Cspan3, online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] and the house coming in, getting down to legislative work after the fourth of july recess, taking up seven bills this afternoon. All from the Financial Services committee, including a whistleblower protection bill. Also, the house has announced theyll vote friday on the 9 11 Victim Compensation fund bill which passed by the Judiciary Committee unanimously last month by voice vote. And tomorrow, the house will 733 k on the 7 3 defense appropriations bill. The Senate Passed their version. 750 billion measure. Votes in the house this evening at 6 30 eastern. Theyll be here shortly. Live coverage on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the chair will postponefurther proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded
People, including seniors, one of whom was recently threatened with a home foreclosure home foreclosure if they do not pay specified amount. Mr. Cook, i would like my constituents to be prepared when they receive a phone call from an irs imposter. Can you confirm that an irs agent would never call to demand immediate payment, asked for credit or debit card numbers over the phone, or threaten arrest for not paying. Yes i can absolutely confirm that. Those are scams in a consumer should hang up and not provide any information. Okay i appreciate that. Im probably going to repeat what you just said so people understand that in my district. Ill wanted to ask also about reporting incidents. Many consider financial exploitation to be a silent crime as victim are often too ashamed or embarrassed to report what is happen. Additionally can be a challenge for seniors to serve as a criminal witness. Bob forstmann talk about challenges of both identity and financial exploitation. Can you explain th
Theres more road to the whos coverage this evening on the cspan networks. Donald trump is speaking in florida at the Trump National doral miami. A golf resort he owns. Thats at 7 00 eastern on cspan. And at k 30 here on cspan, texas senator ted cruz hold as town hall meeting in council bluffs, iowa. A house energy and commerce subcommittee held a hearing earlier today on protecting Senior Citizens from fraud. Texas congressman Michael Burgess chaired the hearing. Its two hours and 15 minutes. Mr. Burgess the subcommittee will now come to order. And the chair recognizes himself for five minutes for the purpose of an opening statement. This morning, first let me welcome our witnesses. This morning we will receive an update on the Consumer Protection efforts in place to address the fraud risk for americas seniors. As of july, 2013, there are over 44 million americans who are older than 65, thats lmost 14 of the population. The people 65 and older projects to outnumber the people younger t
Senate special aging committee. This is an hour and a half. Good afternoon. It is my great pleasure to call to order the very first hearing of the Senate Special committee on aging. In the 114th congress i have had the honor of being a member of this committee since my very first days in the United States senate and i am delighted to now assume the chairmanship. This is the first time that a maine senator has chaired the committee since the mid1990s when my predecessor and good friend senator bill cohen for whom i worked for 12 years served as the committees chair. Im also pleased to welcome new and returning members to this committee and onto about delighted that my good friend and colleague senator Claire Mccaskill of missouri will service the committees Ranking Member. Senator bill nelson, the former committee chairman, has also chosen to remain a member of this committee and he will continue to share his expertise with us. Throughout its history, the aging committee has spurred con
Brightest of cuba are found and apprehended and thrown into prison. Theres no open internet there. There arent any dictators in the world. China has written a book on how a dictatorship can control the internet with the great firewall of china and we have the situation that will replicate itself bigtime. Finally he would say this testimony from these unbelievably brave women and men who have suffered at the hands of castro helped steer off the veil of secrecy and an open secret if you will. Its been out there but thankfully its through cspan and maybe thats here and congressmen and women who will see this record you are bearing truth and bearing witness to a very ugly reality that is pervasive. Again i do believe the legitimacy that castro craves and i believe just got a helping hand thats not just might be. The Washington Post and others have aligned on that in their editorials. This was not the time to take that view. They shouldve been an effort to say human rights first. As you sai