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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
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 from iowa. I am a ranging member of a closed door subcommittee in a few minutes. I made a conscious choice to ask to be the ranking democratic member of the subcommittee. I did hat for several reason, first, i am the son of an immigrant. My