We will now proceed with Opening Statements. I wish you all a good morning and welcome to the fourth hearing in the economic Emergency Management subcommittee. One of the purposes of this committee is to protect taxpayer dollars by ensuring they are spent effectively, efficiently and with transparency. That brings us to todays hearing which is entitled landlord and tenant. You can tell from the title that today we will be investigating fairly unprecedented situation. The federal government owns the building that houses President Trumps d. C. Hotel hotel. Since President Trump has declined, he is essentially acting as both the landlord and the tenant. Before i was elected to congress , over three decades Teaching College students about American Government and politics. Serious discussions about the legislature holding the executive Branch Accountable to the highest legal and ethical standards and that is exactly what we hope to do today. First lets start with some facts. All federal wor
Without objections. We are now going to proceed with Opening Statements. I wish you all the good morning and welcome to the fourth hearing of the public buildings and sanctimony and one of the purposes of this is to protect taxpayer dollars by ensuring that theyre spending it offensively and with transparency and that brings up with todays hearing which is entitled the tenant in the Trump Administrations oversight and the International Hotel and you can tell from the title guy were going to be in investigating an unprecedented tuition and the houses President Trumps d. C. Hotel. Since President Trump has declined to confess from his businesses, hes essentially acting as both landlord and the ten it. Before i was elected to congress i spent over three decades Teaching College students about American Government politics. In those classrooms we, had serious discussions about the role of the legislature if the executive branch with legal and ethical standards and thats exactly what we had
inaudible without objections. We are now going to proceed with Opening Statements. I wish you all the good morning and welcome to the fourth hearing of the public buildings and sanctimony and one of the purposes of this is to protect taxpayer dollars by ensuring that theyre spending it offensively and with transparency and that brings up with todays hearing which is entitled the tenant in the Trump Administrations oversight and the International Hotel and you can tell from the title guy were going to be in investigating an unprecedented tuition and the houses President Trumps d. C. Hotel. Since President Trump has declined to confess from his businesses, hes essentially acting as both landlord and the ten it. Before i was elected to congress i spent over three decades Teaching College students about American Government politics. In those classrooms we, had serious discussions about the role of the legislature if the executive branch with legal and ethical standards and thats exactly wh
International terrorism and domestic violent extremism. The center for strategic and International Studies hosted two panels on the evolving nature of terrorist threats in 2019, as well as solutions to help Law Enforcement combat such threats. This is two hours and 10 minutes. We have two panels on increasingly important subject. Part of the motivation looking at this i have to give suzanne credit for being the toinchild behind this was look at recent attacks including el paso and the synagogue attacks. And note there has been a dialoguedebate within the u. S. How to respond to it, the degree of threats and how serious it is and how to respond to it. What we would like to do is move in the following cents, we will begin with the discussion about the evolution of the threat, and how domestic terrorism i know some terminology is the racially motivated violent extremist groups. I cannot promise the panelists will use that term. Aware we are talking about roughly the same subject. We will
Thank you for coming, my name is steph jones and director of the transnational threats project for the center for strategic and international studies. We have a fantastic two sets of panels on what is an important subject. Part of the motivation i think from Suzanne Spaulding and i and looking at this. It was to look at some of the recent attacks, including el paso and the synagogue attacks. There has been a dialogue, debate within the u. S. , about how to respond to it. What the degree of threat and how serious it is and how to respond. What we would like to do is move in the following sense. We will begin with a discussion about the evolution of the threat and how domestic terrorism, i know some of the terminology for some of these groups in the government is the racially motivated violent extremist groups. I cannot promise that panelists will use that term. Just be aware, we are talking about roughly the same subject. Will move into a second panel which we will debate and discuss so