yesterday, from a "hill" newspaper story, congressman carolyn maloney, chairwoman of the house oversight and reform committee, pressed lawmakers to approve legislation to prevent the sackler family, the owners of oxycontin maker purdue pharma, from paying fines. >> over the past two decades, nearly a half a million people in the united states have sdooid died as a result of the opioid epidemic. yet there's not a single thing that the sacklers would have done differently? it's shocking and appalling and it shows why we desperately need accountability for the sacklers' deadly, outrageous conduct. covid-19 has claimed 597,000 american lives. so the opioid epidemic is nearly as deadly as the worst pandemic in modern history. and there's no vaccine for opioid addiction. since the committee's december hearing, even more information has come to light concerning the sacklers' deadly disregard for human life. much of this information has been brought forward by patrick radden keefe, whose recently published book, "empire th "empire of pain," provides a horrifying account of how the sacklers disre

haven't yet seen the chair, congresswoman carolyn maloney of new york.rtly after we do see her and the witness enter, things should get started. you're watching live coverage on cspan3. >>> we just continue to wait for the hearing on the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol to begin. we'll be hearing from fbi director christopher wray as soon as he does arrive here at the hearing room and we see the chair, carolyn maloney of new york, things should get started. you're watching live coverage from the house oversight and reform committee here on cspan3. >>> and live here on capitol hill just standing by for fbi director christopher wray. he'll be testifying on the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol, taking questions from the house of the reform and oversight committee. the chair of the committee, carolyn maloney running a few minutes behind schedule. so while we wait we'll look at some of today's washington journal. >> country approaches 600,000 deaths we ask you this morning what are the lessons learned from this global pandemic, dial in at 202-748-

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this from december of last year, members of the sackler family asked by chairwoman carolyn maloney if they would apologize for purdue pharma's role in the opioid crisis. this is kathy sackler, the former purdue pharma vice president. [video clip] >> i have tried to figure out is there anything i could have done differently knowing what i knew then, and not what i know now, and i have to say, there is nothing that i can find that i would have done differently based on what i believed and understood them, and what i learned from management and the reports to the board, and what i learned from my colleagues and the board. it is extremely distressing. >> mr. sackler, will you apologize for the role you played in the opioid crisis? >> i echo much of what my cousin said, but i will say to the american people i am deeply and profoundly sorry that oxycontin has played a role in any deaths. while i believe i conducted myself legally and ethically, and i believe the full record will demonstrate that, i still feel absolutely terrible that a product created to help, and has helped so many people,

as the member designated by carewoman carolyn maloney, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that chairwoman maloney will vote yea on h.r. 3593. as the member designated by congresswoman grace meng, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that congresswoman meng will vote yea on h.r. 3593. as the member designated by congressman steven horsford, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that congressman horsford will vote yea on h.r. 3593. as the member designated by congressman brendan boyle, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that congressman boyle will vote yea on h.r. 3593. as the member designated by congressman espaillat, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that congressman espaillat will vote yea on h.r. 3593. and as the member designated by congresswoman sylvia garcia, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that congresswoman garcia will vote yea on h.r. 3593. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from connecticut seek recognition? mrs. hayes: as the member designated by ms. wilson

the government's policies on paying ransoms on criminals in capitol hill today, congresswoman carolyn maloney wrote letters to two companies that recently paid ransoms demanding documents. "i am extremely concerned that the decision to pay intentional criminal actors sets a dangerous event. >> before we do meaningful things to putin, like sovereignty or sanctioning his oil revenues, things where we really hit him where it counts, we should be clear-eye about the fact that u.s. companies will take some of the hit. >> it is clear these problems won't be solved by a sit-down. putin craves the respect of the international stage which the summit will give him so that's the dilemma, shep. >> ransomware gangs have shown us no target is too big or too small to attack. jake ward is in san francisco where everything from a bus or museum have been a victim of hacking. >> reporter: that's right, even as international figures get together to coordinate the best response to this new ransomware threat it is important to understand every city in america, even the smallest agencies and companies are also unde

thank you you also to oversight committee chair carolyn maloney. we salute senators ed markey and john cornyn leading in the senate and congratulate them on yesterday's passage of s4 without objection75 and let me salute the activists and leaders who carried this fight to the state including the late dr. ronald monitors -- myers led the campaign to make juneteenth a national day of service. over the past century and a half, juneteenth has evolved into a day not only a celebration but of reflection. this day reminds us of the history much stained by brutality and injustice and it reminds us of our responsibility for the future of progress, honoring the idea of equality that is america's heritage and america's hope. i feel very honored to be here with the black caucus to speak on behalf of this legislation. i thank them for making this day possible. i also had the honor of traveling with him to ghana almost two years ago as we observe the 400th anniversary of the first slaves coming to america. john lewis was with us on that trip to go to the door of

