or down, we were winning. we had no other way to explain it. this isn t to suggest we weren t seceding intermission. border patrol had to have consistent and reliable data. not simply data on what we were catching, we also had to report data on what we were not catching and the unknown. today the border patrol does not describe the borders as controlled or uncontrolled. instead it uses a variety of indicators, capability assessments, commander judgment to assign areas of risk category of high, medium and low. the border patrol also evaluates these risks to ensure they are based on current risk. in closing, i will leave you with a few thoughts here that became evident as we wrote these articles and i spoke with dozens of agents representing thousands of years of border patrol experience. border security is not an end state to be achieved and revisited every five or ten years. rather, it s a constant battle we fight every day and one which we must be vigorously engaged. there i
screeria nigeria. - visits phoenix to talk about home ownership followed by a discussion about religion and the free market. on january 20th the supreme court will hear oral arguments in a case challenging restrictions on judicial candidates directly soliciting campaign contributions. legal analysts discuss the pending case and judicial elections at the national press club in washington, d.c. this is an hour and ten minutes. good morning, everyone. the timetable this morning is pretty tight. we want to be able to give a lot of time for questions. and so we re going to begin our presentation to you this morning. my name is andrew coen. i m a fellow at the brennan center and a journalist with cbs news and the marshal project. and i m delighted to be here in sunny, warm washington. to be part of this interesting presentation. in a moment, i m going to introduce this distinguished panel each of whom knows a great deal more about this important sup
pipeline. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 3. a bill to improve the keystone x.l. pipeline approve the keystone x.l. pipeline. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 19 the bill is considered read, the bill shall be debatable for one hour, equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on transportation and infrastructure. and the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on energy and commerce. the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. shuster, the gentleman from oregon, mr. defazio, the gentleman from kentucky, mr. wit field and the gentleman from new jersey whitfield, and the gentleman from new jersey, mr. pallone, each control 15 minutes. mr. shuster: thank you mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. shuster: i rise today to support h.r. 3, the keystone x.l. pipelin
along with joe, willie and me, we have jonathan lemire, correspondent and host of way too early kasie dc, kasie hunt joins us. willie, you know what i usually do every saturday morning when i wake up, right uh-oh. of course you know. we ve talked about it for a long time. i get my weekend started and the way i do that on saturday mornings, i get my bible out and i start annotating it. get the shotgun out, you got to clean it, right? clean your shotguns folks. so i m cleaning the shotgun and usually on saturday mornings what do i do? i watch two or three john wayne movies. i love john wayne. great. how the west was won amazing. a lot of great john wayne movies. but this saturday i decided to do the most southern thing possible and watch english premier league football, and i did it this is a huge wind up, by the way. we have a lot to cover. by watching it on peacock because that s what they do, they trap you. i do like peacock. they trapped me. so i