Not required to have a visa when entering the u. S. For stays of 90 days or less. This is about an hour and a half. Call to order here. I want to thank the witnesses. There may have been a little miscommunication in terms of the timing. I thought we wanted to start this at 11 00, we had the vote at 10 45. Thats why our attendance is not as strong. Also appreciate we were able to set this up as a roundtable. I want to have Administration People and people from the outside sitting together so we can have a good discussion. This will be pretty much a free flowing discussion which is also nice. Rather than have it structured and seven minutes per senator. When were on a topic ill encourage my colleague to jump in. So its not disjointed. We have four witnesses here, miss kelly parisi. Shes the deputy secretary of the office in the office of policy. She can speak to the enhancements that dhs is thinking of strengthening the currents visa program. Mr. John wagner is here for customers and Bor
She can speak to the enhancements to strengthen the Visa Waiver Program. John wagner the Deputy Assistant commissioner for u. S. Customs and Border Protection at the u. S. Department of Homeland Security. He can speak of options and considerations of the waiver program. He will discuss the benefits of preclearance operations. Next witness will be mr. Jussen siberal. Im really bad. Not even 50 . He is the deputy coordinator for the Counterterrorism Bureau at the department of state. He can speak to the existing sharing agreements the u. S. Has with Visa Waiver Program countries. Mr. Mark frey, senior director and former director of the Visa Waiver Program from 2007 to 2010. As former director mr. Frey can speak to the need to enhance the Visa Waiver Program in a sensible way to maintain the benefits of the program at the same time enable dhs. Mr. Frey did provide testimony. It is probably the most succinct summary of the Visa Waiver Program. It would be nice if you could go through in a
Life. The internet has inspired new crimes with names like online enticement, and sextortion and has become a thriving marketplace for selling children for sex. Many children today have cell phones which function the same as computers. This is why its vital that we work even more closely with our nations schools to help educate them about the dangers on the internet and the real world. As part of our recent reauthorization, you gave us the authority to provide more resources to state and local educational agencies. We have started to use this new authority to expand our programs to protect more children. Among our expanded initiatives with schools are new prevention curriculums, such as our kid smarts prevention curriculum which includes lesson plans and teaching tools set to launch this summer in time for the new school year. Weve also been working to develop more agespecific, gradelevel appropriate online curriculum and related Educational Resources for teachers to download from our
Phone number advertised, called the National Center. We were able to track that phone number to three states in the span of less than three days. We passed that on to Law Enforcement. That girl was recovered during operation cross country. With respect to those children missing from foster care, there are current laws before congress now that we urge congress to pass. Right now, only two states have laws mandating the reporting of children missing from foster care. As has been pointed out, one in seven missing children are also being sexually exploited. 67 of those are coming from foster care children. No one is looking for these children. They cannot be found until they are looked for. So i want to first thank this committee for focusing your efforts and giving us the ability to work more closely with schools, with teachers, with communities. Especially those children with special needs. 1 in 68, according to the cdc, suffer from autism. These children go laundering 50 of the time. Th
Its the hard hats, its he its the welder putting together the new locomotive. It is the engineer designing the system, its the accountant, its the secretary. Handling the paperwork. Its america building its future and the president s lay the president s laid out a good plan. He said put your ideas on the table is there a better way to do it . Put your ideas on the table, my colleagues. Lets get about done it. This is our future. And its fully paid for. Doesnt increase the deficit. In fact, it will grow the economy and provide us with those middle class jobs. I know, mr. Tonko, you have been at this for your entire career. As have i. To be here in congress at this moment when we had an opportunity, we missed it today. We missed the opportunity today to grow the American Economy and instead we kicked the can down the road. Better than nothing, but not good enough. Nothing to be proud of. Mr. Tonko, a few seconds i dont know how much time we have. Mr. Tonko i believe we probably have five