Relations for the opportunity to be with you today and have an important discussion on the state of Homeland Security and immigration. Also to have a dialog and also on Homeland Security priorities with members. Here i know that many of you have been following crisis on our border last year and tracking the regular challenge of migration, not only has the situation obvious implications for Border Security but its lead to significant humanitarian crisis as well as a Foreign Policy challenge in the United States and throughout the region. I like to take the dialog today a little bit above the headlines and into the daily news cycle and look back the challenges over the last ten months or so, in our efforts to address them especially focused on the last three to four months during that tenure as acting secretary. I took it on five a half months ago and taken momentum and progress to deal with this crisis in the last three or four. For us here for our audience i dont believe its too contro
Committee on education and labor will come to order. Welcome, everyone. I note that a performance present. The committee a quorum is present. The committee is meeting to hear testimony on the importance of trauma and practices in education to assist students impacted by gun violence and other adversities. Miss beth of georgia, of minnesota, miss the of wilde ofiss pennsylvania, and mr. Pastor of texas, are permitted to participate in todays hearings with the understanding that their questions will come on the after all members of the subcommittee have had an opportunity to question the witness. ,ursuant to committee will 7c Opening Statements are limited to the chair and the Ranking Member. This allows us to hear from or witnesses sooner and provides all members with time to ask questions. Can you hear me all right . All right. I recognize myself now for the purpose of making an opening statement. I want to begin by acknowledging that this morning marks 18 years since the terrorist att
Wild of pennsylvania and mr. Castro of texas are permitted to participate in the hearing today with the understanding that their questions will come only after all members of the subcommittee on both sides of the aisle are present and have had an opportunity to question the witnesses. Pursuant to Committee Rule 7c, Opening Statements are limit nod the chair and the Ranking Member. This allows us to hear from the witnesses sooner, and provide the members with adequate time to ask questions. Can you hear me all right . I recognize myself now for the purpose of making an opening statement. I want to begin by ak nolging that this morning marks 18 years since the terrorist attacks that struck new york, pennsylvania and the pentagon on september 11th, 2001. Let us please take a moment to remember the 2,977 lives lost in those attacks. Thank you. This morning, we are here to discuss the federal governments responsibility to ensure that every child from the marianos to maine has a nurturing le
All right. If we can get our seats. Its kind of hard to break off the conversations. Its always so good to meet people. But weve got to get back to work. We hear a lot about how dangerous the u. S. Empire is. We learn about how were making enemies overseas. We learn about how immoral it is to bomb people overseas, but theres something that we also really need to, and this is a good argument to make by some people who arent swayed by the others and that is that the u. S. Empire is a big ripoff. It costs a lot of money and gives us very, very little in return and so thats why were really pleased to bring in someone who can speak to you, been reading and wright and lecturing for a while now and hes part of the next generation of intellectuals. He spoke yesterday at our student seminar and did a terrific job, and thats Nathan Goodman who is finishing his phd at George Mason University in economics, and he is a specialist in the economic of empire. Nathan, happy to have you join us. [ appla
All right. If we can get our seats. Its kind of hard to break off the conversations. Its always so good to meet people. But weve got to get back to work. We hear a lot about how dangerous the u. S. Empire is. We learn about how were making enemies overseas. We learn about how immoral it is to bomb people overseas, but theres something that we also really need to, and this is a good argument to make by some people who arent swayed by the others and that is that the u. S. Empire is a big ripoff. It costs a lot of money and gives us very, very little in return and so thats why were really pleased to bring in someone who can speak to you, been reading and wright and lecturing for a while now and hes part of the next generation of intellectuals. He spoke yesterday at our student seminar and did a terrific job, and thats Nathan Goodman who is finishing his phd at George Mason University in economics, and he is a specialist in the economic of empire. Nathan, happy to have you join us. [ appla