House panel investigates Racial Disparities in the military Justice System to be here for military legal officials and the president of protected offenders during this House Armed Services subcommittee hearing. [inaudible conversations] like to thank you for joining our remote hearing. In ott [inaudible] establishing and maintaining a quorum or dissipating in the proceedings and voting could members participating remotely must continue to use Software Platforms video function while attending the proceedings and other technical problems that render the member unable to fully participate on on camera today for members participating remotely experience as technical difficulties sees contact to the Committee Staff get assistance they will help you get reconnected them recognize video from a we participation will be broadcast in the room in via the Television Internet feed their members participate in remotely are asked to mute their microphones when they are not speaking. Doing so will hel
The George Washington institute for data, democracy and politics is hosting this forum. Live coverage on cspan2. Today we tackle another grade disinformation harm, election disinformation. We will have two very important panels. Offers will focus on foreign interference. The second panel will zero in on democratic integrity and Voter Suppression. These are vitally important themes. They are both areas of urgent and serious challenge threatening civil discourse and our democracy itself. We have to understand them, find ways to stop them, all apple for by social media. In between our panel will hear from stacey abrams, founder of fair fight 2020 and will describe the realities she is experienced and she is trying to confront. Were hosting is a series of forms impala with workshops hosted by the center for International Governance innovation on disinformation come online governments exploit domestic and International Governance. Our series is held in cooperation with members of the Intern
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The decision and the policies Going Forward that can affect how the platforms are held accountable and how they behave. Lets start with a short video. To illustrate the damaging impact of disinformation on Health Care Professionals, on consumers who turned to social media for information about covid19 generally and about how to protect themselves. [video clip] emotions that healthcare care workers are feeling of fear and excited. It is the first time i have ever been scared. As a nurse. We are fighting viruses. We are fighting the virus of covid19 and fighting the virus of misinformation. Im not even sure which one is harder at this point. I had colleagues that shared with me of intentional bleach in gestion aimed at preventing or curing covid19, misled by social media. That is how the bleach misinformation has spread in our communities. All the disinformation is putting patients at risk. People comment that have had symptoms. They decided the virus is not real. They were told it is ju
I thought this happened. Good afternoon everybody i want to welcome everyone to the finance Committee Oversight hearing the fda foreign drug manufacturing inspection process. And the taxpayers whether medicare or medicaid and second and the jurisdiction under trade with the responsibility that only Quality Pharmaceuticals that responsibility is heightened now that we are living through the covid pandemic whether were in the midst of a pandemic the supplychain and starting june of last year on this issue to secretary as are in the commissioner. I ask a series of questions related to manufacturing facilities overseas to file dosages for drugs and pharmaceutical ingredients and throughout the day also with the fda managing its inspection regime that says the fda does conduct some unannounced inspections on the frequency but the gao and 2019 that they estimated they generally provided 12 weeks of notice before the inspection for them to do their jobs and 12 weeks common sense tells me ther