[inaudible conversations] we are going to get started. Thank you. Good morning. The hearing will come to order. I thank everyone for joining us this morning and i want to especially thank my colleagues for joining us today for the House Committee on business hearing the response to covid19. We have had a hard stop act once again. We will move as quickly as we can but should we not be able to accommodate every member in person today, we will be accepting statements for the record until thursday, april 30. This important hearing i want to mention the chairwoman has been in our thoughts and prayers we wish you nothing but the best as you recover. Small businesses and entrepreneurs play a Critical Role within the american economy. Not only do they employ half of the nations workers but created two out of every three new jobs in the nation. You only need to take the poll from main street america. It is demonstrated Small Businesses and employees and the Response Congress created with a Payc
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Statements are slim to the chair in the ranking minority member. Therefore, i ask unanimous consent that all other members Opening Statements be made part of the hearing record if they are submitted to the clerk by 5 pm today. Hearing no objections, so ordered. Thank you all for being here today for the subcommittee on National Parks, forests in public lands hearing on combatting anti public lands extremism. We are here today in part to review the results of our recent Government Accountability Office Report detailing the impact of Anti Government extremism and public land managers in federal facilities. As we will hear, that report found some shocking details about the threats these federal employees faced just doing their jobs. Federal land managers and Law Enforcement personnel have been followed around in stores, had their homes sticks out, and have even faced attempted murder at the hands of those who promote Anti Government ideologies. I hope that we can all agree that this is un
Subcommittee on ports republic as well come to order. Statements are slim to the chair in the ranking minority member. Therefore, i ask unanimous consent that all other members Opening Statements be made part of the hearing record if they are submitted to the clerk by 5 pm today. Hearing no objections, so ordered. Thank you all for being here today for the subcommittee on National Parks, forests in public lands hearing on combatting anti public lands extremism. We are here today in part to review the results of our recent Government Accountability Office Report detailing the impact of Anti Government extremism and public land managers in federal facilities. As we will hear, that report found some shocking details about the threats these federal employees faced just doing their jobs. Federal land managers and Law Enforcement personnel have been followed around in stores, had their homes sticks out, and have even faced attempted murder at the hands of those who promote Anti Government id
Order. Without 0, all members will have five days to submit statements, materials and questions for the record, subject to length limitation and the rules. We immediate today to examine the fiasco surrounding the Trump Administrations decision to invoke Emergency Authority under the arms expert control act. And abuse of authority in my view and ram led to 8 billion in arms sales to gulf countries. Well hear testimony from assistant secretary of state for plate political clarke cooper. Thank you for appearing before us today. Welcome to members of the and can the press and thank you to your friends on cspan who are broughting this important proceeding. Before i recognize myself for opening stam i want to just say to the member isll be heavy with the gavel because we want to get in as many people asking questions as possible. So, the five minutes will be pretty hard and fast. Instead of let it go for six or seven minutes. If ask people to please speak within the fiveminute recognized per