in a hearing tuesday about the january 6th capitol attack, oversight committee chairwoman carolyn maloneywas pushing false claims about the election as he was elevating rosen to become his acting attorney general. >> president trump repeatedly pressured the department of justice to overturn the election he had lost. president trump sent bogus election fraud claims to jeffrey rosen just minutes before he announced on twitter he was appointing mr. rosen as acting attorney general. >> paula reid joins us from washington. is there any indication the pressure campaign was at any point successful? >> anderson, if the goal was to get the justice department to do the former president's bidding, then no. there is nothing in these emails to indicate that rosen actually opened the investigations that meadows was trying to push on him. but it's yet another example of how the former president thought the justice department worked for him. we know after this pressure campaign essentially failed, the president continued to push these baseless claims, which eventually helped inspire the january 6 insurre

new york democratic congresswoman carolyn maloney says a new congressional oversight committee reporteals that fisher price repeatedly ignored warnings that its sleeper was dangerous. mattel did not consult with a single pediatrician. >> or conduct a single scientific study to find out if it was safe for babies to sleep at an angle in the u.s. the product. >> was was approved. we rather we met we met all standards. ceo of mattel. you non craze told lawmakers the product met safety standards when released. we believe that the product was safe when you smoke or with the instructipn. later studies. also confirm that the product was safe, but lawmakers say craze and fisher price are blaming the parents instead of taking full responsibility, no amount of compensation can account for the loss of a child in washington. i'm anna wiernicki. >> today. apple kicked off their developers conference by announcing changes to iphone apple watch and ipads as well as a new operating system that new operating system will be called monterrey. it will allow you to easier move between your computer and you

christopher wray was also pressed on this revelation that chairwoman carolyn maloney brought forth which a lot of people were very adamant pro-trump supporters were espousing quite a bit of violence. what the chairwoman said to christopher wray was, what happened? parler reached out to the fbi. they -- the social media platform has claimed that they sent a ton of information to the fbi saying that there would be violence, saying that it would be directed to the capitol. what happened? and the fbi director christopher wray's answer was, he was not aware prior that parler ever reached out to the fbi but what he's learned since then is that parler did reach out apparently to a field division, poppy, and they are working through how that information flowed and, you know, long story short, they're looking into it. >> whitney wild, thank you. >>> now let's go back to jim in geneva. >> live here in geneva, we have a breaking update from the location of this summit between president biden and president putin. jeff zeleny is covering it at villa la grange, the location of all of this. jeff, talks

congresswoman carolyn maloney wrote letters to two companies that have recently paid ransoms, colonial pipeline and cna financial, asking for documents, saying i am extremely concerned that the decision to pay international criminal actors sets a dangerous precedent that will put an even bigger target on the back of infrastructure going forward, she wrote some experts caution that whatever response biden makes could make even more unpleasant situations for american companies whatever the decision. >> before we do meaningful things to putin, like reg gating or sanctioning his sovereign wealth, or his oil revenues, things that will really hit him where it counts, we should be clear-eyed about the fact that u.s. companies will take some of the reverberation. >> reporter: shep, with the biden/putin summit in geneva less than two weeks away, it's clear this problem won't be immediately solved by the sit-down but experts say putin craves the respect on the international stage which this summit will give him and will likely respond to pressure points if the united states takes forceful action

there and behind him is congressman ilhan omar and al green and house speaker nancy pelosi and carolyn maloneyent biden will sign it. if not this year, perhaps next year it will be an official federal holiday, steph. >> history right before our eyes, gives you the chills. geoff bennett, thank you. >>> revealing new details today of the final weeks of donald trump's presidency, including newly released emails that show he and his allies repeatedly pressured the justice department to investigate absolutely false claims of widespread 2020 election fraud. "the washington post" quoting then acting attorney general, jeffrey rosen's deputy describing the fiasco as pure insanity. joining us now ken dilanian and harry litman, former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general during the clinton administration. ken, what new details are you learning because that pure insanity isn't actually a thing of the past. former president trump and his allies are still pushing this nonsense. >> good morning, stephanie. the picture painted by these newly released documents is one of a president and h

