committee, and as if it reveals something about what the committee actually does. instead of realizing that the mere hundreds of the name of the committee is a participation in the lie that they committees existence represents. today, jim jordan presented three former fbi agents. these are former fbi agents for a reason. they've had their security clearances revoked, they violated the most elementary rules of the fbi in some cases. in a letter from the fbi to jim jordan, the fbi said that they are, quote, allegiance to the united states was in doubt. that, of course, is true of jim jordan. his allegiance to the united states is in there. he tried to overturn the last presidential election illegally. he's only known allegiance is to donald trump and his own power. jim jordan claimed that the former fbi agents were whistleblowers, but balloon new whistles today. whistleblowers are actually now in official status obtainable by law in washington. these three don't qualify. they do qualify for the description of new disgruntled former employees. mark's allies top secret

>> the whole ethics committee thing is a red hearing. the constitution makes no recommendation for the ethics committee. we would like a vote to expel public santos -- two expel george santos. as was said, the ethics committee will likely be forced to pause because of the indictment. it is not as if santos is saying he did not do this stuff. it would be different if he was in fact jewish or worked at goldman sachs or did not commit theft in brazil. he has admitted to all of that. he has admitted to all of this misconduct. he is brought shame to himself and the house of representatives who have every right for a vote. we are asking for the opportunity for the american people. >> is there any way the ethics committee might proceed with the other items? >> the ethics committee can do whatever they want. it is a complete red herring. there is zero requirement in the constitution to have anything go to the ethics committee. we can have an up-and-down vote on behalf of the american people. >> thank you. this is a great chance to help the repub

zone committee with the fact that it can be transferred to another bill. in short, the amendment is not at all related to the subject of advertising as such it is certain that the state policy regarding cigarette smoking is proposed to be transferred to the shoulders of our traders. it is proposed to prohibit the display of cigarettes. i propose to solve this in another bill and i do not want to now to impose on our entrepreneurs, whom we already spoil by blocking tax invoices and other problems, additional costs with the re-registration of absolutely all other retail outlets, now is not the time to do it. as far as i know , it is fundamentally a political agreement to do it. at least with transitional adequate periods and not today for tomorrow and in general , it is correct to solve such a question not with a washing machine, not a relevant law, but with a certain discussion procedure, thank you, the position of the committee , please, colleagues valevska, pay attention after that how did you deprive the independent media of independent money? please pay

and the purpose of the committee. host: i want to remind viewers if you would like to call in it is the 50th anniversary of the senate hearings in washington dc our phone lines are by region. eastern/central timezones, 202-748-8000. mountain/pacific timezones, 202-748-8001. you can text and interact via cial media. i want youo talk about how it was made up, who s working there and the relationship. guest: this committee has tential to be politically very revelaons that may come out of the course of the investigation may be politically explosive. we have senate controlled by democrats that will be investigating republican president. senators are deeply concerned that the investigation cannot be partisan. the people assigned to the committee should not be seing some kind of political or partisan advantage. by having this big platform. the senate leadership works carefully to establish the makeup of the committee. they -- the really smart choice majority leader mansfield make some assigned the tax chairmanship to senator

and the purpose of the committee. host: i want to remind viewers if you would like to call in it is the 50th anniversary of the senate hearings in washington dc our phone lines are by region. eastern/central timezones, 202-748-8000. mountain/pacific timezones, 202-748-8001. you can text and interact via social media. i want you to talk about how it was ma up, who was working there and the relationship. guest: this committee has potential to be politically ver revelations that may come out of the course of the investigati may be politically explosive. we have a senate controlled by democrats that will be investigating republican president. senars are deeply concerned that the investigation cannot be partisan. the people assigned to the committee should not be seeking some kind of politicalr partisan advantage. by having this big platform. the senate leadership works carefully to establish the makeup of the committee. they -- the really smart choice majority leader mansfield make some assigned the tax chairmanshipo sena

