Its a testament to her knowledge and status that she worked as counsel and later senior counsel both republican and democratic chairs of this committee. Susan later moved to the democratic stamp on the former chair Ranking Member john conyers where she expanded her portfolio to include Administrative Law the federal courts and ethics issues. When i was elected to serve as chair he also asked susan to serve as committee parliamentarian. In addition to her all their duties. To develop procedures for hearings, markups and other committee activities. Regular viewers of this committee will recognize as the person sitting behind me providing the wise counsel. Susan has been essential to the operations of this committee and shes been involved in nearly every pace of Committee Business over the last year. Though she will be leaving the committee she will continue the book service as she transitions to a position with the Administrative Office of the u. S. Court. I wish her well as i think her
The disaster that is occurring at the border right now and if we could quick put up our chart. Not only to have it on the chart but we had an event in oshkosh over against the required a giveaway so i produced out of my factory cups with that chart but it shows how out of control this problem is. The first seven months of this year we have over 300 total 312,000 individuals over the border illegally and apprehended as unaccompanied child or family unit and i know these are not for public release yet so their initial numbers but in the first three months of may another 65000 unaccompanied children but primarily people coming in his family units and were apprehended at the border between the ports of reentry and over 97000 total apprehensions so were on path for breaking again i guess it was march 10, 3000, april 10, 9000 and now it will be beyond that in may so this is a growing problem. Needs to be taken seriously and its what you and the men and women that you lead are grappling with.
The f. B. I. To find ways to deter domestic terrorism. Sen. Durbin mr. Ray, welcome. I would like to ask you a question. Do you know what group was responsible for more homicides from 20002016, more than any other domestic Extremist Group . Dir. Wray not sure, but i think youre about to tell me. Not a trick question. I raise the question because your testimony that was submitted to the committee talked a lot about home grown violent extremists. In an and classified f. B. I. D. H. S. Joint intelligence bulleting in may, 2017, it found that white supremacist extremism poses persistent threat of lethal violence. It went on to say that White Supremacists are responsible for more homicides from 2000 to 2016 than any other domestic extremist movement. Seven members of the committee joined me in writing a letter to you and attorney general barr explaining our concern about whether the f. B. I. And department of justice were taking adequate measures to combat white supremacist violence and min
The oversight committee. He address Election Security and fbis response to domestic terrorism and white supremacist violence and other topics are chinese espionage and threats from an official. This is just under three hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] come to order we appreciate you coming over director ray we will try to get out of here by 1 00 oclock you have an agency to run and if there is any cleanup we will try to accommodate. Very briefly the oversight hearing comes at an important time even though there is no evidence the russians change the tally of the 2016 election they exceeded their wildest expectations or interfere with the 2016 elections. All of us are very interested in what we can do to make sure this doesnt happen again in 2020 and after what china is doing section 2015 authorities are about to expire to hear from the director what that means to the country with a pfizer warrant investigation we that is coming also media leaks at the fbi. Hav
Todays washington journal because the houses is about to gavel and for the day. Live coverage beginning in a minute on cspan. We will see you tomorrow morning back here on the washington journal. A communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , june 25, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. Green, for five minutes.