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Who always chairs the appropriating committee nd from the library, and i think thats particularly helpful you could be here with us for this today as well. Also a member of this committee. So shes here as a member of the committee but also on these topics, particularly valuable in her role as appropriating. Weve been having with the library, with the smithsonian, with the architect of the capitol, these kinds of oversight hearings to fulfill that responsibility and be sure were giving the agencies the help they need. Were glad to be here, of course, with the librarian, dr. Carla heyden, and ka...

The great just great. Britain to. Follow drama brick sit on aljazeera. And here in the street today should twitter allow political ads we ask what role social media plays in politics and what impact a ban on political ads will have join the conversation tweet us or leave a comment on our live chat and you too will be able to stream. Twitters c. E. O. Jack dorsey recent the announce that the company will no longer allow political advertisements on its platform the move the company says is to make sure politicians and political campaigns tell voters the whole truth its the 1st such declaration b...

The republican leader of the rules committee in a minute, mr. Cole, but i would just note that what the democrats are now trying to do, they basically cooked up a process, they have been conducting in secret, the goal of the process, the aim of the process was very clearly to preclude the president s counsel from asking questions of witnesses. The goal of the process was to preclude republicans from being able to call any witnesses. They have now taken this process, they have gotten so much pressure because of the way they have been conducting the process, they are now attempting to sort of pu...

The committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized today declare a recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled an examination of facebook and its impact on the Financial Services and housing sectors. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. Today, were here to examine the impact of facebook on the Financial Services and housing sectors. Our sole witness is facebooks chairman and ceo, mark zuckerberg. Facebooks plans to create a digital currency, libra, and a digital wallet raise many concerns relating to privacy, trading r...

Of policies that can identify all of the dimpt types of harms. Underbanked, whether or not you intend to have libra and your weve talked about a number digital wallet registered in today. Each of those countries so that terrorism, child exploitation, there would be regulatory oversight. Because we have found a lot of health missi individuals we have payday health misinformation. Lenders who say were interested in the underbanked we now have more than 35,000 people at the company wo work on o safety and security overall. Were interested in those that are not banked we spend billions of dollars ...