and served in the bush administration. and one of the key focus areas that keeps on coming up is we need durable vaccines that reduce infections and prevent -- excuse me, prevent infection and transmissibility. everybody knows this. and yet the administration is allowing this misconception to go out there and they've lost credibility. and it's a shame. >> cj in falls church, virginia, democratic caller. you're next. >> caller: yes, good morning. mr. grogan, you're a well-spoken guy, you make your arguments very well. all the anger that you say is justified to put all this stuff behind us, i couldn't agree more. just a couple of real quick questions. how angry were you when working for trump that he was willing to tell the truth to bob woodward, who my guess is you're not a big fan of, and then he kept that from the public for, you know, a really key couple of months, throughout that february, march, and into april period. trump didn't take this seriously probably until after he left office, really. and he kept complaining

the biden administration is by far the biggest first year of an administration in that timeframe. when you consider the fact that typically what happens during the first chair of administration is that they are laying the groundwork for more substantive rule to come in the future, i think is a clear indication of the future where we are headed that there will be more economic costs coming. host: you mentioned the $201 billion number found in your report. you also mention a number of executive orders being signed and the topics of vehicle admissions and covid-19 safety measures. can you elaborate on what those things? guest: the vehicle admissions rule is probably about 90% of the net total. that is probably about $180 billion. that sets miles per gallon standards per year from 2023 to 2026. most people are familiar with the mandate from osha on employers of more than 100 employees to either vaccinate or provide testing for them. that was about $4 billion. that one was recently swept down by the supreme court. host: as far as the paperwork involved, talk a little bit about that. yo

something the prior administration did not do the administration argued that selling anti-missiles,anks missiles to ukraine would be a deterrent against russian invasion, why didn't it succeed in deterring vladimir putin who appears to be void to invade right now. >> i think that is incorrect and it's great to be back with you i miss our sunday rhonda views when i was in office and quÉbec to california and i said margaret brennan is tough on you and i said that's terrific is a tough question toga start with. the javelins deter the russians during the trump administration there was not this type of buildup on the border bivalirudin we had a very stable policy and put very tough action, more than any prior administration in the history and that was a posture with the russians to know that we had business in this activity was not welcome and severe consequences, the change made a big difference and you are seeing that with ukrainians now in the videos of the exercises using the javelin letting the russians know if they come over and some of their other models frankly i wish we could've

the trump administration decided to get out of the treaty. again, i would say that the need then to deploy defenses and get nato into this game is a result of the proliferation push by the russians to enhance their missile capability to threaten europe. it's a good thing we have those technologies around that offer our nato allies an opportunity to be able to provide some defense against those systems. that's how it looks to me. people can disagree. i think it's the better -- i've got the better argument. not age more. what i am saying, after contemplate the notion of a new set of constraints on intermediate range launch missile systems from caught a new treaty because i want to think anybody -- i don't want anybody to think i am promoting inf treaty as it existed but perhaps regional arrangements where the chinese may be willing to come to the table because they have brody here and they are concerned about the deployment of new u.s. ground punch in asia. i believe they are concerned about the deployment of increasing effective russian missil

there were efforts over three administrations, one written, bush 43. before getting out of the treaty to develop ballistic missile defenses cooperatively for the soviet union and penn russia for modifications of the treaty to be agreed and work permit a joint development. all three efforts failed. bush wanted the united states and russia to agree to withdraw from the treaty together. here agreed to offer only a moderate response and he did. he said he disagreed with the decision to u.s. withdrawal was not a threat to russia security. they claimed at the time it was a huge mistake and undermines strategic stability and me nuclear forces and possible cap six months after the withdrawal in december 13 of 2001 when announced, may 242002, oscar treaty was entered into by the two sides in which they agreed to reach number of strategic nuclear warheads to arrange 2200. significant reductions. at the same time, my staff treaty pledged further work on cooperations and bush administration pursued those efforts until the last month of which it was in office and t

small business administration. serves as the voice for america's 32.5 million small businesses and innovative startups in president biden's cabinet. administrator guzman grew up in a small business family, and has been an entrepreneur herself. she has spent her entire year advising entrepreneurs, launching ventures, helping small businesses navigate government and creating policies and programs to help advance entrepreneurship and innovation. i know all of us recognize the importance of small business in our communities, they are economic engines that keep our communities this i have radioing. please join me in welcoming small business administrator, my friend and my cousin's boss, isabela castillas guzman. [ applause ] >> that was great. thank you, mayor swa wez and congratulations on your presidency. i am so proud and thank you to all the mayors and local leaders here today for everything that you do for our small businesses, from my previous role leading on small businesses and innovative startups in the state o

