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Good morning. The Judiciary Committee will come to order, and without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on the unconstitutionality of president obamas executive actions on immigration, and ill begin by recognizing myself for an opening statement. Last november president obama announced one of the biggest constitutional power grabs ever by a president. He declared unilaterally that by his own estimation...

The definition gets cloudier not more specific in my view. And in fact, you know, if we end somewhere like three out of the seven, that would be clear too, wouldnt it . Wouldnt it be just as clear to say navigable waters are waters that are navigable for interstate commerce and why wouldnt that be we have been the area that lacks clarity right now is not the issue of navigable waters. The Supreme Court actually spoke very definitively that navigable waters need to be looked at in a way that isnt...

These regulations, by the way were adopted through notice and comment procedures and they do have the force of law. None of these laws not one of them, says or even remotely implies that deferred action is per se illegal. The most vocal critics have misunderstood what deferred action is. Theyve confused deferred action itself with certain things that you can apply for if you get deferred action. But deferred action itself is just one form of prosecutorial discretion. Its a decision not to priori...

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Clancys the right person to get us there. Well he didnt know about this for five days. Thats true. It happened on wednesday which meant i didnt know about it for five days plus. And found out he said through an email. Instead of up the chain of command. That concerns me a lot that the agency needs discipline, and it needs an outsider in some position there to be sure that were not jeopardizing the president s life, by taking care of people who have been our friends for years within the service. ...

Is one that i have a lot of interest in. I want to make sure were getting it right. Because ive been out in major cities and ive seen the end use that is being made with regard to our grant money. For example, and in phoenix, the super bowl, three days before the super bowl i looked at our op center, the joint op center, state, federal, local, the fire chief was anxious to point out to me every single piece of communications equipment, every camera, every tv screen you see was funded by the depa...

Extent there is a free sample you would get, and we know from interviewing travelers that many of them that have had the opportunity to experience expedited screening through management inclusion and Risk Assessment rules have subsequent subsequently applied for the program. So its all subjective, its not negative. We are going to leave the rest of this hearing at this point to go live to capitol hill where Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson will be testifying on the 2016 budget address fwr...

Request for i. C. E. Includes sufficient funds for the 34,040 detention beds required under law, and youve done away with many of the unauthorized fees the department previously proposed to offset critical security spending. While this budget submission is indeed a vast improvement over those weve seen in the past, it does not mean that i am left without concerns. First, and probably most important, i question whether this request constitutes a realistic funding level. Unfortunately, the preside...

You may have seen a spirited reply to the letter which is worth looking at. One of the issues which is a arisen of course in congress over the last couple of weeks, including with the visit with netanyahu is that it probably has made it rather more in congress than it was previously. That also changes the dynamic as far as the United States is concerned. The foreign secretary said, we have made some progress in the negotiations, i think there is a willingness on both sides to try to reach a deal...

Were focusing the use of our resources to deport and remove people on felons, not families. We want to stop tearing families apart. [ applause ] were emphasizing national security, Public Safety and Border Security over tearing families apart. We have created a new defer ed we have created a new divert Action Program for parents, for those who have been in this country for years who have been integrated members of society. There are by most estimates Something Like 11 million undocumented immigr...