Chairman the committee will come to order. The department of health and Human Services, everybody is sitting six feet apart. All Witnesses Today are participating in person. We thank you for that. Participatingare by videoconference. I would like to say a word about masks. The office of attending physicians advised us we may remove the mask and talk to the microphone as long as we are six feet apart. Msak imask isy off. When i am walking the senate floor, i am wearing a mask. Simple clothsd, help from transmitting it to others. Unfortunately this practice has become part of the political debate that says if you are forced from you do not wear a mask, if you are against trump you do. I suggested the president occasionally wear a mask even though, in most cases, it is not necessary for him to do so. The president has plenty of admirers. They would follow his lead. End this help an political debate. The stakes are too high about this to continue. Masksrs and staff wear because we do not w
Communication between private citizens or large public audiences. Theres no precedent in American History for so small a number of corporations to control so large a sphere of human interaction. And that includes individual people controlling vast amounts of territory, and we cant allow that to happen. Lou there has never been a more powerful and successful user of social media than president donald trump, and it is no small irony that he has been forced by twitter to take on social medias extraordinary power to constrain, to intervene in even the actions and words of a chief executive of this country. Well have more on the president s exestive order in just a few executive order in just a few moments, inyod by fcc commissioner brendan carr as we take the up the issue of freedom of speech and particularly the president s freedom of speech. President trump just moments ago also weighing in on the unrest in minneapolis, the unrest, the rioting as city leaders today making emotional pleas
Communication between private citizens or large public audiences. Theres no precedent in American History for so small a number of corporations to control so large a sphere of human interaction. And that includes individual people controlling vast amounts of territory, and we cant allow that to happen. Lou there has never been a more powerful and successful user of social media than president donald trump, and it is no small irony that he has been forced by twitter to take on social medias extraordinary power to constrain, to intervene in even the actions and words of a chief executive of this country. Well have more on the president s exestive order in just a few executive order in just a few moments, inyod by fcc commissioner brendan carr as we take the up the issue of freedom of speech and particularly the president s freedom of speech. President trump just moments ago also weighing in on the unrest in minneapolis, the unrest, the rioting as city leaders today making emotional pleas
Alter virtually any form of communication between private citizens or large public audiences. Theres no precedent in American History for so small a number of corporations to control so large a sphere of human interaction. And that includes individual people controlling vast amounts of territory, and we cant allow that to happen. Lou there has never been a more powerful and successful user of social media than president donald trump, and it is no small irony that he has been forced by twitter to take on social medias extraordinary power to constrain, to intervene in even the actions and words of a chief executive of this country. Well have more on the president s exestive order in just a few executive order in just a few moments, inyod by fcc commissioner brendan carr as we take the up the issue of freedom of speech and particularly the president s freedom of speech. President trump just moments ago also weighing in on the unrest in minneapolis, the unrest, the rioting as city leaders
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