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Give us information about the departments false statements that were made to this Committee Gun lobbying in fast and furious, and the information had nothing to do with communications with the president and not advocate any constitutional privilege. Still he would not answer. , and then chairman leahy did not direct him to do so. Then, at another time, when same questionct you have been asked sometimes, senator general sessions, when holder testified on fast and furious he said the exact same thing that attorney general sessions is saying today. Quoting holder, we will act in a way that is consistent with what other attorney generals have made determinations as to what information can be shared with congressional oversight committees. And these are republican as well as democratic attorneys general. And i will act in a manner that is consistent with the history and the tradition of the department. Then i said, you are refusing to p ....
Senator chuck chuck ensley chairs this fivehour hearing. [indiscernible] [gavel pounding] [indiscernible] attorney general sessions, welcome. For all the people in the audience, we welcome you as well. I thank general sessions were being here that attorney general sessions were being here for the oversight hearing. His is an opportunity for congress to investigate and question the policies and actions of any executive branch. It is an opportunity for the executive branch to take responsibility for any of those policies and actions, and an opportunity for congress to defend its constitutional powers and check any abuses by an overreaching executive branch, and it has been that way for 230 years. Some have complained that we have not had an oversight hearing with this attorney general earlier. My reason for deferring was that the attorney general should have his team in place before appearing before us. Certainly, attorney general holder and attorney general lynch did have their respecti ....
That would i just poverty by increasing Economic Growth and wage growth and job creation . If you look at the data, we never recovered to normal since the last recession. We do not recover to normal levels of wage growth. What is the best way to address Economic Policy to get the economy growing again . What ideas does anyone have to adopt policy . Why dont we run down anybody anybody . Taxeed a reduction in the that is slowing a Economic Growth slowing Economic Growth. We may never return to levels of Economic Growth. We are not going to see the labor force increase significantly. Right now it is on immigration that is keeping our population even stable. I think we are not going to see increases. Michael, ....
The kept going back to wages are going to decrease if you become right to work, youll hurt the worker. We said, no, thats not true at all. We showed that wages increase at a higher rate when youre in a right to work state. The other thing we ran into was, Companies Want to move to right to work states because they want to pay people less. So that was interesting. So they were saying that, you know, Site Selectors, we know who they are, what they do, this is one of almost their standard questions is, are you a right to work state, are you not. And theres plenty of companies who have moved to states that they have specifically said were going here because this is a key component to it. So what we did is, we said businesses dont go to right to work states because they want to pay less, because again, the statistics dont back that up. Companies go to right to work states because ....
Agreement that will prevent a nucleararmed iran. Next, i would like to introduce one of the icons of congress, john lewis of georgia. Thank you very much. In this congress, i take a back seat to no one in my commitment or support of israel and the American Jewish community. On many occasions we have worked side by side to strengthen our democracy and fight for equality and justice in this country. The commitment will not change. We are consistently throughout my career for longterm peace in the middle east, a secured jewish state and fight against antisemitism and hate on american shores and abroad. However this nation is currently involved in ongoing negotiations with iran. Election in israel just about two weeks away on march 17. The speaker of the house of representatives would allow the floor of this chamber to be used to neglect the negotiations of the president of the Unite ....