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vote of the motion of the gentleman from california, mr. takano, to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 1381 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title. the clerk: h.r. 1381, a bill to direct the secretary of veterans affairs to take actions necessary to ensure that certain individuals may update the burn pit registry with a register s individual register individual s cause of death and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 41
thank you everyone. we will get started. thank you for joining today. i m the assistant commissioner for public affairs at u.s. customs and border protection. the purpose of today s briefing for the month of february and fiscal year 19. joined by chief ryan hastings a law enforcement operator who this surge impact of in migration of the last several months. commissioner remarks will open it up for a few questions. the numbers and migration specifics will be provided on cbp.gov at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. we will let dressed fiscal year whenfor security port compared to fiscal 2019 to illustrate this trend. i will turn it over to chief hastings, total enforcement actions for february in fiscal year 2019 were 76,103. that includes those deemed inadmissible at the ports of entry and those apprehended in between the ports of entry. this represented a 31% increase over january. of that 76,103, 7,249 were unaccompanied children and 40,385 were family unit aliens representing 62%
the hearing onme hr one, a bill that make changes to campaign finance, voting rights, and congressional ethics rules. why is hr one top priority for house democrats i think when house democrats ran in 2018, they saw that campaigning on a message of cleaning up corruption in washington was a very politically popular message, especially in some of the swing districts that democrats were able to flip from red to blue. inve seen in past elections 2016, bernie sanders and donald about anying correction washington was the political message. democrats understand that but they knew they had to get serious about trying to make a very bold effort to lay out a plan specifying how they are going to do this. i think that is why you are seeing hr one is so comprehensive and so broad. to build us cover a lot of territory. what are some of the key things we should know about the underlying bill? planks.ill covers three the covers money in politics, ethics, things like cracking down on lobb
months. the commissioner will share his perspective after chief hastings and the commissioner remarks will open it up for a few questions. the numbers and migration specifics will be provided on cbp.gov at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. additionally, we will address the fiscal year 2018 order security port when compared to fiscal 2019 to illustrate this trend. i will turn it over to chief hastings, total enforcement actions for february in fiscal year 2019 were 76,103. that includes those deemed inadmissible at the ports of entry and those apprehended in between the ports of entry. this represented a 31% increase over january. of that 76,103, 7,249 were unaccompanied children and 40,385 were family unit aliens representing 62% of all enforcement actions. with that i m going to turn it over to chief hastings for the border patrol perspective. chief hastings: good afternoon, my name is brian hastings, chief of operations here at border patrol headquarters. we ll see some videos here.