Review. And now i recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Todays oversight hearing focuses on a critical facet of u. S. Immigration policy. The executive office for immigration review or eoyr is the lynchpen as it administers of other components the u. S. Immigration courts and the court of appeals. We must ensure our Immigration Laws are interpreted as congress intended. As a former immigration who regularly appeared in Immigration Court i certainly appreciate how important it is that the courts are administered effect 11 and a way that maximizes daca management and minimizes fraud and lay. Unfortunately eoyr has been consistently plagued with problems. During the past administration the department of justices Inspector Generals Office found the office engaged in nepotism and other disturbing practices. It made it impossible to focus on much needed imp provement. Additionalally a 2014 serve crash paralyzed the courts nationwide for several weeks. Again necessitating the allocation
Territory. And wayne feignbust, outlaw dakota. If you were caught stealing a horse, for example, if you were particularly away from any settlement, ranch country, they would hang you. So that happened quite frequently. That was what you call frontier justice or rough justice. On sunday at 2 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv well tour fort dakota to explore the story of the u. S. Militarys role in the west. The fort at sioux falls was called fort dakota was really one of many forts established throughout the region. And it was really, i think, established to provide a sense of safety and security for those settlers here. Well also take a driving tour of sioux falls with a historian. One of the main thorou thoroughfares, phillips avenue, named for one of the settlers. Watch cspans cities tour. Saturday at 6 00 p. M. Eastern, and sunday at 2 00 p. M. On American History tv on cspan 3. The c span cities tour, working with Cable Partners as we explore america. House republicans yester
Tax returns will help unravel this puzzle, but only b available to some so the last few years, weve seen this tax rate really defined as the tax collection divided by profit has been low. We think there will be some recovery in that for the longer term average because we are making an edgeucated guess thats whats happened in the last few years is because of circumstanceses of the last few years, so there will be rebound over the next few years. The same time, theres a different thing going on which is that companies are trying to find ways to reduce the Corporate Taxes they pay. Some of what theyre doing inviolas them moving business income from the corporate sector to the noncorporate sector. Out of C Corporations and into s corporations. Weve written about that before. Theres been an ongoing downward trend in the share of business income thats taxed at the corporate level. We think that will continue. The second factor we described with a set of efforts by companies to increase the a
Congress. That is followed by paul ryan on u. S. Tax policy. He is the incoming chair of the tax committee. The Washington Post reported today that president obama will nominate Ashton Carter to be the next secretary of defense, succeeding chuck hagel. Mr. Ashton carter is a trained as a deputyo served secretary of defense from october, 2011 to december, 2013. The announcement could come as early as this week. Jeh johnson reportedly removed himself from consideration for the defense position. Secretary johnson testified today about president obamas immigration order that would delay the deportation of undocumented workers with citizen children who have been in the u. S. For more than five years. Hours. Mittee is two [gavel] the committee on Homeland Security will come to order. The committees meeting today to hear testimony from secretary jeh johnson on the administrations recent executive actions to grant temporary relief to millions of unlawful immigrants and the effect such actions
Held the secretary, held with china in december, this was one of the issues of very much on the agenda, and weve made some progress in moving ahead on the application of antimonopoly law that we think should be applied to deal with issues of competition, not issues of industrial policy. So we are engaged with them as are our competition authorities and the ftc to work to encourage them to apply the law as its intended to be applied. I know these are tough areas. Canadas creation of a heightened standard for patentability, for pharmaceutical patents is a serious problem for our u. S. Innovators. This standard to obtain and enforce patent rights in canada. Also inconsistent with the World Trade Organization and under the nafta. We have raised this concern directly and repeatedly with the canadian authorities. That issue is now being litigated, and i believe the canadian authorities are looking to see how it proceeds in litigation as we continue that dialogue with them. Ambassador, from o