Secretary kelly talked about Immigration Enforcement and Cyber Security at th is subcommittee hearing. It is just under 1. 5 hours. Call to order. Welcome to the subcommittees first hearing of the department of Homeland Securitys fiscal year 2018 president ial budget request. I would like to extend a special welcome to todays witness, secretary john kelly. Mr. Secretary, we are very pleased you answered the president s call to lead dhs. Having someone with your credentials to lead this department will strengthen it and enrich it. Its good to begin the fy 18 appropriations cycle. Having someone with your despite its late start, im confident this subcommittee will produce a bill that supports the departments mission, balances competing interests, and is affordable to the american taxpayers. Before i go into the numbers, mr. Secretary, i have a couple of pieces of advice. First, never lose focus on the departments highest priority, to keep the nation safe and enforce the laws of the Unite
Welcome to the subcommittees first hearing on the fiscal year 2018 president ial budget request. Id like to extend a special welcome to todays witness, secretary john kelly. Mr. Secretary, we are very pleased you answered the president s call to lead dhs. Having someone with your credentials to lead this department will strengthen it and enrich it. It is good to begin the fy18 appropriations cycle, despite its late start, im confident this subcommittee will produce a bill that supports the departments mission, balances competing interests, and is affordable to the american taxpayers. Before i dive into the numbers, mr. Secretary, i have a couple of pieces of advice. First, never lose focus on the departments highest priority, to keep the nation safe and enforce the laws of the United States. With your reputation, i know you will do that. Second, stay in touch with me, with mrs. Roybalallard and let us know when you need help. Everyone on this subcommittee wants dhs to be successful mee
Space administration. Three, two, one, launch. Roggic, backup clock is roger, back up clock is started. 0102101, objection again 78, 100 amps, 27. To john glenn, now belonged an awesome panorama, the world curbing beneath him just as it was filmed during an earlier mercury cap actual. I could see the world turn around just a couple of hundred yards behind me. It was beautiful. Home is the voyager. Behind, a journey of 81,000 miles, through three days and three nights n just four hours and 56 minutes. At 3 04 p. M. Eastern standard time friendship 7 comes to of the aboard the United States destroyer noah and john glenn returns to the people of earth. A change of clothes, a breath of cool air, a short debriefing, then glenn leaves the noah, heading for Aircraft Carrier randolph under the golden splendor of his fourth sunset of the day. Announcer you are watching American History tv on cspan 3 every weekend during congressional breaks and on holidays, too. Follow us on twitter. Like us on
And as many of you know, it was met with some degree of controversy because there are those american citizens who said, but this was just a political correctness. And there were others who, in fact, they didnt even know who Harriet Tubman was. And various pictures of Harriet Tubman appeared on the internet and the people women who were in fact not Harriet Tubman. Harriet tubman has usually been a subject of childrens fiction. And very few people really know, at least american citizens we historians know who Harriet Tubman was. But that wasnt thats not the case with the american public. It was irony noted or the irony was noted in having tubman on the front of the 20 bill. And Andrew Jackson on the back. As many of you know, Andrew Jackson was not only a slave holder himself, but he was also oversaw indian removal and is renowned for being, really, an indian killer. So in addition to that, many people pointed to the fact that here you have Harriet Tubman who was commodified, who had val
We will have more details on that later in our program scheduled in the senate coming at 2 15 pm eastern. Confirmation hearing is continuing to and capitol hill. And this story from the hill. Com, all the confirmation process same democrats are delaying a vote on senator sessions nomination to be president trumps attorney general. Arguing they want more time to review the pick. Quote aas weve done most enemies im asking that vote for senator sessions be held over until next week. Senator feinstein the top on the Judiciary Committee said they write that the committee was scheduled to vote on the alabama republicans nomination during this mornings meeting. But the committees approval is our first step to being scheduled for a full senate vote. We will not get them till next week as the sun is out due to the republican retreat in philadelphia underway tomorrow. On the committee roles, a lawmaker can ask not be held over. It has been done so for next week. We will show you that hearing fro