Industry. They took questions about the use of thirdparty seller data and allegations of anticonservative bias. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Welcome to todays hearing on marketing power. Amazon, apple, facebook, and google. I would like to remind members we have established a distribution list dedicated to circulating specific motions or other written materials members might want as part of our hearing today. If you would like to submit materials, submit them to the email address distributed to your offices. We will circulate materials as quickly as we can. Thatld also remind members face coverings are required for all meetings in an enclosed space such as Committee Hearings. I expect all members on both sides of the aisle to wear a mask except when you are speaking. I recognize myself for an opening bateman Opening Statement. This committee launched an investigation into Digital Markets to document compe
Dramatically access to users on internet virtually any gist that wants to be found on the web must pay google a tax. With that i recognize the Ranking Member of the subcommittee, mr. Sensenbrenner. For first round of questions. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Ive been in congress 42 years. That is coming to an end at the end of this year. Im breathing a sigh of relief. During that period of time, during decade of 90s and 00s, i was involved as chairman of the Science Committee and chairman of this committee and trying to make the net universal, open it up to everybody and one of the, one of the theses that we used that the net should end up becoming basically the debate on issues, not only in our country but throughout the world and in exchange for that this committee and the Congress Gave Internet Service providers immunity so if somebody said something defamatory in what they posted. Isps could not be a part of a lawsuit for defamation. After hearing mr. Jordan, you know, a long line of cen
News stations. Youre watching kron 4 news at no act by matter is not a political statement i too little disappointed in the decision to remove it as soon as they did. Now at 9 city officials in one peninsula city quietly remove a black lives matter mural after someone suggested putting up a trump 2020 slogan as well, thank you for joining us tonight, im grant lotus and im Catherine Heenan Vicki Liviakis has the night off. The redwood city mural it was put up on the 4th of july it had approval from city officials but it was washed away last week this after a local attorneys requested that a mural supporting President Trump be painted nearby kron 4 stand for and he talked to the murals artist and the attorneys tonight, he joins us live in redwood city dan. Well that mural the artist of the black lives matter mural says that he is really thankful to be to redwood city for allowing him to paint this mural but his issue is that he believes that maybe this message was washed away because of
Of our coastal areas going to the other hand who wants the say stalked in with that cloud Trump Campaign slogan to be painted here says that both cover and temperatures out ideas are comparable. There right now widespread 50s as we cool down turning redwood citys black lives into low to mid 50s for your matter mural on broadway has overnight temperatures and been quietly washed away the daytime highs still going to be on the below average sides mural was painted a little over 2 weeks ago, but has a with downtown San Francisco 3 degrees below average 64 new proposal emerged the bright yellow letters soon degrees low 60s for daly city vanished they made the decision to. Take black lives matter off brisbane 63 degrees with the street at the first person the proposed the. Millbrae and burlingame 64 degrees for your tuesday afternoon highs in san mateo mega 2020 black lives matter and foster city only warming up into the mid 60s low 70s and peas was surprised by the removal considering the
Statistics. The United States now leads the world in the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus with more than 1. 5 million. Another 2. 4 million workers filed jobless claims this week, joining the more than 38 million americans have applied for unemployment assistance since the crisis began. Veryl soon our country will reah another grim milestone. We are fast approaching the day when more than 100,000 american lives will have been lost to covid19, the size of a small city erased from the map. Speaker pelosi and i have sent a letter to President Trump this morning requesting that the American Flag be flown at half mast on all public buildings on the day the total reaches 100,000. As families all across the great country mourned the loss of friend, colleagues and loved ones, flying the flag at half mast would be a national expression of grief. And of course this weekend is also memorial day, where we commemorate so Many Americans who through the centuries have lost their lives for