so, it is a very big commerce a day for those of us in the commerce family and long-standing membersittee to see our colleagues and people we've worked with on so many policy issues and obviously a lot of enthusiasm by members who want to join in and support the nominations and we will be joined by a variety of senators here. so, senator rubio who is with us already. so, i want to say welcome to the families and all of those here to discuss today's nominees covering everything from the digital and natural to the commercial world to the states today, so a very broad topic area. and we are going to be talking a lot about innovation. first i'm pleased to consider the nomination of a dear friend, bill nelson cabela to be nasa administrator. i welcome you and your wife, grace, your daughter. you will be formally introduced by senator rubio and former colleague and ambassador hutchison. but first, i'd like to say a few words. senator nelson has been a leader and space policy and driver in the strategic direction for decades. his commitment to public service, passion for space policy has be

the commerce department has a broad portfolio. that oversees numerous sectors of our economy including fisheries, weather forecasting, and federal agency allocation. we need an accomplished general counsel who can provide sound legal advice and direction in all of the darius. that's all of these areas. -- in all of these areas. i am eager to hear their testimony. >> now we are going to give a chance to all of the people who want to make formal introductions of all of the nominees to make those introductions. we will go to senator rubio and senator hutchinson then senator klobuchar and senator blumenthal and finally secretary pritzker. senator rubio, welcome to the committee. we know you come from a big ocean state and we will continue to count on working on a lot of policies for us. >> thank you for having me. i will be very brief. our nominee for nasa administrator is no stranger to this committee. we know his passion to the space program is unparalleled. it began when he was a member of the house and continued during his time in

the junior chamber of commerce plastered the city with posters. the local transportation company cooperated by displaying posters. and color cards. group participation by community organizations was encouraged. >> you have had the vaccination, that you recommended for them and for the entire community. one thing that we would like you to do is to come to one of the vaccination stations as a group. your appearance there will lead other citizens in the community to come in for their vaccination. >> local ministers attacked polio from the pulpit. >> my friends, i want to talk to you this morning about the breadwinners polio campaign. i know you are interested in keeping the strong healthy bodies god has given you. i am sure you will go out and get the protection that is available for you free of charge. the first shot -- >> i am sure that the members of my church will be happy to cooperate in a community polio campaign, and i shall be happy to announce the program from my pulpit. >> telephone switchboards worked overtime as members of the volunteer o

and cloud computing, for facebook, is that going to be e-commerce, how are they doing their and what that it looked like people were strapping toilet seats to their heads and calling it the future has that business got any more interesting for investors? >> let's start with e-commerce i think it's a big opportunity for facebook, shopify has soared because basically during the pandemic all the brick-and-mortar realize that they need to pick it online and shopify to help them to do that with software tools, facebook realize it has a platform to do something similar although small businesses are advertising on facebook so why not help them sell their product and with a huge opportunity for them there working with shopify but there's no reason to think that facebook almost with a switch to get this going and that seems to be what they're doing mark zuckerberg is personally involved in the effort and they think this is really big, as for virtual reality you are right i been long skeptical of virtual reality they have not been easy to use products that were finally seeing better hardware,

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significance of enabling more seamless commerce?erhaps enables ability to buy from more business and what that means for significance of companies doing that >> i think grab is certainly an extremely impressive entry for growth and i happen to know some of the team and continue to be very impressed that said i'm hardly an expert in southeast asia. i do have a clear and visible parallel in the, shopify, a platform millions of small merchants orrorring -- are aggregated financial services and so that lens it's remarkable how this bundling of products just makes it so much easier for merchants to say yes to all of these new ways to grow their business. to sell more items to engage with their customers's in that sense i'll very bullish on platforms and grab is certainly one of those, but i think there's a handful worldwide that are just kind of the new answer to, you know, ebay from roughly 20 years ago, et cetera. i think i'm a very, very strong bull in thating itin closer to . consumer behavior as we hope to be coming out of this pand

commerce secretary.david westin, and we welcome now gina raimondo, the secretary of commerce. madam secretary, thank you for joining us. sorry for the technical difficulties. let me start with you because you of course are the secretary of commerce. before that, you were governor of rhode island, treasurer of rhode island, and a venture capitalist, starting the first venture capital firm in rhode island. what do you make of the republican response to what resident biden is proposing right now? they came out and said this is a job killing proposal. you had to create jobs. you had to invest money. how do you respond? sec. raimondo: good morning. it is good to speak with you. obviously we strongly disagree with that, but the president is actually proposing cutting taxes. he's cutting taxes on a lot of hard-working middle-class, working-class americans. he's raising taxes on the wealthiest among us, and closing loopholes in the corporate tax structure that were so large that almost last year that -- that las

