Onrush stalls D.C. testimony; GOP bloc barges into interview on Ukraine ADG 10/24/19 WASHINGTON -- A group of House Republicans barged into a secure room at the Capitol on Wednesday where the latest witness in the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry was set to testify, temporarily shutting down the proceedings. The disruption delayed private testimony from Laura Cooper, the Pentagon official who oversees Ukraine policy, whom lawmakers planned to ask about the White House's decision to withhold mili...
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French Hill: Election Security Appears To Be a FB Focus Newsmax 10/24/19 Facebook appears to be making an effort to be in the right direction where election security is involved, as Americans want to have transparency behind the advertisements that are seen, Rep. French Hill, who was part of Wednesday's hearing with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, said Thursday. "I think Congress has appropriated money for election security," the Arkansas Republican told MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "I think that's like...
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Why Facebook's Libra has a friend in GOP Senator Mike Rounds Yahoo! Finance 10/24/19 Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg emerged from a grilling Wednesday on Capitol Hill, where members of the House Financial Services Committee blasted him over plans to create a new cryptocurrency, among a host of other issues. Yet despite the barrage of criticism, Zuckerberg does have at least one friend in the Senate. Recently, South Dakota Republican Mike Rounds wrote a letter to a Libra Association member, Anc...
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Zuckerberg’s Libra testimony: “not going to do anything decentralized” Ledger Insights 10/24/19 Yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of the US House Committee on Financial Services on Libra and how big tech companies are affecting global finance. Though the six-hour hearing mainly focused on the platform’s political ad rules and privacy controversies, ahead of next year’s election, many questions on regulating the firm’s cryptocurrency were asked. Libra vs China’s CBDC A to...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the top Republican on the House Financial Services Subcommittee on National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) questioned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about plans to introduce a new digital currency, Libra, as well as how to protect individual data privacy. Click on the video below to watch Congressman Hill's questions for Mark Zuckerberg from Wednesday's committee hearing: The transcript of Congressman Hill's quest...
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'You're trying to help drug dealers': Zuckerberg faces angry lawmakers at Libra hearing The Guardian 10/23/19 Mark Zuckerberg faced hostile questioning in the US Congress from politicians of both parties as he sought to reassure them the planned digital currency Libra could be a force for good. The more than six hours of testimony before the House financial services committee on Wednesday came as the social network faces calls from lawmakers to be broken up. While the event was intended to focus...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. —Today, Congressmen French Hill (AR-02) released the following statement after signing on as an original cosponsor of H.Res.630, sponsored by Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ), to condemn and censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff for his false retelling of the conversation between President Trump and Ukraine President Zelensky: "From the day of President Trump’s inauguration, a group of House Democrats have aggressively pursued every avenue possible for an impeac...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) named the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Amtrak, as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for being unable to account for $4.1 million in equipment due to a lack of proper asset management controls. "As the recipient of billions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer subsidies, it is stunningly irresponsible for Amtrak not to have basic inventory systems to keep track of its Engineering Department equipment," said Congressma...
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D.C. delegates say minds unchanged on bid to impeach Arkansas Democrat Gazette 9/26/19 WASHINGTON -- Nothing in the memo that the White House released Wednesday has changed their minds about the merits of an impeachment inquiry pertaining to the president, several members of the all-Republican Arkansas congressional delegation said. The White House released a memo about a telephone conversation that President Donald Trump had with Ukraine's president. In that conversation, Trump discussed milita...
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Arkansas delegation decries impeachment inquiry Arkansas Democrat Gazette 9/25/19 WASHINGTON -- Members of the all-Republican Arkansas congressional delegation Tuesday denounced House Democrats for launching an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Some delegation members also said it would be inappropriate for a U.S. president to ask a foreign leader to investigate the president's American political opponents and their families. Others declined to address that scenario. In a written ...
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