so our administration has a difficult circumstances. and i'm glad to see the president move more towards, i'll call it military deterrence. that is putting american forces on alert, essentially saying if you have any ideas, that's an important thing. i think that is really important because some of the threats of economic sanctions, while i have no problem putting them forward, because of some of the complications of the energy markets that we were talking about, putin may not fully respect those. so i'm glad that we have the military deterrence, as well. margaret: one second. i promised the folks that i would get questions from members, so i went to ask everyone to prepare those and when you do that, i believe the operator is going to remind you of how to join the question q. so if we can do that now, and i have more questions for all three of you but i don't want to exclude our audience. >> ladies and gentlemen, as a reminder, please click on the icon. when you are called on, press the unmute now button and proceed. please click on th

bush administration time, long time ago, bush 43. bush is making statements like, we are not threatened by the soviet, now russian knew dear deterrent. we are prepared to reduce our level of strategic nuclear war heads unilaterally if necessary. we don't do the sizing of our nuclear forces looking at the russian capability. you know, those statements seem, you know, hard to believe given where we are now. but that was the thinking at the time. and that was the opportunity. but the relationship between the united states and russia soured. and i would argue it soured for a lot of reasons that are much more decisive than missile defense. things like china's -- russia felt weakness, felt exploited in a lot of ways with their weakness. they renewed their strength, partly because of the price of oil, partly because of some fiscal policies. they had grievances about not being treated appropriately. there was the view that the color revolutions on the border of russia were an effort by the effort by the united states to turn regimes against

i saw these problems in the prior administration. the u.s. has a tendency to talk well about democracy and human rights, but not always act to fulfill those values. i see this as a long-standing problem and my hope is now, as you see the biden administration talking up democracy, that we will follow through with our actions. host: your book is called "the dissent channel, american diplomacy in a dishonest age." why is it a dishonest age? guest: what i have seen in my experience inside the state department under different administrations, i have seen is talk a lot about our values and i have seen actions that do not support that. i go back to coups, you really see that pattern. we talk about the need to promote strong democracies, but leading with counterterrorism efforts across west africa, so our actions are not reinforcing democracy, they are reinforcing military leadership in the government. they are reinforcing weak institutions on the democratic side and strong security sectors. the are noty -- they are not promoting inclusivity in these

i hope the administration and the majority party will take this threat to u.k.seriously, ute -- to ukraine seriously, utilize any remaining levers of american influence to deter attack. and if putin proceeds, make him immediately realize it was a miscalculation. this will take coordinated, lethal military assistance and strong sanctions, including against the nord stream 2 pipeline. madam president, it will be critical that doaments come to -- democrats come to realize in other words stream 2 is one -- nord stream 2 is one of putin's top priorities. when this administration waived sanctions on the pipeline, despite the overwhelming opinion that the pipeline will make europe more reliant on and vulnerable to russian energy and will be an economic blow to ukraine, putin saw that he wouldn't be challenged. madam president, this is a crisis of putin's making. but we didn't get here overnight. waiving sanctions on nord stream 2 is one of the many missed opportunities to signal strength against putin. we first saw russia amassing troops on the border last april. yet,

force but the trump administration issued its own weaker standards.rough it all 20 years and for administrations the department of justice legal analysis permitting the lethal strikes has remained shrouded in secrecy. the biden administration is also rightfully sought to restore american leadership. the new show to do so with the lethal foreign policies. executive branch must address the senate problems for two decades have led to erroneous targeting of innocent civilians. in addition, to doing more to prevent these mistakes in the first place we must ensure erroneous strikes are followed by appropriate investigations and accountability. including redress the victims and families. following a series of new york times investigations revealing systemic flaws and department of defense of the department of defense mitigates and tracks the civilian casualties, secretary austin issued a memorandum directed department to develop a hard action plan within 90 days. it comes in response to recent study mandated by congress which found the department of defense

