A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator for west virginia. Mr. Manchin are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer it is. Mr. Manchin wish to vitiate the quorum call. I will i am doing so because i believe he is well qualified for the job. He has been the commissions general counsel for the past two and a half years. He understands the complex legal issues that come before the commission. I voted to report mr. Danlys nomination both last november and last week on the strength of his qualifications, not on politics. I urge my colleagues to do the same. But the position to which mr. Danly has been nominated is one of five seats on the federal Energy Regulatory commission. By law, no more than two of the five seats can be held by one party. Only three of the seats are now filled. Two by republicans and one by a democrat. The other democratic seat has been vacant since last august. Traditionally when both a republican seat and democrat seat has been vacant, the presi
All persons having any manner or form of business before the Honorable United States Court of appeals for the Fourth Circuit nighadmonished to draw an and give their attention. God save the United States and this Honorable Court. Chief judge gregory, and may it please the court. If i can ask you before you get started to clarify what you view this scope of the luminary injunction to be. I have two questions. The District Court order and of the section 2c executive order, which suspended entry. During the District Court system 10 District Courts discussion of success on the merits, the District Court said underuspension of entry 1182 did not conflict with section 1152s barring discrimination in the issue of visas, of immigrant visas. Here is the question. Is it your view the District Court injunction enjoins the provision as entry well as the denial of visas, and does it apply to both immigrant and nonimmigrant visas . Honor, i think the answer to both of those questions, as i read the
All persons having any manner or form of business before the Honorable United States Court of appeals for the Fourth Circuit nighadmonished to draw an and give their attention. God save the United States and this Honorable Court. Chief judge gregory, and may it please the court. If i can ask you before you get started to clarify what you view this scope of the luminary injunction to be. I have two questions. The District Court order and of the section 2c executive order, which suspended entry. During the District Court system 10 District Courts discussion of success on the merits, the District Court said underuspension of entry 1182 did not conflict with section 1152s barring discrimination in the issue of visas, of immigrant visas. Here is the question. Is it your view the District Court injunction enjoins the provision as entry well as the denial of visas, and does it apply to both immigrant and nonimmigrant visas . Honor, i think the answer to both of those questions, as i read the
Point cadet prayer i grew up with called, do the harder right, rather than easier wrong, we got everybody in the room under the leadership of deputy secretary sloan gibson, veteran service organizations, members of congress, their staffs and so forth. We said, you know, were going to lock the door. Well slip the food under the door. Youre not coming out of the room until you come up with a new law. We now have a new law, but it has got to be passed by congress. So if it we can get these laws passed, the ones i talked about, veteran outcomes are we said if we get this lay passed, as we work down the backlog, eventually we will be able to deal with an appeal in one year, in one year. Not five years plus. So it is just a matter of taking the problem, solving the problem, but then you got to get congress to pass the law. Comes back to our audience, yes, sir . [inaudible]. General, just hold on one second. Were going to get you a microphone so the cspan audience can first i would like to sa