Through the karl rove front group. What does the chamber do with all this money . It lobbies, it litigates, and it runs political attack ads on television, radio, and the internet. Lets start with the lobbying. The chamber exendz far more than anyone else lobbying the federal government. It spent more than 80 million last year aloan, far more than any individual company. Over the last 20 years, the chamber has spent more than 1. 4 billion, 1. 4 billion. Thats billion with a b, and the nine zeros after it, lobbying the federal government. That is three times more than the next largest lobbying spender. A swamp monster indeed. Much of this lobbying is against environmental policies, with the chamber lobbying congress, the white house, e. P. A. , the department of energy, and the department of the interior on behalf of yes, you guessed i. The Chamber Champions the fossil fuel agenda, opposing limits on Carbon Emissions and supporting drilling and mining on public lands and in offshore wat
There say vote going on. This is the way i handle the meeting. Im going to call on senator durbin because he has another important meeting he has to go to and so i want him to make his statement. Then ill make my statement. And then ill introduce the first panel and then we wont do anything until mrs. Feinstein gets here. So proceed, senator durbin. Mr. Chairman, thank you for doing this, this is out of order and for those that are new, i appreciate the courtesy extended to me by my friend from iowa. I have a Ranking Member of the defense appropriations subcommittee, we have a closed door hearing in a few minutes. But i wanted to be here today because this is the committees first immigration hearing and i made a conscious choice. I did that for several reasons. First, i am the son of an immigrant. My mother came to this country at the age of 2. Im honored to be a first generation american. And if youll come to my capitol hill office, youll see proudly on my crew denzia my mothers natur
I really appreciate it. Coming up on cspan3, a Senate Hearing on k1 visa fraud. The british house of commons and after that a look at the medicare independent payment advisory board. And later, legal scholars consider the record of Supreme Court nominee, judge neil gorsuch. K1 visas allow a foreigner who is engaged to usa resident to become a u. S. Resident and green cardholder. The Senate Judiciary committee holds a hearing on fraud. This is an hour and 50 minutes. Normally, i dont start a meeting until the ranking democrat gets here, but theres a vote going on, so this is the way im going to handle the meeting. I will call on senator durbin because he has another important meeting he has to go too. I want him to make his statement and ill make my statement and introduce the first panel and then we wont do anything until miss feinstein gets here. Thank you, senator durbin. Thank you. This is kind of out of order and for those new i appreciate the courtesy extended to me by my friend f
I really appreciate it. Coming up on cspan3, a Senate Hearing on k1 visa fraud. The british house of commons and after that a look at the medicare independent payment advisory board. And later, legal scholars consider the record of Supreme Court nominee, judge neil gorsuch. K1 visas allow a foreigner who is engaged to usa resident to become a u. S. Resident and green cardholder. The Senate Judiciary committee holds a hearing on fraud. This is an hour and 50 minutes. Normally, i dont start a meeting until the ranking democrat gets here, but theres a vote going on, so this is the way im going to handle the meeting. I will call on senator durbin because he has another important meeting he has to go too. I want him to make his statement and ill make my statement and introduce the first panel and then we wont do anything until miss feinstein gets here. Thank you, senator durbin. Thank you. This is kind of out of order and for those new i appreciate the courtesy extended to me by my friend f
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