[inaudible] thank you. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the subcommittee at any time. Without objection members of the full committee not on this subcommittee are authorized to participate in todays hearing. Members are reminded to keep their video function on at all times, even when they are not recognized by the chair. Members are also reminded that they are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves, and to meet themselves after they finished speaking. Consistent with the regulations of a Company House resolution 965, staff will only mute members and witnesses as appropriate. We not recognized to avoid inadvertent background noise. Members are reminded that all house rules relating to order and decorum apply to this remote hearing. This hearing is entitled Holding Financial regulators accountable for diversity and inclusion. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing fo
Relationship between china and taiwan. From the Global Taiwan Institute this is just over hour. All right. Okay. Well good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Global Taiwan Institute. My name is russell hsiao, im the executive director here at gti. Gti is a 501 c 3 thinktank dedicated to taiwan policy research and analysis. Our mission is to enhance the u. S. Taiwan relationship through public education. We undertake several major programs that include a weekly publication called the global taiwan with brief, where we invite experts to contribute timely articles. We also have a Seminar Series that you are all participating in today where we invite practitioners as well as scholars to focus on current developments related to policy issues that affect the u. S. Taiwan relationship. Coming up very shortly we will be hosting our inaugural annual symposium on september 14th and this is going to be our flagship event. Were expecting a large turnout of people within government as well as acad
Dont forget ill be asleep during my presentation, too. Can i sleep too, by prior arrangement . Good morning, everybody, thanks for coming. Im ellis miller and i play rhythm guitar at the Hoover Institution and im the leader of the china leadership monitor. Im grateful to doug paul for agreeing to host and set this thing up and to the Carnegie Institution and alex taylor for all his logistical support. Im grateful to michael and to allen for their contributions to the monitor from very early in its inception. And im sorry that james got pulled away. He was a founding contributor and still rights for us. He would have been the guy to talk about the reconfiguration of the Central Military commission coming out of the congress. We hope to have barry notten he who has been a primary contributor. But barry has backloaded his classes to the end of the week and couldnt rearrange his schedule to come. Im sure Everybody Knows who joe f f fusmith is. Hes a founding contributor to the china leader
Schwartz who was the committees chief counsel. And here in our studio in washington is Elliot Maxwell who was counsel to the committee as Pennsylvania Republican senator richard swiekers designee. Thanks to both of you. In this our third installment in this series were looking into the Church Committees hearing on possible excesses by the federal bureau of investigation. Rich schwartz former chief counsel for the Church Committee, on november 18, 1975, you testified before the Senate Committee to share the staffs findings in an investigation of fbi intelligence activities. Were good to show a clip of you reading anonymous letter that the fbi sent to Martin Luther king. Lets watch. The bureau went so far as to mail anonymous letters to dr. King and his wife which were mailed shortly before he he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and finishes with this suggestion. King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. You have just 34 days in which to do it. This exact nu
There i am in the back of the johnson signed the Voting Rights act of 1965. I had a better seat than i did for the Martin Luther king speech. One more antidote you might be anecdote you might be interested in, in 2008, i was in the rotunda, we were celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the birth of lbj and i met lucy johnson who i had never met before. On thelucy, i was here day your dad signed the Voting Rights act. She said i was, too. Nobody knew i was here, but im sure everyone knew you were here. She said her dad said , on, get in the car. I will take you to the capital, this is something important. Oh he explained to her that every person was be right beside while he signed the bill and she said why would you want to have a republican there . He said it was important that the American People understood this was not on a bipartisan basis of the American People would be like much more likely to accept what we are doing if they think both sides are involved. That was the story lu