Her book is called the broken welcome mat. When did you come to the United States . Guest i came to the United States in 1996 as a graduate School Student from Mainland China. When did you become a us citizen . Guest 2013. Host when did you begin the process . Guest the day after i arrived as a student i want to stay in the United States. 17 years to jump through the legal hoops, to become a naturalized us citizen. Host what were the hoops you had to jump through . Guest legal status. Our Immigration Law is stacked against the people, the Immigration Law, a family preference, because i dont have a family here, i need to maintain my student status and employer, that is the only way to be a legal resident through employment. I got a job offer from citibank and working for several fortune 500 companies maintaining my work visa and eventually daimlerchrysler waiting to sponsor me with a work visa but because of the supply of the visa it is less and the demand so i am stuck for five years w
Press on. Developmentshese we want to hear from you not only on this legislative effort but on the Bigger Picture of your message to congress when it comes to what the federal government should be doing on health care. Democrats, 202 202 01 republicans, 7488002 independents. If you want to give us a tweet you can do so and you can also post on our facebook page. Heres the press release from Susan Collins released yesterday after her announcement that she would not support the Graham Cassidy bill saying she has three major concerns. Both proposals make sweeping cuts in medicaid. More than 1 trillion would be taken out of the program. Both bills open the door for states to weaken protections for people with preexisting conditions. Physicians and Patient Advocates and insurers and hospitals agree they would lead to higher premiums and reduce coverage for tens of millions of americans. It was on cnn yesterday during a debate on health care that one of the cosponsors of Graham Cassidy talke
A very dark london this morning. Coming up later, the brexit show. We will be joined by the former Prime Minister of ireland. Lets quickly check your market s. Eurodollar. No, its euroyen. This is what the pros look at. Its the end of the quarter so were seeing a little bit of caution when you look at the stoxx 600. The price of oil. The Spanish Government is continuing efforts to stop an independence referendum in catalonia. The Regions Administration is pressing ahead with a vote even deployed thousands of police and arrested eight dozen local officials. Catalonia includes barcelona and theunts for a fifth of economy. In the u. K. , most members of theresa mays party think she should quit before the next election. Ina poll, 13 said she should leave now or in the next year. And the same proportion said she should go just before the next elections in 2022. Meanwhile, 38 think she should quit after britain has left the European Union, march 2019. Steven mnuchin says the republican tax p
Well call the Sub Committee to order and like to ask that members who are not on the Sub Committee be permed to sit with Sub Committee of todays hearings to ask questions. With that objection that is still ordered i would like to welcome everybody to the hearing today. It is going to focus , obviously, on how we can build the 21st century infrastructure. And a committee that is holding a host of hearings toth gaer idea on what congress can do to achieve this goal and today were going to hear ideas from highways and transit stake holders. Gathering input from stake holders is essential to the process, an that we use to develop Service Transportation policy. And it is valuable in efforts to pass the first longterm highway bilge in a decade and continue to need your assistance with future legislation. Even though with Additional Resources we provided nation Service Transportation system needs additional investment. Enacting longterm solution is a critical component to ensuring that we can
A political and economic lifeline providing urgently needed relief from the intense still messed up pressure the sanctions had created it also gave the regime an immediate financial boost and over one hundred billion dollars its government could use to Fund Terrorism the regime also received a massive cash settlement of one point seven billion dollars from the United States a large portion of which was physically loaded onto an airplane and flown into iran just imagine the sight of those huge piles of money being hauled off by the iranians waiting at the airport for the cash i wonder where all that money went. Worst of all the deal allows iran to continue developing certain elements of its Nuclear Program and importantly in just a few years as key restrictions disappear iran can sprint towards a rapid Nuclear Weapons breakout in other words we got weak inspections in exchange for no more than a purely short term and temporary delay in irans path to Nuclear Weapons what is the purpose o