yi explained in a speech to the committee that the committee has obtained and translated into english that cefc china's vision is very simple. it is to obtain overseas resources and serve the national strategy. not u.s. national strategy. chinese national strategy. and chinese national strategy is chinese communist party's strategy. yi was close to president xi jinping. the d.o.j. has referenced yi and cefc in a scheme bribing african leaders. the other chinese national i'll mention now is gongwind dong who did work for yi in america. when yi needed to do business in america he often looked to him. the amount of money he was sending to him was staggering. from june through august of 2017 alone, yi transferred to dong in america more than $130 million. yi met with hunter biden in february, 2017, and gave him a diamond reportedly worth 10's of thousands -- tens of thousands of dollars in gift. yi through dong opened up a business with hunter based here in washington, d.c. and hunter wanted to get joe biden's keys to the office and they could all share office space together. according to

, the committee on legal policy, decided to support e-e committee bill 91:56d which takes into account the relevant comments we support this decision of the committee and ask to approve it immediately as a basis and as a whole and accordingly to reject our government draft law why it is important to adopt it immediately as a whole because on may 16, in compliance with the decision of the constitutional court, the ministry of justice will not have the opportunity to cancel the decision of state registrars this causes certain risks for the stability of the registration system , thank you for your attention . pavlovich, please, as a committee, give four minutes, thank you. i will not take up four minutes of your time , i have already understood that i have already bored you so much today with my bills, but uh, colleagues, what is this bill for, so that you understand and support it as much as possible as you know, we have a law on the state registration of property rights to immovable property , which regulates all issues related to real estate registration, appeals against the actions of

that the appeals committee actually i should write a letter and have the committee investigate this case. so far, i know that three teams have made this request. the other team has made a request, or i will request it tomorrow. i don't know. i want to use these. for the future, you are making a mistake. take one person at a time. come on, you have no defense against a doctorate. the words are wrong. i want an explanation . i want to see if he has determined a science . it is a mistake. fifa gave the afc compressor it was given to our federation by the board of directors to approve the platforms of our crown and criteria. this is the personal opinion of the respected board of directors. changes were necessary. it was approved and notified . it says that the licenses should be issued in accordance with the licensing regulations of the iran football federation club . the following types are granted. the national license required to participate in the leagues of the second division and the third division of endo national football day. the national license required to participate in the divis

the committee stands in recess. you think the target of january -- >> the committee will come to order. . >> thank you for everyone's indulgence on the break the chair now recognizes mr. buchanan for five minutes. >> thank you, mister chairman. i would like to start with a question for each. on how many matter attention of mris, did your bank receive? >> we had 31 at the end. thank you >> mr. j, how many? >> i don't recall. >> was it more than zero? >> i don't recall. i recall it was more than zero maybe, but i don't recall. >> and? you >> we had zero. >> zero. so it's zero, how did you have zero if you eventually collapsed? >> as i mentioned earlier, >> i think it was part of my testimony and the bank maintained very strong communicative relationship withs our regulators. we addressed feedback as it was received. they provided supervisor recommendation and we addressed them. if you think back to march 9, it was a very strong day for the bank and the bank was in a strong financial position and why were you perceived

accused the paralympic committee.arter of the international paralympic committee, and this was the basis, and when stopping membership and not participating and depriving all the rights of the paralympic committee, except for the payment of membership dues. this is the only right we have. we got a complaint about this decision, because we did not agree with it from the very beginning, because even the paralympic committee of this general assembly, nor during the general sols, was not presented to us and 200 more members of the national paralympic committee specific. violation of which, practically, the committee of russia and somewhere russia suspended the emergency situation uh and the arbitration court, in principle, also could not see. these violations of the charter the international righteous committee of russia and the corresponding decision drew the attention of the international paralympic committee to this.

