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Auto executives testified about their work on selfdriving cars, testing the cars themselves and safety of government regulation. [ indistinct chatter ] good morning. Id like to call the subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection to order. The chair now recognizes himself for five minutes for an opening statement. Again, good morning and welcome to the first hearing of the 115th congress for the Digital Congress and Consumer Protection subcommittee. Its a pleasure to be here with you all today. Before we get started, i want to thank the chairman for the work they did in the last c...

The story of a neighbors collapse. Venezuela massive street demonstrations, three dead. The socialist president maduro says the time for come back has arrived. Its destabilizing the region. What should america do . Send in the marines, send food . Let them sort it out themselves . Were on it, and what exactly are we allowed to smoke. On the day that new york city bans Tobacco Sales in some stores and tries to put up the pack of cigarettes to 13, thousands of people will light up a joint in public. Its marijuana day, 420. Come to this, tobacco increasingly expensive and outlawed and marijuana i...

And then the north korean government dont tell [inaudible] the second cause, the poor environmental about media industry, as some have already said, too much competition between Media Companies and between people exist. And too little too much space on newspaper and too much time on tv news. So we have to write reports, whatever, everyday, every night. So sometimes well have enough time to verify the facts and check. Its reality. And i think some reporters have the first belief that North Koreans do not argue about their article. And then the last code i have, ideological [inaudible] i want to...

Them gavel to gavel, but my perception, and i think the perception of many were those very concerns in those cases. But i think whats far more important is to survey the people that were involved in a particular case, the lawyers, the witnesses, i mean, the things that our pilot is going to do. Their perceptions, i think, are much more compelling and persuasive than the perceptions of somebody who is watching it on tv, who doesnt know all the facts, who doesnt know what that witness testified to in a deposition and whether theyre shading their testimony now when theyre in front of television c...

2010. Before that, audio from one term generally wasnt available until the beginning of the next term and so i was wondering, whats your view on the impact of having these audio recordings available now publicly within the same week of the argument and has there been an improvement in Public Access . Well, it certainly a good first step, but when were talking about the age of the internet, when someone can tweet something and millions of people can see it and read it and share it seconds after its been sent, especially in news when youre talking about something well release it that week. I mea...