mrs. maloney: i recognize the the gentleman from maryland for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mfume: mr. speaker, i rise in support of the juneteenth national independence day act. and to recognize and honor a day that symbolizes freedom for all african ancestors and americans. my thanks to sheila jackson lee for taking the lead on this important legislation and for doing the hard work to put the united states congress on this day, a day that means so much to so many. as an original co-sponsor of the legislation, i am proud to say that once again, we are at the doorstep of history and acknowledge that history in a new light. juneteenth is a reminder we must continue to move forward and honor and in recognition of ourselves, our families, our neighbors and the nameless and faceless generations of african-americans we will never know. . . it is all captured in poet of lang tonk hughs who he wrote, i too sing america. i am the darker brother. they send me to the kitchen to eat when company comes. but i laugh and i eat well

mrs. maloney. mrs. maloney: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous materials on s. 475. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mrs. maloney: thank you. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. maloney: today, i rise in strong support of s. 475, the juneteenth national independence day act. i want to thank my good friend and colleague, sheila jackson lee, for introducing the house companion bill, h.r. 1320, which has over 170 co-sponsors. this bill would establish juneteenth, which is celebrated on june 19, as a federal holiday. our federal holidays are purposefully few in number and recognizes the most important milestones in our country's history. i cannot think of a more important milestone to commemorate than the end of slavery in the united states. at the end of the civil war in 1865, hundreds of thousands of peop

mrs. maloney. mrs. maloney: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and insert materials on h.r. 2662. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mrs. maloney: thank you. i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. maloney: i rise today to urge strong bipartisan support for my bill, h.r. 2662, the i.g. independence and empowerment act. the work of inspectors general who conduct independent oversight of federal agencies continues to be a remarkable investment for american taxpayers. for every dollar we spend on i.g.'s, we get $17 back. and this return could be even higher if we gave i.g.'s additional tools, which is exactly what this bill would do. the i.g. independence and empowerment act is a package of critical reforms to protect i.g.'s from political retaliation and obstruction. i want to thank leader hoyer for his support and work on this bill, as well

mrs. maloney of new york, pursuant to h.r. 8, i inform the house that mrs. maloney will vote yes on h.r. 983. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts seek recognition? mr. mcgovern: as the member designated by mr. neal of massachusetts, pursuant to h.r. 8, i inform the house that mr. neal will vote yes on h.r. 983. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from illinois seek recognition? ms. underwood: as the member designated by mr. rush, pursuant to h.r. 8, i inform the house that mr. rush will vote yes on h.r. 983. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? mr. butterfield: as the member designated by mr. thompson of mississippi, pursuant to h.r. 8, i inform the house that mr. thompson will vote yes on h.r. 983. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? mr. beyer: as the member designated by mr. lieu, pursuant to h.r. 8, i inform the house that mr. lieu will vote yes on h.r. 983. as the memb

mrs. maloney: today, i rise in strong support of s. 475, the juneteenth national independence day act. i want to thank my good friend and colleague, sheila jackson lee, for introducing the house companion bill, h.r. 1320, which has over 170 co-sponsors. this bill would establish juneteenth, which is celebrated on june 19, as a federal holiday. our federal holidays are purposefully few in number and recognizes the most important milestones in our country's

mrs. maloney, for five minutes. mrs. maloney: madam speaker, i rise today to urge all my colleagues to join me in voting for h.r. 256, congresswoman lee's legislation to repeal the 2002 authorization for use of military force against iraq. in 2002, congress voted to authorize the use of force against iraq, based on what would later prove to be false, baseless, and misleading intelligence provided by the bush administration. a year later, saudi arabia was overthrown -- saddam hussein was overthrown. a democratic government was established. and finally in 2011, a formal declaration of the end of our mission was announced. but 10 years later, this authorization for the use of force remains on the books. we must repeal this 19-year-old authorization that has been used and abused to justify expansive military actions across the globe. if we are serious about preventing forever wars, we must repeal the aumf and exercise congress' constitutional authority to declare war and peace. i urge my colleagues to vote yes on this importa

