Several of us noteasseveral of e testimony of the 40 million records 96 of them come from the visa waiver countries or aspiring in which the requirement to populate the database is set. If the country becomes noncompliant what actions would you take . First would be the communication between the Program Office working with the components on hsi to point out the deficit and overtime we havent met the situation yet but there would be the authority of the secretarys office with secretary johnson to take steps to see that that effort was enforced in the law. We havent had this instance happened yet. What would be a realistic amount of time, three months or six months quick because of the importance to the security vetting we wouldnt want that to be an extended period of time. I know everybody seems to be in compliance right now but is there a hurdle to providing the information you hear from the partner nations . With regards to the visa as the chair pointed out at the outset of these are
Fed chair yellen testified at the Senate Budget committee thursday. This is two hours. This hearing will come to order. Thank you to my Ranking Member, senator sessions, and all of our colleagues who are here and many who will be joining us. Today we have the great opportunity to hear there the chair of the Federal Reserve, dr. Janet yellen. Dr. Yellen, i want to start by thanking you for your leadership and encouraging Stronger Economic growth, stability and job creation throughout your tenure at the Federal Reserve as vice chair and now as chair. Really is wonderful to have you here. I also do want to take a moment and recognize your predecessor, chairman ben bernanke, for all the work he did on we half of he did on behalf of the country. Im glad we do have the opportunity today to talk about our economic and our fiscal outlook and the steps we can take to continue creating jobs and broadbased growth now and over the long term. Dr. Yellen, your new role at the fed comes at a very dyn
Quorum call mrs. Shaheen madam president . The presiding officer the senator from New Hampshire. Mrs. Shaheen madam president , is the senate in a quorum call . The presiding officer it is. Mrs. Shaheen i ask that the quorum call be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. Mrs. Shaheen thank you. Madam president , more than 50 years ago, president kennedy signed the equal pay act making equal pay for equal work the law of the land. And yet today, wage discrimination still persists. Today women i continue to be pad just over threequarters of what their male counterparts receive for performing the same work. More women than he have before are graduating from college, but over the course of their careers, they will each make an average of 1. 2 million less than a man with the same level of education. Unfortunately, thats not unique. Across a wide array of industries and within all different occupations, wellqualified women continue to earn an average of 77 cents for each dollar th
Setting penalty for the powerful car company. Take a look. What we cannot tolerate, what we will never accept is a person or a company that knows danger exists and says nothing. Literally, silence can kill. Tom costello joins me now live. You were at the announcement the. Whats the very latest . Reporter this is a 35 million fine, a penalty that gm has agreed to pay for failing to notify the government in a timely manner, were talking about years of a serious defect involving the ignition switch. When it went into the off position or neutral position, the air bags failed to e deploy. It is now going to pay a 35 million fine. The d. O. T. Would like to see that increased to 300 million for future cases, but that would be up to congress. 35 million is a drop in the bucket for a company the size of gm. But in addition it is agreeing to oversight as it relates to its safety processes nsds the company, which the government says were completely broken. People at the bottom of the organizatio
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