And a strong red flag law. Here is congressional reaction. In mexico, deb haaland, a democrat, tweeted, i am ready to make a change, i am ready to end hate and gun violence in every town. Democratic congressman of rhode island said, moms demand rally recess rally today asking our are our lives worth more than the contributions of the nra . If so, Mitch Mcconnell should do something and allow the senate to take up the background check bills we have already passed in the house. A member of the judiciary committee, jim jordan, tweeted, the problem with red flag laws if you are guilty until proven innocent. It is the same inverted standard that bob mueller tried to apply to president trump, but that is not how Justice Works in our country. On wednesday, september 4, the House Judiciary Committee convenes to consider a number of gun violence prevention bills. Watch live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, online at cspan. Org, or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Announcer tonight, on q
One of the things thats important is i get to the point that i can change the premise that thats a valid position. Its not my position, its a position that i think is terrible in many ways but i can see that you could be a moral , decent person and think that. And if you cant do that, you cant relate to anybody who doesnt agree with you what would be thequestion mister brookhiser you would ask your wife on that issue. Let me inject a brief note of gloom. Williamseward was apparently a lovely man. The former secretary of state. This is when he was a senator before he got that job and he loved his colleagues and one of the colleagues he was close to was senator Jefferson Davis who had a lot of health issues. He had malaria, he also had high trouble and there was a period when seward sat by daviss bedside, tending to him, cheering him on. Exactly. And the civil war what happened and seward became lincolns secretary of state, Jefferson Davis became the president of the confederacy. Did the
Benefits for legal immigrants. That, immigration policy and how the everify everify system is being used in the u. S. Host good morning. It is thursday, august 15, 2019. We begin the washington journal focusing on the issues facing Rural Americans after spending Yesterdays Program talking to City Residents, it is Rural Americas turn. Give us a call and let us know what your top issue is and how it is being handled by state and local leaders where you are. Eastern and central time zones call in at 2027488000. Mountain and pacific time zones, call in at 2027488001. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good thursday morning to you. Rural residents only, you can start calling in now to give you a sense of the universe of callers, it is about 60 Million People, that is how Many Americans live in Rural Communities. Here is the latest information about them. 64 of that population lives east of the mississippi river. 10 of the total population in the west liv
Issues are still with us today. President jimmy carter signed the refugees act which raised the ceiling for refugees allowed in america. Held at the jimmy carter president ial library and museum in atlanta, this is an hour and a half. I want to lets get started again. Were going to start with our first panel. I will introduce the moderator, then she will introduce the panelists. Honored to introduce monica stadke. Shes with the raven group. I know monica from her time on the Judiciary Committee, House Judiciary Committee where she focused on immigration and refugees issues. Also i know monica for another reason. Her father was a refugee from uganda resettled to new orleans by hias, my organization. So with that, monica . Thank you very much. And thank you for being here. Thank you to mark for putting on this wonderful event. As mark said, my father was resettled by hias in 1972. So i have a very personal connection. As counsel on the House Judiciary Committee, i worked closely on refug
Panel, which is going to focus on the implementation of the refugee act of 1980. And moderating that potential is eric schwartz, former assistant secretary of state for population refugees and migration under the obama administration. He was Senior Adviser for humanitarian affairs during the Clinton Administration on the National Security council and most importantly on the highest board. He also happens to be the president of Refugees International and hes seated next to the expresident of Refugees International. Eric . Thanks. Thank you, mark. It is a distinct pleasure to be here today and i want to thank hias, and the Carter Center for bringing us all together for this very important event. This is a critical time for us to be considering not only the refugee act of 1980, but also the very future of refugee protection in the United States and around the world. At a time when the number of people displaced by conflict, human rights violations, persecution is at the highest number in