mrs. maloney: when families do well, the nation does well. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentlewoman has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> i rise to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, i rise today to demand answers and a call for all intelligence into the origins of the covid-19 virus to be declassified. the united states should not rely on the world health organization, the same organization that covered for the chinese communist party in the early days of the pandemic, to deliver answers to the american public about the origins of a virus that wrecked our economy and tragically killed hundreds of thousands of american lives. in april of last year, president trump and secretary pompeo raised concerns of a covid-19 lab leak. these concerns were completely ignored and censored by social media companies and traditional news outlets due to the vitriol and hatred of the former president. mr

mrs. maloney: in closing, i want to thank my good friend and colleague, sheila jackson lee, who had the honor of presiding in the speaker's chair over this important historic legislation on which she worked for over a decade. her bill, 1320, to establish juneteenth independence day, has well over 166 co-sponsors and bipartisan support. i likewise want to thank the congressional black caucus for their hard leadership on this and for their leadership on so many other important issues to our nation. juneteenth is celebrated across our nation. it marks the end of a very dark chapter in our nation's history. and celebrates the promise of a more hopeful and inclusive tomorrow. i am elated that this bill is before the house. i urge passage of s. 475. i urge bipartisanship and hope this vote is unanimous ♪ >> c-span's washington journal, every day we are taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day, and will discuss policy issues that impact you. sunday morning, dr. lena nguyen, emergency physician and professor at the george washington university milken institute school of public health

mrs. maloney: today, i rise in strong support of s. 475, the juneteenth national independence day act. want to thank my good friend and colleague, sheila jackson lee, for introducing the house companion bill, h.r. 1320, which has over 170 co-sponsors. this bill would establish juneteenth, which is celebrated on june 19, as a federal holiday. our federal holidays are purposefully few in number and recognizes the most important milestones in our country's history. i cannot think of a more important milestone to commemorate than the end of slavery in the united states. at the end of the civil war in 1865, hundreds

mrs. maloney. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. mrs. maloney: i thank the gentleman for yielding and for his leadership. i rise today in strong support of speaker pelosi's resolution to establish a select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on our capitol. and i want to thank the speaker for her unwavering commitment to uncovering the truth about what happened that day. this select committee will be critical to fully understanding the root causes of the attack on our capitol. and to passing reforms to ensure that an insurrection never, ever again reaches these halls or threatens our democracy. over the past five months, the oversight committee has made substantial progress in investigating the attack on our capitol. the committee has asked why our nation's law enforcement agencies failed to anticipate a domestic terrorist attack that was planned right out in the open on social media, television and why critical assistance took so long to arrive during the attack. in the course of our investigation, the oversight committee has f

mrs. maloney, who is also the chair of the house committee on oversight and reform is now recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, chairwoman waters for holding this hearing and standing up for consumers and thank you to the panel for participating. i want to follow up on the questions from senator warren about overdraftees. president obama signed into law my credit card act, the bill i wrote to end the most abusive practices of the credit card industry. according to one study, this bill alone is estimated to have saved consumers nearly $12 billion a year. a 2015 cfpb study estimated that it saved consumers $16 billion in its first years of the act. but where we made great progress on stopping abusive practices in the credit card mark, there is still much work to do on bank's overdraft practices. i plan to soon reintroduce my legislation, the overdraft protection act to crack down on unfair predatory overdraft fees. bank overdraft fees are outrageously priced, predatory, and beyond the scale of what a reasonable charge should be for this service, and we know that these fees and practices ar

chairwoman maloney: the gentleman yields back. mr. grossman is now recognized. >> thank you, a few questions for all of you. and i don't know the answers or not but these are the type of questions that people back home are concerned about. how many people were in the capitol that day? i mean, members of the public, how many got in? >> does anybody know the answer to that question? >> it's director wray. i don't know that we have the -- a reliable estimate. but certainly we've already arrested close to 500. and we have hundreds of investigations that are still ongoing beyond those 500. >> i know senator johnson got a limited amount of video and he's having his staff trying to figure that out. and we're about five months after this took place. we still don't know how many people are in the capitol. you can't give me that, 1,100, 800, we don't know, huh? we don't know. ok. of those people in the capitol, well, i am under the impression that day that there are people who clearly horrifically did wrong things. we saw them on the video. the

