Awardwinning filmmaker William Greaves and narrated by actor ricardo montalban. Narrator there are many things in the history of the world that were once thought to be impossible. Chatter] narrator as the earth speeds around the sun over 60,000 miles per hour, we are coming to realize more and more that many obstacles and problems that daily confront us are in reality merely opportunities, opportunities to break free of our fears and ancient taboos. And we are discovering too that the very process of freeing ourselves forces us to learn more and more about ourselves and the world in which we live. For an awful long time, 2,000 years, people assumed that there was a schism between the mind and the body, there was intellect and emotion, but only until recently, we realized how much time we influence the ongoing physiological activity in our body by what we think about, every stimulus, every stimuli in your environment that impinges on an organ is reflected to some extent physiologically.
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, pastor Kenneth Codner, great baptist church, bellefonte, pennsylvania. The chaplain please bow with me in prayer. Heavenly father, i am humbled to be able to stand before you on behalf of this assembly here today. Lord, we are sinners, deserving none of your favor. But, father, i come to you in the merit of the lord and savior, jesus christ, who washed me from my sins in his shed blood. Father, we are aware more than any of the bitterness and bitter divisiveness throughout this room and across this nation of ours. I know that this grieves your heart, father. And i pray that we would repent of our sins, that you might forgive them and heal this land of ours. I pray that youll work in the hearts of the members of congress, that they be willing to put aside their political expedience and partisan politics and personal agendas, that they would strive to do what is best for our nation as a
We were certainly lucky to have a professor of his caliber. Professor bibas then took a position on the faculty of the university of Pennsylvania Law School where he has been teaching since. Professor bibas has been prolific in his academic writings, publishing numerous articles on all aspects of criminal law. His Academic Work culminated in the publication of his book entitled the machinery of criminal justice. That book was published 2012. In this book and many of his articles, professor bibas criticized the current model of bureaucratic assemblyline justice and americas high incarceration rate. Much of his work has been devoted to finding solutions to these problems. His Academic Work has certainly had an impact on the law. In fact, professor bibas is one of the most cited law professors in judicial opinions. One study shows he is the 15th most cited legal scholar by total judicial opinions, and he is the fifth most cited in the area of criminal law. Not bad for a relatively young p
So before we get to our keynote speaker, our second keynote speaker, well have our first keynote speaker, right . I learned to count. So while format, each keynote speaker will be introduced and then they do the talk and then they sit down and we quiz them a little bit. I think my quizzing may be a little more aggressive but maybe not. And then we go to the audience and you get a chance to ask questions. We have robert door. We invited approximate one had republicans and none of them were willing to come. So we, members of congress and house and senate, so we decided to go with a brilliant genius is not a member of congress, as i hope you will forgive us for that. And so robert is here. Robert is dash of what is at the title . Federal in poverty at American Enterprise institute. Ive known him for 25 years at least, starting when he was head of the Child Support Enforcement Program. In new york which was an Amazing Program and did a lot for kids i would say because they collected a lot
Next the House Homeland Security committee holds its first open meeting to examine these up security procedures and what can be done to strengthen prevention of a terrorist entering the us. We hear testimony from several federal agencies including customs and Border Protection and the state department. This is an hour and a half. The Committee Tax course on denying terrorist entering the eye states will come to order. The test for submitting to examine a visa process and the Visa Waiver Program. I recognize myself for an Opening Statement. I welcome back our expert witnesses to the capital and thank you for being here and doing double duty. I look forward to following up on some of the broader themes for the briefing. In order to inform the American People of the security of the visa process and Visa Waiver Program. I want to thank chairman mccall for prioritizing this task force in its commission. Last congress on combating terrorist and foreign fighter travel was not only successful