Honor to be director of ronald regan foundation. Please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the floog of flag of the United States of america, to which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty just and justice for all. Please be seated. Before we get started tonight, i would like to recognize one person in particular in the audience his name is ben sutton. Ben, thank you for coming. [applause] the matter one might practice to introduce a famous or important person, its often not easy, at least not for me. I think one is called on to do their very best and to go beyond the simple reading of an impressive resume when a guest has gone out of their way and spent their lifetime in the realm of the Public Service. I think they need to be lotted, thanked and actually introduced in a thoughtful way. So, that would challenge that i faced as i once again sat down and prepared to write an introduction of both Vice President cheney and his acco
Number. I am telling you on the overstays that were identified. It could be much higher than 113. Mr. Jordan, unique or to answer your question you interrupting me every time i begin. Im sorry, keep going. There are investigations over the last year in fiscal year 15. Thereve been 118 investigations of serious. I cannot tell you which ones of those entered the country on the Visa Waiver Program. No, sir. I was not in the office he office appalled at that point. I knew do know its been encouraged to continue the work by director rodriguez and continue the work theyve been engaged in in regards to social media. Im aware of no memorandum secret or otherwise that bars them from using social media. Real quick, different subject, but in your Opening Statement you mentioned the last time you testified and im curious, do you think the situation in libya today is more stable than it was in 2011, or less stable . The hearing on which im asking your opinion on the stability. I would refer to the
Fair and balanced, fair enough. I must say i appreciate the bipartisan voting. The title of this article, exclusive Homeland Security rejected plan to vet visa applicants social media. Included in this is an attach ment supposedly from the immigration services. We have not vetted that but in the spirit of getting to the bottom of this, i would ask unanimous consent to enter that into the record. Without october, that is ordered. Now recognize the gentleman from tennessee for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mrs. Richard, is it your understanding that the president still intends to bring about 10,000 Syrian Refugees into the country this year . Yes, sir. Can you tell the american taxpayer what it costs per refugee per year to bring them here . I dont have a per refugee cost. The overall program, though, is when you add together the costs of state department, department of Homeland Securityn and health and Human Services that provides assistance to the states to help refugees once
Officers who are under the supervision of much more experienced officers. I think it is also worth noting we are talking about Foreign Service officers. These are people who have gone through a very rigorous, Competitive Program to be admitted to the service. Many are lawyers or have worked in Immigration Law or have been teachers. Many are former military. Rep. Duckworth by no means are these inexperienced people. They get about the same amount in terms of quantity of training as somebody we are sending into harms way. Im sure you are proud of our officers, and i thank them for their service. We must do everything in our power to protect our country, but we can do it without evolving into demagoguery and focusing on imaginary problems. I agree we must consider any and all options to improve our refugee process, but lets remember these refugees are fleeing the same terrorists we are fighting, isis and the a side regime. Turning our backs on people who are being persecuted and killed th
So, more of the rain, more of the breezy wind and more of the cool weather and we take a break tomorrow before the next round of rain moves in. Ill detail that and how much to expect coming up in a few minutes. Lets see how it looks for the east bay drivers now with mike. Yeah, kari, live look from our oakland camera where a couple minutes ago we saw a caravan of flashing lights and looked like oversize trailers and maybe moving portable buildings. That moved throughout without any problem. Notice all this water kicking up on to the roadway and the cars windshield behind these folks and that is an issue for you, as well. The rain might not actively be falling and things are calming down for the north bay and looking at other areas where the water is kicking up and minor flooding east 580 through the downtown area and a number of cars involved in a crash and all clearing from the area just as the wet roadways are clearing from the oakland surface streets, as well. Looking towards the so