[ applause ] [ applause ] come on, here. Speaker of the house. My pleasure. To present to you the governor of virginia. Come on. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, my fellow virginiaens. Good evening. Good evening. Speaker cox, senator newman, justices of the supreme court. Ladies and gentlemen. Of the virginia General Assembly. I do once again appreciate the opportunity to address you one final time. [ applause ] todd gilbert i would be careful. Last yore every republican i gave a shout out theyre not back this year in the chamber. You guys have done just fine. Before i begin seriously, i would like to thank speaker bill howl for his many years of service to the commonwealth and tell him and his family that we are praying for his speedy recovery. I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate you, mr. Speaker on your election to this historic office. Congratulations. Speaker cox. I am so proud to be joined this evening by so many people who h
[ applause ] come on, here. Speaker of the house. My pleasure. To present to you the governor of virginia. Come on. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, my fellow virginiaens. Good evening. Good evening. Speaker cox, senator newman, justices of the supreme court. Ladies and gentlemen. Of the virginia General Assembly. I do once again appreciate the opportunity to address you one final time. [ applause ] todd gilbert i would be careful. Last yore every republican i gave a shout out theyre not back this year in the chamber. You guys have done just fine. Before i begin seriously, i would like to thank speaker bill howl for his many years of service to the commonwealth and tell him and his family that we are praying for his speedy recovery. I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate you, mr. Speaker on your election to this historic office. Congratulations. Speaker cox. I am so proud to be joined this evening by so many people who have worked ti
Witnesses today, and ill save the introductions. I know there are a couple introductions that will be made from up here. This morning well go ahead with our Opening Statements, myself and senator cardin, and then were honored to have both the chairman and the Ranking Member of the whole committee here. So senator barrasso, senator carper, and then i understand senator cardin, you have an introduction to make also. Yes. All right. Well do that. Lets recognize first senator carper, because hes going to be coming back and doing his a little bit later. Just very briefly, welcome to this important hearing. I want to thank our chair and Ranking Member for pulling us all together and giving us a chance to say something. I have a statement. I would like to ask unanimous consent it appear in the record. And if i have a chance to come back and give it live later this morning, i will do that. Again, its good to see you all. Thank you for joining us. This is important. Important stuff. Thank you,
Update on immigration policy negotiations. At 8 30 eastern, holly harris of the Justice Action Network on prison sentencing and reform. And at 9 00, Darrell Burnett of Education Week on the failing infrastructure in u. S. Schools. Host good morning, this is friday, january 12, and welcome to washington journal. As you can imagine, reaction is pouring in from congress and elsewhere to the president s comments on immigrants from certain countries, something we heard about yesterday afternoon. We want to get to the president s comments on immigration, talk about daca and the immigration issue. If you are a democrat, please. All 202 7488000 republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. And we have a special fourth line to recent immigrants to the u. S. 202 7488003 202 7488002 202 7488003 202 7488003. Front page of the Washington Post. This first reported on the president s comments late yesterday afternoon. The headline todays piece said immigration offer on socalled dreamers fails,
International economics in cash flows. That we knew that would need some revising. So far, though not a lot really , needs to be done, other than i would call small things. Steve no republican support for the Affordable Care act, no democrat support for this bill. Is that the new norm . Secretary perry i hope not. I was surprised that not a single democrat voted for this. I think they will be regretful of that, because in 20 days, you have seen two million families, two million workers getting raises and bonuses. You are seeing all these raises being announced, you are seeing Electricity Companies announcing that they are lowering rates as a consequence. In milwaukee, we have a big insurance company. A couple of months ago, they said because of the tax laws, they were going to move to bermuda. Now, they are staying in milwaukee, staying an american company. You are seeing stories like that businesses staying here, businesses expanding, investing in capital, workers getting wage increas