Office testified. This isan hour and 20 minutes. I thank everybody for joining us today. Both virtually and in the hearing room. And also like to thank the witnesses for their participation in this important and timely oversight hearing. Before we begin id like to take this opportunity to note some important requirements. Let me begin by saying that Standing Health and Committee Roles at practice will continue to apply during hybrid proceedings. All members are reminded that theyre expected to adhere to these standing rules and put in a courtroom. During the period designated by the speaker the committee will operate in accordance with House Resolution 965 and subsequent guidance from the rules committee and canada respects the rights of all members to participate. House regulations require members to be visible through a video connection throughout the preceding though please keep your cameras on. Also, please remember to remain muted until you are recognize to minimize background noi
Pray for you when they know that thats not so. The bible tells us weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning. We need top lean on one another, lift one another up. But we had tremendous success on the apprentice. And when i ran for president , i had to leave the show. And they hired a big, big movie star, arnold schwarzenegger, to take my place. May god bless you all. A different time. Very different. You know it reminds me of a bible verse. I googled it while i was watching that. Matthew 7 1520. Where are false prophets which come to you in sheeps clothing but inwardly they are wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Willie, you know, ive been to that Prayer Breakfast, know the people who run it. Saw what donald trump, through the years, talking about the apprentice. Himself. Talking about himself, Attacking Political again, know them by their fruits. It is the antithesis of everything that you see in red letters when you read through the gospel of jesus christ.
And we expect a normalization of that. But you need to remember as well that in our case, we have been working to stabilize, grow the franchise, recover some market share, so what we are pleased to see is that underneath that sort of outperformance in the market environment that we have been in, we have seen really good franchise stabilization traction , client engagement, improvement in clients. We think that bodes well for the future. You are expecting slightly higher revenue for the full year. Not too conservative now given what we have seen in the first half . It it would be james would be a normalization but i think an improvement on last years second half. Again, especially in our businesses, where a year ago, we were going through a restructuring and there was some uncertainty around our people and franchise, so with that now behind us, we see momentum in the core business, and we would like to see a secondhalf performance well ahead of last years second half, but we will see ho
Because the threat posed by covid19 remain serious and widespread, we are proceeding in the best manner we can, remotely in todays case in order to ensure the safety of our witnesses, members, staff and the public. Todays conversation is essential to the oversight of how we should adapt and meet the challenge of increasingly assertive china especially in the backdrop of a Global Pandemic. I had hoped this would be a bipartisan discussion. Unfortunately, without reason or justification, republican colleagues have decided to absent themselves from the committee. I repeat my hope they will reconsider and join us for future unclassified public hearings and unclassified closed roundtables. We will continue to have them as they are being used to frame the oversight issues and requests and inform our members of the various threats facing the country. The American People expect congress will continue doing its job even in a pandemic and that means showing up at a minimum whether we want to or
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