Recognition . I move the house suspend the les and pass h. R. 5457 the speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 4547, a bill to amend titles 2, 8 and 16 of the Social Security act to improve and strengthen the representative payment program. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from texas, mr. Brady, and the gentleman from connecticut, mr. Larson, each will control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. Mr. Brady i ask unanimous consent that members may have five legislative days to resize and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h. R. 5447. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Brady today we have the action to help those receiving Social Security. This bill led by congressman sam johnson and john larson of connecticut, the chairman and lame of the Social Security subcommittee takes actions to improve the representative payey program. Today, when someone on Social Security is
Saturday at 10 a. M. Eastern on cspan2s booktv. Earlier today fema officials briebriefed the media on condits in texas and the federal governments response to hurricane party. Ok, good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here, especially so early in the morning for some of you. This morning were going to provide an update on the federal support state, local, and tribal officials for response efforts in both texas and louisiana in the aftermath of hurricane, now Tropical Storm harvey. Our speakers the sprinkler the acting sect of Homeland Security elaine duke, the federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator brock long, the National Weather service director, and also joining to take questions will be the commandant of the u. S. Coast guard. And the secretary of health and Human Services price. Again, the first three speakers will provide opening remarks and then will open up to questions it to select you in advance administrator law will be immediately heading from here to make
Vote vote vote the presiding officer is there anyone wishing to change their vote . Is there anyone remaining to vote . On this motion the yeas are 87. The nays are 9. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report. The clerk nomination, department of transportation, derek kan of california to be under secretary fo secretary of transportation for policy. A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune madam president , i rise to voice my strong support for the nomination of derek kan. The Commerce Committee held a hearing on his nomination on june 8 in 2017 and reported his nomination favorably out of the committee on june 29 of 2017 by voice vote. Its now november 9. Over four months since the nomination was reported out of committee. This noncontroversial well qualified nominee has been languishing in the senate for far too long. Its truly unfortunate, madam president , when we have to go through the cloture process on this particular nomine
Call the subcommittee to order and thank all of the witnesses for being with us today for the subject of our concerns which is visa overstays. Most of the time when we talk about the flaws of our immigration system, we talk about Border Security as the paramount concern and for me it is with the 1200mile home in border notwithstanding the great work being done by Border Patrol it still remains a vulnerability and we are working hard to come up with some proposals to address that. But the vulnerability that seems to be overlooked is people who enter our country illegally and then overstayed their visa in this Great American landscape. Why am i understand the desire to people coming from other countries to emigrate because of economic or security conditions, it is almost more offensive to me that people come into the country legally in spite of the courtesy that we demonstrate to them by allowing them to come in temporarily they exploit that and take advantage of it and violate our immig
Call the subcommittee to order and thank all of the witnesses for being with us today for the subject of our concerns which is visa overstays. Most of the time when we talk about the flaws of our immigration system, we talk about Border Security as the paramount concern and for me it is with the 1200mile home in border notwithstanding the great work being done by Border Patrol it still remains a vulnerability and we are working hard to come up with some proposals to address that. But the vulnerability that seems to be overlooked is people who enter our country illegally and then overstayed their visa in this Great American landscape. Why am i understand the desire to people coming from other countries to emigrate because of economic or security conditions, it is almost more offensive to me that people come into the country legally in spite of the courtesy that we demonstrate to them by allowing them to come in temporarily they exploit that and take advantage of it and violate our immig