Not required to have a visa when entering the u. S. For stays of 90 days or less. This is about an hour and a half. Call to order here. I want to thank the witnesses. There may have been a little miscommunication in terms of the timing. I thought we wanted to start this at 11 00, we had the vote at 10 45. Thats why our attendance is not as strong. Also appreciate we were able to set this up as a roundtable. I want to have Administration People and people from the outside sitting together so we can have a good discussion. This will be pretty much a free flowing discussion which is also nice. Rather than have it structured and seven minutes per senator. When were on a topic ill encourage my colleague to jump in. So its not disjointed. We have four witnesses here, miss kelly parisi. Shes the deputy secretary of the office in the office of policy. She can speak to the enhancements that dhs is thinking of strengthening the currents visa program. Mr. John wagner is here for customers and Bor
With a lets begin this prayer. We cannot remain silent. For us to honor the responsibilities that we have to protect and defend the american havee we must not only moments of silence, we must have days of action. , am grateful to Mike Thompson the chair on the gun violence robintion task force and kelly for bringing us together this morning. Many of our members are here this morning to bear witness. It is not just the high profile cases that challenge our cases. It is the everyday violence that must be addressed. I think our colleagues were hosting this forum and for the relentless efforts and determined leadership in confronting the gun violence crisis. We are grateful to our expert panelists for sharing their insights, experiences, and solutions. They will be introduced by our cochairs here today, but i wanted to personally welcome them and thank them. I am here to say, no more silence. We must take action to prevent gun violence. To start, we cant and must to closethe bipartisan the
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First, this deal will have no impact in the u. S. Business and, therefore, no impact on the amount of supplies procured today. In hops we purchased 8 of the hops in the u. S. We manufactured some but in the open market we purchased 12 of the cans available in the marketplace. We placed 25 of the barley available in the marketplace and all those figures will remain the same pre and post transaction. Bottles, we purchased 27 of whats out there. So thats all those numbers will remain the same and no impact because this transaction is about the rest of the world. Thanks, mr. Chairman. Thank you and Ranking Member klobuchar for having this hearing on a very profoundly important topic. I want to thank our witnesses for being here today, all of you with diverse and different viewpoints. Mr. Brito, thank you for making the trip from connecticut today. We welcome you and thank you for your involvement in our community in connecticut. And i want to say that im a nondrinker, so i have to disclose