This hearing will come to order. Today we are joined by the leading voices within the administration on reforming and strengthening our Housing Finance system. The secretary of the treasury and the secretary of housing and urban development, both of whom have just proposed proposals to the president , as well as the director of the federal Housing Finance industry who serves as the regulator and conservator of fanny mae and freddie mac. Last friday marked 11 years since the government bailed out and put fanny mae and freddie mac into conservatorship where they remain today. Prior to 2008, they held just 0. 45 in capital for every 100 in mortgages they guaranteed. Now they hold just 0. 19. After a historic 200 billion bailout from the taxpayers. 11 years later, these Important Companies continue to be too big to fail, and are even more leveraged than they were before the financial crisis. And taxpayers remain on the hook in the event of the next market downturn. In march, President Trum
Appeals in new orleans heard from lawyers on opposing sides of the case. This is an hour and 45 minutes. You may proceed. Thank your honor and may it please the court, i will be sharing my time with mr. Letter from the house of representatives and dividing rebuttal time. To start with the issues raised in the court in the supplemental briefing order, we think the states were clearly injured by the judgment below and are aiming to appeal it. Judge elrod you might want to move the microphone. Mr. Siegel after this supplement briefing all parts greed that this court has part parties have agreed that this court has Appellate Jurisdiction under bins or. Legal harm from the courts order even though they now welcome it, and the participation of the states and house of representatives and sure is that there will be an adversarial presentation of the issues in this case. Turning to the other issues in this case, the central feature this appeal is that when judge engelhardt when you say youre st
Thank you for being here this afternoon. As we continue to monitor the challenging situation on the southern border we look forward to hearing your perspective on i. C. E. s operational and Funding Priorities and requirements. As chair of this subcommittee i am committed to ensuring the integrity of our borders and strengthening our immigration system. But i am equally committed to making sure we do so according to all of our laws and in a way that exemplifies our american values. In particular we must assure that in accordance with our laws and values those fleeing must have equal opportunities to seek asylum. We must get this balance right and i believe we can if we work together. It is a false choice to believe more migrants need to be unnecessarily detained and that cruel and exclusionary immigration laws need to be enacted in order to increase security in our country. Our own constitution, federal law and several International Agreements serve as the foundation for the right and p
Amb. Brownback the Supreme Court just wrapped up host we have briand goron and john malcolm here. Thank you for being in this morning. Brianne andt with ask you what is your take on the decisions that came down in the recent term . Guest i think this was a deeply different disappointing decision from the court because the chief justice threw up their hands and acknowledged that extreme partisan gerrymanders are inconsistent with what quit to do anything about them. Justice kagan got it right in her decision when she recognized , when do the courts can do things when can the courts do things . Otherwhat was the decision last week you thought was important . Case, it the sentence challenged the Trump Administrations decision to add a Citizenship Question to the 2020 census. The chief justice got right on this one. I agree with some of his legal reasoning, but he was right to reject the effort to add this question to the census. As he said, the secretary of was contextualon and this would
Which rick hires all americans all which requires americans to have Health Insurance. This is an hour and 45 minutes. You may proceed. Thank you, your honor, may it please the court, i will be sharing my time with several and i willsentatives be going last. The court on the supplement a briefing order. We think the defendants were clearly injured by the judgment and have a standing to appeal it. You might want to move the microphone. Youre not. Is this better . I will speak louder. Thank you. After the supplement a briefing, it is clear that all parties agreed this court has appellate jurors diction under bens are. That is because the federal government is now committed to continue to forcing the informal care act until the court enforcing the Affordable Care act until the court orders are not to do so. He first legal arm the participation of the states and house of representatives ensures that there will be an adversarial presentation of the issues in this case. Turning to the other i