In 2007 when i retired for my 35 year career in Investment Real Estate i met my friend phil tang saying i want to get more involved in Government Services oh was initially appointed in the fall of 07. From that point on it was a complete roller coaster. As you know we entered the initial downturn and the number of appeals went from 1000 to less than 2000 year at the assessment appeal board one by dan to ran up to 5000 appeals in 21 201011 could swipe witnessed the actions of the board and don durrant and the Assessors Office under phil tang and no carmen chu and chief appraiser matt thomas as well as the board and the additional board three to accommodate the dominantly homeowners in the evening with their appeals and all of us about to make dramatic changes in how we became more efficient, more knowledgeable andcapable particularly at the Assessors Office coming before the board. Im an opportunity to do that as well as interpret the revenue and taxation codes board of equalization, as
Congress for. We came to govern, to uphold the constitution of the United States and do our best domestically. We are not doing our best domestically. S the house, we have no budget, as a friend of mine said today, thises a majority that cant build bridges, roads, highways, but can sure build select committees. This Committee Majority decides will spend the time of the taxpayers and money and resources to cut funding for the same idea thats not happened for 39 years. Remember, this has not happened for 39 years. Since the appearance of the hyde amendment, not a single federal dollar has been spent on abortions except in very, very rare cases to save the life of the mother. Thats right. Contrary to what the majority would have the American Public believe, planned parenthood spends zero federal dollars on abortions today. Thats what the majority select committee would investigate, for 39 years, when that law has never been broken. Mr. Speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. The speake
Our attorney general has advocated. At makes him a violator of his constitutional oath. We should be following in our oaths, not breaking them. When you hear about children being lured into this country by promises made by people in this town as to how good its going to be, oh, were going to get amnesty through and for any child that can get here before the border is secured, so we only allow legally approved people in, just come on however you can get here. We are luring people into horrible, horrible situations. Its time to start acting responsibly and that does not mean that we continue to send the message that is being signaled by this administration that, gee, if you can just get to the United States as a child well take care of you. And if we cant find your parents who are illegally in the country, then we will find somebody to take care of you legally, were going to allow you to overwhelm this country. And we have people saying, oh, if we just legalize everybody thats here, all
Were all here. Were going to convene our first of three round tables on the serious problem of Sexual Assault on College Campuses. They will occur every six weeks. Today were going to talk about the acts and talk to you about the challenges that the rules and regulations present. Two weeks from today, well cover title ix. Four weeks from today, covering the administrative process thats spent a great deal of focus on the criminal Law Enforcement process and where were failing to get these perpetrators into the criminal Justice System and what we need to do to improve our abysmal record in that regard. I thank all of you for being here. Youre all invited because youre experts in various ways on this issue. And this is not a hearing. This is a conversation. The goal here and i want to say for senator jill len brand and senator blumenthal, theyre sorry theyre not here today. Theyll participate in other roundtables we will have. But were working on drafting legislation. But we want to do is
Federal charges in 2008. The Judiciary Committee has received letters in support of Stuart Delerys nomination from a Bipartisan Group of current and former government officials and a group of assistant attorneys general for the Civil Division in the administration of president s reagan, george h. W. Bush, clinton and george w. Bush. Now i will turn to b. Todd jones who i have known for a long time. We worked closely together as members of the minnesota Law Enforcement community when he was in his first stint as u. S. Attorney for minnesota when bill clinton was president and i was county attorney. For the past two years b. Todd jones has been doing the impossible, killing two crucial federal Law Enforcement positions as acting director of the atf and u. S. Attorney for the state of minnesota. I see anthony back there. It hasnt been easy. Todd has his wife margaret and is a father not just any but four other children and a good one at that. We welcome anthony here today representing the