Caller good morning. Im calling for those i am in support of gay marriage because i dont feel i have the right to tell anyone who they should marry. Especially if they are a taxpayer of a great country. Thank you. Host one more call. Montana calling us from brunswick, maine. Go ahead. Hello . That will be our last call on that topic. More information about those proceedings. If you were go to the senate to go to the Senate Judiciary committee j johnson is appearing before the committee to talk about issues related to his department. You can see that hearing live on cspan as it starts. Thank you for joining us today. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] thank you mr. Johnson for coming. Oversight is a critical function and a constitutional responsibility of our branch. Mr. Grassley every year this committee tries to invite the secr
Because when these countries borrow money even from a Development Bank for a boondoggle project that doesnt work, they are often on the hook for paying the money back and there have been experiences like that across continents. And across decades. With respect to t. P. P. , it is never fun passing a trade bill in this town and because people are understandably concerned about its potential impact on specific industries, but also the general concerns that people have had about globalization and technology displacing workers. We are addressing those. Systematically. Here is what im confident about. This will be the most progressive trade bill in history. It will have the kinds of labor and environmental and human rights protections that have been absent in previous agreements. Its going to be enforceable and its going to open up markets that currently are not fully open to u. S. Businesses. Its going to be good for the u. S. Economy and because i always believe good policy ends up being
Every year the committee invites the Homeland Department of security to brief us on the affairs. To question the administrations policy as well as an opportunity for the department to take responsibility for its actions. It is a pleasure to have secretary johnson here. This is our first opportunity to question him publicly since his exact action on immigration in november. In another is an injunction we can get a good idea of what to expect from the programs based on the way the department has incremented the program. It appears that applications for deferred action are being rubberstamped. Evidenced by the fact that criminals and gang members are receiving special benefits despite supposed policies against it. Take the case of the recipient recipient, accused of murdering four people. Last week the department admitted that he had received dock a despite his gang membership which was known to adjudicators and despite being in department proceedings. Deportment proceedings. It is not cl
Im sorry, i see an obstacle. I can tell you were aware and were going to challenge every assertion of the costs and every concern i understand your president ial you at this point none of those depends are going to be proelz are not values concerns but we can mitigate those. Im not saying their frivolous concerns we have to concern how do we solve that concern so the two points in that regard or one i think that the Mayors Office has a huge rule in to play here i see mr. Xhaup we designated the Mayors Office i hope theyll play a role and i guess the second point to you wonder if its im sorry president chiu is there a reporting requirement here if there recent a periodic reporting requirement where the department of item has to report to the mayor and the board of supervisors on a quarterly basis hear all the basic hear the opportunities we had and the opportunity we took and declined and heres the opportunities we took but the other departments objected. 50i8d to entertain an amendment
Concern so the two points in that regard or one i think that the Mayors Office has a huge rule in to play here i see mr. Xhaup we designated the Mayors Office i hope theyll play a role and i guess the second point to you wonder if its im sorry president chiu is there a reporting requirement here if there recent a periodic reporting requirement where the department of item has to report to the mayor and the board of supervisors on a quarterly basis hear all the basic hear the opportunities we had and the opportunity we took and declined and heres the opportunities we took but the other departments objected. 50i8d to entertain an amendment. Is that not good enough. John gibner, deputy City Attorney thats adequate ive got the gist. To the presentation of d t what they said thanks and yes or had another objection in terms of the moving forward. Well draft that after the meeting. Im sorry one other thing in terms of the 9 hundred feet i think so that if you have a small project you might no