Give a warm welcome to the stage. [applause]. I hope you are having as much fun as i am at this festival. [applause]. I think of students in college a few of you were in college a few years ago as the best thing to do is to take the teacher not the course and here i think of things to take these incredible authors and be in a room with them. Whatever theyre talking about. The only problem is there is someone in every room. That you want to be with. I think you heard from them all at one point or another. They have also done some the other interesting things. American shots. He is the cn and historian. He has a little bit of basement studio and envy of john meacham. Whos got that at msnbc. Of course the great tester in 1919. Just a transformative book that is so important. Many of us know him from his basement with morning joe. The assignment is to talk about who is your favorite historical figure. I want to make that a free and fun thing. Maybe later we would get into other elements. W
The Senate Committee on finance the subcommittee on International Trade customs and Global Competitiveness will come to order. I know this seems a little strange but an empty room except for three witnesses live in front of me and many of our colleagues are going to be joining us virtually. But i want to welcome all of you nonetheless to this important hearing. This subcommittee continues to do its work in exploring the unfair treatment practices of foreign governments and especially china and russia. The topic of censorship in china is a common one because of its growing of facts on this list in the United States as well as culture. Last fall for example the National Basketball association had its Market Access lock in china because individual american citizens used to media platform not allowed in china to express a political opinion. Now the topic is become much more important to the lack of timely Accurate Information about the spread of covid19 due to chinese censorship has contri
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Good morning. Welcome. Subcommittee on maritime and transportation security, now come to order. Id like to welcome dan bishop of North Carolina to the committee. Welcome. Thank you, mister chairman. Look forward to working with you. The subcommittee is meeting to receive testimony on, one year later, the implementation of the modernization act. Without objection, the chairs authorize to declare the subcommittee in recess at any point. I want to thank you, Ranking Member glasgow and our distinguished witness for joining us today. One year ago this month, congress enacted the First Comprehensive reauthorization, known as the tsa modernization act. The act incorporated substantial numbers of bills, and provisions that originated in this committee. This is a testament to the bipartisan efforts to conduct oversight of tsa. I thank my colleagues, miss Watson Coleman and the tsa modernization act improves our nations transportation security. Its a government to describe now, but id like to hi
Year later, the implementation of the modernization act. Without objection, the chairs authorize to declare the subcommittee in recess at any point. I want to thank you, Ranking Member glasgow and our distinguished witness for joining us today. One year ago this month, congress enacted the First Comprehensive reauthorization, known as the tsa modernization act. The act incorporated substantial numbers of bills, and provisions that originated in this committee. This is a testament to the bipartisan efforts to conduct oversight of tsa. I thank my colleagues, miss Watson Coleman and the tsa modernization act improves our nations transportation security. Its a government to describe now, but id like to highlight a few key point. It established a fiveyear term for this tsa administrator to provide stability, to the agencys leadership. And, sadly, the current chaos and leadership vacancies within have undermined those efforts. Administrator, has been forced to wear two hats. Acting as dhs de