The committee on oversight and government reform will come to order and then continue with the second panel of the hearing today. I would ask unanimous consent that congressman john of iowa be allowed to participaparticipa te and flipper does but in todays hearing your without objection, so ordered. Glad you could join us as well as mr. Courtney of connecticut who could also come join us. The second panel is probably the most important people we can you from and we are pleased to welcome mr. Ralph martin whose s chief of police at the santa marina, santa maria, california, please department, has an important perspective and we are pleased and honored you join with us here today. I would also like to allow mr. Courtney to help introduce ms. Wendy hartling. Thank you, chairman chabot and Ranking Member cummings. Again, we are honored today to have Wendy Hartling from connecticut join us here today. She is the quintessential small town america, and she was getting the devoted mother of Ca
[inaudible conversations] come to order we will continue with the second panel. Last year this consent that the congressman from iowa be allowed to fully participate in todays hearing. Without objection is so ordered their glad you can join us also the gentleman from connecticut. The second panel is probably the most important people we can hear from and we are pleased to welcome mr. Ralph martin chief of police from the santa maria California Police department with important perspective and were honored you joined us here today. I would like to allow mr. Courtney to help introduce wendy. Thank you. Again we are honored to have 20 here to join this today she is quintessential smalltown america and a devoted mother of Casey Chadwick who has been mentioned many times in she lost her life one year ago to a homicide that a couple weeks ago came to the goal conclusion with the conviction. I will state that she was leading a very private life with Strong Family connections in the community a
Right here in america, not deporting them at all. Theyre staying here and then weve had numerous examples of where theyve gone and committed these crimes again . Dont you find that to be some what appalling. That is horrible. I think we were, i wish there was no crime committed by anyone. Let me ask you something else. Since fiscal year 2012, the annual budget has increased more than 680 million. Is that correct . Those are the figures ive been given. Since 2012. Your budget has increased more than 680 million. Ice has . Yes. Yes. At the same time the number of aliens has decreased by 174,000. 174,000. Can you tell me what the reason for that is . Because we can only remove those people who have final order of removal and the appropriate travel documents. If we cut your budget, would you stop releasing them . Because were giving you money and youre releasing them. Sir, you know, youre miss representing the facts when you say you release them. Im not misrepresenting the fact that we hav
To make the ultimate constitutional determinations. Other branches have that responsibility, too. Attorney general, do you have anything to add . I dont think so. You cant top that. Everybodys been very patient, but i do see were coming up on 10 00, and i feel that the red light on the podium is going off. So if you have any closing thoughts, either of you wed love to hear them. Or with that, wed like to thank you for your time and everything. President bill clinton is in New Hampshire today on his First Campaign trip for hillary in 2016. Hell talk about how hillary will make a difference for families in the Granite State and across the country. Thats live today at 5 15 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Tonight on the communicators, Consumer Technology Association President gary shapiro on the Major Technology issues he expects in 2016 and why the cta changed its name this past fall to Consumer Technology association. Hes joined by tony rohm, politicos technology reporter. Innovation, over 3600
That, freshman congressman mark walker of north carolina. State legislators from maryland, north carolina, illinois, new york, and missouri part in aook discussion on race relation and responsibility. Many of them are from places that have recently received significant Media Attention on race relation issues. Thank you all. It is a great honor to be here. Engaged with such a distinguished panel and i know that they are known to all of you, but just for the purposes of the record i would , like to acknowledge who is on the panel. We will proceed by way of posing some questions, asking our panelists to talk about some of the very crucial issues that we are all facing at this time. First, we have the honorable catherine she has been a Public Servant for over 20 years and been a part of the baltimore Maryland City council. She is currently the majority leader that is the best politician for getting the job done by the city paper. She has been an entrepreneur by trade and currently also som