Morning. Welcome to the subcommittee on communication and technologies. I am glad to welcome our witnesses back before the subcommittee. I know it has been seven months since we had you before us and i know we all missed the warm welcoming atmosphere of our hearing room. Despite that passage of time many issues that were of concern to us then still remain unresolved today. For example, i asked about the investigation into phone carrier selling the realtime location of nearly every american. Mr. Chairman, you told me even after more than one year had passed we still cannot tell whether this practice has stopped and could not say whether the impacted individuals have been notified and could not tell us that members of congress and lawenforcement had their locations sold or tracked and in june of this year you told senator blumenthal that you were wrapping up this investigation and with that recommendation shortly. That was six months ago. We still dont have them. Chairman sloan and i wro
Powells pivotal vote in the case. Indeed, that reasoning flouted precedent at the time and has since been relegated to nothing more than an isolated relic of an abandoned doctrine. The states only defense in support of the judgment below is that the sixth amendment does not require unanimity at all, that is hnot in state courts or federal court. This court should reject that argument. As the court has said many times over many decades, the sixth amendment requires a unanimous verdict to convict. In particular, what the court has said is the sixth amendment right to try by jury carries with it the essentials of the common law. The common law authorities are uniform, explicit, and absolute. Unanimity is an absolute requirement to trial by jury. The reasons that the common law commentators gave for that rule resonate just as powerfully now as they did then. In a nutshell, were not prepared to take away somebody ice liberty unless a Cross Section of the community uniformly agrees criminal
Subcommittee hearings on investigations will come to order. We are hearing a hearing called sabotage. The purpose is to examine the efforts to ensure quality and Affordable Health care. The chair recognizes yourself for five minutes for an opening statement. Its no secret that the Trump Administration has worked to sabotage health care in this country. On his very first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order directing all federal agencies to dismantle the Affordable Care act, both, to the maximum extent bylaw. Ever since then, the Trump Administration has worked tirelessly to undermine the aca, and other Critical Health programs at every turn. In her role, this seema verma has been behind many of the efforts to undermine the Nations Health care. Despite her role in this, is the first time administrator has appeared to testify and an oversight hearing, and we have many questions regarding the administrations actions. Since for double care act was signed into law more,
Subcommittee hearings on investigations will come to order. We are hearing a hearing called sabotage. The purpose is to examine the efforts to ensure quality and Affordable Health care. The chair recognizes yourself for five minutes for an opening statement. Its no secret that the Trump Administration has worked to sabotage health care in this country. On his very first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order directing all federal agencies to dismantle the Affordable Care act, both, to the maximum extent bylaw. Ever since then, the Trump Administration has worked tirelessly to undermine the aca, and other Critical Health programs at every turn. In her role, this seema verma has been behind many of the efforts to undermine the Nations Health care. Despite her role in this, is the first time administrator has appeared to testify and an oversight hearing, and we have many questions regarding the administrations actions. Since for double care act was signed into law more,
Subcommittee hearings on investigations will come to order. We are hearing a hearing called sabotage. The purpose is to examine the efforts to ensure quality and Affordable Health care. The chair recognizes yourself for five minutes for an opening statement. Its no secret that the Trump Administration has worked to sabotage health care in this country. On his very first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order directing all federal agencies to dismantle the Affordable Care act, both, to the maximum extent bylaw. Ever since then, the Trump Administration has worked tirelessly to undermine the aca, and other Critical Health programs at every turn. In her role, this seema verma has been behind many of the efforts to undermine the Nations Health care. Despite her role in this, is the first time administrator has appeared to testify and an oversight hearing, and we have many questions regarding the administrations actions. Since for double care act was signed into law more,