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The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized declare recess on the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on policing practices and Law Enforcement accountability. I thank all of our members and witnesses for participating today. Both in person and remotely. I appreciate the use that made use of this room and the technology were using possible. Before we begin, id like to remind members weve established a email distribution list to circulate exhibits motions and other written materials members might want to offer as part of our hearing today. If youd like to submit materials send them to the email address previously distributed to your offices and well circulate the materials to members and staff as quickly as we can. In light of whats going on in the world today, i ask that everyone in the room wear a mask all times except when you wish while speaking. Other than if youre a speaker. Taking from him the
Hearing on the covid19 pandemic best practices and opportunities for innovation. Before we begin i would like to remind members that we have established in the military and the distribution list dedicated to circulating red materials that members might want to offer is part of our hearing today. If you would like to submit that terry will. Send them to the email address that has been previously distributed to you all and we will circulate the materials to members and staff as quickly as we can. I also ask unanimous consent that following items be entered into the record. A letter to chairman johnson and Ranking Member roby and the American Association of judges and the results of a study in a recent survey by the federal Bar Association and its members on Legal Practices in the covid19 era. Without objection, so admitted. I will recognize myself for an opening statement. Welcome to the Senate Committee hearing on courts during the covid19 pandemic best practices and opportunities for i
Work together as a committee this is a bipartisan concern and will have Bipartisan Solutions i hope for the future of our country and for generations of americans to come we have to do that i urge my colleagues in this moment all of us to hear and to listen to our witnesses and work with each other as friends and fellow americans to understand the need in our communities and foster our discussions on a foundation of civility and Mutual Respect we started that and i hope we continue it with that i yield back thank you without objection no other Opening Statements will be included in the record. We have an unusually large panel today but given the broad range of issues that we will be discussing with we have invited a broad range of witnesses as is customary the minority was given the opportunity to invite witnesses well and they have selected mr brown gino pastor scott and miss Underwood Jacobs we welcome everyone and thank them for the for their participation now if the witnesses would
The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. Without objects in the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this hearing on policing practices and Law Enforcement accountability. I thank all of our members and witnesses for participating, both in person and remotely. I appreciate all the work that went into making use of this room and the technology we are using possible. Before we begin i would like to remind members we have established an email address and distribution list dedicated to circulating exhibits, motions, or other written materials members might want to offer as part of our hearing. If you would like to submit materials sent them to the email address that has been previously distributed to your offices and we will circulate the materials to members and staff as quickly as we can. In light of what is going on in the world today i ask that everyone wear a mask at all other than when you are a speaker, when you