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engineering, elite of the world who want to come here. they announce they re going to quit taking applications. they started last week. the window was open from april 1 till yesterday. 85,000 were more than apply for. when you have a system that denies these young people to best the best and the brightest in the world to come here, go to school, and then we won t let them stay. so they go home and start a factory that employs 800 people. if we had let them, they would ve gone to memphis and started a factory that employs 800 people that they would put [applause] have peoplell think about texas border. we are in one of the high tech centers of the world in this town where we sit. they need, as the mayor said, they need this talent here. it is talent we are denying to ourselves. i would urge all of you to just do a little bit of research about how many jobs are created by the average person that gets in h-1b visa to come to the united states. in a matter of years, i ....
that is not the issue. he is not going to be president anymore by the time this gets going so let s talk about the real issues we need to deal with. i assume the law will be enforced. one of the things we saw were bits of news over the weekend which i think are worth talking about today as we look forward. one related to the potential candidacy of jeb bush. talking very specifically about immigration at the presidential library in college station. the other news that came out as the lead editorial in the new york times on sunday was the fact that the obama administration has now surpassed the mark of 2 million deportations to perhaps get tough and ameliorate concerns rom the right. are you comfortable with that? are you comfortable with the evel of deportation? is that something that needs to be done to bring people into the tent or is there another way to go about that issue? my hope is that the administration will go about it a different way. i am not comfortabl ....
the senate gavels in at 2:00 eastern for general speeches. at 5:30, senators will vote to move forward on district judge nominations for virginia, massachusetts and nevada. you can watch the house life on c-span live on c-span, the senate on c-span2. deputy national security adviser tony blinken talked about the u.s. and european response to isolate russia after its intervention in ukraine. he talked about the effectiveness of the sanctions and why the annexation of crimea will eventually prove to be what he calls a strategic loser for russia in the long term. he spoke at a conference on europe hosted by the brookings institution. it s about 45 minutes. ladies and gentlemen, i hope you ve had a chance to enjoy some lunch. it is, of course, a brookings sandwich lunch, so, you know, there s limits to the enjoyment, but nonetheless, we hope you ve had a good lunch. we re extremely pleased to have tony blinken here to finish off and wrap up our annual conference for u ....
you trust to make these decisions about their own reproductive health. i trust women 100% of the time. i think they should be able to make those decisions with their families come a with their physicians. scott brown voted against that when it came to appointing a new justice to the supreme court who was pro-choice. he was opposed to elena kagan. when it came to supporting the freedom of choice act when he ran in 2010, he opposed that. let s move to dante. he has been next question for senator shaheen. winter is up. that is not a reference to the tv show, is it? [laughter] regardless of who is elected, electricity bills are about to skyrocket for many homeowners. what is the best way to ensure affordable rates? energy is an important issue for us here in new england. we lowered rates by about 16%. it is why i have worked with the senate to come up with an energy strategy because i believe we have got to support new energy technologies, alternative sources of e ....
it was not achieved immediately, but it was the template. india is important in 1947 because india is the oldest nation of the post-colonial world. the indian constitution creates an ideological template for democracy. with the emergence of india, china had a different template. very interesting, we see these comparisons, two parties, congress and the chinese communist party, became the dominant force in the post independents space. both had to be discriminated because both came from economically driven needs. the chinese offered autocratic left. but had karimov charismatic leaders. long story short,ke i i m waiting for the short part. just a little bit longer. both had charismatic leaders, but i [indiscernible] but realistic economic policies that have been following were not working. in one case, you had soft reform of the 1990 s and in china s case, from hard left the hard reform. right. the corruption is causing some much turbulence in nations has actually e ....