Islamic state, and it was the Islamic States much doubted and not always obvious strategy that did not impress many americans. Monday, a visit to the pentagon, today, a visit to the counterterrorism center, but all of that for not. Because officials of his administration shockingly could not tell a Congressional Committee the whereabouts of thousands of foreigners who have had their visas revoked over terrorism concerns. Of the 122,000 revoked visas. How many of those people are still in the United States . I dont know. Doesnt that scare you . Many of the people whose visas are revoked were not in the United States when we revoked the visas. Have you no idea how many of those people are in the United States. Of the revoked visas, do you give those to the department of Homeland Security . Exactly. We revoke the visa. So Homeland Security, how many revoked visas are still in the United States of america . Mr. Chairman, i dont have that you dont have a clue, do you . Lou not a clue. House
By government, confusion among the public and even confusion among the professionals. This is no different than when we were introducing paper money when the United States was going to paper money folks could be rolling out all sorts of different dollars. The greenback was the federal government trying to come in and thats why we have the secret service. They rolled it back in the 1860s and the secret service was there to nick sure this was the one currency that we had about the different banks could be printing their own u. S. Dollars. And we had lots of other confusions when we rolled out the instruments. The archery stocks. They were in this piece of paper entitles you to a portion of this company. Just like we had Security Issues for thi bitcoin, the stock certificates saw all sorts as one of the classic incidences. I watch a lot of Turner Classic Movies and it seems like every other movie is about someone perpetuating some stock fraud. I worked in hong kong for a while and you wou
Providers to negotiate on a much broader basis . Thats part of the dynamic change in the world were living in. Thank you. My time is expired. Thank you, madam chair. Senator bloomenthal had one followup question, and senator franken and i will leave my questions to the end. I much appreciate that, madam chairman, and thanks also to senator franken. Just a quick question. You and i agree that the cost of sports programming are rising, in fact. They are rising astronomically and should better reflect consumer demand. Really arent consumers the best judge of what a fair price for programming should be and wouldnt prices come down if they had more choice, specifically the way to break this cycle of ever increasing costs for sports programming instead of give consumers some more choice through ala carte programming, and i wonder if you could comment on the potential effects of disciplining the market and bringing down the costs of cable as a result of ala carte. Thank you. I truly believe y
The committee on agriculture passed out a bipartisan bill in the last congress and it was never brought before my republican friends. This year the Committee Also passed out a bipartisan bill that was brought to this floor. It could have and should have been passed with a bipartisan vote. Not because i agreed with all of it, but because it was appropriate to have a bill to go to conference with on this important subject. Our republican friends added three amendments which we harmful to clearly those in need in america. As a result, we didnt vote for it, but thats not why it failed, mr. Speaker. It failed because 62 republicans voted against the bill reported out with every republican voting in committee for it. One was mr. Lucas, the chairman of the committee observed, it apparently wasnt good enough for those 62 republicans. Compromise seems very difficult for some people in this house. But i again remind us all it is absolutely essential. It we then passed a farm bill which said, unl
Darrell issa is never a shy questioner when it comes to these things. He runs the thousands Oversight Committee. He describes it as obamacare through deception. Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage age. Call it the stupidity of the American Voter or whatever, bit was critical to get is passed. We just tax Insurance Companies and they pass it on to the consumers. Its a clever exploitation of the basic lack of understanding about it American Voter. Turns out political chicago its hard to get rid of and the only way we could take it on was by mislabeling. Calling it a tax on Insurance Companies when we all nots really a tax on the American People who hold the plans. Martha hes not the only one testifying today, right . He will be joined by the administrators of the medicare services. She does not want to be seated next to mr. Gruber. Lawmakers are going to put them together and dig down on some of those comments he made about the lack of transparency as it relates to laying