1. 2 million. R this is the type of waste that is in our government. Sunday night 8 eastern on cspans q a. Washington journal continues. Senior ris meissner, fellow and director at Migration Policy Institute, joins us on the day the Trump Administration announcing plans for the future of the daca program. Meissner, help us understand who these socalled they,rs are, how many are how long have they been in the United States on average . Uest well, theyre a group of people who were designated in the last administration by obama as eligible for a program that he created, daca, deferred action for childhood rrival, created in 2012, june of 2012. And it said that young people brought them have here, whose parents are illegally in the country and their children, were ligible for deferral of deportation, as long as they had country already five years, were 16 years old and were in school. Didnt have any kind of a criminal record. Began to be program implemented in august of 2012 and since that
Congress. My name is sandy, ill be chairing this discussion. As many of you know, chinas 19th Party Congress wrapped up last week in beijing. For those who follow china, a Party Congress year is like game of thrones and awards season rolled into one. This is how i describe to nonchina friends, detailed profile, whos who and how they are connected top up everywhere. Everyone makes predictions how they will make it on the committee, the pinnacle of power in china. This Years Congress was really all about one man. That man was general secretary xi jinping. Prior to the congress, questions surrounding xis strength dominated debates among china watchers. For some analysts, any doubt about xis strength was put to rest when they amend, xi jinping chinese characteristics for a new era. Xi is the First Chinese leader to have his name enshrined in the constitution while still it alive since mao. Ive been reading headlines xi is now the strongest chinese leader in his since mao, perhaps even stro
The reserve seats can be used, at least for this session. Rather than your having to be stuck in the back. So as i started to say, one of the goals of this conference is to engage the Younger Generation in deciding what we should or should not do. What we should desist from doindoing in the area of support for democracy abroaded in the decades ahead. So its appropriate the next generation have a major voice in formulating the new consensus, hopefully well get to a new consensus you have bios, ive introduced only two speakers by name. In your conference packages you have bio information on all of them. Our goal today is to have a really intense focused discussion where people have a chance to engage the panelists have a chance to engage with each other, they have dissending and differing views and leaving plenty of dim for discussions with you. Thomas melia hopes to be here. Hes snuck traffic. Dissent. Here are the three questions ive asked our speakers and you to think about and focus
Passage. We have a rare moment for the Senate Foreign Relation Committee and the senate as a whole to demonstrate this. And coming together to demonstrates our ability to give constructive input on one of the most Important National Security Issues of the day and strain our divisive influences in this body and demonstrate our ability to overcome them and show the relevance and Work Together to come together in the best interest of our nation. With that, madam president , i yield the floor. Next, the Supreme Court Court Hears Oral Argument in several samesex marriage cases. Then we open it up to you and later a debate on samesex marriage on todays washington journal. Throughout the day we have been seeing comments from a number viewers. This one from maxwell who says it has been legal in the uk for a while and their society is still entact and no one elses marriages have been ruined. Get the government out of marriage all together. Facebook. Com cspan. And on twitter jennifer who covere
Screeria nigeria. PasAspen Institute this is an hour. Were Live Streaming this event so tweet at hash tag communities that work. If youre here in the room, please quiet your phone. Third, following the event today well have the application materials for the regions on our web site, thats as. Pm communities that work. Thats going to be going live today. And that is all i need to say from my announcements. But its all my pleasure and thrill to introduce to you jay williams assistant secretary of commerce and he is going to provide a word of welcome and some thoughts about the importance of this work to the Commerce Department. [applause] thank you. Im exceptionally excited to pleased to be with you here today. As we publicly launch the communes that work partnership. This an Important Initiative that will help build the critical Public Private partnerships needed to accelerate Job Skills Development across the nation. I want to thank you as spend institute, for the hospitality and hostin