Career official at the state department, so i am going to have to keep this brief. First of all, i want to thank ambassador hale for being here, for obeying the law, for following the lawful subpoena that we issued. We wish others would show the same courage and dedication to the law that Ambassador Haley is demonstrating here today. I want you to know as you know already that we will begin open hearings into the impeachment inquiry next week. We will begin with the testimony of ambassador taylor and ambassador kent on wednesday, and we will have ambassador yovanovich testified. These will be the first of the open hearings. I think you will see throughout the course of the testimony and many others the most aborted important facts are largely not contested. We have been gaining an increasing appreciation for the what took place during the course of the last year and the degree to which the president enlisted whole departments of government in the aim of trying to get ukraine to dig up
Good morning, this hear is cool called to order. I want to welcome all the witnesses and thank you for your thoughtful, written testimony and looking forward to your oral tangherlini. Id ask my written Opening Statement be entered into the record. I want to make a couple comments. About really kind of what i want to see the goal of this hearing to be. Its similar to the the goal of every hearing is a base account problem solving process. This committee under my chairmanship developed a a Mission Statement to enhance the National Security of america to promote more effective and accountable government. The reason im pointing it out today is i cant think of a hearing that that Mission Statement is more applicable to. When we Start Talking about 5g were talking about the Economic Opportunity and the National Security risks. In order to take advantage of that and avoid the National Security risks. We need more effective government to step up to the plate to compete against what unfortunate
54 degrees. It will be a day where it will not budge all that much. Some temperatures are 55s. There are more 50s compared to the 40s. It is very close with not much of a change and temperatures are stuck under the cloud cover and there is some rain around the north coast but for us, we have a cooler pattern until friday and then we see higher temps by the weekend. We are in the 50s and 60s and that is it. No more 70s until the weekend. What you want to get to . We will start with Contra Costa County because if youre driving on highway four, you will see slow traffic but it is there and backed up and it is a long backup all the way to concord and then again as you approach interstate 680, this includes highway 24 which is slow on the way to the tunnel now we see that fog you were talking about in lafayette. It is cloudy at the macarthur maze and the bay bridge toll plaza we have big delays. As we look at interstate 880 in oakland, it is more crowded. These freeways are getting more ful
Continue beyd 110 a. M. Eacmember other than the majority anminority leaders and the minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair now recognizes the gentleman fromennsylvania, mr. Thomon, for five minutes mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this coming sunday of s the 26th anniversary the house of representatives passing the northern American Free trade agreement, nafta. This agreement with our two closest trading partners, canada outdated , has become as time has passed. Economies have flourished. Now, we are in desperate need of updating nafta to meet modern day economic demands. Many of us have staff who are younger than nafta, and we world hasree that the changed an awful lot in the last three decades. Needs to bring the United Statesmexciocanada or usmca, to a vote immediately to keep trade fair. Nd a vote on usmca is long overdue. 400 days more than since President Trump announced this historic agreement, and have often anada given usmca the green light
Do question was, would anyone detect that we were sane . The answer was no. Your new book centers around the stores of this man. Who is he . Susannah hes a stanford professor who was the architect of this amazing study with the incredible footage you just inyed, called on being sane insane places. He went undercover in Psychiatric Hospitals around the country to test the ifure of diagnosis and see their sanity would be detected. As he said, they were not. The study was done in the early 1970s. Why are you interested in it today . Susannah it came from a very personal place. Had my previous book, my memoir, brain on fire, which targeted my experience that was briefly misdiagnosed as a serious Mental Illness. Book came out, i was inundated by emails from the general public, a lot of people who were looking for answers, some of whom actually found answers because of my book, but i also received many emails from people who felt lost within the Mental Health system, who felt they were not b