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Quorum be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer well, mr. President , for more than a year and a half, leader mcconnell and Senate Republicans have refused to take action on the housepassed for the people act. At a time when our democracy is under siege in so many ways, the for the people act is a bold proposal that will restore Peoples Trust in our democratic system, a trust that is fading. It is under it is for the people. In order to make a more perfect union. I...

This hearing will come to order, senator cantwell is going to join us in person but she joins us remotely at the beginning of the hearing, we have convened this morning to continue work of this committee to ensure the internet remains a free and open space and they are sufficiently uptodate, it is a Great American success story, thanks in large part to the regulatory and legal structure our government put in place, we cannot take that success for granted, the openness and freedom of the internet...

[inaudible conversations] this hearing will come to order. Ms. Cantwell will join us remotely at the beginning of the hearing. We convene to continue work to make sure the laws that govern it are sufficiently uptodate the internet is a Great Success story thanks in large part to the regulatory and legal structure that we cannot take that for granted and with those prominent internet platforms the witnesses include mr. Jack dorsey. And Mark Zuckerberg of facebook. On october 1st the committee vot...

Eastern on cspans q a. Ceos of facebook, twitter and google appeared virtually at a Senate Commerce hitting Senate Commerce hearing. Republicans question whether the companies were censoring conservative viewpoints while democrats raised concerns about the spread of misinformation. Throughout the hearing, there were several references to section 230 of the committee occasions decency act, which shields social Media Companies from liability for content posted on their sites. This is three and a h...

Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 lets turn our attention to one of the important issues, and it is this. 20 Million Students and their families are in the middle of what has to be the strangest first semester of college in at least a century. Almost everything has changed for students except one thing, students still have to answer 108 questions on the dreaded fafsa form, federal aid application for pell grants and Student Loans to help go to college. For years now ive carr...

Gentleman from texas, mr. Castro. Mr. Castro madam chair, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and tend their remarks the speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. Mr. Castro i yammings. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman virginia tech. Mr. Castro i rise in support of the uighur forced labor prevention act. The human rights atrocities, the Chinese Government is perpetuating are now wellknown. More than a million uighurs and muslims, ethnic...

First a few administrative matters. We have gotten advice from the sergeant at arms, the health and Human Services centers for disease control, individuals in the hearing room will he at least 6 feet apart. There is no room for the public and therefore but this is all streaming and therell be an unedited version of it that anyone can watch later. Witnesses are participating by videoconference today and some senators are as well. I like to Say Something about mask. The office of attending physici...

Good morning and the meeting will come to work. Welcome todays hearing on the oversight of the general trade commission. On extended a welcome and thank you for appearing. You will all appear roughly this morning. Include fcc chairman joe simons, and noah phillips. Commissioner chopra pretty commissioner Christine Wilson and rebecca slaughter. Cc the established in 1914. Under federal trade commission act. The fcc is chiefly responsible for protecting consumers from unfair, or fraudulent Busines...

Down the road when the Police Stopped him and told them to come with them. Also coming up tonight the world is waiting for a vaccine against the new coronavirus today russia said it already has one it has not been tried and tested but the russian president says it worked on his daughter. I know this very well because one of my own daughters was given a does have a vaccine in this sense she took part in the experiment after the 1st vaccination she had a temperature of 38 degree celsius but then i...

Will come to work. Welcome todays hearing on the oversight of the general trade commission. On extended a welcome and thank you for appearing. You will all appear roughly this morning. Include fcc chairman joe simons, and noah phillips. Commissioner chopra pretty commissioner Christine Wilson and rebecca slaughter. Cc the established in 1914. Under federal trade commission act. The fcc is chiefly responsible for protecting consumers from unfair, or fraudulent Business Practices in the marketplac...