this committee was not assembled to be the most bipartisan committee in congress. we were assembled to provide oversight. having both leaders, leaders jeffries and speaker mccarthy on this committee. we are sincere about trying to determine waste, fraud, abuse in the federal government. when you look at problems every american has, with the cost of prescription drugs is at the top of the list. i've not think you can have a sincere hearing on prescription drug costs without talking about pbms. is the first time we have had a committee hearing in the 6.5 years i've been in congress on actual pbms. dedicated to pbms. there is a sincere desire on this committee to do something about that. i think that was proven today. i think that we can work together, mr. ranking member, not just our members, or staff on trying to come up with a bipartisan. solution we want to work with our friends in energy and commerce committee, they lived -- they have legislative jurisdiction on anything coming from congress pertaining to pbm reform. the one thing and want to mention, we talked a

the committee became known as the watergate committee.nal audience in its grip. the watergate investigation of republican president richard nixon was bipartisan. and watching the hearings, it was not easy to tell who was a democrat and who was a republican. in the watergate investigation, 48 nixon administration officials were found guilty of crimes. a unique perspective on how the watergate scandal started is offered in hbo's brilliant new limited series white house plumbers. in the end, the good guys one and the bad guys lost. and for those of us growing up at that time, it was a formative experience. it led us to believe consciously or subconsciously that that is the american way. in washington, eventually, the good guys when and the bad guys lose in the end. and some of us mistakenly believed that the investigation that drove richard nixon out of the presidency would be enough to scare any future president away from even coming close to committing crimes. on the first day of the watergate hearings, 50 years ago today, before we knew t

not members of this committee or staff of this committee? >> my counsel. >> anyone else? >> i don't think so. >> is he helping you finance your counsel? >> not that i am aware of. >> what about you? do you know him as well? >> yes. >> did you receive any money from him? >> he gave me a donation last november. >> are you are charitable organization? >> i was an unpaid man trying to feed his family, he reached out and said he wanted to give a donation. >> was he present for meetings with committee numbers or staff? >> no. >> how many times did you meet with committee members or staff prior to your transcribed interview? >> never. >> did you speak to them on the phone? >> yes. we corresponded. >> did you provide documents? >> i gave them my written declaration. >> they ask you whether they could share that with the minority? >> i do not know. i don't believe they were in the majority. >> did they ask you whether they could share the documents? >> i do not remember if they did or didn't. >> want to focus on the swot case you mentioned. where the

committee. it is not that the general assembly did not appear during the general assembly, not to us, nor to more than 200 members of the national paralympic committees specifically, but a violation which practical committee of russia alpindel russia suspended ch. and the arbitration court, in principle, also could not see. these violations of the charter of the international committee of the government of russia and the attention of the international paralympic committee drew the attention of the international paralympic committee, the decision was made , and autumn - it was a big discussion that one of these violations was brought to us, that the russian paralympic athletes violated the olympic truce and , but the arbitrators explained to mbk that we paralympic russia did not sign this organization agreement the united nations has nothing to do with this decision. here we are not we did not make a decision, but the violation of this period. well, for a number of other positions. now, with rega

yi explained in a speech to the committee that the committee obtained and translated to english that cefc china's vision is very simple, it is to obtain overseas resources and serve the national strategy. not u.s. national strategy, chinese national strategy. it's the communist party's strategy. yi was close to xi and welcomed at least one foreign president to beijing with xi. the d.o.j. has referenced yi and cefc bribing african leaders. the other chinese national i'll mention now is gong who did work for yi in america. when yi needed to do business in america he often looked to gong. the amount of money was strayingering. june through august of 2017 alone, yi transferred to gong in america more than $130 million. yi met with hunter biden in february 2017 and gave him a diamond worth tens of thousands of dollars as a gift. in august of 2017 yi through gong opened up a business with hunter and james biden called hudson west three based here in washington, d.c. hunter wanted to get joe biden's keys to the office and they could all share office space together according to an email veri

could you, dear representatives of this esteemed committee, to invite these candidates to the committee, to talk with them, to listen to their first steps, which they will take, but only later in the hall, based on your decision of the committee on national security and defense, we will be able to make this decision, the homeland faction will support these two resolutions, but these advices now voiced, i ask you to take into account the following similar resolutions and vote without any reservations. glory to ukraine. please, dear colleagues . then immediately without discussion with a and after that klymenko yulia leonidivna records klymenko please shufrich then yulia leonid on klymenko and then votes please thank you, dear mr. chairman, i ask you to pass the word eh our colleagues ms. games victoria please company victoria mushroom raised very important question, we really don't understand who we will vote for now, who we will give authority to i am not talking here about an attack on self-government, because we understand that the donetsk region is a presrant region, but unfortunatel

