Hour and 20 minutes. [applause] thank you very much. Can you times you guys hear me . It is on. Good morning and thank you for joining us inside this airless windowless room on this beautiful saturday morning. We are here to talk about the presidency, scope and limits of executive power a hallmark recurring defining issue of the 21st century for two presidency so far. We are going to move along because we have an excellent panel and im sure all of you are deeply familiar with this topic already. The 10,000foot reminder is that president bush came into office with a very powerful Vice President whose experience as chief of times of staff in the four demonstrations after watergate and vietnam and during the Church Committee had marked him as a strong opponent of executive power and critic of congressional regulation and he used that position of influence in the crisis of the september 11 era to advance, establish precedence as commanderinchief in wartime cannot be bound by the Internatio
Harassment. Congressman Jason Chaffetz chairs this two hour long meeting. Good morning, the Committee Comes to order and without objection the chair is authorized to call recess. We will have hearing about the National Park service. 2016 represents the hundred year since the park service was founded. We find an agency in crisis. We have good, hard working people who do good service for this nation. They serve the public as attending the parks at record numbers but we are having problems. We should be working to increase visitation and providing recreational opportunities to the American People. The mission of the National Park service to is honor the values for this generation and future generations. But that doesnt work when you have multiple cases of longstanding employee misconduct that is distracting the agency from the mission. There is no doubt when you hire tense of thousands of people there is going to be bad apples. They will cause disruption and heartache to a lot of people i
Aliens, this is law, voted on by this body, signed into law by a president by the United States, elected by the people, aliens present in the u. S. In violation of immigration code are breaking the law and reportable. Thats u. S. Law. Thats not the majoritys opinion. Thats not a partys opinion. Thats not an individuals opinion. Thats the law of this land. You can disagree with those laws. You can disagree with the terminology. But that is the law. Thats the law. Fact, to the point that arizona vs. United states, 2012, Justice Sotomayor, quote, so how where do they get the records that show that this person is an illegal alien . Thats not authorized to be here . Now, was she being racist . Demeaning . Dehumanizing . I dont think so. I dont think so. I dont agree with all her decisions. But i dont believe that that was her intent when she made those had that question there. Ill point out this provision, maybe i should read it again. Ill read it again. For the Ranking Member. Because to t
The preliminary figure for gdp shows the economy from the january to march quarter turned pos tiitive positive. Officials say it was up by 0. 4 from the previous three months. That works out to an annualized growth of 1. 7 . The Officials Say it was the first positive growth in two quarters. Housing investment declined. That was down 0. 8 . Economists point out that an extra day this february due to the leap year boosted the figure for personal spending. Consumers sentiment remains sluggish and many people are reluctant to splash out on big ticket items. Reporter fewer people are buying condos. The rate sold in greater tokyo area is at the lowest since 2009 which was after the Global Financial crisis. Theyre drawing attention from people who say they cant afford to buy in tokyo. Commuting to the Business District takes at least 40 minutes. A lower prices attracting potential buyers. Sales people are telling customers that now is a good time to buy. The Central Banks negative Interest R
The preliminary figure for gdp shows the economy from the january to march quarter turned pos tiitive positive. Officials say it was up by 0. 4 from the previous three months. That works out to an annualized growth of 1. 7 . The Officials Say it was the first positive growth in two quarters. Housing investment declined. That was down 0. 8 . Economists point out that an extra day this february due to the leap year boosted the figure for personal spending. Consumers sentiment remains sluggish and many people are reluctant to splash out on big ticket items. Reporter fewer people are buying condos. The rate sold in greater tokyo area is at the lowest since 2009 which was after the Global Financial crisis. Theyre drawing attention from people who say they cant afford to buy in tokyo. Commuting to the Business District takes at least 40 minutes. A lower prices attracting potential buyers. Sales people are telling customers that now is a good time to buy. The Central Banks negative Interest R