I need to stay with you. Sreenivasan and its friday, mark shields and Michael Gerson are here to analyze the weeks news. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are not afraid to question the path theyre on. Because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here . I started schwab with those people. People who want to take ownership of their investments, like they do in every other aspect of their lives. United healthcare, online at uhc. Com. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan the embattled secretary of vete
I need to stay with you. Sreenivasan and its friday, mark shields and Michael Gerson are here to analyze the weeks news. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are not afraid to question the path theyre on. Because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here . I started schwab with those people. People who want to take ownership of their investments, like they do in every other aspect of their lives. United healthcare, online at uhc. Com. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan the embattled secretary of vete
Embrace it. The less the leaders in congress recognize publicly that this is an important issue its not going to happen because theyre going to have people pushing back real hard so its got to be a public effort. They have to be armed with a push from the president and the white house to say this is important. So id like to see the whole National Security apparatus from the president , nfc on down, making this top priority in all the conversations. Tom, you had mentioned the role of the congressional leadership in pushing this ahead. What should they be doing . It is i think my colleagues brought up two very important points. One, it is a National Security issue. It is a National Security issue. I dont think anyone would argue the restructuring of congress after world war ii and subsequent restructuring from the department of war to the department of defense were more aggressive about the oversight of dod. That needs to be understood. This is not a management and organizational issue,
Next, federal officials testify on support for noncitizen servicemembers before a house judiciary subcommittee. The effort aims to help deported veterans and family members get entitled benefits, including pathways to naturalization and Immigration Services. This is about 90 minutes. Capitol hill for a house immigration subcommittee. Live coverage on cspan. Dedicated to circulating motions or written materials that members may want to offer as part of the hearing. If members want to submit materials, send them to the email address previously distributed to your offices and we will circulate the materials to members and staff as quickly as we can. I ask all members to mute your microphones when you are not speaking to help prevent feedback and technical issues and of course, amuse yourselves anytime you seek recognition. I will now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. I would like to welcome witnesses and the members of the immigration and citizenship subcommittee to todays hearin
Able to hybridize or civilianize parts of our staffing where opportunity presents itself, especially to help answer the question about being able to alleviate some of the stress in our custody staff, and put them in areas, reassign in areas where custody is, where the demands are most pronounced. And so, one area that were taking some proactive move is in our it department of a staggered roll out of us being able to bring in civilians where there are four sworn deputies and supplant for the civilians two sworn deputies and be able to help reassign those deputies in other areas. Technologically, the department has come a long way, but i believe through its Customer Service initiatives so that for the general public and those who have business with the Sheriffs Department, both on the incarceration custody side or the civil side and or programmatic side, that we have to significantly improve everything from our website to just general access to finding somebody who might be incarcerated