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small business administration.he serves as the voice for america's 30 2.5 million small businesses and innovative startups in president biden's cabinet. she grew up in a small business family and is an entrepreneur herself. she has spent her entire year -- career advising small business, and creating policies to help advance entrepreneurship and innovation. i know all of us recognize the importance of small business in our communities. they are economic engines but keep our communities by having. please join me in welcoming small business administrator, my friend, and my cousins boss, isabella got a cs guzman -- g arcias guzman. [applause] ms. guzman: that was great, thank you so much mayor suarez, and congratulations on your presidency i am so proud. and thank you to all the mayors and local leaders were here today for everything that you do for small businesses. from my previous role in leading on small businesses and startups in california, and now at the head of a federal agency responsible for advancing the am

the biden administration and trump administration. in one of your pieces, "at the start of the pandemic in 2020, president trump ludicrously proclaimed that anybody who wants a test, can get a test. that was baloney. despite promises in the meantime, it is still malarkey today. germany permits sales of more than 60 tests. germans can purchase tests for a dollar, while many americans cannot find or purchase a test at any price. " what happened? guest: the fda blocked the development and sales of the rapid diagnos tests in this country. it was a good example of the failure of the command and control in the entire pandemic. i got a call from my dermatologist, he said, ok, you have got to have a negative covid test before coming in. and i say, where my supposed to get a negative covid test? he said, the postal service will be sending them. that is great, i have an appointment in three days and i will trust the postal service? the county government was proud to be passing out free covid tests, so i went down to the public library and i tho

administration -- and the biden administration must delete it now. [applause] after promising during the campaign to shut down the -- buyers -- virus, president biden has had a shutdown of liberties. after he tried to stop the virus, it was our new conservative majority on the supreme court that struck that mandate down. [applause] i was there at the outset of the pandemic when president trump had me to leave -- lead the task force and i could not be more proud on what the american people have accomplished. we stopped to deliver thousands of supplies and started the development of vaccines. i marvel at how american workers stood for cap. -- that gap. american doctors and nurses are heroes and they should be commended by every american every day. [applause] that is why it was troubling to me when the biden administration administered a mandate on health care workers. after they went with out a vaccine for the entire year, the biden administration says you have to get vaccinated and -- or you will be fired. i am proud of our vaccines. i am vaccinated m

how much more out of touch could the biden administration be? crime is happening in americans' daily lives all across america. thousands more people a year are being murdered. violent crime has increased for two years, and there's no sign of it slowing down. the administration's plan to fix the violent crimes spike is merely another partisan gun control plan. that's what they think about, doing something about crime -- control the guns of people that abide by the law. it won't seriously reduce voopt crime if you do that -- violent crime if you do that. it focuses on issues that make up it only a tiny fraction of violent crimes, or maybe it doesn't contribute to the problem at all. for example, the administration wants to crack down on ghost guns, but ghost guns are involved in only a fraction of 1% of the crimes. particularly of the murders. biden administration also wants to focus on the so-called iron pipeline, and that's blaming red

top priorities of this administration. like the rest of the department, i'm gravely concerned about the increase in traffic fatalities during the covid-19 pandemic. secretary buttigieg rightfully called it a crisis. while many stopped driving in the early days of the pandemic, those who remain on the road were more likely to engage in risky behaviors. as a result, we have seen an unprecedented rise in a rose way fatalities. i'm committed to turn this around. we have much to learn about why some driving behaviors changed during the pandemic. how we can encourage people to make safer choices, and how we can change a culture that accepts the loss of tens of thousands of people in really crashes as inevitable. we continue to work with safety stakeholders around the country to develop countermeasures, but more work needs to be done. a cultural change will take a transformational and collaborative approach to safety. everyone, including those who design, operate, build, and use the road system share responsibility for road safet

we gave him at the very beginning of this administration. we gave him the brand new extension of new start asking for nothing when it covers all of our weapons and a fraction of the russian weapon systems. those are the types of mistake that lead vladimir putin to believe that he can push around the united states. that's the big mistake. this last comment here, bret. people have asked would this have happened under president trump? i don't think so. i can tell you this: it didn't happen and the only thing that has changed was who was leading the united states of america. >> bret: secretary mike pompeo, we appreciate the time. >> thank you, bret. have a good day, sir. >> bret: congressional democrats and the biden administration weighing a push for a new federal gas tax holiday. the effort reportedly would suspend the federal gas tax of roughly 18 cents pore gallon for the rest of this year. becomes as gasoline prices hit a seven-year high and inflation is rising at the fastest rate in 40 years. stocks were way up today. the dow surged 423. t

