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pursuant to notice i call up the chair s resolution authorizing the certain subpoenas for documents and testimony for purposes of markup and move the committee agree to the resolution. the clerk will were before the resolution. resolution offered by jerrold nadler. resolved that the chairman of the committee on the judiciary is authorized to issue subpoenas for documents and testimony from current and former administration officials relating to the following. tolerance policy other family separation policies and practices. two, detention or short-term custody of children and/or families and three, discussions about or offering the presidential pardon to department of homeland security officials or employees. in addition, the chairman without objection the resolution is considered as read and. open for amendment. i will recognize myself for. an opening statement today the committee takes additional steps in two areas. . immigration and alleged obstruction of justic ....
authorized to issue subpoenas with officials relating to the following. one, the zero tolerance policy and other family separation policies and practices. two detention or short-term custody of children and/or family and discussions about or offer the presidential pardon to the department of homeland security officials or employees. the chairman at his discession. without objection, i begin by recognizing myself for an opening statement. today the committee will take important steps to avoid oversight of the trump administration in two areas. immigration and obstruction of justice. first immigration. we have held hearings and sent letters to the jurisdiction regarding inhumane policies. many questions remany and it is past time we hold this administration accountable. january is one of my first acts as chairman i sent letters to secretary nielsen. and then with whittaker and azar asking they preserve and turn over any information and records pertaining to the develo ....
basic hygiene needs like soap, toothpaste and tooth brushes. children are suffering from the flu, chicken pox and measles. in every state in this country, this is child abuse, child neglect, medical neglect. a state child welfare agency would remove the children from these conditions and arrest the parents. by the way, it s never routine for a male pat down a female child. we can t tolerate state sponsored child abuse. the department of homeland security says they don t have the money to treat the children better. we provided $4.6 billion to address the humanitarian crisis at the border and specifically said the money could not be spent to build additional detention centers. yet, d.h.s. is expanding for-profit immigration detention centers in states far from our southern border. they found money to expand for-profit detention centers but somehow they don t have the money to provide soap, tooth brushes and medical detention for children. john kelly, president trump s for ....
we didn t know that before. they can figure out which one will work for you or me or whomever. i hope we lifted the stigma on people needing mental service. we re just a big bag of chemicals and things get out of balance. i hope we ve lifted that, as we did, i believe, on addiction. there are a lot of people, over time people evolve their views and get better understandings. i think over time we realized that people with drug addictions, especially this came out through our opioids work, they weren t necessarily criminals. they weren t to be shunned from society. with we learned in the course of our work on opioids, i talked to parents whose kids were high school football injury, the doc gives them a painkiller, and this stuff is so addictive and a few treatments and they re hooked. then they need more and more. i always remember my friend, mr. rush, from the chicago area. when we were talking about treatment for opioids, said that s great. you re doing that. the people ....
the appropriations subcommittee and related agencies will come to order. secretary, thank you for being here again this morning although it could always be better we will get you staffed up to a point this will no longer be the excuse so we will take the next reason it is not working the way it should but we encourage you to continue to do that. aobviously this is a difficult budget for us to talk about and frankly a difficult budget for you to defend forgot the budget control act has impact on this and in the case of the budget that you have been asked to submit, there is a reduction of 14 percent the budget control act would require an overallll reduction of nondefense discretionary spending of 9 percent so this budget even exceeds that but even for the 9 percent as i mentioned with the education secretary, present trump didn t sign the budget control act, president obama di did. you did not vote for it most of us did so there is some chair responsibility with that ....