mrs. maloney: today, 156 years late eric president biden will be signing a law to make juneteenth a new federal holiday. it is a cause for celebration. it should also serve as an occasion for learning and for this country to reflect on our history and recommit to doing the vital work to ensure that the lasting effects of slavery, bigotry, and racism are replaced with hope, dignity, and equality for all. we can start with the senate passing the george floyd justice in policing act. legislation to reform policing and address systemic racism and bias within law enforcement an finally maybing the john lewis voting rights law a law, passing it. today we celebrate the -- this historic designation of juneteenth as a federal holiday. tomorrow we get back to work. thanks. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. thompson: i rise to address the hidd

mr. cloud. chairwoman maloney, thank you for being with us and for your distinguished leadership of our committee. i want to just recognize you for a brief opening statement as well. >> the nation's youth are experiencing a public health crisis. according to data collected by the fda and cdc more than 3 million high school students and middle school students use the cigarettes and according to the office of surgeon general an estimated 5.6 million in the country will die early from a smoking related illness if cigarettes continue to be used at this rate. that is one in every 13 young people alive today. these numbers are horrifying. they threaten years of progress in reducing tobacco use and deliberately pushed tobacco products onto the nation's youth. they deploy deceptive tactics to get our young people hooked on these products and even went so far as to promote the products directly. the manufacturers have acted with a complete disregard. their actions are appalling and the federal government can no longer allow this industry to foster as a long-term marketing strategy for it's a deadly produc

maloney? >> thank you, mr.good to see you again, chairman powell i want to start by asking about the fed's monetary policy and inflation in particular. as you stated last week, much of the recent rise in inflation had actually been expect ed, it woud only be temporary. that shouldn't cause the fed to raise interest rates too soon. prices fell incredibly low. now a year later, the yea year-over-year looks v officially high, but this is something everyone saw coming. how much of the recent rise in inflation don't attribute to artificially low prices from early in the pandemic and a genuine rebound in economic activity >> well, a pretty substantial part, or perhaps all of the overshoot in inflation comes from category directly affected by the openings economy. >> such asused cars in particular they're a perfect storm of very strong demand a weak supply. we see airport tickets, hotel prices, other things those are things we would look to as they situations resolve themselves. i would say these effects have been but

mr. scothen, you are recognized. >> ranking member maloney and mr. comer and ranking members of the committee. i am pleased to be here to discuss mattel and fisher-price's consumer safeties. i echo the deepest condolences of those who have lost a childb and i also agree with the trust in the safety of the products. vi pla i have placed my trust in fisher-price personally, and they have played a role in my children's lives. and i also gave this rock and play to friends and families as gifts until the recall. i assure you that we all believe that the product is safe and we do not and would not sell a product about which we thought otherwise. as a trusted partner to parents, we have recognized that one of the most important parts of the baby's development is sleep. newborns can sleep as much as 18 per day, and infants will sleep 12 to 18 hours the first year. and recognizing that a baby can fall asleep almost anywhere is why there are products to be designed for overnight unsupervised sleep. the products intended for sleep and those that are not is an i

mr. keefe. >> thank you, chairwoman maloney, ranking mr. co-her. i'm a journalist with the new yorker magazine though i'm speaking here today in my personal capacity. i've been investigating the sacklers and their company since 2017. in april i published a book which tells the story of how the family profited from the opioid crisis. 14 years ago in 2007 in a hearing much like this, ar len specter made a remark the priority was to protect the family at all costs. nobody went to jail. the company paid a $600 million fine. ar len specter remarked that to him this does not seem like justice. the sacklers were making billions pushing oxy. would a speeding ticket be enough to change their behavior? specter worried that a fine, even a big one, is simply an expensive expensive license for criminal misconduct. the sacklers were criminally involved in the rollout of oxycontin. richard sackler said in an email that he dedicated his life to it. kathy sackler said she came up with the idea for the drug. they might have changed course after learning the product

maloney. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you. it's good to see you again, chairman powell. i want to start by asking about the fed's monetary policy and inflation in particular. i'm very concerned that the fed is going to raise rates too early, which would seriously harm the economic recovery. as you stated last week, much of the recent rise in inflation had actually been expected. i strongly believe that the recent spike in inpolice station will -- inflation will only be temporary and that shouldn't cause the fed to raise in rates too soon. in material part of the pandemic prices fell artificially low. this is something that everyone saw coming for many months, so it shouldn't come as a surprise at all. how much of the recent rise in inflation do you attribute to artificially low prices from early in the pandemic? and how much do you attribute to other effects, like supply bottle necks, pushing up prices and a genuine rebound in economic activity? >> well, a pretty substantial part or perhaps all of the overshoot in inflation comes from categories that are directly affecte

