[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] please take your seats and i would ask you all to come to the dais. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. The Oversight Committee exists to secure fundamental principles. First americans have a right to know that the money washington takes from them as well spent and second americans deserve an efficient effective government that works for them. Our duty on the oversight and Government Reform Committee is to protect these rights. Our solemn responsibility is to hold Government Cut the taxpayers. Taxpayers have a right to know that they can afford. Its our job to work tirelessly in partnership as watchdogs to deliver the facts to the American People and bring genuine reform to the federal bureaucracy. Today as we view the continued rollout of the Affordable Care at, we deal with the administrations selling tech meet, the administration helped lots of the American People with a simple, clear promise. If you like yo
Senator grassley, we set a member number of occasions we find it there is a use and value to having an independent legal representative in the fisa Court Process in the appropriate circumstances. We would not advocate or recommend having one for all of the procedures that go on there. Many of them like a normal criminal cases are routinely done in an expert databases. They are done usually with a fair degree of asked etienne and efficiency and we think a permanent public advocate might impede that process if it is applied to every single thing that they are. They would also be some constitutional issues facing our public advocate on every single issue. We would propose that it be an amicus appointed by the court when the court feels that they have the need for another event another point of view when its a significant issue involving privacy issues, civil liberty issues that the court would like to have another view on. That would be a good example of a time. Something like both Data C
Care system that needed to be reformed. The fact is america had an imperfect system developed with a number of public and private forms of money, tremendous , and the like. Crashing it into a wall is not a fixed system. With that, i recognize the gentleman from maryland for his Opening Statement. Thank you for calling this hearing. This week, i had the tremendous honor and privilege of traveling to south africa. As part of our nations delegation to honor the life of the late president Nelson Mandela. It was an inspirational trip, life altering because i have the opportunity to reflect on the amazing changes that one individual, working with determination over a lifetime, can bring to millions of others. There will always be forces aligned against progress, against quality, against basic human dignity. But Nelson Mandelas life reminds us that our mission on earth is to transcend these district to forces and always pursue the betterment of our fellow man. Atraveled back yesterday on 20 h
Postnafta we were doing a tremendous job making something together. We were making pork chops together, but country of origin labeling and impact on livestock trade has dramatically decimated that. Efforts in congress to introduce renewable or a clean energy standard, none of them have passed, not scott mentioned earlier the northsouth flow of the electric grid. But despite that the existence of the grid and existence of the l. Actress degrade trade, the proposals for renewable and clean and g. Standards all would have differentiated between imported and domestic electricity and not given them the same treatment. So a while theres a lot of hope, im wondering how you propose to tackle that . Well, and ill channel Alexander Hamilton and recommend energy to the executive. I think to the extent the president and his administration has an ambitious, active agenda. Congress has a lot less time for mischief and have to deal with so i would encourage the. I think that now is the president push
Begin with shocking new development out of the deep state. We can confirm tonight that the doj Inspector Generals investigation into the fisa abuse, thats the Michael Horowitz report, has not been completed and according to the hills john solomon, the igs findings could be released as early as the next couple weeks. Its now being processed for potential reactions. Lindsey graham says he expects the findings to be and ugly and he will want all of it released and he will give the Inspector General as much time as he needs to tell the entire story of this abuse of power and corruption. Now course, one of the key targets of the investigation is likely mr. Super patriot himself, jim comey. As we all know by now, call me and signed off on the very first fives application against donald trump and his campaign associate carter page and we also now know he signed two other phase applications all based, the bulk of information, the bought and paid for phony russian dossier, bought and paid for b