sen. klobuchar: i call to order [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] senr [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] sen. klobuchar: i call to order this hearing on s-1 the for the people act. today we are here to consider the for the people act, legislation that i m honored to lead with senator merkley and majority leader schumer, which has been cosponsored by every democratic member of this committee. i would like to thank senator blunt, our colleagues, and our witnesses for being here today. i would also like to acknowledge in addition to senator merkley two of our other members who are new to this committee and are new to the senate. senator ossoff, who along with senator warnock were elected in georgia, where we know election issues were front and center. as well as senator padilla, who has his own extensive experience with these issues from his time as calif
[indistinct chatter] sen. klobuchar: we really appreciate our second panel. i will mention who they are and swear them in and then give them their righteous and rightful introductions. so with us today is the honorable trevor potter, the former republican chair of the federal election commission who is here to testify for the bill. the honorable lee goodman, former republican chair of the federal election commission, who will be on the other side, against the bill. the third is fred wortheimer, who i believe has been working on these issues for 50 years. we will let him tell us that. we also have with us the honorable bradley smith, former republican chair of the federal election commission. and then tiffany muller, the president of end citizens united. the purpose of this second panel is to focus on the campaign finance and ethics portions of the bill, where the first panel was focused on the vote portions of the bill. so if the witnesses could stand, including our remote wi
gave us a sermon that has stuck with me ever since. the lesson came from two parts. two separate biblical texts. kings, ifm second you re interested, chapter four, has a profit elisha somebody bring him 20 lows of any has to feed 100 men. his children asked, how will we do that? ophet says, give them sothe men so they can eat, they shall eat and have some left. he said it before them and they ate and they had some left. incident an incident from the new testament where jesus is confronted with a crowd of 5000 people, how will we feed all these people? one of the disciples says, here five barleyoy with loaves and two fish. not a lot. worthld take six months of paid to feed a crowd of 5000. jesus said, bring it up. he gave thanks to it, and the whole crowd was fed and there was more than enough. saying, itmy pastor does not matter how little you are, you can be a little guy, and i was a little guy. you can be a boy, girl, it does not matter. when there is a need, if you bring
not making a reference to any political ideology, is hans spakovsky. i m sure hans doesn t really need much of a introduction to this group. hans is with heritage foundation, and he is one of the country s recognized, most well recognized authorities on voter fraud and election law. and seated next to hans is don palmer, who is also one of the country s leading in these areas, and don is a former member of the elections board of the commonwealth of virginia, and he served formally as the florida department director of elections during the 2008 and 2010 election cycles and also served in the justice department in the civil rights division. he is also a veteran of the united states navy, and i should also remark that hans is a former member of the federal election commission and also joining us shortly will be commissioner lee goodman, who is also currently on the federal election commission and a former chairman. he will be speaking about election law. so, without further adie
her agents tried to screen her as she was escorted to the van. as you see in this video shot by a private citizen, she collapsed. the agents carried her along as her feet dragged on the pavement and they lifted her bodily into the van. temperatures were in the high 70s and humidity moderate. the clinton campaign facing a backlash from normally supportive liberal news organizations. because the press knew nothing about her whereabouts for an hour and a half. the press barred from coverage of the so-called medical incident. the campaign fabricated a new approach or decided to come clean. depending on what proves to be the reality and the truth. some 9 hours later blaming the episode on pneumonia which the campaign claimed had been diagnosed friday. clinton was not seen by the media for more than two hours when she finally he merged from her daughter chelsea clinton s apartment trying to act like nothing unusual happened, smiling and waving. it s a beautiful day in new york. l