Best overall entry. Go to ournformation, website, studentcam. Org. President trump met with a Bipartisan Group at the white house to discuss immigration policy. They talked about daca, the deferred action for childhood arrivals, a border wall, and legislation. Daca is the obamaera program that gives protection for 700,000 immigrants that President Trump has said will end in march without congressional action. Thank you very much everyone for being here. Im thrilled to be with a distinguished group of republican and democratic lawmakers from both the house and the senate. We have something in common wed like to see this get done and you know what this means. Were here today to advance bipartisan Immigration Reform that serves the needs of the american families, workers and taxpayers. Its daca. Work, maybe we can do. We have a lot of good people in this room. A lot of people that have a great spirit for taking care of people we represent. That we all represent. For that reason, any legis
Response capabilities. We will hear from dr. Robert kadlick, assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the department of health and human services. Dr. Steven redd, director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response at the centers for Disease Control and prevention, and dr. Scott g gottlieb, commissioner of the food and Drug Administration. This is the first of two hearings we plan to have on this topic. The second will be noticed for tuesday, january 23rd. Senator murray and i each have an opening statement, then im going to turn to senator alexander and senator casey for any opening remarks they might have. After that, we will introduce our panel of witnesses and hear their testimonies, and then each member will have up to five minutes for any remarks and questions. Finishes first i would like to welcome the chairman and thank him for giving me the opportunity to hold the gavel today. This hearing discusses a topic thats critical to our National Security and
If i can ask everyone to please put their phones on silent mode and let me also welcome you to the campus of George Washington university. Its a real treat, a real pleasure and a privilege to once again host chairman mccall on campus. Hes been chairman of the House Homeland Committee since 2013. At a time where there seems to be quite a bit of gridlock in washington, d. C. , i can say without any exaggeration, he is arguably one of the most prolific and more importantly, effective legislators in d. C. Right now. Focused on a whole host of National Security issues, and also chairs his committee in a genuinely bipartisan kind of way, which is very true to the issues our country faces on national and Homeland Security. Im going to be very brief, which is very rare for me, since ive never had an unspoken thought. But im going to turn it over to the chairman now, and afterwards, we have an amazing panel. When you think about members of congress, you dont immediately think cia, you dont imme
Fda commissioner along with the assistant secretary of health and Human Services for preparedness and response, along with an official with the centers for Disease Control. Id like to call this hearing to order, the Senate Health education labor and pensions committee. This morning were holding a hearing titled facing the 21st Century Public Health threats, our nations preparedness and response capabilities. Well hear from the assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the department of health and Human Services, the director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response at the centers for Disease Control and prevention, and the commissioner of the food and Drug Administration. This is the first of two hearings we plan to have on this topic. The second will be noticed for tuesday, january 23rd. Senator murray and i each have an opening statement. Then im going to turn to senator alexander and senator casey for any opening remarks they might have. After that well in
Devastated by the storm. Whats important now is return these words into action. Grateful for the leadership are seen from the state of texas in the state of florida. I want to focus in on whats happening in puerto rico and the virgin islands. We know right now close to three and a half million american citizens in the silence on the 3 brink of a humanitarianuerto catastrophe. Including 3. 4 Million People who live in puerto rico and over 100,000 americans on the u. S. Virgin islands. Tiig the american citizens live in puerto rico are part of a population thats bigger than the states of wyoming, vermont, north dakota, and alaska, combined. They dont have eight senators representing them in this body working for them in fighting for them. It i know when we had hurricanee sandy and it hurt new jersey, the work that senator menendez, myself, and the my predecessor all put toward working on making sure their community could recover. A we dont have the senators representing this incredible p