Catherine schweight author of stop the killing how to end the mass shooting crisis. This event is hosted by the Chicago Council and my name is chad reilly. I mean former president and current member of the American Writers Museum Chicago Council. And for those of you are unaware, the Chicago Council is essentially a board of established professionals whose sole job. It is to be an ambassador of museum help raise awareness both locally and nationally and also raise Mission Critical funds and museum and our education initiatives, so im very excited to be here tonight with catherine or kate. Thats most people call you so i dont think i can give your background justice, but im going to try to give the crew brief overview. Kate is a former prosecutor a former fbi special agent in Senior Executive within the bureau former director of Global Security for Live Nation Entertainment adjunct law professor for depaul. I can go on and on but really why were here and i think what brought about this
Example, and thats the keystone x. L. Pipeline. I know you, mr. President , as the presiding member of this chamber want to see that project approved. And thats just the point. This is a project that will create jobs, create economic activity, that will create Greater Energy security. Its something we can work on together with our closest friend and ally in the world canada. Something that really goes to National Security so were no longer dependent on the middle east for oil and its something supported on a bipartisan basis. Bipartisan basis and strong support from the American People. The polls show somewhere between 70 and 80 of the American Public supports this project and wants to see it move forward. Its now been more than five years five years since the permit applications were submitted to the state department for the keystone x. L. Pipeline project. More than five years, and the application process, and still no decision. An exhaustive review process including five Environment
Bradley shear Worker Rights in the workplace. As secretary i have no greater priority responsibility. As i have said many times, i take responsibility. Nobody is more committed to getting this right. I am determined to be the state department to leave the state department safer and more secure. It meant moving quickly to respond to the immediate crisis, but also to further protect our people in high threat areas across the region and the world. Host we will get your reaction this morning to Hillary Clintons testimony yesterday. We do expect misses clinton on capitol hill again today as john kerry has his hearing to replace her. For the first 45 minutes, we will get your reaction to the testimony. Whats being written and on television. This is your chance to weigh in on what happened yesterday. Democ here is the front page of the Washington Times. The headline says tears and rage on benghazi. We begin with an exchange between the secretary and senator ron johnson. [video clip]journal do
The definition of amnesty is a full pardon with no penalty. No one is talking about that. No one is talking about handing these folks a passport. No one is talking about a full pardon without penalty. That to come forward and do a background check, they have to pay a fine of back taxes, and then they can achieve legal status, if they want citizenship, which not all of them tdo. There is a separate process for that. One of the principals is, they have to get in line and wait their turn. We were beyond dismissing issues of natural consequence and a huge economic consequence of the future with one word. I say that on both sides. Weve got to be thoughtful and be strategic, but i think we are at the stage where we need more than one word here. Weve got to debate this and come to a way of fixing our system. Here are the numbers to call. We have a line set up for legal and Illegal Immigrants. Democrats, 2027370001. Republicans, 2027370002. Independents, 2026280205. Tell us about the group you
Testified. This hearing is just under four hours. [no audio] we have more than 200 people here today and hundreds more watching on our Committee Web cast. I expect everybody in this room to be respectful of the senators and the witnesses speaking about this very serious subject. I do not want applause for or against any position. The Capitol Police have been notified to remove any audience interference in an effort to have orderly conduct for that. That is a warning i give the many hearings. We will hear a lot of perspective on gun violence. I will give opening statements. But we have a former member of congress here, Gaby Giffords who will give a brief message and believed and captain kelly, thank you for your help in bringing your wife here. Ms. Giffords ok. Thank you for inviting me here today. This is an important conversation for our children, for our communities, for democrats and republicans. Speaking is difficult but i need to Say Something important. Violence is a big problem.