mr. kelly. [inaudible]. >> thank you chairwoman maloney. i think you for the opportunity to testify in the comprehensive leave so today i want to talk about the benefits. and how it will improve employee morale and i believe this is the very foundation of the federal employee decision to serve the market public. they represent. [inaudible]. they protect citizens from drugs and nation's borders and nations businesses is a vital link to social security and keeping. [inaudible]. and protecting and respond to national and man-made emergencies predict we greatly aappreciate the comprehensive paid leave act and the federal employees are provided the family leave for covered under the family act greeted no federal employee should ever have to choose betweenmp caring for a loved one and keeping him or her job. i've heard countless stories on people of had make the choice between the aid to support the families financially or their loved ones or taking care of themselves before they are ready to return to work party different stories from nurses who

mr. dimon, in our hearing in 2019 i remember you telling congresswoman maloney that j.p. morgan would consider a similar policy to citigroup and bank of america but i don't think any such change has been made. what is your organization doing to prevent gun violence?si >> i don't think it is that difference to tell you the truth i would have to go through the detailed but obviously any retailer who sells guns has to follow the law of the land, atf, local laws and filing and you have to have the law and you file and if someone buys a gun like that and we will try to do all the same things we do not finance the r manufacture of military style weapons for a civilian use that we do support whand we do finance that for military use and obviously we support and love the american military and i don't think that is a different but i would summit to you that there are a lot of laws that were on the books and a lot of laws that could be changed on the books that would immediately fix this situation. >> i would call upon you with j.p. morgan to call upon theo senate to pass the two b

mr. keefe. >> thank you, chairwomann maloney, ranking member comber, distinguished members of the committee.thank you for inviting me to participate. my name is patrick raddin keefe, the journalist with the new yorker magazine and speaking here today in my personal capacity. i've beenin investigating the sackler's and their companies since 2017. in april i published a book which tells the story of how the family profited from the opioid crisis. it's an honor to share some of my findings with you here today. fourteen years ago in 27 and hearing much like this arlen specter the late republican senator fromor pennsylvania mada remark that i often think about. purdue recently pled guilty to federal charges of misbranding oxycontin three executives pled two misdemeanors taking the fall or the sackler's. as one of their top lawyers stuart baker said at the time priority was to protect the family at all costs. nobody wentt to jail and the company paid a 600 million-dollar fine and specter remarked that to him this did not seem like justice. the sequiturs were making billions pushing axios. what a s

mr. norman, you are now recognized. >> thank you, chairman maloney.you know, i am really shocked at even having this hearing. this is, i think, clay higgins said, a three-ring circus. this is an insult to the american taxpayer. here are the words i've heard from some of our witnesses, love, caring, caregiving. ms. maloney, i think you mentioned, or one of the witnesses mentioned strengthening the federal workforce. i don't have to tell anybody that listens to this hearing, our cities are burning, our police forces are being decimated, because they're being defunded by this administration. crime, shootings are up, illegals are coming across the border. one of the witnesses mentioned protecting our borders. we've got cartels that are making half a billion dollars a month. we've got an administration that won't even go down there. our businesses have been shut down for a year and a half, workers, we can't get workers. when you go to mcdonald's, that i did, and got put on a limit to buy because $13, because they had two people in the store, they couldn't

maloney described the credit card act she passed a number of years ago. i'm concerned that we see some practices seeping back into the financial sector. mr. diamond, i've had a couple of complaints raised with respect to chase credit cards that the default rate has been increased substantially even as the bank has been making substantial profits. it must be your mic, mr. diamond. >> somebody's mic. >> so i guess the question is recently has the bank increased the default rate under its credit cards to most of its members? >> mr. diamond, can you hear me? would you check? are you unmuted? all right. let's try again. let's try it again. one moment and we'll make up for the time. staff, can you help us out? now it's on my phone. one moment. >> why don't i just have him answer that at some point in writing. >> he can hear you. go right ahead. >> okay, i'll just end, madam chair. i would just make one statement. our justice department is open to inquiry into that and i just advise or recommend as all of you know -- you know, keep your investments transparent. last thing i'll say, madam chair. as a heads up to you our subcommittee is probably g

