A. M. A. M. A. M. Cap i call this meeting to order would you call the roll . Doctor lee . Vice president. Here. And harper. Present. Present as well you do have a form. On communications. Communications. 1over orders we will hold a special meeting june 19th. And official notice will be posted after this meeting. Okay we will get that done. Next item. Board of directors new and old business. Have any . Seeing none. Item five executive directors report. Good morning everyone. Were starting our meeting today at 10 00 a. M. Today is back to workday we wanted to make sure everybody participated in that thank you for participating in that today we have reached a significant milestone we have all of the properties we need for phase one of the Transit Center project we require 13 of them volume volume volt volunteering remain the jury verdict. Came at 7. 5 million so its quite a triumph. Reminder that is different from the communities facilities district with mela rose i have been working with
Extent there is a free sample you would get, and we know from interviewing travelers that many of them that have had the opportunity to experience expedited screening through management inclusion and Risk Assessment rules have subsequent subsequently applied for the program. So its all subjective, its not negative. We are going to leave the rest of this hearing at this point to go live to capitol hill where Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson will be testifying on the 2016 budget address fwr brbefore the subcommittee. California democrat lucille reybald allard is ranking chair. An increase of 1. 7 billion above fiscal year 2015. Mr. Secretary there is a lot to like in this request. And i have some concerns, too but for the First Time Since ive been chairman, im pleased with many of the recommendations in your request. The request prioritizes dhss front lines and personnel. It doesnt include unauthorized fees as an offset and complies with the law of funding 34,040 detention beds. W
This is very specific saying where the two legislators principally in charge of this said this is what we understand the requirements are, that were going to maintain the black voting age population in each district. That brings me to my second point which is that imagine that we had done the same thing the plaintiffs are suggesting and we had a higher Political Science telling us that 55 should be the target. I dont think we should say race dominated in that circumstance just because we had a different target. They are bringing effectively a circumstantial case here. They have the fact that we said this is our objective under section 5 Justice Kagans question points out the fact that the defenders of this plan did not rely on the fact that it was a political gerrymander and, of course, they said there was the 2 goal. The basis was race in order to comply with section 5. My point about that is certainly with respect to specific districts they were based on partisanship. Had they challe
Testified about the attack thon u. S. Consulate in benghazi, libarch that killed ambassador stevens and three other americans. The pentagon never received the request from the state academy for security, and did not have the resources to get support on the ground in time to thwart the attackers. Leon panetta is stepping down. This hearing is four hours and 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning, everybody. Today the Committee Welcomes secretary of defense, leon panetta, and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey. To testify about the department of defenses response the deadly terrorist attack on the u. S. Temporary Mission Facility in benghazi, libya, last year. And the findings of its internal review following that attack, including Lessons Learned from benghazi. We will be receiving testimony next Tuesday Morning on the impact of sequestration and or a fullyear continuing resolution on the department of defense witnesse
President trump says he found a new way to find out whether people in this country are here legally ornd. This after abandoning the push to put a controversial controversial question in the 2020 census. Did he that. But if you listen to the president , this is not a reversal, failure, not a reversal from the man who vowed to move forward with the question. The president says the Commerce Department will go all auto and do everything needed to collect everyone in this countrys citizenship data. Today i will be issuing an executive order to put this very plan into effect immediately. Im hereby ordering every department and agency in the federal government to provide the department of commerce with all requested records regarding the number of citizens and noncitizens in our country. The president vouing to leave no stone unturned but today he didnt just throw that red meat to the base. There was a social media summit and new details of raids targeting undocumented immigrants. Why such a