Security will come to order. The pur o pos of this hearing is to receive testimony regarding the immigrant Investor Program known as the eb5 program. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. On march 24th the department of Homeland Security Inspector General released a report detailing allegations against deputy secretary mayorkas that relate to his time as director of uscis and his oversight of the eb5 program. The igs Office Conducted more than 50 interviews, reviewed more than 40,000 phone records and obtained more than 1 million documents and emails. This investigation was unprecedented in that there were more than a dozen whistle blowers that came forward to the Inspector Generals office. The findings are troubling as the ig made some very serious charges against mr. Mayorkas. Leave among them were that he used his position to influence outcomes in select cases for the benefit of politically connected and powerful individuals. In general, these allegations fall under four
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Washington. Congress approves a bill to end the financial crisis for now at least. And picking through the rubble. At least 151 people have died in a massive earthquake in central philippines. Well, the chemical weapons watchdog opcw says its on track with the inspection of syrias chemical weapons. It hopes to finish the first stage by the beginning of next month. The longawaited peace talks over syria may resume in geneva next month. In a moment well hear from our correspondent David Schrader in moscow but first first lets hear from them live in tokyo. What are the inspectors saying . Well, a spokesperson for the opcw did confirm to al jazeera a few moments ago that the inspectors are basically halfway through their work and that everything is on track. They said theyve got the cooperation they need from the syrian government. Now, its important to understand that this phase involves verification of what the syrians have disclosed with regards to the stockpiles of kek cal weapons, and
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Im toll sullivan in for neil cavuto. Epa head lisa jackson announced she is leaving. House republicans saying that jackson used an alias to use a slew of emails about epa business, they are wondering why that was necessary, they want answers, but first a member of the group who sued the administration to release the documents, myron gel is joining me now, we did contact the epa for a statement today, it did not provide one, myron, how did you find out, what led you dont this path to where there were aliases in a cloak and dagger about the way they used other outside email addresses . Tom, it was due to the persist stance of my colleague at cei, chris horner, with a series of freom of information requests, and a lawsuit. Discovered that lisa jackson was concealing the publics business under an email account in her name for that account was Richard Windsor. No freedom of information act request had until we discovered that account, had they ever searched her private email accounts that s