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I will pass it over to jd foster. Pleasure to have you with us today. Nice to be here with my colleague, randy. Before we begin i want to acknowledge the people in houston and those suffering from hurricane harvey. Wish them on behalf of the chamber the safety and swiftest possible recovery from what theyre dealing with. The economy is in its ninth year of expansion. Which is fairly notable. That makes it the third longest in modern era. By next spring we will have tied for second and curiously, despite the length of the recovery and expansion, we seem to be possibly heading into a period of a...

Order. Senator whitehouse is on his way and is okay starting with senator klobuchar. The purpose of the hearing is explore the distinct roles of congress and the executive branch respect to conducting investigations and discuss best practices. We have an incredible panel here who have been down this road many times. Criminal investigations are designed to find out if a crime was committed and hold somebody upon. Congress has a broader mandate. Were not prosecutors but our goal is to shed light on information that may be lie significant but not necessarily criminal, a just policy is needed, cha...

Order. Senator whitehouse is on his way and is okay starting with senator klobuchar. The purpose of the hearing is explore the distinct roles of congress and the executive branch respect to conducting investigations and discuss best practices. We have an incredible panel here who have been down this road many times. Criminal investigations are designed to find out if a crime was committed and hold somebody upon. Congress has a broader mandate. Were not prosecutors but our goal is to shed light on information that may be lie significant but not necessarily criminal, a just policy is needed, cha...

Or deadly serious as they implicate the president s fitness to perform the duties of his office. In the meantime the subcommittee is doing its job. If the function of congress is to be preferred even to its legislative function. From senator trumans investigation of the defense contractors to the Army Mccarthy hearings to the watergate hearings, the senate function has always been important even if sometimes imperfect. To proceed in parallel without harm to either. We are pleased to have experts in the area shed light to their study and experience. One particular issue is the still undisclosed...

Thank you all. We will bring the hearing to order. Senator whitehouse is on his way and i have been told he is ok with starting. The purpose of this hearing is to explore the distinct roles of congress in the executive branch with respect to discussing best practices. We have an incredible panel who manybeen down this road times. Criminal investigations are designed to find out if a crime was committed and hold somebody responsible. Congress has a broad mandate. We are not prosecutors but our goal is to shine a light on something that may be highly significant, but not necessarily criminal. It...