Good morning. Welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies. I am glad to welcome our witnesses back before the subcommittee. I know it has been seven months since we had you before us and i know we all missed the warm welcoming atmosphere of our hearing room. Despite that passage of time many issues that were of concern to us then still remain unresolved today. For example, i asked about the investigation into phone carrier selling the realtime location of nearly every american. Mr. Chairman, you told me even after more than one year had passed we still cannot tell whether this practice has stopped and could not say whether the impacted individuals have been notified and could not tell us that members of congress and lawenforcement had their locations sold or tracked and in june of this year you told senator blumenthal that you were wrapping up this investigation and with that recommendation shortly. That was six months ago. We still dont have them. Chairman sloan and
Will come to order without objection, todays hearing will examine the administrations decision to deport children with critical illnesses, a decision that was recently reversed following public outrage and pressure from the subcommittee. I would not recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement, and then i will turn to the Ranking Member. We are here to get to the bottom of the administrations mysterious campaign to deport critically ill children and their families. It appears that this policy has thankfully being reversed. After congress and the American People rose up in an outcry at the inhumanity in display in this policy. Im going to treat this hearing is not only in honor of the memory of our late beloved chairman logic cummings. But as a hearing in direct pursuit of a policy objective, that was close to his heart. Threatened deportation of six children such an outrage to chairman cummings, that was very last official act for his death was to issue subpoenas to a
Decision to deport children with critical illnesses, a decision that was recently reversed following public outrage and pressure from the subcommittee. I would not recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement, and then i will turn to the Ranking Member. We are here to get to the bottom of the administrations mysterious campaign to deport critically ill children and their families. It appears that this policy has thankfully being reversed. After congress and the American People rose up in an outcry at the inhumanity in display in this policy. Im going to treat this hearing is not only in honor of the memory of our late beloved chairman logic cummings. But as a hearing in direct pursuit of a policy objective, that was close to his heart. Threatened deportation of six children such an outrage to chairman cummings, that was very last official act for his death was to issue subpoenas to administration to account to what the measures do account. On wednesday, in the waning
School safety against targeted violence. I want to welcome everybody to the hearing room. I actually want to thankour witnesses for taking the time for your testimony. And in particular i want to give a shout out to max and tom and your families and the other families of the families for attending here and for just your unbelievable dedication turning your tragedy into hopefully some positive action that can prevent tragedies for other families, its remarkable what so many of the families have done in reaction to so many of these tragedies which date back to about 1998 is where we had the first directed attack, numbers of 56. I know in your testimony youre talkingabout 710 shootings since columbine in 1999. Columbine, 13 people were killed, 12 students, one teacher, 21injured, sandy hook in 2012, 26 killed. Two were injured and parkland, at Marjorie Stoneman douglas school, 17 killed and 17 injured. Anthe death and casualty toll is simply unbelievable, quite honestly. I grew up in the
Usmca that might come as a result of these negotiations that can improve the outcome of American Workers im happy to consider. Its important to remember that usmca is better than nafta by nearly every standard, including labor and environment. So i hope discussions between House Democrats and ambassador lighthizer is an exercise in getting to the yes that i feel Speaker Pelosi wants to get to. One particular area where everyone can agree is that enforcement across the board is a key compromise that must be hammered out. Factors outside of farmers hands such as an oversupply of grain in the global market, an unusually wet spring across the midwest, and natural disasters like flooding have all contributed to increased uncertainty and less profitability for farmers and leading to anxiety among those same farmers. Passing the usmc will help alleviate some of that uncertainty and anxiety for the years ahead by providing stable export market for american corn, soybeans, pork and dairy to nam