Priority and should be funded and which has a lower priority and should not be funded in the age of a 19 trillion deficit. Right. Now, could you please tell us why planned parenthood needs to get over half a billion dollars of federal funding every year when there are other pressing needs such as feeding hungry children that maybe we should put that money into . Lets be clear that planned parenthood is not getting any federal funding for abortions. Well, money is fungible, miss smith. You and i know that money is fungible so i dont believe that true. The question is, you know, whether congress should appropriate another half billion dollars plus to planned parenthood when we could be spending that money on feeding hungry children. This is a question of priorities. Id like to know what your priority is planned parenthood or feeding hungry children. My priority i think i think funding planned parenthood and the services it provides is equal to feeding children because what planned parent
Fair and balanced, fair enough. I must say i appreciate the bipartisan voting. The title of this article, exclusive Homeland Security rejected plan to vet visa applicants social media. Included in this is an attach ment supposedly from the immigration services. We have not vetted that but in the spirit of getting to the bottom of this, i would ask unanimous consent to enter that into the record. Without october, that is ordered. Now recognize the gentleman from tennessee for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mrs. Richard, is it your understanding that the president still intends to bring about 10,000 Syrian Refugees into the country this year . Yes, sir. Can you tell the american taxpayer what it costs per refugee per year to bring them here . I dont have a per refugee cost. The overall program, though, is when you add together the costs of state department, department of Homeland Securityn and health and Human Services that provides assistance to the states to help refugees once
Officers who are under the supervision of much more experienced officers. I think it is also worth noting we are talking about Foreign Service officers. These are people who have gone through a very rigorous, Competitive Program to be admitted to the service. Many are lawyers or have worked in Immigration Law or have been teachers. Many are former military. Rep. Duckworth by no means are these inexperienced people. They get about the same amount in terms of quantity of training as somebody we are sending into harms way. Im sure you are proud of our officers, and i thank them for their service. We must do everything in our power to protect our country, but we can do it without evolving into demagoguery and focusing on imaginary problems. I agree we must consider any and all options to improve our refugee process, but lets remember these refugees are fleeing the same terrorists we are fighting, isis and the a side regime. Turning our backs on people who are being persecuted and killed th
That was to be my point, sir, and i will make it right now. The notion that because there is concurrently under way an impeachment inquiry before the house of representatives, that somehow makes this a nonjusticiable political notion. It is not supported by sound constitutional law or by any of the decisions of this court, and indeed, i would submit that to the extent the court has discretion in the matter, and although this court has now been given discretionary certiary power, District Courts have no such option, it would not be a wise discretion for this court to stay. This is not a request between two jurisdictional committees over who has discretion over a bill. Its not even a dispute between a president and a cabinet officer over what proper executive policy ought to be. This is a criminal proceeding, a federal criminal case against six defendants. A subpoena has been issued to obtain evidence for use at the trial, which is scheduled to begin on september 9. The court cannot esca
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