mr. -- you are now recognized for your testimony. >> chairman maloney, ranking member and members of the committee. i want to thank you for the opportunity to be here today to discuss mattel and fischer prices consumer product safety efforts. at the outset i echo mr. kreiz and echo my was condolences to the families who lost their child. i also share his view about the foundational importance of trust in fisher-price and the safety of our products. i have placed my trust in fisher-price personally. fisher-price placed played a key role in my daughter's childhood and until the rock & play recall this item was a gift i gave to friends and expecting parents. the rock & play was also used extensively by fisher-price employees and their families. i assure you that everyone at fisher-price believes that every product we offer is safe and we do not and would never sell any product of which we thought otherwise. as a trusted partner to parents we recognize that one of the most important parts of a babies development is sleep and newborns can sleep as much as 18 hours a day while infants will nor

mr. gomez, you are now recognized. >> thank you so much, chair maloney for having another hearing.his is something that is extremely important. i don't know why i'm on two screens at once. but first, let me just say i know my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are starting to ask why this is even necessary, this paid family leave. and they have made so much progress during the last administration when they stopped arguing about if it is needed, and they started arguing about how to get it done. and i felt like they've backtracked a little bit. so let's bring them back to the forefront of the fact that universal paid leave is just critical to protecting all americans. i think the fact is no longer up for debate. i think it's particularly true. we've seen it time and time again, and we saw the pandemic show that it's absolutely needed. i'm proud that in california i laid one of the largest expansions of paid federal leave when i was a state assembly member. made the wage replacement more progressive and the fact that low income individuals would get a higher wage replacement s

serious about addressing the epidemic, i urge chairwoman maloney to heed the repeated calls for a hearing on the worsening southern border crisis. mrcarol, could you speak to how continued inaction regarding the border crisis affects the illegal fentanyl trade. mr. carol: without the ability of knowing what is coming into the country, everything is coming in, and some of it deadly. other issues need to be addressed by congress, and i will let you work on the immigration issues, but what we cannot do is ignore these dangerous lethal drugs coming in. all we have to do is look at the number of americans dying every day to know that we do not have a handle on the drugs being brought into our country. if we want to be able to stop this, we need to work on prevention, on treatment, on alternative pain medications, but we need to stop these drugs coming in. that is how we are going to save lives, doing all those things and working together. rep. keller: is there anything you can speak to of what might be in the fentanyl trade? mr. carol: can you repeat the question? china is playing a huge role. we are seeing mexican drug cartels members

the opioid epidemic, then i urge chairwoman maloney to heed the committee republicans' repeated calls for a hearing on the worsening southern border crisis. mr. carroll, could you please speak to how continued inaction regarding the border crisis affects the illegal fentanyl trade? >> without the ability to know what's coming into our country, everything is coming in. and so much of it we know is deadly. you know, obviously there's a lot of other issues that need to be addressed by congress, and i'll let you all work on the immigration issues, but what we can't do is ignore these dangerous, lethal drugs that are coming in. they're flowing in. all we have to do is look at the number of americans that are dying every day to know that we do not have a handle on the drugs that are being brought into our country. and so, you know, as i said, if we want to be able to stop this, we need to work on prevention, we need to work on treatment, we need to work on alternative pain medications. but we need to stop these drugs that are coming in. i mean, that's how we're going to save lives, is doing all of those things and working together. >> thank you. a

mr. 16789charf, a $35 for a $6 debit charge is reasonable? >> the gentle lady's time has expired. would you please get back to ms. maloneyanswer that question. with that we're going on to ms. wagner from missouri. you're recognized for five minutes. >> i thank you, madam chairwoman and i'd also like to thank our witnesses for being with us today. it is important to me that public companies such as the ones that you all lead continue to focus less on political agendas and more on what will benefit your investors, your customers, and your workers the most. that is maximizing profits and shareholder value. i'd like to say that upfront. mr. moynihan and mr. dimon, this is for you. the biden administration has proposed a tax rate as high as 28% for american businesses and industry, along with many other tax increase measures, all to offset an additional anywhere 1.7 to 2.3 trillion dollars in government spending. how would an increased rate impact your ability to support our economic recovery and what sort of burden would american workers and small businesses bear? i'll start with mr. moynihan's response first. >> thank you f

mr. jeffries: as the member designated by chairwoman eddie bernice johnson, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that chairwoman johnson will vote yea on h.r. 3593. 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