In grateful praise to you, use us for your glory. Touch our senators. Lift them from valleys of pessimism as you fill them with your abiding hope. Prepare them to receive your best gifts, helping them to remember that you are able to do more than they can ask or imagine. Thank you that you are the beginner of our yesterdays, the mystery of our today, and the hope for our tomorrows. We pray in your sovereign name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell when washington democrats passed obamacare over the objections of the American People, they were confident americans would soon warm up to this new law, but more than five years later the American People continue to oppose th
Again, cspan3 live this morning here on capitol hill waiting for Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson who will be testifying this morning about Border Security and the president s executive order on immigration. Under the president s order, if a person had been in the u. S. For more than five years and has children who are citizens or legal residents, passes a criminal background collection and is willing to pay taxes, they can apply to stay in the u. S. Temporarily. The executive order also calls for Additional Resources for Law Enforcement. To try to prevent illegal border crossings. Secretary johnson was also mentioned pass a possible replace many for defense secretary chuck hagel. He withdrew his name from consideration to replace the defense secretary. Also happening today on capitol hill, the House Judiciary Committee will be meeting to look at the president S Immigration order. Well stream that live. Catch it on cspan. Org starting at 1 00 p. M. Eastern time. Again, live this
To reagan, one of his watchwords was, peace through strength. He presided over an enormous buildup in defense spending. The current trajectory of defense spending is down to below 3 of gdp. Which is going to be as low as it was back in before 1941. Would you support a significant increase from current levels in the Defense Budget and do away with the sequester . I absolutely support the concept of peace through strength. I think the most important thing the federal government spends money on is National Defense. You cant rely on state governments. You cant rely on corporations. You have to have a National Defense. Priorities,at National Defense is the number one priority. Looking at dollars spent, i always say a priority. With regards to the sequester, the last budget we produced, we have a fiveyear budget that balances, eliminates the military sequester, and spends money above the military sequester. But we do eliminate five departments of government. If you want a strong defense, fin
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
Denied as fraudulent. 93 1993nd 1990 world trade bombers exploited the amnesty law. What are you going to do to verify that these people are not fraudulently entering the country, including what could be security threats to the country . Congressman, that is something that i am also concerned about. Fraudulent applications have the potential to undermine the whole process. In the implementation, in the planning for the ample mentation, i want to be sure that we take a hard look at best practices to avoid fraudulent applications, fraudulent misuse of the program. That is a priority of mine. We look forward to working with you on that. The chair recognizes the Ranking Member for questions. There are striking between president obamas executive action and similar actions taken by president reagan and president george h. W. Bush on addressing this problem. Your statements to this committee is that the department of justice has provided authority which the president is are you comfortable wi