Two irs to follow an investigation into the biden family. And the Oversight Committee. Now in order. I want to welcome everyone here today. Without objection, the chair may declare a recess at anytime. Without objection, chairman of the ways and Means Committee, mr. Jason smith of missouri, is waved on to the committee for the purpose of making an Opening Statement at questioning the witnesses in todays committee hearing. I want to thank chairman smith and chairman jordan for their cooperation and working with the Oversight Committee on this investigation. This is an important joint effort that shows the American People that accountability matters regardless of your last name. For this hearing, Opening Statements will be limited to ten minutes for the chair and ten minutes for the Ranking Member. I now recognize myself for the purpose of making an Opening Statement. Since assuming a republican majority in january, the house Oversight Committee has made historically fast progress in our
Prolife restrictions, this is a way to abortions in states that are trying to protect unborn life. Thank you. Thank, you mister chairman. Id say my time is expired. Senator thank, you mister chairman. Doctor scott says that miss we will leave this here, grow a site. We take you live now to capitol hill. Two irs to follow an investigation into the biden family. And the Oversight Committee. Now in order. I want to welcome everyone here today. Without objection, the chair may declare a recess at anytime. Without objection, chairman of the ways and Means Committee, mr. Jason smith of missouri, is waved on to the committee for the purpose of making an Opening Statement at questioning the witnesses in todays committee hearing. I want to thank chairman smith and chairman jordan for their cooperation and working with the Oversight Committee on this investigation. This is an important joint effort that shows the American People that accountability matters regardless of your last name. For this
fentanyl deaths at an all time high. democrats want you to forget all about this and focus on only 3 main distractions. their game plan for the next 57 days. they are tempting to divide the country on the basis of race and gender and age. their election year playbook or lie. republicans are racist and sexist and xenophobia. democrats will scare voters by claiming abortion is illegal. that s not true. abortion is still legal in the vast majority of states. i have it on good authorities in that republicans in the senate will bring up a national abortion law this week that would have a mandate ever time of 15 weeks which is what the mississippi law called for and the third distraction. democrats are trying to vilify the maga republicans and donald trump supporters to rally their base. according to biden and other democrats, half of america is a threat to democracy because they now support or once supported donald trump. instead of trying to fix the economy or talk about it or
Thats the far right. We need a lot of prayers for this country. Host that was michael in maine, a republican. Well be back tomorrow morning 7 a. M. Eastern time for more here on the washington journal. Well bring you up to the house floor. They are about to gavel in for the new speakers first full day in that post. Live coverage here on cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy visit ncicap. Org] [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by reverend john matthews, grace Lutheran Church, apple valley, minnesota. The chaplain let
En is on capitol hill in the u. S. House of representatives. Yesterday the senate. All of it is hot for blinken. A lot of heat on him for giving iran warm condolences over the death of a Stone Cold Mass Killer of the irans president , raisi, died in a Helicopter Crash over the weekend and known as the butcher of tehran. Also there are demands for answers on what the administration will do about the International Criminal courts warrant for the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus arrest. On the same charge it issued for hamas terrorists. Im hair use faulkner and you are in the Faulkner Focus. Todays hearing kicked off this way. I was really prepared to discuss the specifics of the Budget Request today but im so deeply concerned by frankly the dangerous policies being pursued by this administration. Dont take my word for it. The world is up in flames. Most notably i want to focus towards israel and this critical moment in history. This administration is playing a very dangerous ga