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Over the past several years in the administration of attorney general eric sniderman. During this administration, we have had 22 cases that we brought criminal charges in, including two cases announced just this morning. And they are in a wide range of industries. Prevailing wage contractors, tortilla factory, home health agencies, its been a pretty broad range of different types of employers. And having been in this field for awhile, i feel strongly about the importance of criminal enforcement because i think that it sends a very, very strong message about the seriousness of these laws and th...

Farflung sentences, these very high sentences. You will see dozens and dozens of Political Prisoners who werent even mentioned in these negotiations. If you want to go to cuba, simply tell them youre not going to visit the prisons and you dont want to meet the dissidents. I think this addresses what you asked about discrimination in cuba. Thank you very very much. You know, the Washington Post has done several editorials very, very critical of president obamas opening up or moving towards opening up diplomatic relations or further relations. And they made a very selling point, and i would just...

Record that you would never be okay with the egregious Human Rights Violations taking place around the world in the lgbt community. And there is a fundamental difference between marriage, which many people have a difference around. But i know that there is no difference around lgbt rights and the violence and opposing the violence against lgbt people. So thank you for that. Todays hearing on human rights in cuba in the context of president obamas recent announcement. I said yesterday in our faern Foreign Affairs committee that sometimes in talking about cuba it is difficult because my colleagu...

Long, and there are a lot of people who believe it will never change. He has given us his promised that it will change and it will be different because he is invested, and we will have to translate those words into action. A couple more calls. Lets hear from missouri. Hello. What i want to ask this representative about government is what is going to be done about the things regarding Michael Brown and mr. Garner . Something has to be done about those existing conditions it is obvious that we have gotten to the tilt point. This federal government must take over the policing that is happening at...

Congressman ken buck. Thank you. Joining after questioning is emma and sean, i appreciate your time as well. I want to begin as the beginning freshman republican you expect this funding issue to be a contentious debate . D50 any possibility that funding could be stalled i think it will be a contentious debate. I think what the president did was poorly designed. Whether it ends up in some sort agency shut down, i hope not. I hope we can work through the issue and make sure we defined the parts of the executive order that the present has issued. And move on, and make sure the other functions of ...