This hearing will get underway. My apologies for being tardy. Im running around a lot today but thank you all for your patience and welcome to todays hearing on the telephone Consumer Protection act. When passing tcpa 25 years ago congress sought a balanced approach that protects the privacy of individuals and permitted legitimate telemarketing practices. A as a result a number of telemarketing pract is have been significantly reduced or eliminates. For example companies have to maintain donotcall list and could not make solicitation calls before 8 00 a. M. Or after 9 00 p. M. But tcpa is showing its age and there are opportunities to build on the consumer benefits and ensuring consumers fully benefit from modern communications. Consumers should be able to take advantage of technology to help them fall victim to actors though those who ignore do not call requirements. I doubt there is a person in this room whos that not received a recorded mobile voice call telling them theyve won a cr
This hearing will get underway. My apologies for being tardy. Im running around a lot today but thank you all for your patience and welcome to todays hearing on the telephone Consumer Protection act. When passing tcpa 25 years ago congress sought a balanced approach that protects the privacy of individuals and permitted legitimate telemarketing practices. A as a result a number of telemarketing pract is have been significantly reduced or eliminates. For example companies have to maintain donotcall list and could not make solicitation calls before 8 00 a. M. Or after 9 00 p. M. But tcpa is showing its age and there are opportunities to build on the consumer benefits and ensuring consumers fully benefit from modern communications. Consumers should be able to take advantage of technology to help them fall victim to actors though those who ignore do not call requirements. I doubt there is a person in this room whos that not received a recorded mobile voice call telling them theyve won a cr
Americans with disability act. The law passed in 1990 bands accommodation such as Office Buildings and restaurants to make their facilities accessible to people with limited mobility. The subcommittee on Civil Justice is holding a hearing on whether it changes to the law should be made to make it harder to sue for alleged violations of the law. Theyll hear from some members of kcongress. Theyll hear from a Business Owners and Interest Groups as well on a hearing that should get underway shortly. The house is getting underway. The final day of work for the week as they finish up work today on the military Construction Veterans Affairs bill. The senate gaveling in at 9 30 eastern about a half an hour from now and theyll continue work on their combined military construction Veterans Affair bill transportation and housing and that will include a vote this morning on zika funding 1. 1 billion is the proposal. Thats set for the house over on cspan. Constitution of Civil Justice will come to
Joining us is angela agree link keene. What was the president s reaction to the bee heading of the second american journalist . We spoke today for the first time about the murder of mr. Sotloff. The obama said was much the same as what he said when he spoke about the murder of james foley, which is that he wants to go after isis. He says that anyone who attacks americans should be weary because the u. S. Will retaliate. So he spoke very firmly about the beheading. I expect to hear more from him. He said the United States will not be intimidated and hell build a coalition to degrade and destroy the group. Did he set out a time line . He did not put a time line on such a coalition, but clearly he signaled a desire for the european allies to step up and join the americans in that effort, and he of course will be meeting with leaders of many of the European Countries the next two days in wales. Host what is his schedule . For the rest of today he is in estonia. He is meeting shortly with t
The three folks. Theyre great people. You know, i got to speak to them on the plane, these are great people, theyve been through a lot, but its its a great honor, but the great the true honor is going to be if we have a victory in getting rid of few clear weapons. It was a very important thing to all of us to be able to get these three great people out. We very much appreciate that he allowed them to go before the meeting. It was sort of understood that wed be able to get these three terrific people during the meeting and bring them home after the meeting, and he was nice in letting them go before the meeting. I mean, frankly, we didnt think this was going to happen and it did. Two of those men tony kim and kim hak song were held since last spring. While Kim Dong Chul spent 900 days. Theyre getting further evaluation and medical treatment. The three expressed their quote, deep appreciation to the United States government, President Trump and the people of the United States for bringing