because this committee, the committee on elections, was created in 1789 as the first standing committee of the first congress. i think that's pretty great. because it shows you the significance and importance of the work that we do here. and in a serious sense, i really do look forward to working with every one to continue to identify ways to bolster confidence, promote faith in elections and strengthen election integrity. i think one of the things we really see, as the data shows, is that, when we have strong integrity in our elections, we actually see increased voter turnout. that's gonna be something that we are going to hear time and time again throughout this congress. when people know that they can trust that their ballots going to be counted, they will be more likely to go and vote. we also know the constitution demands the role of the federal government is limited in this -- administering elections. and we must uphold that federalist approach. so, today, we will hear from witnesses who help run state elections in louisiana, ohio, florida, states that do things right. and i hope

durbin: this meeting of the senate judiciary committee will come to order. today the senate judiciary committee will consider supreme court ethics reform. being a federal judge is a position of great honor and power, but above all, it is public service we entrusted judges with administering equal justice under the law. it is critical to our democracy that the american people have confidence that judges cannot be bought or influenced, and that they are serving the public interest, not their own personal interests. over the course of several decades, congress and the judicial branch created a system of ethics laws and standards for federal judges that lay out the clear rules of the road. these rules promote transparency and disclosure. they place guardrails on conflicts of interest, provide mechanisms for investigation and enforcement, and ensure accountability for misconduct. they strengthen faith in the fairness of the courts and the judges who serve on them. we are here today because the supreme court of the united states of america does not consider itself

jordan, our dialogue across committees, between committees, has been fantastic. i appreciate his leadership and insight and mentorship. >> thank you very much. again, mr. mccaul, to you, same thing. can you tell us a little bit about the process that you went through to get to your portion of the bill? >> sure, we had several hearings on this issue. we had contact with many organizations on the outside. many groups. about this, we had a full day of markup. i've even, i have to say, mister chairman, as i mentioned in my opening statement, i've gone down to the border many times. i've talked to the chief border patrol officers down there about what caused this phenomenon. i'm trying to make this as objective as i can. there are not republican or democrat down there. they say the direct cause and effect was a rescission of the migrant protection protocol, made in mexico. i don't think there's any dispute about that, even the chief border patrol officer, even secretary mayorkas knows better. i've had conversations with him as well as the secretary of state blinken. w

the committee.when committee staff contacted mr. depaul owes advisor, he explained a health issue to the committee staff. the committee is interested in understanding the management decision the signature, it is important for us to allow mr. depaul or to deal with his health issues. we agree that with the committee would hear from two of you instead mr. becker please begin your testimony thank you. >> chair brown, ranking member scott. members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. my name is greg becker i was the chief executive officer of silicon valley bank. i'm here today to answer your questions about what happened at svb to the best of my memory. at the outset, i want to be clear that i never envisioned myself, or svb, being in the situation. i was an employee of svb for nearly 30 years. ceo for the last 12, until it is taken over by the fdic. i believed in the bank, and its mission. i cared deeply about are more than 8000 employees and their families. i wa

i do think it is this committee because this committee, the committee on elections was created as a first standing committee of the first congress. and i think that is pretty great. it shows in a serious sense i really do look forward to working with everyone to continue to identify ways to bolster confidence, promote the faith and strengthen election integrity. one things the data shows we have strong elections, strong integrity in our elections we see increase voter turnout. i think that's going to be something we hear time and time again throughout this congress but people have they can trust her belts to be counted they will be more likely to go and vote. we also the constitution demands the role of federal government to uphold the federalist approach. that's hear from witnesses to help a state elections louisiana, ohio, florida, states that do things right i hope to learn from their example. specifically the subcommittee help facilitate those, thanks and i yield back. >> i recognize ranking member mr. pirelli for the purpose of delivering opening remarks. >> good morning and thank yo

