or visit the border himself. i know the president will travel this week. this is where he should bring air force one. this is where he should look the people in the eye. this is where he should talk to the border agents. let them know that this is beyond a crisis. bill: team fox coverage. mark meredith at the white house, karl rove with analysis. stacy stiegel begins our coverage in alamo, texas. are the groups getting larger? good morning. they are. the chief border patrol agent for the sector, which is the rio grande valley that covers some 277 miles of the entire southern border, he says that they have arrested at least 247 migrants over just the last couple of days traveling in two separate groups. so far this year, he says 17 groups of more than 100 at a time have been apprehended. a number he says and the data shows is going up. the majority in those groups, families and unaccompanied minors that we ve been talking so much about. also in this one sector alone, fam
Mr. Julio is the executive director, the ceo for the Virgin Islands water and power authority, thank you for joining us. He will be followed by mr. Jose morales who is the acting chairman for the Puerto Rico Energy commission. We welcome you, and finally we will have natalie who is the executive director for the Management Board for puerto rico. Welcome to each of you. I would ask that you limit your comments this morning to five minutes, your full testimony will be included as part of the record but i do know colleagues have questions as you have obviously seen from the first panel, there was some directed to our governors that they different so we had the expertise from this panel. Hopefully you will be able to address those in your Opening Statement or in your followon questions. Welcome. German murkowski, Ranking Member cantwell and senators, thank you very much for the opportunity to appear today. Although i am present here physically, my thoughts, my focus are on the people of pu
[inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. The committee will come to orde order. We are here this morning to review ongoing Recovery Efforts in puerto rico and the Virgin Islands in weeks of Hurricane Irma. We are now over two months removed from when Hurricane Irma devastated st. Thomas and st. John on september 6. Its been nearly 60 days since Hurricane Maria hit st. Croix and puerto rico. This is a little over a week ago that senators cassidys, franken and i, along with senator carper who was just here and senator harris as well as some of our house colleagues visited both st. Thomas and puerto rico. I want to thank both governors, the governor or cello for your hospitality, the time that you gave us during that visit was incredibly important for all of us to see to be on the ground and to be hearing directly from you. I know that some other members of our committee have traveled to puerto rico previously and i thank them for that as well. What i think we observed is that the
Hero and vermont founding father ethan allen. He was the first, then commandant of the Green Mountain boys. They were the largest paramilitary source in north america, if not for the actions allen. Alan ethan a visit to the Lake Champlain maritime museum. Lake itcas first great is a 140 miles long water superhighway that cuts between the Green Mountains of vermont and the adirondacks of new york. Cspan cities tour of. Urlington, vermont sunday at 2 p. M. On American History tv at cspan3 working with our cable affiliates explore america. The governors of puerto rico im a Virgin Islands testified about hurricane recovery efforts. There is also testimony from utility officials including the director of the puerto rico electrical authorities who resigned a few minutes after this hearing. Were over two months removed from when Hurricane Irma devastated st. Thomas and john on september 6th and its been nearly 60 days since Hurricane Maria hit st. Croix and puerto rico. Just a little over a w
Well, as mr. Neil pointed out the least Public Opinion poll on what youre selling here today only 27 of the American People want it. So i dont know which people youre talking but but the people of this country dont want this particular bill. They love tax reform thats fair, thats geared more toward middle income americans, that they believe will actually result in economic growth, but they dont whatnot what youre selling they dont want what youre selling but a 2009 Say Something here because mr. Cross mr. Woodl talked about the glorious process. I mean, this process is terrible. No matter how you want to look at it. Quite frankly, getting up here and saying your proud of this process, thats offensive. Thats offensive to us. I think its offensive to the American People. Thats review. Lets review the process. To start they have zero let me repeat zero hearings on. The bill was jammed through the ways and Means Committee where every single democratic amendment was blocked and member s had