We will now proceed with Opening Statements. I wish you all a good morning and welcome to the fourth hearing in the economic Emergency Management subcommittee. One of the purposes of this committee is to protect taxpayer dollars by ensuring they are spent effectively, efficiently and with transparency. That brings us to todays hearing which is entitled landlord and tenant. You can tell from the title that today we will be investigating fairly unprecedented situation. The federal government owns the building that houses President Trumps d. C. Hotel hotel. Since President Trump has declined, he is essentially acting as both the landlord and the tenant. Before i was elected to congress , over three decades Teaching College students about American Government and politics. Serious discussions about the legislature holding the executive Branch Accountable to the highest legal and ethical standards and that is exactly what we hope to do today. First lets start with some facts. All federal wor
as it were from this assembly on ukraine. yeah, so as you point out, jim, the russian foreign minister and the secretary of state tony blinken have been in the same place at the same time in multiple instances in recent months. in one of those instances, a secretary of state went after russia and said very bluntly, ukraine is not your country, and we expect that there is going to be more tense confrontation today. and the reason that today is different is because we do expect that both the secretary of state and the russian foreign minnist her lavrov are going to deliver remarks as part of this meeting on ukraine. and when it comes to blinken himself, we re told that he is very similar to president biden yesterday going to directly confront what we have seen as these recent developments over the last few days with president putin talking about the nuclear possibilities of this war. also, with those referendum that are planned in the ukrainian occupied territories in russia
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Mrs. Pelosi good morning everyone. I am honored to be here with distinguished representation of House Democratic caucus. Leadership from committees of jurisdiction that have questions about the actions of the Trump Administration as related to the rule of the law. Congresswoman Ranking Member top democrat Maxine Waters, congressman s grant, congresswoman cicilline, congresswoman watson coleman, and representative hank johnson, they are here to speak from the standpoint of their committee. I am not going to characterize their remarks except to say i am proud of the work they have done. Earlier this week, we saw evidence that the Trump Administration and the trump family eagerly intended to collude with russia, a hostile foreignpolicy to influence an american election. Today we learned a foreign russian agent was also present at the trump meeting. Members of Congress Take a sacred of, i do solemnly swear, and that is to uphold the constitution of the United States with what our responsib
Mrs. Pelosi good morning everyone. I am honored to be here with distinguished representation of House Democratic caucus. Leadership from committees of jurisdiction that have questions about the actions of the Trump Administration as related to the rule of the law. Congresswoman Ranking Member top democrat Maxine Waters, congressman s grant, congresswoman cicilline, congresswoman watson coleman, and representative hank johnson, they are here to speak from the standpoint of their committee. I am not going to characterize their remarks except to say i am proud of the work they have done. Earlier this week, we saw evidence that the Trump Administration and the trump family eagerly intended to collude with russia, a hostile foreignpolicy to influence an american election. Today we learned a foreign russian agent was also present at the trump meeting. Members of Congress Take a sacred of, i do solemnly swear, and that is to uphold the constitution of the United States with what our responsib