the biden administration has a different view. they thought by publicizing them, it would lead to a debate within the alliance, and i respect that argument and i understand the argument but i had a different view earlier on. rep. lynch: my time has expired and i now recognize my colleague the ranking member, the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. grothman. for five minutes with his questions. rep. grothman: last year president biden lifted the sanctions on nord stream 2. do you want to comment on that, or your opinion as to why president biden dropped the sanctions? and, the effect? mr. grenell: i think that consensus is a nice word. it really sounds good, but my eight years inside the un security council will tell you that consensus is more times than not almost exclusively terrible for the united states. it is a watered-down statement, it is a watered-down set of policies and the lowest common denominator of what people believe. i want to respond a little bit to why we did not publicize the possible sanctions from the ambassador. the

part of the goal of russia is to topple the zelensky administration.r cyber that could weaken zelensky and make him vulnerable. he is a new, young president. ann newberger is a most experienced people on cyber in this administration and in a very effective role recently in brussels to brief the allies. had a very important role to play in this and to attribute this to russia is pretty important today. >> yeah. general mccaffrey, let's leave the conversation with you. i want your thoughts on the pro russian separatists ordering the evacuations and the air of certainty hanging over what we hear now. >> yeah. i'm somewhat astonished by this. all the lights are blinking red and putin seeing the population of rodriguez false flag story of potentially american mercenaries with chemical weapons taking part in a ukrainian population. starting to look as if they are prepared in short order to attack at a minimum seize the entire two separatists provinces and potentially the russian speaking areas in the south. and invasion of the entire country does seem proble

having said that this administration is talking about more covid relief.. can you believe we're still having this conversation? >> i've said many times and i think you've seen it on twitter that the white house needs to retake econ 101. we have a supply side mess that has been going on for two years. so if the supply side is messed up, overstimulating the demand side only makes matters worse. focus on fixing the supply side. don't waste anytime overstimulating the demand side. that is what creates inflation. they haven't figured it out yet and they're continuing thinking more spending and more demandside stimulus will stem inflation. that is absolutely the wrong thing to do right now. jackie: yeah. but you know, mitch, it is all jerome powell's problem. he has to fix it. he has to raise rates. they don't want to except any responsibility for the spending and impact it has. so here we are. mitch roschelle, great to see you. we'll watch the jobs number on friday to see how it shakes out. i will add the administration loves to do to point to averages, so numb

administration, that's one area that i think the biden administration can really make progress on, goingpolicy out and making similar efforts, even though they're slow, even though it's going to be methodical and painful, and every move is going to be hard fought, really making sure that the administration starts to build up asylum capacity at the southern border. >> yeah, and i mean, we have to remember a judge reinstituted mpp, the administration decided to terminate that. yes, they're expanding, but doing what they have. tremendous article, thank you so much for your time. appreciate it. >> thanks so much for having me. >>> i want to continue our conversation, immigration activist and cofounder of "dream big vegas" is with me this morning, amiga, it's so great to see you. you're so involved and so passionate, what is your reaction to this new yorker story yesterday. >> i think involved and passionate are words to define, this is my life. this is not just about politics. this isn't about policy to me. this is what i'm living every single day, and reading the article i think it continue

i on —- the ioc they didn't do it : the biden administration they did nothing so now i hope they areafe. i hope the sponsors know what they should be doing is the atrocities. we should not allow communist china to whitewash what they are doing with the hong kong are the effects of taiwan right now. >> how concerned he with the former president to pass the capital on january 6? >> i can speak for myself. the election of 2020 was decided december 142020 when the electoral college certified the winner of the election. at least not on january 6 was an effort to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to another which had never happened before in our country. 165 people have pleaded guilty to criminal behavior. none of the trials have been finished yet that those have pleaded guilty to criminal behavior. my view is i would not be in favor of shortening any of those sentences for any of the people who pleaded guilty to crimes. >> how many black women d you have on staff and what about going forward with the nomination? are they important in your decision moving forwa

let's curry favor with the incoming administration. they didn't win and then they have, they're kind of stuck with the kind of have to own it. and so now the democrats venue move forward a few years bite and takes office is numbers in the toilet. he feels that he needs a political when to get build back better through so they do this dramatic sho in afghanistan, completely withdrawing, abandoning americans behind abetting tens of billions dollars equipment. and they thought they would give them a bump in the polls, because they looked at some numbers and said americans, one of out of afghanistan, they didn't want out that way. but the whole thing blew up on their faces. but that was a domestic political. that was a foreign policy debacle that had its origins as a domestic political stuff. and that's what you see time and time again. and i'm sorry to say, but we're going to have of 2 and a half more years of this. well, and today, you know, hillary clinton did respond this kind of responses, but you're spotted in a tweet saying, trump a

