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Training posture and both for military and rest of the economy. Again i think weve not been arguing for a certain size of the military been arguing for the competitiveness of the nation. Both on the military sides and also economically. I think that is a huge question that youre hearing in innovation space but also in skills and then the defense Manufacturing Base which i think were seeing there a, the Technology Side is now, i think lifted. The Manufacturing Base to an extent where it is now much more competitive than it was even though it is not hiring, to the same extent. There is real transition that is about the trend or, for Defense Budget but then what about the rest of the budget if and or, are there other sources for delivering these services that are needed so that we can leverage. Unless there are any final words, well recognize there are a lot more topics where we havent come up with industrial policy for solving the was ton nationals decline among other topics. We have ful
Paper. They dont have access to the public trial. Trial. The public trial. I agree. Its public. The star chamber of england when they did things in the background. The more the public knows the better they understand why the outcome turned out the way it is. We heard all those arguments, protected victims of crime. They were not televised. The media always worked with that. Special cases. The jury was not televised. We we never had a problem. We heard the arguments. Like to have always done. Whether its a court or whether its the jury. The judges didnt want cameras in the courtroom. Why . Maybe maybe they are doing things that the public should be knowing. So i have had experience with cameras. It worked out. Worked out. We did a capital murder case of a juvenile. Both sides agreed to the trial. Most of the case. , big supporter of the public knowing about the greatest judicial system in the world, the american judicial system. Its not somebody elses. Its ours. Its ours. And blocking a
The record and as you have all talked about, the fact that we have these open files already, all of these are open to the public as are the trial transcripts. But imagine as an employment case one claims as emotional distress. I think youll remember this from being a trial lawyer on crossexamination that someone has made that kind of claim and is going to be examined extensively about everything about personality and Mental Health and etc. And this includes someone being cross examined as well about their Sexual Practices with their spouse or partner. In a criminal case, a confidential informant is going to be rigorously crossexamined to identify who that person is. Even if they are fakes. We have legitimate and can serious concerns about impediment to a fair trial and this is why we have the pilot and these are the many questions that we are looking at in that we hope will be answered for us in terms of guidance and best practices whether it is possible for a judge to use this and yet
Relative merits will benefit our consideration. I particularly want to thank mr. King and mr. Shack bow for their work chabot for their work and congresswoman lofgren and congressmann deutch for their work. This deserves careful consideration by the committee. I yield back. Thank you. I would now like to recognize the full Committee Ranking members, the distinguished gentleman from michigan, congressman conyers. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I wanted to begin by mentioning that our colleague from new york, mr. Indiana nadler, wanted to be here today but he is at the Supreme Court where there is oral argument going on in a very important case, and i wanted his absence to be noted and that he is very concerned about the proceedings taking place here in the Judiciary Committee. The sunshine in courtroom act, of course, would authorize photography, electronic recording, broadcasting, or televising of any Court Proceeding held in the Federal District court. And in the Circuit Court of