I do agree with you, Chairwoman Waters, that this hearing is a long time in coming, and is necessary.
the brief that you are referring to was filed by the Department in I think in 2017, before I joined the Department
if the United States were to amend the Constitution to extend a constitutional right to convicted felons, then that woul...
certainly constitutional rights are the most fundamental rights we have in our country
A centralized reporting system for tracking federal spending relating to disasters would be a vast improvement in terms ...
I do believe that nuclear power is an undervalued and underutilized alternative for the production of carbon-free electr...
We need a more commonsense approach to protecting the environment than just eliminating our energy industry altogether.
Such proposals seek a misguided, one-size-fits-all approach that poses an imminent threat to the economy of my State, cr...
If done effectively, having a lead federal agency to coordinate disaster response across federal agencies and with state...
Plans like the Green New Deal would certainly be a death blow to our economy.
Protecting early voting protects the franchise for everyone. That is precisely why it is dangerous to those who want to ...
So, in short, no one benefits from the backlog and that is why we have taken such significant steps to try to address it...
The backlog, essentially, or the caseload, essentially, almost tripled between 2008 and 2017.
We have seen an increase in asylum claims. They have doubled in the past couple of years.
Asylum claims are individual; they are very much fact-specific.
It is twofold, but it is perhaps two sides of the same coin. Individuals who are here who have no claim to stay are allo...
It is the largest--highest it has ever been.
I thank the Chairperson for convening this hearing.