. >> reporter: that's committee chairwoman carolyn maloney reacting to her overnight investigators' findingso how mattel and subsidiary fisher-price developed and sold the rock n play incline sleeper. >> we have to take steps to make sure this does not happen again. >> reporter: the subcommittee's report obtained exclusively by cbs news says fisher-price failed to ensure the rockaf bef market and ignored critical warnings that the product was dangerous. pediatricians say babies must sleep on a flat surface on their backs. but the rock n play sleeper put infants at an angle of 30 degrees. now the report finds when the product was launched in 2009 there was no independent research or even internal company research showing it was safe for babies to sleep at an angle. something pediatric injury expert dr. ben hoffman finds disturbing. >> the fact that there was no due diligence done in talking to experts, to even understanding what safe sleep was and how the incline sleeper product operated completely counter to what we know safe sleep to be. >> reporter: the report says in october, 2012, a moth

here what carolyn maloney had to say [video clip] >> this would establish juneteenth, which is celebratedune 19, as a federal holiday. our federal holidays are purposely few in number and recognize the most important milestones in our country's history. i cannot think of a more important milestone to commemorate than end of slavery in the united states. at the end of the civil war in 1865 hundreds of thousands of people remained enslaved despite the emancipation proclamation being issued nearly two years earlier. on june 19, 1865 major general gordon granger traveled to galveston, texas and issued general order number 3, which declared all slaves are free. that is when 250,000 enslaved individuals in texas finally learned they were free. the celebration they held in galveston on that day is the basis for the juneteenth celebrations today. juneteenth is considered the longest running african-american holiday marking the end of slavery in the united states and it has been celebrated across the nation for over 150 years. first known as jubilee day, juneteenth is marked by food, music, fellow

>> just waiting for the hearing to begin, the house oversight committee, the chair carolyn maloney there in her seat and this is a hybrid hearing so some will be joining via a video link. this is regarding consumer protections and the rocket play sleeper made by fisher-price. hearing about whether or not fisher-price was or how fisher-price was able to keep a product on the market for a decade and whether current laws leave manufacturers to police themselves as far as product safety requirements after several infants died associated with the rock and play sleeper. should be starting shortly. [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] come everyone to today's hybrid hearing. pursuant to rules, some members will appear in person and others will appear remotely via zoom. for members of. remotely i know you're all familiar with zoom by now but let me remind you of a few points. first, the house rules requires that we see you so please have the camera turned on at all times. second, members of. remotely who are not recognized should remain muted to minimiz

this from december of last year, members of the sackler family asked by chairwoman carolyn maloney if they would apologize for purdue pharma's role in the opioid crisis. this is kathy sackler, the former purdue pharma vice president. [video clip] >> i have tried to figure out is there anything i could have done differently knowing what i knew then, and not what i know now, and i have to say, there is nothing that i can find that i would have done differently based on what i believed and understood them, and what i learned from management and the reports to the board, and what i learned from my colleagues and the board. it is extremely distressing. >> mr. sackler, will you apologize for the role you played in the opioid crisis? >> i echo much of what my cousin said, but i will say to the american people i am deeply and profoundly sorry that oxycontin has played a role in any deaths. while i believe i conducted myself legally and ethically, and i believe the full record will demonstrate that, i still feel absolutely terrible that a product created to help, and has helped so many people,

the chair of the house oversight committee is congresswoman carolyn maloney, and the committee's top republican is congressman james comer. they had a heated discussion at the beginning of hearing about the issue of paid leave for employees. >> the committee will come to order. without objection which is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. i now recognize myself an opening statement. today, we will discuss the dire need for comprehensive paid leave in the united states, and the steps congress can take to meet that need. in 2019, congress passed my landmark legislation guaranteeing paid parental leave for the birth, adoption, or fostering of a child for more than 2 million federal employees.te this was a quantum leap forward, there were only two countries in the world, unitedd states and papua, new guinea, that did not provide at that time paid leave for the birth of a child. with the passage of this bill it put the government in a strong position to recruit and retain a talented, diverse workforce. but we cannot rest now, because there is much more work to be

carolyn b. maloney of new york. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 504, the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. maloney, and the gentleman from kentucky, mr. comer, each will control 10 minutes. the chair recognizes the woman from new york. mrs. maloney: madam speaker, the amendment offered by congresswoman sidney axne would increase transparency when an inspector general is removed. this amendment would require the president or independent agency head to provide congress a detailed case specific explanation when firing an i.g. the amendment would also require the president or independent agency head to provide to congress the findings from an inquiry that led to the i.g.'s removal. these requirements would enhance i.g. independence. in addition to the critical for-cause removal protections already in the bill. the amendment offered by congresswoman carolyn bourdeaux, would enhance training requirements for inspectors general. and this amendment would ensure that i.g.'s are trained in an important asp