really are i spoke to simone minute she's the executive vice president of the american chamber of commerce here in germany and i asked her how the idea of financing the president biden's plans by higher taxes for the rich and corporations was going down with business leaders well it just as i read even in the u.s. people are and companies say they are not scared to bolotnaya tax to speak with the same time we see huge investments in the infrastructure in the u.s. and that is good for corporations that is good for the people. i mean that also helps our members on both sides of the atlantic because that means prosperity in the u.s. where it definitely also is german companies will. some impact now on that. building u.s. infrastructure president biden strategy will be buy american and thereby effectively excluding european companies from governmental contracts in the united states what do you make of that. well i'm not so afraid of that you know it take b.m.w. live because production side of b.m.w. is in spartanburg and not in germany so i think we have as transatlantic partner in this have c

accepted a record fine from china's antitrust regulator what will this mean for the future of the e-commerce giant well we have a packed show today so let's dive right in. and we lead the program with what has become one of the most important stories that you just aren't hearing much about the global semiconductor shortage u.s. saudi automakers ford and g.m. have been forced to cut production at several north american plants because the shortage has become so critical in fact the white house is now stepping in saying it was 0 in on the issue president joe biden is now urging congress to invest $50000000000.00 in semiconductor manufacturing and research during a meeting with top executives from nearly 20 major companies president biden spoke about the situation tying it to his proposed 2 trillion dollar infrastructure package. i was going to say for some time now china and the rest were it was not. and there's no reason why our marriage where we're going to see an aggressive leader is going to semiconductor reveries that's going to do it in others so we american jobs plan and i've put forward

fairly or i spoke to simone minute she's the executive vice president of the american chamber of commerce here in germany and i asked her how the idea of financing the president biden's plans by higher taxes for the rich and corporations was going down with business leaders what are you just as i write even in the u.s. people are and companies say they are not scared to bolotnaya text to speak with the same time we see huge investments in the infrastructure in the u.s. and that is good for corporations that is good for the people. i mean that also helps our members on both sides of the atlantic because that means prosperity in the u.s. where it definitely also in german companies will. some impact now on that. building u.s. infrastructure president biden strategy will be by american there by effectively excluding european companies from governmental contracts in the united states what do you make of that. well i'm not so afraid without you know it take b.m.w. live biggest production side of b.m.w. is in spartanburg and not in germany so i think we have as transatlantic partner in this hav

. >> the senate commerce subcommittee on tourism, trade, and export promotion holds a hearing on the state of travel and tourism during the coronavirus pandemic. this was the first hearing held by the newly formed subcommittee chaired by senator jacky rosen, democrat of nevada. this hearing runs an hour and 45 minutes. >> welcome to the inaugural hearing of the newly formed subcommittee on tourism, trade, and export promotion. i'd like to think senator rick scott, the ranking member of the subcommittee, for agreeing to work with me in a bipartisan way on the critical issues that are important to workers, businesses, and families in both of our states and across the country. i look forward to a productive partnership. i would also like to think chair cantwell and ranking member wicker for their tremendous leadership on a green to establish the subcommittee at a time when travel, tourism, hospitality needs more support than ever before. we can drive job creation in states across america, especially in nevada where industries are essential to our states prosperity. from the excitement o

i think it's an e commerce stock. if you look how quickly we moved forward and people in this country are embracing e commerce, i think amazon and it's ability to full some of the profitability levers, i love amazon here. look, the comment on the big tech recovery it's that mark twain quote about the reports of death being greatly exaggerated. we have had four of these rotation cycles since mid-may almost a year ago, eleven months ago, that great rotation was beginning that was going to leave tech behind, come on since march 8th, you pointed out the last month you have semis up 18%. triple q's up 11 outperforming the s&p by 4.5%. the last eight days it's been even more pronounced with actually a 8% move in tech, triple q's, whatever you're following. so i just think this is a constant series of rotations i think, if you're over thinking it you are focused on fundamentals, on bottom-up valuations how long have we been talking about the valuation in google being ridiculously cheap relative to the group and size where yo

