Of this week following the second president ial candidates debate of the 2020 race. Join the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, and tweets. Week, ehouse panel held two days of hearings on the use of ecigarettes by young people. We will first hear from child advocates, medical professionals, and to high school. Students. And thetified on vaping marketing of this devices disproportionately targeting young people. Good morning. The subcommittee will come to order. 28,etween 2017 and ecigarette use and youth rose 78 in one year to the point where over 20 of High School Students now date. The lingering question is why and what was the role of dual juul . The panel assembled today will help us address these questions and frame our discussion for part two of this hearing tomorrow at 2 00 p. M. When the juul founder will testify. What makes it irresistible to children . Tobaccominent advertising scholar will help us to answer that question. After today, we hope to understan
Course. I mentioned the moderator stuart taylor, an author, journalist here in the washington, d. C. , somewhat of a federal society regular. Youve seen him before, hes wellknown to us. I will introduce halflength but i do want to introduce him for the role of the moderator today. [applause] thank you very much, dean, for coming. Welcome to the Panel Discussion titled citizenship the road ahead on issues entitled to citizenship and i said yeah, what else. Its no citizenship the road ahead on issues surrounding the Trump Administration efforts to make publicly available more information about the numbers of citizens, non citizens and Illegal Immigrants in the country. This includes the administrations plan to include a question of citizenship and the census now starting in the year 2030, that is because the Supreme Courts decision in the department of commerce versus new york made it logistically impossible and the attorney generals words to include a question in the 2020 census. We hav
Precountry new narkal limitation for employmentbased immigrants to increase the per country numerical limitation for familysponsored immigrants, and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from california,s. Colorado, mr. Buck, will each control 20 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from california. Mrs. Love gren i ask unanimous consent that address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Ms. Lofgren i yield myself such time as i may consume. Mr. Speaker, i rise today in support of h. R. 1044, the fairness for high schooled immigrants act, a bipartisan bill that would make a modest but important change to our immigration laws to alleviate hardships associated with lengthy visa backlogs. Let me begin by explaining what this bill does do and does not do. H. R. 1044 does not increase the overall number of immigrant visas that are available each year. Although raising the ceiling on visas is the only viable
I dont think theres anything brazenly irresponsible about advocating for us having a deterrent to nuclear war. What the purpose of my remarks was, we need to make it clear to our adversaries, russia in particular, if we use Nuclear Weapon, he will pay an enormous price for it. I cant believe the gentle lady as opposed to that. The goal of all of this is to stop anybody from thinking they under any circumstances, to have a good outcome for them. My point on the deterrence is the russians will launch the low yield and if they dont have one they know we wont do anything because we wont want to be disproportional. It implies a low yield nuke. If this is launched. It will set off and instructive war. We want to discourage them from thinking about launching it. In that regard, nothing wrong with making it clear to our adversaries you launch Nuclear Weapon we will consider nuclear war. We have all the options on the table. I will point out as Mister Cooper pointed out we have a low yield Nucl
Reach a bipartisan agreement on the Strategic Forces subcommittee mark and that was a sad day for us on that subcommittee. My amendment would restore the authority of the department of defense to deploy the low yield variant of the w 762 warhead. Our deterrence requires that the United States have a proportional response available for any miscalculation. Low yield weapons are critical to our security because they give us a credible deterrent. Russias confidence that if they were to strike us we would have the capability and the will to respond in a proportional manners makes a strike by the russians less likely not more likely. Mr. Chairman, this is why the 2018 Nuclear Posture review included the requirement that the United States develop and deploy the low yield submarine launched Ballistic Missile as soon as possible. The npr highlighted how critical this capability is to close the deterrence gap and provide credible Response Options to russia to deescalate doctrine. There was an im