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Most heated moments from last nights debate, the good, the bad and the ugly. Well break down the most important comments. Some new hats thrown in the ring for twitter. Well give you the latest on the various suitors for that company. Iconic hedge fund Perry Capital shutting down its flag ship fund after nearly a decade. Is it a sign of broader problems on wall street. First up, the gloves came off at last nights president ial debate. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton going after each other on man...

Not housing, food, travel, transportation. 100,000 in financial assets. Houston, we have a problem. So, theres good news and this is where i want to focus this going forward. And the good news is the culture of aging is changing. I bet if i had time to spend with each one of you what id find is that your attitudes are different than they may have been earlier in your lives. Frankly different than those attitudes that might have existed with your parents and grandparents. The majority of baby boo...

Back in the early 60s, medicare and medicaid combined were. 1 of gdp. Gdpal security was 2. 6 of and Discretionary Spending was 11 and a half percent of gdp. Medicaid arere and 5. 6 of gdp, Social Security is 4. 9 and discretionary expenditures has shrunk to six and a half percent of gdp. Why is that important . Are reallyyments consumption and you do not get that much return on your investment and i want to highlight the blue line. Back in the 60s, investments as a percentage of the federal bud...

Oneinch lacerations to her face. She was taken to Childrens Hospital where she was being treated in the emergency room. Her injuries are not considered life threatening. Its unclear whether the dog was aggressive towards the child. Were told the dog was alone in the house with the little girl. There were other adults in the house, just not in the room at the time. So were still gathering information and trying to find out if there was any provocation or if this just kind of happened naturally. R...

Approved beneficiaries of their family members were not able to actually take advantage of it and come to the United States because of the numerical limits on family based immigration every year. Continued to deteriorate. As we have had requests from other stake holders to take another look at that, my leadership would agree to take another look at the program. They have agreed to consider it. You have a request and im sure you should consider it. That is a problematic to do business. Were incre...

Regarding the Security Checks. We will not cut corners. The Security Check requirements were developed in the inner agency with the consultation and expertise of the fbi, our dhs partners, and the Intelligence Community partners and the security regime was set up with all that input. And i have heard no discussion of making any cuts to it for any reason. I would like to point out that the grant grants of Refugee Status are discretionary so that if there is a doubt, the case is referred for furth...

Spend those fees on and if you use fees to expand dramatically the number of refugees from syria or other places in the middle east, that does tend to drain the money, does it not, ms. Strike, that you would otherwise have for other needs of your agency . Yes, sir. In order to reprioritize fee funding to the Refugee Funding Program in fy 16 that will come out of other uscis priorities. Follow up on this question, mr. Bartlett, if we go to 100,000, are you aware of how many of those over the 75,0...

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...

Families do not have their checks expire, forcing them to redo many of those screenings, when individual parts of the test expire while theyre waiting for other parts to be completed. And third, keeping families updated about their status. Frequently a large familys resettlement will be delayed because a Single Family member is waiting to be approved. Those are common sense straightforward methods of reforming the screening process so that it takes weeks, not years to reach conclusion. And i thi...

I dont think any of you are being told your resources are going to increase when you have more refugees. So at the most fundamental level, im trying to figure out how you absorb this within the current rate of funding that you have without something giving. One of those things that may give could be the very important thing that we all have an obligation to ensure, and that is the safety and security of the homeland. There is going to be handoff between the various agencies. How do we make sure ...