mayorkas back on capitol hill today to participate in border policy talks as the senate is postponing their holiday break to continue negotiating a possible immigration deal, which house lawmakers have demanded in exchange for additional u.s. assistance to ukraine. welcome to fox news live. i m griff jenkins. hour two, here we go, aishah. aishah: here we go, griff. i m aishah hasnie. u.s. border protection worning agents to be on the lookout for explosive devices after the mexican military obtained ten ieds on the border. what do we know, alexandria? reporter: this is nothing new and explosive devices housed on the mexican side of the border. as for what s going on in congress right now, emergency aid funding for aid in israel and ukraine and con ting gent on lawmakers contingent on u.s. border policy agreement and the senate indeed pushed back its holiday recess. secretary mayorkas arrived back on the hill earlier to continue meetings with senate negotiators and we ve lear
Senators from the region affected by this bill affected very dramatically by the bill were asking hoping our Senate Colleagues will too we want to support this faa bill it has a lot of good in it but when it comes to jamming flight on the Busiest Airport on the United States were saying what the air Traffic Controller said narrowly averting collision, stop, stop for gods sake stop with that madam president , i yield the floor. President this week the senate is finally considering the federal Aviation Administration reauthorization act. And im glad we are here even if belatedly our nation depends on a safe, efficient, and Robust National aviation system. And the bill before us today will help strengthen aviation safety address the Pilot Shortage, and improve airport infrastructure. All of which will contribute to a better experience for the traveling public. And particularly pleased that my proposal to create and enhance Qualification Program for perspective Airline Pilots, was included
Internet caucus taking a look at internet privacy and personal data protection. The chair of the Federal Reserve, janet yellen, testified on the u. S. Economy and Monetary Policy appearing before the House Financial Services committee on wednesday for about three hours. The committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to suggest a recess for the committee at any time. This is the annual testimony on the Federal Reserves supervision and regulation of the Financial System. I now recognize myself for three minutes to give an opening statement. The dodd frank act requires the Federal Reserves vice chair of supervision to testify before our Committee Twice a year regarding the supervision and regulation of Financial Institutions. Regrettably, five years after the passage of dodd frank, no such person exists. President obama has been unwilling or unable to follow the law in a point at vice chair. We can no longer wait for the president to do his job so we can be al
Thank you very much. Thank you for calling this hearing, mr. Chairman, and trying to get to the bottom of some of these questions. I appreciate the line of questions. I want to follow up, i believe mr. Pummill made a statement to the extent i think you said it was virtually impossible to fire a gs employee . Could you clarify and explain that a little more from your experience . In my experience its not very much. Ive been with the va for five years. The Civil Servants i believe this is federal government wide have incredible protections and safeguards so the process of taking care of a problem employee takes an incredible amount of documentation and oversight and time and energy and taxpayer dollars and normally ends with somebody outside of our organization coming back and saying you missed a step, reinstate the person with back pay or i personally find it very, very hard and impossible to navigate through. So it is virtually impossible in your opinion. Thats my opinion, yes, congres
Were focusing the use of our resources to deport and remove people on felons, not families. We want to stop tearing families apart. [ applause ] were emphasizing national security, Public Safety and Border Security over tearing families apart. We have created a new defer ed we have created a new divert Action Program for parents, for those who have been in this country for years who have been integrated members of society. There are by most estimates Something Like 11 million undocumented immigrants living in this country. The reality is that given our resources, theyre not going to be deported by any administration, republican or democrat. The most striking thing about that number of people is at least half, perhaps more than half have been here in excess of ten years. So the president and i in november directed the creation of a new deferred Action Program for those who have been here five years who have children who are citizens or lawful permanent residents and who have committed n