Diversity and inclusion. Ive discussed this repeatedly with your company over the past years, and vice chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus, for the record, has had multiple meetings with your company and here we are again. Let me get into Asset Management. Certainly, thats a large industry, as we know. Something like a 70 trillion industry. Facebook has on record in cash and Cash Equivalents and marketable securities. Are any of these funds managed by diverseowned company, yes or no . Yes or no . Congresswoman yes or no. I dont believe so i take that as a no. You have a stable of big law firms that work on your legal cases around the country. How many diverse owned or womenowned law firms are contracted by facebook . Number. Just give me a number or range. Congresswoman, i dont know i take that as i dont know. How many women or minority partners work on these cases. Congresswoman, i dont know the answer my time. Did you review the packet that went
Without objection the chair is authorized today declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled an examination of facebook and its impact on the Financial Services and housing sectors. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. Today, were here to examine the impact of facebook on the Financial Services and housing sectors. Our sole witness is facebooks chairman and ceo, Mark Zuckerberg. Facebooks plans to create a Digital Currency, libra, and a digital wallet raise many concerns relating to privacy, trading risk, discrimination, opportunities for diverse owned financial firms, National Security, Monetary Policy, and the stability of the Global Financial system. I and other democrats have called for a moratorium on facebooks development of this Digital Currency, libra, and digital wallet until congress can examine the issues associated with a Big Tech Company developing these Digital Products and take action. As i have examined faceboo
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clinton and civil rights leaders gather to honor and mark martin luther king jr. day at a breakfast hosted by the national action network here in washington. this is an hour and a half. good morning. as we gather today, first let me thank all of our honorees that we are saluting this year. it is important on king day that we do things in the spirit of dr. king. today, dr. king as a federal holiday was a result in and of itself of struggle. so we do a nots a take it as a off. we take it as a day on, to do something in the spirit of human rights andnd civil rights that . king stood for.n national action network startedn 28 years ago on those principles. and we ve been blessed to feder partner with martin luther kingl iii who thought it appropriate to spend this holiday every year with us at the breakfast. and he had brought his mother to our convention for many years. so we are in our dna king-like. and no year is more important than this year, because we are meeting on the m
we are saluting this year. it is important on king day that we do things in the spirit of dr. king. dr. king as a federal holiday was a result in and of itself of struggle. so we do not take it as a day off. we take it as a day on. to do something in the spirit of human rights and civil rights that dr. king stood for. the national action network started 28 years ago on those principles, and we have been blessed to partner with martin luther king iii who thought to spend this federal holiday every year with us at the breakfast. he had brought his mother to our convention many years. so we are, in our d.n.a., king-like. and no year is more important than this year. because we are meeting on a morning of king holiday where the nation has been more polarized and divided than we ve seen in recent history. the rise of anti-semitic attacks, the rise of hate crimes, the right of rhetoric that has been polarizing. people that are gathering in virginia today, extremists threatening to