The subcommittee is meeting today to examine defense in depth strategy and its effect on local communities. I recognize myself for an opening statement. Id like to thank chief mark morgan testifying now before congress for the first time as the new chief of Border Patrol. Im sure you will be spending frequent visits the our subcommittee as we discuss very important questions related to Border Security. Things like what does a secure border hook like. What are the right tools and strategies to achieve a secure border and how do we measure success or failure. I want to focus on the second question. Specifically the unintenses consequences that live along the border including my constituents. In the early 1990s they were out matched in all aspect of illegal activity. Both between and at the port of entry. Yet despite having a smaller Border Patrol at the time agents apprehended millions of people. Border patrols response to this activity lead to operations hold the line and gate keeper th
The subcommittee is meeting today to examine defense in depth strategy and its effect on local communities. I recognize myself for an opening statement. Id like to thank chief mark morgan testifying now before congress for the first time as the new chief of Border Patrol. Im sure you will be spending frequent visits the our subcommittee as we discuss very important questions related to Border Security. Things like what does a secure border hook like. What are the right tools and strategies to achieve a secure border and how do we measure success or failure. I want to focus on the second question. Specifically the unintenses consequences that live along the border including my constituents. In the early 1990s they were out matched in all aspect of illegal activity. Both between and at the port of entry. Yet despite having a smaller Border Patrol at the time agents apprehended millions of people. Border patrols response to this activity lead to operations hold the line and gate keeper th
The Asian Session turning out to be a positive one. Really picking up from where he left off in the united states. A number of drivers in there, let us focus on them. U. S. Stocks advance for the first time in three days, as bank shares rebounded after we had numbers out of citigroup. They came in and help move the stocks higher. We also have this increasing sense that the fed is possibly not going to raise rates in 2015. Aspects of that stand at 30 . Julie hyman sends us this report. Julie u. S. Stocks rebounded after two days, and they gained strength and really quite a bit of strength as the recession went on. A couple of things in the game, we had better than estimated Economic Data in the morning jobless claims and prices coming in better than forecast. Also, strength of earnings have been driving things higher. On that from, we saw financials performing well. Citigroup came out and Beat Estimates that Beat Estimates, we have seen that trending. We sought trading revenues lag, tha
Herman it expansion on section 179 and other longerterm extensions and the president blew it up so we will do a clean one year deal. Does that, kate your task next year . Yes we will have more work to do but this has more uncertainty. One question on that part of the president s objection is the income tax not being extended here which is some thing you talked about and supported. Even if youre unhappy with him on this point you take the point on income tax credit . I do intend taking up the issue on reforming income tax credit i put up a lot of put up a plan on a lot of issues surrounding poverty and i think it needs to be improved and there is some issue that needs to be addressed but those were stimulus parts of the tax code which if you recall the pitch arry summers and other made, deal. In that atmosphere what is our honest assessment of the chances for good tax reform really taking shape. It will not be for a lack of trying. We think it is fundamentally the key cornerstone for fa
2016 is going to be a different election though. The world has changed. We dont need just someone with a strong economic plan. Thanks to the obamaclinton foreignpolicy team, we have gone from a policy of peace t hrough strength from a policy of leaving behind and it has been disastrous for the American People and the world. In fact, the president s popularity is so bad around the world today that i heard this report from a source that the kenyan government is actually developing proof that barack obama was actually born in america. [laughter] [applause] the fact of the matter is we are in a very serious time. I was in israel six months ago and i spoke with Prime Minister netanyahus Senior Adviser and he pulled me aside and he said in 2016 America Needs to elect a wartime president. The world is a dangerous place. We need someone with real experience. To be able to rebuild our military. The likelihood we will face a former secretary of state means we need someone with a long and deep un