance published these archives, one of the books was published, which contained a lot of information, which i
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the spe speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. September 28, 2023. I hereby appoint the honorable Glenn Thompson to act as speaker pro tempore on the day. Signed, kevin mccarthy, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. The chaplain would you pray with me . Let all who believe in you, o god, offer their supplications, their prairks their intersessions and their thanksgivings on behalf of our leaders and all who serve in positions of authority. Let us each pause to take advantage of the privilege you have given us to pray for the men and women of this congress. Lay on us the American People, the awareness of our responsibility to raise our voices, not to condemn or cajole, but to pray to you, that you would intercede for our lawmaker, and to give thanks to you, showing our deeper gratitude for th
In 2008, when i was the curator of the archive of the Security Service of ukraine, how much resistance there was even within the system of the Security Service of ukraine, the essence of this resistance was that that we are not we can expose the methods of operation of the communist special services, because they can be useful, can be used everyday, it just shocked me at the time, because as a historian i knew very well what the methods of operation of the communist special services were, and it is obvious that talking about that is something. Something similar can and should be used in independent ukraine, it is an automatic recognition that ukraine is definitely far from a Democratic State and is not going to move towards some european and Democratic State, therefore one of the first steps of the new government in in 2010, under the leadership of yanukovych, the new head of the Security Service, khoroshkovsky , there was an attempt to bottle this genie again, to close these archives