of commerce are taking this public stand in favor of voting rights. it's an awkward thing, right? it's a contradiction. well, now those big american businesses who signed that statement while also being members of the chamber of commerce, are being called upon to leave the chamber of commerce over this disagreement on voting rights. a letter sent to the target corporation from accountable u.s. says, by continuing to provide financial and social support to the chamber, target is contradicting the pledge you, and hundreds of other corporations have recently made. not just start. not just target. similar letters were sent to 16 other members of the u.s. chamber of commerce who also signed on to this we supporting voting rights statement. these big american companies came out publicly declared they want to be on the right side of voting rights. now they are literally being called to put their money where their mouth is on this issue. you can't be in favor of voting rights and be a member, a dues-paying member of this organization that is whipping senators

again 2600 skilled jobs in and , around commerce, georgia.his will be vital employment generating wealth, generating , opportunity for northeast georgia and statewide for decades to come. david this is going to attract , other firms in the clean energy space to build and locate facilities in georgia and create more jobs. these supply chains that are becoming increasingly integrated. the fact we have electric vehicle battery production, one of the most significant capacities is now moving into georgia, that means other firms involved in the electrical vehicle space and clean energy space are going to come to georgia. i look forward to working with them to create more jobs in georgia. david: it was reported before hand that lg was insisting the deal totaled $3 billion. i don't know how much is competent to and how much is not. did it get what it wanted? sen. ossoff: the agreed settlement was a $1.8 billion payment from sk to lg. the matter before the international trade commission has been resolved. as your viewers who have been involved in com

our commerce, new commerce secretary. to build credibility with the congress the taxpayers and his own credibility, as a first step to paying for this 2 $.3 billion bill, why wouldn't president biden turn to the congress and say i want you to look at the discretionary spending in your budget and scrub it? >> i don't think it's an either/or. the president is calling for a historic investment in infrastructure as you say, $2 trillion. he believes that's what's necessary. and -- >> what budget reductions is he recommending? >> we're all going through our budgets every day and looking for ways that we can be more efficient. but the truth of it is, we need an investment. >> how much money do you think you're going to -- >> say it again? >> how much money do you think you're going to reduce your budget? >> i don't have a great answer to that at the moment, but i can promise you it's not enough that -- we're not going to save our way out of decades of underinvestment in r&d and in infrastructure. yes, we need to run an efficient

. >> the senate commerce subcommittee on tourism, trade and export promotion holds a hearing on the state of travel and tourism during the coronavirus pandemic. this was the first hearing held by the newly formed subcommittee. this hearing runs one hour and 45 minutes. >> this hearing being held by the senate commerce subcommittee on tourism, trade and export. -- and export promotion. i would like to thank senator rick scott, the ranking member of the subcommittee, for agreeing to work with me in a bipartisan way on the critical issues that are so important to workers, businesses and families in both of our states. and across the country. and i look forward to a productive partnership. i also would like to thank chair cantwell and ranking member witmer for their leadership and agreeing to establish this crucial subcommittee at a time when travel, tourism and hospitality may need more support than ever before. agreeing to establish this crucial subcommittee at a time when travel, tourism and hospitality may need more support than ever before. travel and tourism related industries drive job

merchants are 9% of total e-commerce.n terms of shopify, we think where there is a rare breed where we were this wonderful pandemic story, and we are transitioning to being a global recovery story as well as countries open up and we see growth continuing well beyond this pandemic. matt: how do companies work with brick-and-mortar and shopify? are people going to bother going back into stores? are they only get a buy stuff online? do you see a hybrid shopping model going forward? harley: a couple things. first, the center of gravity in terms of retail has shifted from predominantly online -- off-line to online. online will be the center of gravity for retail going forward. that does not mean brick-and-mortar will not play a role, that market place will not play a role, social media platforms one play role. a better way to think of shopify than an e-commerce provider, which is what we are known for, we have more than one point 7 million merchants and online stores on shopify, is as a retail operating system, where a retail

raymond james saying they expect solid continued china e-commerce growth. the valuation is still attractive. they maintain a strong buy rating. caroline: not changing inherent in early -- inherited lay there business model. ant financial is going to have to reorient itself. shery: a complete revamp of their business. they are staying with their core businesses. everything else is changing. more like a bank. we are talking about authorities asking them to eliminate unfair competition in payments. also increase oversight of consumer lending processes. not to mention they will be transformed into this financial holding company. they have to wrap up data productions as well. they will need to cut the value of their money market fund as well. they will return to their origin story. focusing on micro-payments and convenience for users. regulators making it harder for ant group to exploit synergies. what sort of implications will this have further ipo? that has been the big question. the $35 million mega listing they had to scrap last year, bloomberg intelligence