i'm a member of that along with all of the operating administration -- or acting administrators. at a very high level, it has ou -- our focus. we are taking a review from beginning to end of the process, making sure we get guidance in place, make sure we get the appropriations tables out -- allocation tables out. starting to work on common language on notices of funding opportunities so that we can streamline that process. look at technical assistance for many of the applicants, hur rural, urban, that we get good applications here. look at the permitting process. look at the process of documenting those decisions. then all the way through to actually implementing those projects, overseeing those projects and closing them out. if confirmed, look forward to continuing my efforts to implement that process. certainly, there's a legal component. there are budget components. there are management components. make sure we have the staff in place to do that. it's a whole of department effort. >> you think these things, particularly in areas where we authorize things for the first time, me

well, things that the administration needs to do to administrate actions are tax credits and other support we understand the very importance of housing. we need to solve this problem. it is not unrelated to the discussion of inflation. and we need more affordable housing. sen. ossoff: thank you. but i'm asking for a commitment to a meeting. with me. with the mayor of atlanta. with mayor lester miller. with skip henderson, to support things from the white house perspective with a supply of affordable housing. dr. rouse: i would be happy to join such a phone call. sen. ossoff: located in cities like augusta and duluth, georgia is a place for entrepreneurship is thriving area we have diverse images in communities that are contributing to the growth of entrepreneurship and small businesses. an interesting fact about georgia. we have the seventh highest percent of minority owned startups in the country. the bipartisan infrastructure legislation currently authorizes the minority business develop an agency which will help minority entrepreneurs with technical assistance and access to capital. hel

cliff is deputy administrator of nhtsa. he joined the department from the california air resources board as deputy executive director. he also worked for the department of transportation of california and as a professor at cal davis. i am curious to hear how these roles will inform his approach at nhtsa. his testimony today will allow him to articulate to the committee how he plans to improve safety for the traveling public. rear admiral phillips is presently serving as the special assistant to governor northam for coastal adaptation and protection. she has a distinguished career in the u.s. navy for 30 years, retiring with the rank of rear admiral in 2013. i'm interested to hear from her regarding her plans on carrying out the critical duties of administrator, including oversight of the merchant marine academy and its program, as the chair mentioned, in addition to strategic efforts to grow the u.s. fleet. i want to note that i am disappointed and puzzled at one entity's recent refusal to provide drafting assistance, impro

the obama administration took tentative steps to limit the use of lethal force, but the trump administration issued its own set of weaker standards. three in all, 20 years and four administrations, the department of justice legal analysis permitting these lethal strikes has remained she rowedded in secrecy -- shrouded in secrecy. the biden administration has rightfully set to restore american leadership on human rights. to do so it will improve its lethal force policies. the branch must address systemic problems that for two decades have routinely led to erroneous targeting of innocent civilians. in addition to doing more to prevent these mistakes in the first place, we must ensure that erroneous strikes are followed by appropriate investigations and accountability, including redress to the victims and families. following a series of "new york times" investigations revealing systemic flaws in the department of defense mitigates and tracks civilian casualties, secretary austin issued a memorandum directing the department to develop a civil action plan within 90 days. the memo also comes in re

we will be two years into the administration, so it is incumbent on the biden administration and democrats as a whole to start communicating more about what joe biden is doing for us, for the country and what this in administration is doing. that is job growth but brendan is also right. we need to connect job growth to buying power. that means we need to fix inflation, we need to figure it out fast so people are not feeling it in their pockets by the time november elections roll around. host: let's let some of our viewers take part in this conversation. we will start with tom calling from pittsburgh, california on the democrat line. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. i find it interesting that when it comes to situations like this that the people are looking toward the president, for him to pull out a magic wand and wave it and everything is going to come back, and everything is going to be fine. the thing is that you are looking at the president. the fact of the matter is a lot of this has to do with congress, and if congress on the public inside or democrat side, they ar