i'm supervisor dorsey chair of the committee and joined by vice chair walton and committee member safai. on behalf of colleagues i want to express gratitude to committee clerk, victor young and thanks to the team at sfgovtv for broadcasting today's meeting and our producer jason. mr. clerk, any announcements >> yes, the board is convening hybrid meetings that allow in person attendance and public comment. public comment will be taken on each item. those attending in person will be allowed to speak first and then take those waiting on the telephone line. the public comment call in number is straeming across the stream. you will hear the meat ing discussion and muted and listening mode only. when your item of interest comes up and public comment is called, those joining in person should line up to speak and those on it telephone dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. if you are on the telephone please remember to turn down your television and all listening devices you may be using. you may submit public comment in writing, e-mail them to myself the rules committee clerk at victor.yo

it is glad to have your in the committee room -- committee room. there are opportunities facing our company. as mentioned by mr. neil, the work we did on this committee to pass the usmca showed we can achieve a lot of high quality trade agreement work, working together on this committee. we can strengthen our economic and national security by creating a good paying, u.s. jobs and deepening our tires with nations. we can strengthen environmental and labor protections, and raise the standard and the areas are pretty strong cycle of trade. while market access, labor and environmental provisions, none of these commitments are worth anything unless they can be in full -- be enforced. that is why the work you are doing to enforce the terms of the usmca trade agreement is setting the stage and expectations for future trade negotiations, that benefit all american workers. i have a couple questions. i will give them to you, and you can take them whatever order works. mr. smith, he mentioned the corn issue. the usmca dispute with mexico in regards to that, i

alost quaffifications and plays out in rules committee. often we have a difficult commission but i would also like to make ail motion to recommend yaman salahi to seat one and appointment to the full board. >> mr. clerk a roll call on this motion. >> on that motion, vice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> thank you, unanimous vote. mr. salahi seat one to ethices and this nomination is going to the full board. can you call item 2. >> item 2 an ordinance amending the code to expand the definition of public service allow members of the employee's retirement system to purchase time served in military before city appointment. >> thank you, mr. clerk. do min cadonovan from supervisor stefani's office is here to peek to this item. welcome to rules committee. >> good morning chair dorsey, walton and supervisor safai. the item before you stands the definition to create equal opportunities for all and retirement members with public service to purchase requirement ser

>> the committee will come to order. the joint subcommittee hearing is titled concern continued oversight on regional bank failures. without objection, all members will have five legislative days to submit extraneous materials to the chair for inclusion in the record. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. with that, i now recognize myself for four minutes. today's hearing will help the financial services committee learn more about recent bank failures, including management missteps, supervisory failures, and rapid fire bank runs in the age of social media. i think our witnesses for testifying today. the recent banking crisis was fueled by failed bank management, lack of hedges against interest rate risks, failed military policy, failed supervision, and overspending by the administration and democrats that led to historic inflation, prompting increased monetary policy action. today, we will hear about what went wrong from the bank management themselves in state regula

on one of the march days of 1945, in the apartment of the first secretary of the central committee ofhe communist party of belarus, panteleimon ponomarenko , a telephone rang late in the evening. the shift duty officer of the railway station called from east prussia, and echelon arrived with cows in it. according to documents thoroughbred they roar not fed nina what to do? an emergency meeting is taken at the box office without delay at night. according to the decree of the state defense committee of the ussr of march 14, 1945, on the transfer of trophy horses and cattle from the territory of germany and poland to the bssr in both modest wars, the republic began to receive the first batch of cattle and empathy with the schedule. the non-standard decision was made to urgently raise the minsk region by morning to organize the export of livestock to the districts and the distribution of its population, primarily to large families widow, but with the condition that the first calf will be given to the collective farm. the belarusian leadership considered that this was the only correct deci

