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Welcome afghans to the united states. let me just start with a question about visa status. senator sullivan and i wrote a bipartisan letter in mid-august urging expanded eligibility for the siv program. i'm interested if how you are working to expand eligibility under the existing visa programs to include family members and support those the u.s. government supported and worked alongside but who were not direct employees? i want to start if i could, mr. secretary by asking you yes or no questions about three groups that other senators have mentioned. there are about 550 employees and family me...

Applicants. there had not been a single si virks interview since march of 2020. on february 4th, one of the first executive orders issued by president biden directed us to immediately review the siv program to identify causes of undo delay and find ways to process siv applications more quickly. this spring, i directed significant additional resources to the program. expanding the team of people in washington processing applications from ten to 50. doubling the number of siv adjudicators. even as many embassy personnel began to return, we sent more consular officers to kabul to process siv appl...

About visa status. senator sullivan and i wrote a letter in mid-august urging expanded eligibility for the siv program. i'm interested in how you're working to expand eligiblibility under the existing visa programs to include family members and to support those the u.s. government supported and worked alongside but who we were not direct employees. i want to start if i could mr. secretary by asking question yes or no answers. there was voice of america, radio for liberty who were not evacuated. if the department prioritizing they're evacuation. >>? yes. >> and the department committed to evacu...

Hearings, i'm convinced now more than ever is that we need a 9/11 still commission. there's too much to investigate. if you think about the numbers in congress, it's ten. five in each chamber. the armed services committees, foreign affair, foreign relations pertaining to which ever chamber you're talking about. the homeland security committees. the intelligence committees and the believe it or not, judiciary committees, which have jurisdiction over matters of immigration. this is going to get too unwieldly too quickly. what we need to do now is responsibly investigate everything that went wron...

Question about visa status. senator sullivan and i wrote a bipartisan letter in mid august urging expanded eligibility for the siv program. i am interested in how you are working to expand eligibility under the existing visa programs to include family members and to support those the u.s. government supported and worked alongside but were not direct employees. i want to start, if i could, mr. secretary, by asking yes or no questions about three groups other senators mentioned. >> sure. >> there's about 550 employees and family members from voice of america, radio free europe who were not evacu...