the agriculture industry is tantamount to a major contributor to the economy.

I think E-Verify is perfectly okay, but bringing in an electronic employment verification system to agriculture presents some unusual problems.

The Democrats could have invited any one of you or anyone else--victim--to come and testify.

I am just trying to make sure that there is a way that we can preserve the dollars to make sure both sides are playing fair so future victims, who may not even know they will have it for 10 years, are compensated.

I think we are all frustrated, we need to be speeding up this process and the science.

Today we convene the first meeting of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in the 114th Congress.

Last February, when public health officials needed to decide what strains would go into this year's seasonal flu vaccine, the FDA bet on the wrong predominant strain.

America is experiencing a severe flu season with an unstable predominant strain that could result in one of the deadliest and costliest flu seasons in recent memory.

In other words, the American people were stuck with a vaccine that wasn't going to work for nearly 4 out of 5 people and nearly 9 out of 10 seniors.

While this season's vaccine has lower-than-usual effectiveness, CDC is still recommending vaccination for everyone 6 months or older.

But you could do that fairly quickly during that--the issue of the Swine--from 2009.

I think the members remember in 2009 where, in the spring of 2009, we did decide it was important to go forward with a monovalent vaccine.

But here in September, a decision was made for the World Health Organization to change this for the Southern Hemisphere.

What I am concerned about is, we want to break through, if there is some bureaucratic hurdles, this committee wants to help.

I would like to enter into the record data from the Customs and Border Protection indicating that apprehensions of unaccompanied children have gone down 38 percent in 2015 from the same time last year.

I would additionally like to submit into the record documentation from the Executive Office of Immigration Review indicating that in the time period of July 18, 2014, and December 23, unaccompanied children had a 14 percent absence rate.

I would like to enter a number of documents into the record, please.

This indicates that an individual by the name of Ms. Cortes, who was a victim of domestic violence, was stopped by some of your officers and, rather than allowing her to show her papers, was immediately put into detention.