. >> board of sprierdzs and committee have hybrid meetings. and providing remote access via 12 phone. >> first and then we will take those who are waiting on the phone line. public comment number is streaming across the stream. you will hear the meeting but mutes and in listening mode only. when your item come up and public comment is called those in person line up to speak and those on the line dial star 33 to be added to the peeshg line. if you are on the phone, remember to turn down your tv and all listening devices you may be using. you may submit comment in writing. e mail them to rule's clerk victor. young sfgov.org. and you misend written comments u.s. mail to city hall. 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place room 244. san francisco, california. 94102. items acted on upon today are expected to appear at the board of supervisor's agenda on june 6, 2023 unless otherwise stated. of >> thank you. would you call items 1, 2 and 3 together. >> a motion approving rejecting the nomination for reappointment of el11 schumer on the preservation hall advis

committee. this is a very special day for many reasons. i'm hillary ronen chair of youth and young adult family committee joined by supervisor melgar substituting for supervisor engardio. and a founding member with me it is fitting we

the olympic committee has our hearts. we are waiting for the selection of a head coach to be done in a very nice way for the public opinion, but i think that i definitely want a player from them who is currently active in their club's tablet, i am playing and we couldn't have a camp, we have to choose however, these are two or three final options instead the final decision is being made that the jam will be discussed, people's opinions will be taken, in any case, the condition of the coach will be controlled, and god willing, it will be announced, assuming that the head coach of the omid team is now the head coach of the premier league. yes, and it is possible that he will leave prematurely, like in many years, the champion and the promoted teams and sensitivities will disappear, if it happens, but it is bad, now only the training will be held in the last week, may 28, it doesn't matter if it is sooner or later because this the executive operation of the month of the olympic committee i think when this is almost the media

group of thoughtful legislators on this committee. on both sides, we'll be working hand-in-hand with our teammates on the sandy committee particularly house foreign affairs committee who help stage our work through the 2020 china task force. german mccaul leadership produced bipartisan proposals that we must build upon as we investigate and expose ideological technological economic, and military threat posed by the chinese commune communist party we may call this a strategic competition, but it's not a polite tennis match this is a struggle over what life will look like in the 21st century. and the most fundamental freedoms are at stake. the ccp is laser focused on its vision for the future a world crowded with totalitarian states where human rights are to the whims of the party. for the tile being it is still up to us to decide if that is the future we want for our children but it won't be for much longer time is not on our side just because this congress is divided we cannot afford ways of the next two years lingering legislative li

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and government reform committee. he is a graduate of brigham young university and the georgia university law center, and is considered an expert on the whistleblower law. as far as i know, the fbi hasn't questioned his loyalty to his country. [laughs] we welcome our witnesses and thank them for appearing today. we will begin by swearing you in. would you please stand and raise your right hand? do you swear or affirm under penalty of perjury or penalty of perjury that the testimony you are about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information and belief, so help you god? let the record show that each witness answered in the affirmative. thank you. your written testimony will be entered into the record in its entirety. accordingly, we ask that you summarize your testimony in approximately five -- we will give you plenty of time, but if you can keep it around five minutes, great. we will start with mr. o'boyle. you are recognized for your opening statement. witness: chairman jordan. members of the

it is up to this committee. and all americans to insure the weaponization of our government against our people comes to an end. as james madison opined, if framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this. must first enable to government to control the governed and oblige it to control itself. the f.b.i. must be reworked to protect whistleblowers and others who are inappropriately targeted. the f.b.i. can extract anything knee want from me. i swore to defend this country even if it means sacrificing my life. i first enlisted in the army consistently saying here am i, send me. it did not include sacrificing the hopes, dreams and livelihood of my family. my strong, beautiful and courageous wife and four sweet and beautiful daughters who have endured this process along with me. the f.b.i. allowed me to except orders to a position halfway across the country. allowed us to sell my family home and ordered me to report to the new unit when our youngest daughter was two

and why this committee exists. sealed his committee in the house of representatives. it can be the most partisan committee. has been called the speakers committee. i would say that it's not really appropriate to call it the speaker's theory, given that three of us were chosen to voice our own opinion. is not to say that everybody doesn't have good opinions on here, but days yet. it is an important committee and with it comes a lot of responsibility. you could stop anything in this committee from coming to the floor eric you can control every amendment that comes to the floor with his committee. you can undo the good work of the other committees because their bills come through this committee or you could improve. my interest in being on this committee was not to imprint my ideology. i think it was an inappropriate use of the committee. yes, at times, we will steer towards the majority, the outcomes and both parties do that but it is not our job to imprint in ideology, and so i think our job is to decide, is this a