of commerce gina raimondo. sec. was the first woman to be governor of rhode island where she kick started the state's economy and achieved a record number of jobs and the lowest unemployment in a proration thanks to education infrastructure and job-training investments. she prioritized creating jobs, supporting workers, and improving the quality and availability of services in the care economy including supporting wage increases for care workers. -- in 2010 she was elected general treasurer of rhode island receiving the largest numbers of votes of any statewide candidate and when she took office she tackled the unfunded pension liability and hurt she focused on a simple but vital mission, to spur good jobs and prow are entrepreneurs to innovate and grow and help american workers and businesses compete area she can stay for a few questions. we will turn it over to the secretary. sec. raimondo: thank you, jen. good afternoon, everybody. it's an honor for me to be here to talk about president biden's american jobs plan

>> department of commerce. >> were you worked at the department of commerce were you a licensed peace officer? >> yes, sir. >> probably a lot of people don't know that there are licensed peace officers in the department of commerce? >> yes, sir. >> what investigations did you do in the department of commerce? >> white collar investigations. >> at some point did you leave the department of commerce? >> yes, sir. >> where did you go there? >> the bureau of criminal apprehension? >> 2014. >> that's where you are today, sir? >> yes. in the middle of 2013 to 2016, i was not. >> that's when you were working -- >> from 2013 to about 2016 i was not. >> that's when you were doing the corporate work? >> correct. >> a licensed peace officer, you are required to take ongoing educational credits, correct? >> yes. >> and you have done that throughout your career? >> yes, sir. >> when you were hired at the bca in 2018, what were you hired to do? >> i was hired in the metro homicide unit, so we investigated major homicides as well as officer involved incidents. >> when you were hired at the bca, were

and chinese that i trust regulators impose a record fine against e-commerce giant ali baba for what it characterizes as abusing its dominant market position for years now the $2800000000.00 fine announced saturday is the quibbling of roughly 4 percent of the company's $2100.00 revenue in the nation the regulatory scrutiny stems from ali baba restricting merchants from doing business or running promotions on another e-commerce platform the regulator believes these practices hurt consumers limited competition and had a negative effect on innovation in the space for its part the e-commerce giant accepted the fine and said it would take action including reducing service fees and charges for vendors as well as investing in tools to support merchants on the platform now despite the record 5 shares of the company traded in hong kong closed 6.5 percent higher on monday while shares traded in the us were up as much as 8 percent throughout the day for more on this and was moving markets monday let's bring in michelle schneider she's a partner and director of trading research and education for ma

>> department of commerce. >> when you worked at the department of commerce, were you a licensed peace officer? >> yes, sir. >> probably a lot of people don't know that there are licensed peace officers in the department of commerce, right? >> yes, sir. >> what kind of investigations did you do in the department of commerce. >> primarily white collar investigations. >> at some point did you leave the department of commerce then? >> yes, sir. >> and where did you go after that? >> the bureau of criminal apprehension. >> when were you hired by the bureau of criminal apprehension? >> 2018. >> and that's where you are today still? >> correct sir. >> so initially licensed in 2007. >> yes. >> did you maintain your license as a peace officer during that entire time period? >> no. >> when -- >> 2013 to 2016 i was not. >> that's when you were working -- from middle of 2013 to 2016 i was not. >> and that's when you were doing the corporate work? >> correct. >> as a licensed peace officer, you are required to take some on going educational credits kreshgt? >> yes, sir. >> you have done that throu

on c-span3, the senate commerce committee considers the nominations of former senator bill nelson to be nasa administer and lena conn. we're streaming a hearing with michael bolton who is testifying on the events surrounding the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. that's live at 2:00 p.m. eastern. >>> weeknights this month, we're featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span3. tonight we look at vietnam war oral histories. clyde romero served as a pilot during the vietnam war. he recalls his first tour and describes what it's like to be shot down. he discusses the high risks associated with the job and remembers some of his fellow pilots who didn't come back. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> i'm standing in front of perhaps one of the most famous courthouses in the united states where really nothing of significance happened. appomattox courthouse. the name is confusing. courthouse is a building like the one behind me and situated in the village of appomattox court

