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Then it said it planned to accept a floor of 85,000 refugees and at least 100,000 next year. Once here with Refugee Status those individuals can claim any job and collect any federal welfare benefit. Recent statistics from the department of health and Human Services office of Refugee Resettlement indicate that 75 of refugees receive food stamps and more than half receive Free Health Care and cash benefits. For refugees from the middle east the numbers are even higher. More than 90 of recent midd...

Thank you very much. Thank you for calling this hearing, mr. Chairman, and trying to get to the bottom of some of these questions. I appreciate the line of questions. I want to follow up, i believe mr. Pummill made a statement to the extent i think you said it was virtually impossible to fire a gs employee . Could you clarify and explain that a little more from your experience . In my experience its not very much. Ive been with the va for five years. The Civil Servants i believe this is federal ...

Juveniles in solitary confinement. Are you supportive of this . Or lynch this legislation an important opportunity for all of us to look at how we administer criminal justice in this country. If the goal is to protect the American People, in a way that is efficient, transparent and fair, sentencing reform has been the topic of great bipartisan discussion. Todays announcement is a great step forward. We commend and thank senators booker and lee. And the other senators who worked on this. They cro...

Utter silence. Deafening silence. Perhaps you can understand why israel is not joining you in celebrating this deal. If irans rulers were working to destroy your countries, perhaps you would be less enthusiastic about the deal. If irans terror proxies were firing thousands of rockets at your cities, perhaps youd be more measured in your praise. And if this deal were unleashing a Nuclear Arms Race in your neighborhood, perhaps youd be more reluctant to celebrate. But dont think that everyone is o...

[sirens] again, looking at the outside of the cathedral of st. Matthew the apostle earlier today where the annual rent mass was helpless Supreme Court justices, many of whom you saw there. The Supreme Courts term officially begins tomorrow. Some of the cases they face this term have to do with abortion, health care, labor unions, and immigration. You can look for those cases is here on cspan when they happen. With the Supreme Courts new cases. Es landmark that exports the human cases and constit...

Near newman grove. The Madison County Sheriffs Department says Benjamin Sunderman was killed after his truck left the roadway and went into the ditch. Sunderman lost control of the truck when he tried to get it back on the roadway. The truck went back in the ditch and rolled several times, ejecting sunderman. He was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which happened about 7 20 yesterday morning. Weather adlib winds will be strong and temperatures will be low today despite a few peeks of s...

Trump did take a swipe at the democrats. Of Hillary Clinton he said, quote legally, she shouldnt be allowed to run. He called Bernie Sanders a socialist slash communist. And, when talking about martin poll numbers, trump asked, quote whats he doing . Political activists came from all over iowa to hear donald ktiv spoke with one supporter who says shes voting for the first time in more than 20 years because trump is running. I havent voted since ors per in 1193, said trump supporter kim tranmer f...

Around a wall along the u. S. Mexico border, but trump was short on specifics in sioux city. Trump says immigration is the key to his economic plan. Were also gonna get jobs for the people who are here, trump said. By working to zero out a trade imbalance that, he says, costs the u. S. 400billion in china, and 70billion in japan. Theyre leaders are beating us, said trump, theyre smarter, sharper, and more cunning. The billionare businessman says, if elected, hed negotiate better deals to cut tar...

Approved. Thank you very much. The minutes are adopted. Since commissioner reed is here, we will move on to item four. Item four, recommend five members transit citizens Advisory Committee. We have Transportation Planner here on this item. Good morning commissioner. This item is for the appointments to the gearry corridor Advisory Committee. Initiative to improve travel time reliability and streetscape along the gearry corridor. Its currently in Environmental Review phase. The structure is shown...

Counsel and Real Property negotiator. Move to move into executive session. So moved. Second. All in favor say i move that we reconvene in open session. All in favor. Aye. I move that we dont disclose anything in closed session. So moved. All in favor say aye. Aye. Item six pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag to the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised that use of ...