one part of the biden administration set up another part of the biden administration with a pretext toinvestigate and harass concerned parents. one far left advocates recently complained to npr quote school transparency is essentially this big or other type regime. what a. the nationwide teachers union boss randi weingarten personally tweeted out the claim that quote races are showing up in droves to school board meetings. even the liberal aclu which used to care about individual rights and transparency asked jection. mr. merkley: thank you. i'm on the floor today to talk about the nomination of ambassador julieta valls noyes to serve as assistant secretary of state for the bureau of population refugees and migration. originally nominated last july, ambassador noyes' nomination was reported favorably out of the foreign relations committee in october. since then she has waited in limbo for all of us to act. ambassador noyes has a distinguished 35-year career with the state department, serving in important and challenging roles. many of those roles tied directly to the work she would be

the administration has missed an opportunity to do that. it is never too late to learn from failure and change course. after what we saw in afghanistan i just have seen nothing to indicate this administration is willing to improv eyes, adapt and admit failure the change their foreign policy and the most important thing to do is stop trying to cut the defense budget which they proposed in a past defense budget and worried they'll do it this year as well. >> interesting to note that ukraine not being a nato country would not prevent us from helping them with cyber protection and we're seeing what is happening right now. clearly we have not been able to help protect their systems against a cyberattack from russia. they are scrambling now and have the help of european nations the try to get them online and shift them back up online and see how it works. congressman, thank you very much. mike gallagher of wisconsin. good to see you, sir. >> thank you. >> on another front at this moment this is what washington looks like today. the fences are goi

how do you anticipate the administration will change cost-benefit analyses? ms. coloretti: i am very interested in the effort to modernize regulatory review and have reviewed the executive order and an eager to see what comes of that. if confirmed, i look forward to working with you and omb to meet those requirements, those needs. >> two concerns. i want to make sure omb continues to reduce costs of regulations. it is inefficient for in the economy and for opportunities to grow. do you regard it as omb's response ability to reduce bigotry costs? ms. coloretti: i agree with the sentiment. >> the executive order on modernizing says we should account for regulatory benefits that are difficult or impossible to quantify. what does that mean? ms. coloretti: i am not familiar with that particular part of the executive order. if confirmed, i would want to learn more. my understanding is that although it is an executive order to modernize the process, the basic framework and some of the concepts we are talking about remain in place. >> you were acting during this period.

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administrator guzman indicated that this administration is sincere and implementing the accommodations and that s.p.a. has made great strides with multiple recommendations. is this administration cooperating with ongoing audits and investigations? can you respond about how you plan to resolve these accommodations? >> yes, thank you for the question. i could say unequivocally that the leadership team and sba is currently taking recommendations seriously moving quickly to resolve them. >> thank you. >> thank you, you indicated that 15 recommendations made by the oig related to ppe remained open. at this time, how many remain open? >> at this time i believe that number could be 20. i can get back on the exact number. but i do know is that half of the number that remains open does not come due to be closed. another set of them passed december 31st. we may have information on, but we have not reconciled that information yet to give on what was closed. >> speed was imperative at the beginning of the pandemic leading to fraud controls being removed. the current administration put guardrails b

since his administration to go office has been a joke. and again, the going to russia ukraine of recent vintage. i mean, there is an army, no attack in your grandeur, send me nothing on there, but you get, you've got the, the administration, i think putting pressure on the people that they can to force them to make decisions. they may not normally make, but they're under some themselves, so they are making bad decisions. and i think very bad for business as well. and i guess we'll play out as time whereas on her. and i think it's very scary because refers to live in a democracy or republic both and you hear the things are happening. these are the stories that you heard from years ago in socialist communist, other countries, not in the united states. and yet here we're seeing this happen, a man losing his bank accounts, all because of his political beliefs. now because he's done anything wrong, lindale help pay for the defense of cow rittenhouse. now he showing support for the truckers, he's actually putting his money where his belief is v

congratulations, administrator. in his previously served as the first director of digitally economy at the u.s. chamber of commerce, the u.s. department of commerse. we wish to thank assistant secretary davidson for joining us today. we look forward to your testimony. the chair will recognize administrator davidson for five minutes. administrator davidson, you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you for that introduction. chairman pallone, ranking member rodgers and members of the subcommittee to allow you to speak to you today. serve on telecommunications and information policy. today ntia's programs focus largely on expanding broadband internet access and adoption in america. expanding the use of spectrum by all users. improving public safety communications and ensuring that the internet remains an engine for continued innovation and economic growth. we have been given a historic opportunity, thanks to bipartisan support from congress to close the digital divide, create good paying jobs, promote equity and en