screeria nigeria. - secretaries lay out agency priorities at this year s national league of cities conference. next, the senate judiciary committee hears testimony from sally yates on her nomination to be the next deputy attorney general. she currently serves as the acting deputy attorney general and was nominated by president obama last january. topics addressed included mandatory minimum sentencing, the president s immigration executive order human sex trafficking, and countering violent extremism. this runs an hour and 50 minutes. out of respect for congressman lewis and senator isaacson and i think we re going to let start with congressman lewis. normally we would make opening statements, but because of your time schedule, i think we ll start with you to introduce congressman lewis, and then we ll go to senator isaacson and then we ll go to senator perdue, and then we ll have our opening statements. we re honored you re here congressman. thank you for j
worldwide event. so we re in a world war. and we re up against a very sophisticated, capable enemy. the recruiting of foreign fighters, into syria and iraq, we have not found a way yet in my opinion to effectively stop or even slow it down. and it is more than a law enforcement, it is more than an fbi mission, but it certainly is an and an fbi mission. but just last week, we learned about a 47-year-old air force veteran, who tried to join isis, and before his apprehension, tarod pugh worked for a number of american firms overseas including a u.s. defense firm in iraq for whom pugh performed of avionics on u.s. aircraft. we had several stories like that that appeared. is there a magic bullet to try to get at that kind of problem? that fbi can do? there isn t a magic bullet. it is, to us, it is about a full court press making sure that we are that we have sources where we need them to be, that we have the capability, both the know how and technical capability to play in t
me, but it s going to have to be changed. all the entitlements are going to have to be changed. but we should not look at this as a meat cleaver. we should think about in the 21st century a better way to modify all these systems. medicare, let me tell you what we re doing in ohio in medicare it s run on the basis of quantity not quality. we had money to deal with asthma. keep kids out of the hospital for asthma. what we found out is we were successful. hospitals had few servicities. okay. therefore they had less revenue. the insurance companies didn t pay as many claims. they had more revenue. guess what, we were able to get the insurance kwps and hospitals to share the benefits so that we keep kids healthy and at the same time drove down the cost of medicine and everybody is a winner. we have to think creatively in my opinion in dealing with the problems of medicare and social security. let s figure out this system, but it has to be changed. we can t just say you can t tinke
let the world know about our values. and i think what s been happening here over the last few years is the fact that we ve retreated in the world. and when we retreat, it creates a vacuum. now when we retreat, what does that mean? well, it means our friends are not sure who we are. and it even confuses our enemies and emboldens our enemies in a lot of ways. now i think it s really important we don t try to travel around the world remaking every country in the image of america. but it is important that we can assert ourselves, and, you know, i think i was the first leading republican that i know of in the country to say that you want to fight isis? you just can t coulddo it from the air. we need to drove a coordinated effort. and if it means that u.s. boots on the ground is necessary so be it. but we re not there to change the way these countries work. we re there to restore order to assert a lot of the values that we have that everybody has the right to live free. so if that
chuck grassley: we will start with you. itwe will have our opening statements. the constitution recognizes us as equal. i was going to call on you first because you are the senior member here today. it you have been a respected member of the house of representatives and you know miss yates. hope you will start. john lewis: thank you very much. i am delighted and pleased to be here. i am on a to be here with my friend from the georgia delegation. we are introducing the united states attorney for the district of georgia. she has been nominated to serve as deputy attorney general of the united states. her dedication to public service is in her blood. both her father and grandfather served in the georgia court of appeals. her father was one of the great lawyers in the state of georgia and in our nation. she is principled, tough has used her commitment to justice to strength law enforcement and the community. she graduated from the university of georgia with honors. her career in