Subcommittee meeting is 1 45. Id hilike to call the meetg to order. I would like to thank our witnesses. First of all, its early. One thing thats true about washington, d. C. Theres uncertainty around us. Because of other meetings scheduled and planned we asked for you to come early, and i do appreciate it. And it shows you in the interest of our colleagues, that theyre here this early. So thats great. No matter first of all, weve got folks from as far away as alaska and close as pennsylvania. No matter how many miles youve traveled to be with us, were grateful for the time and financial sacrifice youre making to share your expertise today. I want to mention that even though they did not send someone to present oral testimony, i appreciate the Environmental Protection agency providing us with written statement to include in our hearing record. I ask that unanimous consent, without object, ion so ordered. The agency has agreed to take written questions for our hearing. This is highly un
In illinoisillinois illinois ca tennessee recently testified. Id like to hall kacall the to order and thank our witnesses for joining today. I know its early. The one thing thats certain about us in washington d. C. Is that theres uncertainty around us, so because of other meetings scheduled and planned, we ask for you to come early. And i personally appreciate it. It shows you the interest of our colleagues that theyre here this early. So thats great. No matter how many miles youve first of all, we have folks as far away as alaska and as close as pennsylvania. No matter how many miles youve traveled to be with us, were grateful for the time and financial sacrifice to share your expertise with us today. Even though they did not have send someone to present oral the testimony, i appreciate the Environmental Protection agency providing us with written statement to include in our hearing record. I ask that unanimous consent without objection. So ordered. Im also pleased to announce the ag
My career as a teachers aide there were 291 women incarcerated in the entire state of the ohio. Today we have 4300. It has been a trend that is significant and if you think about the lowest crime rate, it is illogical. Weve had some more Current Trends and our population commitment there down a bit overall peers 6 increase in a number i want to talk about women just a second. As a look at the trending of women, what do we know . Its hard to see this. We passed house bill 86 that has caused a significant inmates as they passed the first year of our administration that basically said firsttime nonviolent offenders should not be sent to prison. Thats a remarkable and dramatic name. There is a 14 month consecutive reduction in the prison population. You can see the women as well, but its gone up and now we see 23 of revenue see probation violators. What i want to talk about is this gap between the intake and the actual population. Someone talked about a huge issue as length of stay. 2007 a
Internet caucus taking a look at internet privacy and personal data protection. The chair of the Federal Reserve, janet yellen, testified on the u. S. Economy and Monetary Policy appearing before the House Financial Services committee on wednesday for about three hours. The committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to suggest a recess for the committee at any time. This is the annual testimony on the Federal Reserves supervision and regulation of the Financial System. I now recognize myself for three minutes to give an opening statement. The dodd frank act requires the Federal Reserves vice chair of supervision to testify before our Committee Twice a year regarding the supervision and regulation of Financial Institutions. Regrettably, five years after the passage of dodd frank, no such person exists. President obama has been unwilling or unable to follow the law in a point at vice chair. We can no longer wait for the president to do his job so we can be al
Financial institutions and markets generally. Those powers we use during the crisis to keep credit flowing to the economy. Sure. And so we want to be very careful about what we do. The words used for that are unusual and exjentsisheses. Sur correct. In my format we take that and we say we add upon it, raise the bar marginally, i would argue, and use the language unusual and exjent circumstances exist that pose a threat to the Financial Stability of the United States. Youve come out and some of the other fed governors come out opposed to that language. Why . Thats when we would use im not sure that we have been opposed. Thats when we would use those powers when there are unusual and exjent. Its understood to mean pose a risk to the Financial System. Weve kind of added two things as a belt and suspnders. One was to include the language that pose a threat to the financial starblete to the United States. And that is the pushback that weve gotten. Ive met with some of the other fed governor