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Two hours. This hearing will come to order. Been aring room has configured to maintain the recommended sixfoot social distancing between senators, and other individuals in the room necessary to operate kept aring, which we have it a minimum. This will be a hybrid hearing. Be present andll witnesses are hear in person and coming in by videoconference. Once you startne slight there will be a display before you are on the screen if you are coming in remotely. To minimize background noise button until your time to speak. If there is any Technology Issue senatormove to the next until it is resolved. I remind all senators and itnesses that the five machine clock still applies. Should all have a box on your those are operating remotely that is labeled clock remaining. Ime at 30 seconds i will try to the gavelo gently tap to remind senators their time is expiring. Speaking order process support brown and you i agreed to go but seniority. E welcome our federal housing regulators the honorable b
In the scene where some people are being forced to leave the scene. Are evacuation orders still under way. It is an advisory. About 200 home it is out here right now. Were seeing a lot of smoke but were not seeing a lot of flames like we were earlier. Were right off of knoll drive. Were seeing some calfire doing some defensive work. Were seeing a lot of smoke up on that ridge now on the other side of the ridge thats highway interstate 80. So again, we are still seeing a lot of air support come out this way. But we do have boots on the ground now here over at this neighborhood here and around knoll drive again. 200 homes were given an evacuation advisory. The fire is now up to 150 acres. Its being called the american fire. Earlier we spoke with a City Council Member who seeing the flames in his backyard. I think were still a little scared from the napa fire. The fires are still scary. Pretty tough. We did a voluntary advisory evacuation. And i was advising my neighbors to please evacuat
Hello. My name is robert barnes. I cover the Supreme Court for the washington post. Thanks for coming on this crisp, fall day to hear about the Supreme Court. Id like to thank the federalist society, particularly the Facility Division and practice groups for putting together what we think will be an interesting panel on what looks to be a very interesting term at the Supreme Court. After the trauma of last years confirmation hearings, theres been a thought from those who watched the court that it went out of its way not to look partisan last term, to look for ways to bust up the ideological divide on the court in some cases and to slow walk some controversies to keep them off that years docket. Its been welldocumented that each of the conservative justices at least once joined the four liberals to make up a majority in a case. And it went the other way, too. Each of the liberals at least once abandoned his or her usual voting partners and joined the conservatives in a case. Harmony cou
Border. Under this policy, families can be held for extensive periods of time as they await immigration adjudication proceedings. This briefing is 20 minutes. Good morning. Thank you for joining us today to discuss important action the administration is taking to address the ongoing curate in Administration Crisis at our southwest border. Publishing a final rule to implement the Settlement Agreement. This year we have seen an unprecedented flow of family units primarily from Central America coming to our southwest border. In the first 10 months of the fiscal year, u. S. Customs and Border Protection apprehended or encountered almost 475,000 families, 90 of whom across our border unlawfully. Three times more than any previous full year record. In the month of may alone, we saw it 8000, 630 members of family units arrive at our border, four times the record month in the last major search. As ive testified multiple times, and if experts throughout this missed ration as well as leaders in