We are holding this hearing virtually in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 965. This is the third virtual subCommittee Hearing and the ways and Means Committee. As with our previous hearings i want members to know that i plan to continue this committees long tradition of collegiality and substantial debate, substantive debate, even as we conduct our business from afar. I will continue to work with the Ranking Member, mr. Smith, and his staff to ensure that the rights of all members are resected in these new virtual formats. Before i turn to todays important topic i want to remind members of a few procedural to help you navigate this new platform. First, consistent with regulations the committee willfi keep microphones needed to limit background noise. Members are responsible for on meeting themselves when they seek recognition or when recognized for a fiveminute statement. Second, members and witnesses must have their cameras
Cspan nearly 40 times and over the next five hourswere going to share some of those programs with you. First up tonight in 1993, Mister Buckley sat down to discuss a collection of his essays from his book happy days are here again. Here he is on cspans Interview Program from 1993, book notes. On the cover of your new book it says reflections of a libertarian journalist. Do you always call yourself a libertarian western mark. Off and on. As i of course do, its something called the movement was encouraged by me in National Review during the late 50s and the idea was to put out to the straight libertarians and conservatives how much they had in common and how effective this symbiosis would be between them. So from time to time i stressed the fact that every now and then that im a libertarian and in most of what i write theres a certain amount of it that is does not augment or diminish human liberty. Did i remember you saying maybe when you ran for mayor of new york that this may not be yo
More today and tonight into tomorrow, heres a shot of the radar to see where we stand the heaviest rain bands pretty much go from a line of richmond down the peninsula. And then another patch down there to the south bay as well from a say up to eastern Contra Costa County all the way down to the south bay now the flow pattern will show you whats coming from the southwest moving to the northeast. Losing a little bit of intensity. But it looks like theyll be a regeneration happening later on in the Santa Cruz Mountains particularly in the south there police favoring that area. Now the shot is as youre going to see all this morning for the brit shots and such a lot of fog to deal with that nears alcatraz in the foreground barely detectable and off in the background you can see San Francisco which see San Francisco and also the bay bridge to our temperatures are very mild right now were in the lower to even middle 60s off to any are there upper 50s meanwhile up to the north bay and down so
Then later a look into how facial recognition technologies are being used identify people come into the u. S. But first the Supreme Court oral argument kelly versus the u. S. With her argument in case 181059. Mr. Roth. Mr. Chief justice, and may it please the court. Once again the government is trying to use the open ended federal fraud statutes to enforce honest government at the state and local levels. Its through this time is that the defense is committed property fraud by reallocating two two traffic lanes from one public road to another without disclosing their real political reason for doing so. This theory terms of the integrity of every official action at every level of government into a potential federal fraud investigation. It in runts mcnally and skilling by subsuming on the Services Fraud within property fraud and by criminalizing ulterior motives even without brides or kickbacks. It would, in fact, a sweeping expansion of federal criminal jurisdiction into a a particuly fr
Secretary he is the principal voice of business in the Top Administration trying to ensure that u. S. Businesses have the tools they need to create jobs and pursue economic opportunity. He served the secretarys of the beginning of administration that gore 2017. Hes got limited time with us today for be brief in my introduction so we can get right to his talk. He will be laid at the conclusion of the talk and then the panel will ensue. Secretary ross is no stranger to commerce with over half a a century of experience in Investment Banking and private equity come restructuring over 400 billion in assets across Numerous Industries and serving as chairman or director more than 100 companies in over 20 countries. Hes also the only person elected to both the private equity hall of fame and the turnabout Management Hall of fame. We agree please welcome him here today and please join me welcoming commerce secretary wilbur ross. [applause] thank thank you, dean, for tt kind introduction. And th