reach out money and commerce used to be spread all around the country. the mom and pop stores, department stores, regional department stores is now increasingly kind of drawn into amazon and the cities were amazon headquarter. and so for the governor now kind of atrophy and approached a monopoly kind of atrophy to re- engage on the score be a very big deal. the scientist might actually happen now. the biden administration has made some appointment's promising in this regard per there's even a sense this is an area where you could have bipartisan consensus. both parties have expressed concern about the tech giants. they're coming from different motivations but there is a possible common ground here. that's one reason amazon put a second headquarters in washington d.c. new right now the main threat is more from the federal government then it is other corporate rivals. >> very much the chapter on washington d.c. and how they intend date created their own firm. which i think when we check how. it's something real. it's how much pressure we get from this. wer

this hearing being held by the senate commerce subcommittee on tourism, trade and export. >> -- subcommittee on tourism, trade and export promotion. i would like to thank senator rick scott, the ranking member of the subcommittee, for agreeing to work with me in a bipartisan way on the critical issues that are so important to workers, businesses and families in both of our states. and across the country. and i look forward to a productive partnership. i also would like to thank chair cantwell and ranking member witmer for their leadership and agreeing to establish this crucial subcommittee at a time when travel, tourism and hospitality may need more support than ever before. travel and tourism related industries drive job creation and economic growth in states across america, especially in nevada, where the industries and the workers they employ are absolutely essential to our state's prosperity. from the excitement and energy of the las vegas strip, to the exquisite outdoor recreation opportunities at lake tahoe to the magnificent engineering feat that is the hoover dam and the vast and pri

now as we wait on amazon, e-commerce giant overstock absolutely knocking out the earnings lights as the stock hurdles higher on blockbuster sales, investors want to know when this blockchain business will be a reality as crypto fever hits the nation. we've got overstock ceo jonathan johnson, he is here in a fox business exclusive. >> and the nfl draft is tonight, clemson qb trevor morris, soon to be minted pro-football newest millionaire but one company is hoping to cash in on the thirst of pro-football's fans and the ceo of resort and entertainment it is publicly traded and he's here in a fox business exclusive but as we look at the markets here and we are 59 minutes away, we do have the s&p 500 blasting its way to fresh intraday highs. it be its 25th record close of the year if we get there, well within sight though. we do have the s&p up 30 full points at the moment the exclusive club of stocks, really only needs 4.4 points to notch s way to all-time closing high, earnings positive it of course is the main driver here, in the final hour, but bitcoin is facing a new test, courtesy of

chamber of commerce, they're being called upon to leave the chamber of commerce over this disagreementvoting rights. a letter sent to the drug corporation by accountable dot u.s. says this. quote, by providing financial social support to the chamber, targeted contradicting the pledge you, and hundreds of corporations, recently made. it is not just target, similar letters were sent to 16 other official members of the u.s. chamber of commerce who also signed on to this, we support voting rights, statement. these banned american companies came out publicly declaring that they want to be on the right side of voting rights, now they are very literally being called to put their money where their mouth is on this issue. you can't both be in favor of voting rights and be a member, a dues paying member, of this organization that is whipping senators votes against voting rights. you cannot do both. for these companies, this is a real test, a real choice. watch this space. >> you can't stop smiling. p smiling. you know when your dog is itching for a treat. itching for an outing... or itching for

joining me now is frank kochenash from e—commerce consultants wunderman thompson commerce.azon in the early days back in 2003. thank you very much forjoining us, frank. your bossjeff bezos is handing his successor a post pandemic pivot do you think he will be up to the task?— do you think he will be up to the task? ., ., . ., ., , the task? from all indications i have seen. _ the task? from all indications i have seen, yes. _ the task? from all indications i have seen, yes. andy - the task? from all indications i have seen, yes. andy jassyl the task? from all indications| i have seen, yes. andy jassy is i have seen, yes. andyjassy is a strong leader, a long—time hammers on employee. he has worked withjeff and knows the company well and the company knows him well. as well, dave clark leading the consumer retail business is a well—known amazonian. even beyond a single person, the culture and the ways of operating are very well established by amazon. and it should also be said that geoff pazo's isn't stepping that far away and i'm sure he will have away and i'm sure he will ha

