And how to insist assessed asssist Law Enforcement at the border. This is just under two hours. I want to thank the witnesses for taking the time for your thoughtful testimony. I want to thank the audience members. It must be paid staff. Everyone coming here. I would like to start with the decade in review. I refer everybody to my chart. This is a chart i have been updating for the last 34 years. It is important to lay out what the history has been. Certainly from my standpoint. Some key policy changes. They contributed to what i consider an ongoing crisis even though we have made some process progress. That chart reflects all minors and people coming to this country as family units. Focused onsions only Central American children and family members. 3000, 4000we had unaccompanied children. We werent even keeping track of families because it wasnt a problem. Was a similar moment. It was the issuance of the daca memorandum. Traffickersby human to help incentivize people. They would tell
Watch book tv every weekend on cspan2. The chair of the Federal Reserve, jerome powell, testified on Monetary Policy in the economy before the joint committee. He said he expects the u. S. Economy to continue growing at a steady pace with a strong labor market so the federal budget is on an unsustainable path with high and debt. The meeting will be called to order. The chairman is on his way. In andasked me to gavel begin Opening Statements and hopefully he will be here. We are honored to have chairman powell and we thank him for testifying today. I look forward to hearing your perspective on the current state of the economy and the potential challenges ahead. I would also like to thank you for your thoughtfulness as you througher the economy what in some ways are extremely challenging times. As you have said in your testimony, by some measures, our economy is strong. The National Unemployment rate fell from 10 at its peak during 4. 7 reat recession to only when President Trump took of