To help these communities. This is an hour 20 minutes. Is this on . Can you hear me . Excellent. Welcome back. While youre all walking in and settling down thank you. I just wanted to say a couple words about what we do here at georgetown in this field before i welcome my panel and introduce everybody. Im andy. I direct the asylum films here. We represent Asylum Seekers in deportation hearings. Actually handle a case from beginning to end for Asylum Seekers all over the world. My colleague is here, as well, who i work with. Dina, is dina here . May be at some point. We have three lauries each semester and 12 students. The clinic has been doing this for, i guess, 24 years. I think phil started the asylum part of this in 1995. We also have courses on immigration and refugee law as well as we started last year to send volunteers to texas, to the two major detention facilities that are housing women with children, detaining women and children, to help prepare the women for credible fear in
Everybody. Im andy schoen holtz. Our students represent Asylum Seekers and deportation hearings. And actually handle a case from beginning to end for Asylum Seekers all over the world. My colleague pfizer saed is well and dina sharouk may be here. We have three lawyers each semester, 12 students, the clinic has been doing this for i guess 24 years. I think phil started the asylum part of this in 1995. We also have courses on immigration and refugee law as well as we started last year to send volunteers to texas to the two major detention facilities that are housing women with children, detaining women and children to help prepare the women for a credible fear interviews and to do other work to assist the families. And we are sending two groups again, 14 volunteers, we went to break and spring break down there, thanks to a georgetown alum who has funded that travel and we have a human rights bracket couple that has engaged on these issues for years. This year its looking at the root cau
Was the voters in the early states take this process very seriously. That has been a positive surprise in terms of the engagement of the voters in the early states. If other americans could see that, they would be much more comfortable with the early state process we engage in. What surprised me on the negative was that it seems like a social media primary has been inserted head of the iowa caucus and New Hampshire caucus. It got very nationalized, very early. There is no invisible primary. That is right. To some extent the early states , really where the first indication, in terms of what voters are thinking, but things like what the dnc did with the debate rules, requiring testimony of truth requiring candidates to have a certain number of small donors and all that, that encouraged the creation of this, as i save social media primary. Would you say the process by the dnc is unfair for you and others . Mr. Delaney i would not say it is unfair because they were very clear what the rule
Representative mike conaway. Dressing the federal deficit, the u. S. Mexico canada trade the agreement and the impeachment inquiry of President Trump. Representative conaway serves as Ranking Member of the Agriculture Committee. He announced in july that in jue seeking reelection. This runs about 45 minutes. Im going to make a few comments like iiformly do. And then it would be up to you to ask questions what it is you want to talk about. Your meeting at that point in time. We found out about the cspan coverage this morning. Apparently you kbup about new a earlier in a week. Fantastic. Im tickled to death they could find santa ana on the map. So its taped. Tha idea, i thithe idea is theye tape back unedited, unfiltered which is the way i like to to happen. Whoever is responsible for that for let us having access to the facility again. Its terrific. Ill talk about some things in d. C. And then get going. The only thing congress has to do year in and year out is fund the government. And
Cspan. Watch anytime on cspan. Org and listen free wherever you are using the free cspan radio app. Democratic president ial candidate and former maryland congressman john his life,lked about his career and why he is running. Or president congressman, youre the earliest to announce your candidacy. What is a surprise about the process and for you personally . Thank you for having me and it is great to be here with you. What a surprise me. What has surprised me is that the voters in the early states really do take this process very seriously. So that has been a very positive surprise in terms of the engagement of the voters in the early states. I think of other americans could see that, they would be much the comfortable with process we engage in. What surprised me on the negative is the fact that it seems like kind of a social media primary has been inserted ahead of the iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary. In other words, this race got very nationalized very early. So there is no