prior to being commerce secretary i was governor for six years. prior to that i was in the private sector. over the course of my career, as an entrepreneur, as governor, now as commerce secretary, i have had many, many discussions with businesses. from the biggest to the smallest. and over the years, there is something that we all seem to agree on. which is that we need to make massive investments in our infrastructure if we are going to compete and ensure america's global competitiveness. and most recently, i have spent a lot of time in the past two weeks talking to business leaders, and i can report to you that there is a broad level of enthusiasm for big investments in infrastructure. and i think there is a recognition that president biden is doing the right thing in pushing us to conceive of infrastructure as broad. as including investments in stem , research and development. investments in basic research, investment in broadband, investments in training our workforce. the truth of it is, that is what it will take to compete. a key component o

it's good to have my friend, the former commerce secretary joining us virtually to introduce ms. kiernan. my constituents and i care deeply about making sure nasa has strong and capable leadership. as you know, the space center is home in my state of mississippi. we have experience in setting bills and policy priorities for nasa, beginning with the tenure as the chairman of the space subcommittee of the house, science, space and technology committee, the post he held for six years. during that time on the 24th flight of the space shuttle the experiments and in other words orbit senator nelson served as both the chair and ranking member of the committee space

secretary ross was also reported to fall asleep, kind of constantly, at commerce department meetings and even at higher profile meetings on tv. but velvet smoking sleeping billionaire wilbur ross had his moments of genuine scandal like when he threatened to fire federal weather officials because a hurricane was not going to alabama and they said so, even though president trump insisted for some reason that alabama was absolutely where that hurricane was going. do you remember that? sharpie gate? it was wilbur ross who tried to fire the weather people who were correct about the hurricane. he wanted to fire them for that. there was also the time that wilbur ross lied to the supreme court as commerce secretary, it was ross's job to oversee the u.s. census. the population count that the government has to undertake every ten years because the institution says so. trump administration announce that i had would add a new question to the census form this year asking everybody about their citizenship status a question that hadn't been on the census for at least 70 years. the aclu led by dale

i think we're best known for e-commerce, but we're the system behind your favorite brands.ioned we succeed when our merchants succeed. whether it's the fact that shopify capital has given $2 billion funding to small businesses or its fulfillment network or shipping or shopify balance which we think can make cash management easier, what we're trying to do is reduce the barrier for success all over the world and doing that by introducing more features. to do that, we actually have to help all those get reduced right now, if you talk to the 1.7 million merchants on shopify they will tell you we are the most important piece of software they're using and that is important. one other point worth pointing out, we wanted to measure what the global economic activity was from the shopify economy we call it the shopify effect. we actually now know that the economic activity across all our merchants on shopify was about $307 billion last year which means that nobly, shopify merchants have created 3.6 million jobs which would make them the largest workforce in the world. that's the type

the president and founder of the chamber of digital commerce. still ahead, the u.s.s likely to announce a decision on johnson & johnson resuming the vaccines. on friday, we will discuss with a doctor from johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: this is bloomberg markets. i'm matt miller. a decision on resuming the use of the johnson & johnson vaccine in the u.s. is expected on friday according to dr. anthony fauci. for more, we welcome dr. anna durbin, professor of health at the johns hopkins bloomberg school of public health. of course, michael bloomberg supports that college. let me get your take on this johnson & johnson vaccine and the astrazeneca vaccine which has had similar issues. such rare clotting issues that although it is serious and tragic if they affect you, you are much more likely to get hurt in a lot of other ways. does the u.s. bring it back as quickly as possible? dr. durbin: i certainly hope so. there's a couple of reasons for the pause. one is to get a better understanding of the incident and also to understand

partnering with e-commerce and technology companies to remove tens of thousands of e-commerce listingssocial media posts and websites. partnerships with law enforcement and customs authorities have been especially important in addressing the problem of counterfeits. in february, the department of homeland security announced its special agents seized 11 million counterfeit masks in operations conducted in five states. that investigation began with the suspected counterfeit reports submitted to 3m by a concerned respirator buyer. that sample is hardly unique. since the beginning of the pandemic, raised by law enforcement, custom authorities around the world and other actions have removed more than 38 million counterfeit respirators from the market before they could endanger unsuspecting wearers. 3m hopes by continuing to share our experience, we can help educating the public and protecting it from further scams. in my written testimony, i offer a number of lessons learned and suggestions in that regard, highlighting the effectiveness of private/public partnerships, of consumer education