Quorum call quorum call mr. Reid mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid i move to proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 839. The presiding officer the question is on the motion to proceed. All those in favor say aye. Mr. Reid aye. The presiding officer all those opposed say no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. Mr. Reid mr. President , there is a cloture motion at the desk. I would ask that it first of all, we havent reported the nomination yet. The presiding officer the clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, federal Energy Regulatory commission, norman c. Bay of new mexico to be a member of the federal Regulatory Commission. Mr. Reid mr. President , there is a cloture motion at the desk. I would ask the chair that it be reported. The presiding officer the clerk will report the cloture motion. The
Senator shelby is on his way from voting, and the official part of the hearing will begin shortly. I just wanted to go over two things. One, as you all know, today is the hearing on the supplemental request submitted by the administration to cover the unexpected and unanticipated needs of the significant number of unaccompanied children coming to our border. I want those who follow our committee so very closely to know that on tuesday we will be marking up the defense appropriations subcommittee, and we will do a full Committee Markup on the defense bill defense appropriation on thursday. The committee should be alerted that if we can get other things done during the week with appropriate notice following the rules, we will do so. However, we will not do anything until after tuesday afternoon. So we know that monday, tuesday Tuesday Morning will be the subcommittee on defense markup. Well look for also opportunities because there are Unfinished Business at the full committee level, the
Project is to balance those protecting, protecting from risk, those persons who, where ones immigration status is going to bear on their ability to exercise their rights, but also recognizing that those are some of the most Vulnerable People and some of the people are being exploited, exploited the most, and so have the most recent to try to exercise those rights. At the outset of any of our cases, we do an analysis of whether, how is immigration status going to play a role. Sometimes the fact that a client is undocumented is actually going to be an element of the civil rights of use. You will have an employee who has been sexually harassed for years or even Sexual Assaulted for years because the employer has threatened to turn them over to ice, oftentimes what they will say. That will sort of beat somebody into submission, that sort of threat. We really keen on trying to make sure that we can give voice to those people, that at the same token, same time not putting them at some sort o
And a number of others that are truly looking at criminal justice and prison reform. I hope others jump onboard and do what has to be done to get the laws changed. At 9 00 a. M. This morning, cspan will be covering a hearing by the house judiciary over Criminalization Task force. Its about the need for criminal code reform and the over federalization in federal criminal law. 9 00 a. M. Cspan3. Next up is mark from ft. Lauderdale, florida. Caller how you doing . Good. Caller thank you to cspan and mr. Kerik for bringing this subject to the front. I called in on the inmates line or exinmates line because i did some federal time myself. You had a little while ago you stole my thunder when they mentioned how things look very different when the shoe is on the other foot. The fact is mr. Kerik as he was coming up through the police force and climbing the ladder, and even when you reached the top of the food chain, all we thought was prisoners and criminals deserved more time, they were getti
Flooding. The importance of controlling they are trying to gain leverage and trying to gain territory and course of power over the rest of the nation. You can hear more online at cspan. Org. Discussion on the Homeland Security departments Deferred Action Program for childhood arrivals. It allows undocumented immigrants to live freely in the u. S. For two years before facing deportation. Pew Charitable Trust this is about 1. 5 hours. Good afternoon, and welcome to the pew Charitable Trust. We are encouraging you to live. Weet the event please be sure to use the microphones on both sides of the room. It is myly begin pleasure to introducev a veteran executive runs our Performance Department to provide some welcome. I am pleased to welcome you to the Panel Discussion we will have today. Pew is a nonpartisan organization, established in 1948, by the children of the Sun Oil Company founder. We are guided by the values and the vision of those founders and their direction to tell on the truth