Committee. After a month of meetings in the articles of and infusion and were about to be introduced. What was happening . Gathering. Ans were i assume the democrats were doing the same thing. There was very little discussion among the members. I did not have a discussion until the night before we actually went public. It was the day before. I met with tom railsback. He invited a number of people to drop by for coffee and it was at that meeting that i first saw what group might be willing, or inclined to vote against impeachment, who might come that morning. I met jim mann and talked to him for the first time. Walter flowers and talked to him for the first time. And Caldwell Butler and we met at that point and said is there anything here that we really all of us could agree on. That would constitute either an abuse of process, abuse of power, i should say, and we went through all of the evidence that we felt was pretty convincing and i think at that point i knew who was voting for and
This crisis. I look forward to our continuing conversation this morning, thank you. Thank you. I would like to take a few minutes away from this hearing to talk about someone who was a dear friend of mine, a mentor and a member of the house Judiciary Committee, my predecessor representing the sixth district of virginia congressman m. Caldwell butler passed away last night around midnight. He served with a special election in 1972 until his retirement at the beginning of 1983 he served on this committee that entire time, and he served here with great distinction at a time when this committee went through some very difficult issues, including his being very actively involved in the watergate investigation and in the impeachment proceedings relating to former president richard nixon. He was a Public Servant in the truest sense of the word. He has given immeasurably to his country, his state and his community roanoke, virginia, where he lived his entire life and to which he was extremely d
Brother, whatever of the child and have used that to try to traffic the children into the country for labor and sex trafficking. Right now, the policy is to separate extended policy. C. s. U separate the u. A. They do not have a parent or guardian available to them. This is not often cash but debt that the child is expected to work up upon arrival. Many of these children if they are not trafficked yet, they are on the road to be trafficked here in the United States where they are vulnerable with the people whom they are with or the smugglers they have paid to have their families back home at the but of a gun. Questions and comments . I understand the supplemental that is being proposed by the republicans in the house is 900 million, two thirds of the money dedicated to border security. The other portion to services to children. I understand it is not free and clear money. We have to cut other places in the budget and one area we are cutting our state Department Programs which would ass
Mention the endangered species reform act, people say, just putting some controls and limiting it, that youre antispecies, antienvironment. What were talking about here, just like all the things in life are updated from time to time, this needs to be updated. Im pleased to work on this working group together with the chairman and others to bring about some sensible reforms. And the reason we do this is because farmers, ranchers, folks back home, farm bureaus, have been hit with lawsuits and i appreciate what the gentleman just said, its lawsuits, not science, that seem to be pressuring some of the some of this along. In 2007 they entered into an agreement with fish and wildlife that added a thousand species. But no one affected were allowed to participate. I have another bill, sue and settle that would have taken care of that, we passed it out of this house. It was said earlier when you take the e. S. A. You dont take a meat cleaver approach. I think the problem is not a meat cleaver a
I was in shock. We ran outside of the room that we were in and told our aunt and uncle what happened. They did not believe me. They asked the man would happen and the man told them that my cousin and i were lying. I was scared. I told my mom to tell her what happened and she became really upset and fainted because she decided after i told her this, she came to guatemala to protect me. And my mom was scared that i would be harmed and decided to quickly bring me to the United States. I thought about going to the police but it took me two hours just to walk to the station. Auntad of helping me, my and uncle punished us. They hit us with a belt and sent us to our room. I do not think the police would have helped me because they are very corrupt. The couple of months ago before woman who sold food door to door in the neighborhood who got shot in the chest. I heard three gunshots and saw the blood from her wound. I ran inside of my house. I learned later that no one was arrested from the att