Asked by our constituents all the time to support very projects. Deputy secretary theres been some question about this review board that you allegedly created to review the l. A. Films case. Are you aware of that . Yes, but that was not created for that case. That was created for all cases. The concept of the decision board was generated in 2011. I discussed with career employees the application of that decision board to the issue of difference, which was of tremendous concern in the community, in the eb5 program. I discussed its application with a number of career employees in 2012 and ongoing. So it was not limited to that one case. Zblf the decision board or deference board, as it was termed subsequently was a reform applicable to the eb5 program writ large and it was needed and especially with respect to the the issue of difference, which caused so much consternation in the community, wh u when uscis would make a decision. Investors would invest. Capital would be infused. Business
Want to make sure your child is in Quality Health care, you are going to get a little bit more tax relief or if you have an elderly loved one at home that you want to make sure has quality care you getal little more tax relief. If you are a twoworker family, we scale back the marriage penalties. The democratic budget actually provides more tax relief for working americans while the republican budget provides tax increases to working families. It increases transportation by closing a lot of the tax breaks in the code that actually encourage American Companies to move jobs and capital overseas, we get rid of those loopholes and say lets invest the money here in america. Thats what the democratic budget does. But the rules dont permit us to instruct the conferees to do the right thing and adopt that alternative which does reflect the values and priorities of the people around the country, but there are two Little Things where the Senate Budget is actually min kuhl minusculely better than
Security will come to order. The pur o pos of this hearing is to receive testimony regarding the immigrant Investor Program known as the eb5 program. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. On march 24th the department of Homeland Security Inspector General released a report detailing allegations against deputy secretary mayorkas that relate to his time as director of uscis and his oversight of the eb5 program. The igs Office Conducted more than 50 interviews, reviewed more than 40,000 phone records and obtained more than 1 million documents and emails. This investigation was unprecedented in that there were more than a dozen whistle blowers that came forward to the Inspector Generals office. The findings are troubling as the ig made some very serious charges against mr. Mayorkas. Leave among them were that he used his position to influence outcomes in select cases for the benefit of politically connected and powerful individuals. In general, these allegations fall under four
Working for that pay. The publicans have refused to put on the floor legislation that will open the peoples government. Membershad over 150 sign a petition to open the government. And bring legislation to the floor. Askingscores of members for unanimous consent of the body to do just that. So that the government could be open today. A point of order was just made. Any member of the house would hre been in order to ask for floor. E put on the we will discuss that at greater length. The American People want the government opened. They want us to talk. They want us to reach an agreement. They see no need. We see no need of having literally millions of people shut out of their workplace while the republican majority shuts down the government and tries to hold a gun at our head to agree on things that, in a democratic process, should be dealt with not at the point of a gun, but at the table of conference, to which they have refused to go over the last five months. That me yield to my collea
And, for example, installing the 8 megawatts of rooftop solar on city facilities as well as the grants that have been provided for private solar on rooftops. But the system is aging and needs a great deal of improvement. Take a moment and think about our mountain title as an example, its been in Continuous Operation for over 80 years with very minimal improvements. And, so, you will hear from us as our commission has been deliberating over the last several months, that our Capital Needs have increased significantly. We run a system that is in large part 50 to 100 years old. And many of those assets have had little to no refurbishment because they were built to last that long, and thats a testament i think some of the [speaker not understood] soundness of the men and women in San Francisco and those that came before us. The Central Capital improvements mean that our capital plan and our required spending is going up over 500 million alone and closer to now be a total of 883 million of e