The law. And when they see that 50 , 50 , 49 ill give you that, of the illegals in this country are visa overstays, these are people that are were not chasing a footprint in the desert, we know who they are. Weve got their name. Theyve had an interview at a consulate or an embassy, they came here on a visa. We know who they are. Thats lowhanging fruit for enforcement. So, i ask you this how many of the visa overstays are granted immunity through the president pasha action . Any . Offhand, i dont know. I dont know the answer to that. Congressman, i will say this i would like to see this Congress Pass a bill. I would like to work with congress on passing a bill. The president said that would be his preference. The problem is we have no partner i think congress can pass a bill when the American People start regaining trust in the administration to actually do their job and enforce the laws that are already on the books. And i yield back. Chair recognizes mr. Or work from texas. Thank you,
Can work with on a comprehensive solution legislatively. Thank you, mr. Secretary. I yield back. The chair recognizes mr. Meehan. Thank you, chairman, and secretary. I have a great deal of respect for you but i have some fundamental disagreements with a couple of the points that were made. You are the one who said somehow somebody what you are doing is creating an opportunity for them to be lawfully in the country. I think it is a unquestioned point that as the law stands today, anybody who illegally enters the United States is a deportable alien. What has happened by this directive is the president has stepped into the authority of determine if under the existing law you have identified somebody who will lawfully be here so long as they , using prosecutorial discretion, they wont be do for did wont be deported as long as they arent a threat to Public Safety or Border Security. How can you create a class of people who are beyond prosecution and not be violating the constitutional separ
Whether the 14th amendment requires the state to license a marriage between two people of the same sex. On cspan2s the tv, author peter slavin looks at the life of our first lady to show obama. On sunday at noon on indepth, are live threehour conversation with documentary filmmaker and not their jon ronson who has written many books including so you have been publicly shamed, the psychopath test, a journey through the madness industry. We will also be taking your phone calls, email, Facebook Comments and tweets. Get the complete schedule at www. Cspan. Org. All weekend long, American History tv is featuring topeka, kansas. It refers to a series of violent political contra confrontations between antislavery and proslavery groups. Between 1854 and 1861. The influx of proslavery and free state settlers during this time helped establish toby get as a Major Political topeka as a Major Political force in the area. Cspan city tour staff recently visited many sides exploring the rich history.
Claimed to be an expert on middle east or iraq and proved it. History has proved it. We look at things from our own point of view and get deceived by them. We go back to vietnam, a great example of the first time we did it openly. We have a history of trying to think other people are like us or want our standards. The world is different. In the middle east, it is a totally different culture. Tonight at 8 00 eastern and pacific, on cspan, q a. All we can long, American History tv is joining our Cox Communications Cable Partners to showcase the history of topeka kansas. To learn more, visit cspan. Org citiestour. This is American History tv on cspan3. The state Historical Society collects kansas history documents. This is the repository for kansas history. Today, were going to the archives. We are going to look at the territorial period map. We are going to look at documents written by john brown, senior. We are looking at territorial many script of the constitution manuscripts of the co
Of defense robert gates my staff and i learned that it was nearly impossible to get Accurate Information to questions such as much money did you spend and how many people do you have. Secretary robert gates in 2011. A cspan democrat on twitter asks, is there some a slide on which the dod can begin a comprehensive accounting . How would they audit this behemoth, 40 of the federal budget . Guest that is an enormous problem. When you have a baseline, you have to have a starting place. The records are so screwed up, they do not have that. Most of these systems have existed for years and years and had data put into them manually, people putting in long alphanumeric strings of code, and of course people made typos and that means the data disappears or is erroneous. There is no way of knowing where the Defense Department is today. One way they are trying to get around this, they were supposed to do a big audit after 2014, a big chunk of the pentagons accounts, and they are scaling it back to