Senator graham the hearing will come to order. Today were having a hearing about fentanyl, analogs and expiring emergency order. Lets see if i can put this in context. D. E. A. Has an emergency order molecular with changes to the drug fentanyl. Fentanyl has a legitimate medical purpose but it is a drug of mass destruction. In the wrong hands it can kill everybody in this room. And what the drug dealers do aparently is just change the mo lock mo elect rar molecular nature of the drug, basically trying to get around existing law. Theres an emergency order in effect that allows for the d. E. A. To deal with this problem by making sure that any changes, ny an lg call changes to fentanyl are covered by schedules to punish people dealing in the fentanyl business. In february of next year this order expires. Senator johnson has legislation to codify the order. Im very sympathetic to it. 2017, over 70,000 people died from overdoses, 200 a day. In 2016 it was 64,000. All i can say this is a gli
Is darryl davis, come on in. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi testified about the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests in china in 1989. Well also hear from some of the student leaders who took part in the protests. This was part of a joint hearing of the Congressional Executive Commission on china and the tom lantos Human Rights Commission. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning and welcome to joint hearing of the executive commission on china in the Human Rights Commission hosted by the word Affairs Committee i want to think my cochair, micah review on the China Commission and the congressman chris smith on the Human Rights Commission. I would also like to think Ranking Member Michael Mccaul and all the members of the foreign Affairs Committee for hosting and participating in the support hearing. The title of todays hearing was examining the evolution of repression in china. The hearing will review the events in china in
On 9 p. M. Terwords on cspan. Earlier today, the House Select Committee on the modern san diego of Congress Held a hearing on how technology can improve. Witnesses offered recommendations for email and town hall formats. His is an hour and 15 minutes. The committee will come to order. Indiscernible] i now recognize myself for five minutes. Before we begin, i want to thank the House Administration committee for letting us squat in their committee room. We are going to talk about how member offices and constituents, spoiler alert. Both think we can do a much better job. Email to congress has skile rocketed. House offices received 13 times the volume of constituent messages than they received in 2001. Keeping up with the pace is really tough and congress dead indicates time and resources to make sure constituents are responded to. New technology have more tools for contacting us. That is a really good thing because we are representatives of the people and we need to know what our constitu
Video content has evolved over time. And if the laws and regulations governing those marketplaces need to be reviewed. Held by the Senate Commerce committee, this is be a hour and 45 minutes. Welcome. We are delighted to have all of you with us today. The committee gathers to examine the state of television and video marketplace. Im glad to convene this hearing with my colleague, senator cantwell. Ill welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses and thank them for appearing. Wick wick the honorable Michael Powell mr. Wicker the honorable Michael Powell. The honorable gordon smith, president and c. E. O. Of the National Association of broadcasters and our former colleague. Mr. David kenny, c. E. O. Of nielsen. And mr. Craig aaron, president and c. E. O. Of free press. Americans are living in the golden age of television. Weve never had more choices and access to video content. When viewers had to be home at a certain time to watch their favorite show, those days are gone. The television
Robocalls, as they testified in front of this Senate Appropriations subcommittee for an hour and forty minutes. [ banging gavel ] all right, folks. The subcommittee will come to order. Were going hear today from the fiscal year 2020 budget request from the fcc and the ftc. We have with us today our two chairmen from the fcc, chairman pi, who has served as chairman since january of 2017. He was a previously a commissioner on the federal communications commission. Hes a graduate, proud graduate, of harvard and chicago law. We also have from the federal trade commission, chairman joseph simmons. He has been chairman since may of 2018. He was previously a partner at paul weise, where undoubtedly he made more money. He was co chair of the firms antitrust group, and hes a graduate of cornell and georgetown law. Let me say a few words. And then ill call on my colleague, senator coons. As indicated today, were convening the first hearing for the Financial Services and general Government Subcom