Stripped of his title for doping violations. Welcome to this hearing, the oversight investigations subcommittee, and the antidoping system. The subcommittee examines the current state of the system but challenge it faces in areas for reform. The summer games and really less then a year from the winter games, there is no better time to evaluate progress made thus far on the interNational Antidoping system. We are holding this hearing february 28th, we have the greatest living athlete of all time who has won 28 metals before his day. I was referring to you, mister griffin. I was referring to Michael Phelps. Every two years nations are filled with excitement and pride as they cheer their athlete in summer and winter games. A longstanding tradition that she not be tarnished by those who choose to cheat. I hope this helps highlight ways to strengthen clean competition and restore public confidence. And the Current System on individuals in promoting sport. And the world antidoping agencies.
Hearing in ways to improve the National Antidoping system. Ton heels of the summer games in rio and less than a year away from pyeongchang. Fitting we are holding this hearing on february 28, a champion thats won gold medals and wasnt referring to you mr. Referring to Michael Phelps. Squl it ultimately i hope this hearing hopes to highlight ways which we can strengthen confidence in International Sport. Within the antidoping community there are concerns regarding organizational structure and how the Current System creates an environment where they are both policing and promoting the sport. Wada currently exists, they simultaneously hold policy making decision, they can have real and perceived affects on rigorous possible violations as well as enforcement of antidoping measures, several have stated that wada lacks support itself, recent proposals suggested removing it from governance structures to improve independence and operation today we want to evaluate those concerns and discuss th
Enforced, and a lot of programs were eliminated under that obama administration. I think cspan should consider subjects that are all important and not to the start and listen to every media that they just want to cause harm and slow down the process of improvements to provide better economy, jobs, and for the citizens and legal immigrants of our country. And i support the enforcement of this immigration law. It should be fair. You should not side with somebody and worse, those are mostly illegals whose purpose is to harm and kill our citizens. Host and that is our program for today. We have a quick look at tomorrows show. Robert dixie with the Concord Coalition and sam kolender will be here to discuss president trumps 2018 budget outline release this past week. Will take antin look at the annual list of 10 breakthrough technologies, as well as the expected impact. That is tomorrow at 8 00 a. M. Enjoy the rest of your saturday. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute,
From the u. S. Olympic committee. Charles grassley is the committee chair. Dianne feinstein, the Ranking Member, have introduced a bill that would require governing bodies of athlete tick programs to report allegations of sexual abuse immediately to Child Welfare agencies or governing bodies. Thanks specially to our witnesses but also everybody who is attending today. You are very welcome. Thank you very much for your interest in this issue. As you probably know, our committee, the Judiciary Committee, is no stranger to contentious debate. When it comes to championing the rights of those hoff been victimized, this committee has a clear bipartisan history. We are here today to build upon that bipartisan tradition and learn what more can be done to keep our children and Young Athletes safe from sexual predators. Protecting children from abuseers has been a top priority for me and a lot of other members of this committee over the years. Over 30 years ago, i sponsored the child Abuse Victi
From the u. S. Olympic committee. Charles grassley is the committee chair. Dianne feinstein, the Ranking Member, have introduced a bill that would require governing bodies of athlete tick programs to report allegations of sexual abuse immediately to Child Welfare agencies or governing bodies. Thanks specially to our witnesses but also everybody who is attending today. You are very welcome. Thank you very much for your interest in this issue. As you probably know, our committee, the Judiciary Committee, is no stranger to contentious debate. When it comes to championing the rights of those hoff been victimized, this committee has a clear bipartisan history. We are here today to build upon that bipartisan tradition and learn what more can be done to keep our children and Young Athletes safe from sexual predators. Protecting children from abuseers has been a top priority for me and a lot of other members of this committee over the years. Over 30 years ago, i sponsored the child Abuse Victi