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Good morning. Today we are going to vote on senator sessions nomination to serve as attorney general. After we look on senator sessions, we will turn to legislation and other committee housekeeping business on the agenda. I would like to mention a few things before we proceed. Except for the Ranking Member, i will ask everyone to try to limit the remarks to five minutes. That is how i handle lynchs nomination and by my count, every democrat on this committee except for two that i know about, has already announced that the intent to oppose the nomination so there is no mystery how this thing may go today. As far as the final vote is concerned. With everyones cooperation we should be able to move forward in an orderly way. Three weeks ago senator sessions testified before this committee. For more than 10 hours. Throughout that testimony, the American People had the opportunity ....
Good morning. Today we are going to vote on senator sessions nomination to serve as attorney general. After we look on senator sessions, we will turn to legislation and other committee housekeeping business on the agenda. I would like to mention a few things before we proceed. Except for the Ranking Member, i will ask everyone to try to limit the remarks to five minutes. That is how i handle lynchs nomination and by my count, every democrat on this committee except for two that i know about, has already announced that the intent to oppose the nomination so there is no mystery how this thing may go today. As far as the final vote is concerned. With everyones cooperation we should be able to move forward in an orderly way. Three weeks ago senator sessions testified before this committee. For more than 10 hours. Throughout that testimony, the American People had the opportunity ....
It happened after vietnam. It happened after the fall of yugoslavia. And now where are we today. Because of the executive orders of this president , hes called into question over a half century commitment to accepting refugees from around the world. People who have been victims of persecution and genocide and terrorism and war are to be excluded. And is it because of a real threat to our country . Exactly how many Syrian Refugees have been accused of terrorism in the United States of america . None. Not one. And when you do the lengthy history of 40 yearsplus of all of the millions of refugees who come to this country, you could count on one hand those who have done us wrong. And they were let into the country long before the vetting we now have in place. It is disgraceful the language that was used during the campaign by candidate donald rump when it came to refugees. Disgra ....
Good morning. Today we are going to vote on senator sessions nomination to serve as attorney general. After we look on senator sessions, we will turn to legislation and other committee housekeeping business on the agenda. I would like to mention a few things before we proceed. Except for the Ranking Member, i will ask everyone to try to limit the remarks to five minutes. That is how i handle lynchs nomination and by my count, every democrat on this committee except for two that i know about, has already announced that the intent to oppose the nomination so there is no mystery how this thing may go today. As far as the final vote is concerned. With everyones cooperation we should be able to move forward in an orderly way. Three weeks ago senator sessions testified before this committee. For more than 10 hours. Throughout that testimony, the American People had the opportunity ....
Exercises with then any other nation in the capacity for good cyber part of, if you thought about someone you would want is a cyber partner, india would be a fantastic cyber partner. There is a lot in that space. Well be caring for that discussion in that hearing room in a matter of minutes. But jamal ill take a few questions. [applause]. Let me start im going to cheat a column my boss, because since i know this is dear to his heart, he and i fight about this all the time. First, that was a superb speech, thank you for doing that. Let me ask rather, the hardest part we see is how do we get congress to get an integrated view on an issue that cuts across all of the committees, i think the hardest thing is we have seen efforts by different committees about the stovepipe nature and it seems to be blocking us getting an integrated view. What can we do about that . Thats a great question and youre going to have panelist asked them that same question to because i want to hear what they say. T ....