So committee will come to order. Without objection recess at any time. We will begin the subcommittee hearing with the gentleman from california. The pledge of allegiance. Thank you. We welcome everyone to todays hearing on the exploitation of children in United States and abroad. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. I am grateful all of you are here today both the witnesses the member of the committee and then also the audience. We appreciate you being here. I wish we did not have to hold a hearing on this topic. That would mean children in our country and abroad are safe from exploitation. Unfortunately that is not the case. It is a fact our children are not safe online. And it is unacceptable. Predators use the internet to trick and exploit innocent children. Children are trafficked. Through social media apps. This is the worst type of evil. To our strong survivor leaders in the room and watching from afar we see you, we hear you and your Voice Matters and we appreciate
Can i alert my colleagues that are here to introduce individuals normally we would turn to you and let you do that. But this meeting is has some more controversy than most hearings have so this is the way were going to handle it. Im going to make an Opening Statement, a little longer than usual. Senator feinstein will make a statement thats longer than usual. Then because of the two states that are involved, and for different reasons, but coming to the same conclusion, normally we dont have members speak, but i felt i ought to give the courtesy to both senator kennedy and senator said he wanted to speak about the controversy and his nominee. Then im going to turn to senator franken and senator franken will have up to five minutes s that okay . Youre going to introduce people, but i would like to get the controversial statements out of the way first. That makes sense. Okay. Congratulations to all the nominees and to your families and everybodys welcome at the committee. Two weeks ago, i
[inaudible conversations] book tv this date capitol hill to as spammers of congress what they are reading this summer. I love this time a year for semi reasons, but when is the Summer Reading list and things i pointed to read it through work couple things i have finished that i highly recommend is a lincoln by ron white, biography of one of my favorite people from illinois. Hard not to be a huge Abraham Lincoln fan, but it has some information i did not know about also, growing up in chicago huge cubs fan and finished cubs away and a fun story about the last 108 years of struggle for the cubs to finally win the world series last year and walking through game by game of the world series. It was a fun read and when i could not put down and i also finished a book recently called if you can keep it referencing the question that Benjamin Franklin had of what selfgovernance is all about and what we have to do to protect our delivery in this great government we enjoyed those are three things
Police in south jersey searching for whoever is vandalizing holiday decorations. Those stories in a moment, but first, we all knew it was eventually coming. It is here, were dealing with a cold blast that will stay for a while. Were taking a live look here via sky6 live hd in penns landing. If youre heading out this early hour youre going to want to bundle up, temperatures are below freezing. Meteorologist chris sowers joins us with a look at the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Chris you say its all about christmas. Its got to be cold. Reporter its got to be cold, last year we had the airconditioning on christmas day, it was so warm, 70 degrees. I agree it cant be warm on christmas. Ill give you that one. Reporter ill turn him over no you wont. Lets get you outside, wait until you see whats coming in the seven day. Ill tell you what, its going to get cold. Theres the view sky6 live hd down in cape may. Theres a few clouds, blustery and cold, temperatures in the 20s, windchills
To continue the administrations effort to engage to create jobs and opportunities for americas workers. The 24th deal spent the morning and working sessions with the Vice President , cabinet members and das and came together with the president to brief them on their discussions and recommendations. The group discussed the need to rollback burdensome regulations cycling cannot growth. The co bank for actions hes already taken, expressed the issues and the president pledged to do more through executive branch and by working with congress to pass legislation that will help further Economic Growth and job creation. This leader recommended the administration take a multifaceted approach to the next eight policies including tax reform for which secretary nguyen said the progress was continuing to be made. The president has committed to lowering taxes, level the Playing Field with other countries when it comes to trade and taxation. The group held a lengthy discussion about the need to invest