and if marjorie taylor greene oig can convince two of three of her colleagues, she could do that. he would prefer not to deal with it at all.colleagues, she could. he would prefer not to deal with it at all. and just see what happens. >> and this is a caucus that has already struggled to get things done amongst and amidst the drama we've seen going on in the republican caucus. how much more likely is this to further paralyze that caucus? >> how much more can it be paralyzed? the implication here is not that speaker johnson will see his gavel taken away, if she wanted to, she would have filed privilege. she didn't. it is a threat. i think downstream the real question mark is what does johnson do, what does the speaker do about the standalone bill to pass aid for israel, taiwan. that is always a heavy lift. seems that marjorie taylor greene is saying if you go forward with that, i have this motion right here, i will file it. and i will recruit republicans to join me. it only takes a handful. and then at that point the question then can come to democrats, do you move to save speaker

oig said they have concerns.ds, legal documents. t me ask you this. can you sit in front of us today and say with full certainty that your department knows the identity of these children sponsors? >> senator, let me make sure that i respond to the question in terms of the identity of sponsors. in our custody is released to a sponsor without having gone through a full vetting. >> a full vetting that you said, let's speed it up. children are not widgets on an assembly line. they are human beings. sir, i would say that oig digrees th y.they say you do no. do you think you have a responsibility to follow-up with these children when they are placed? >> senator, we not only believe it is our responsibility to take care of these children when they are in our responsibility. >> you have the authority. >> they shall be responsible for coordinating and implementing unaccompanied alien children. you have to do that. and then the nextcare providersa follow-up call with an unaccompanied child 30 days after the release date. m

now, the oig, your hhs oig recently reported that your staff make timely safety and well-being calls,were due, and 18% never went out at all. at and it also found that the staff skip essential safety steps such as ensuring that the sponsors did not have a criminal record or that they were not sex offenders. so it should be no surprise that were continuing to hear reports suggesting the existence of trafficking schemes that are preying on these vulnerable individuals. allegations that we heard of coercionorced labor, and despite my persistent inquiry on this issue, your staff has stonewalled getting answers back. i've written you twice. i got responses that werem yourm secretary. one of them being over six months late, and i got it just last week before this hearing. mr. secretary, this leads me to believe that you don't give a rippg is happening to these vulnerable children. now, you answered senator cornyn about knowing where the children are and knowing who the sponsors are, but i talked to caseworkers in some places and can't ask if somebody is in the country legally or not. and oi

we had added that as expanding the jurisdiction for the oig powers and duties. um, but we were recommended that maybe we take that out. so sorry, because it goes through dr. and we don't want conflicting, um, resolutions. i also think it's a human resource issue. um, i don't believe that that we have legal here to legal. yes alrighty. sorry that. yeah so that i can speak to that specifically. it's on a case by case basis. if it has a ciu element and there's a criminal investigation, then it will be handled by them. if it's an eeo complaint, it will be handled by ia. dr. and our internal office. and if it is an administrative issue it could not rise to the level of ia. it's a case by case basis. so there can't be any general rule. so we will take that out. so it's safer to be silent on that. thank you. thank you. sorry to put you on the spot. um yeah. i'm not on the labor team, which is. yeah yeah. so. so, um. yeah. so just to be clear, janet has a lot of layers. so even when things go to her with their government team, they also refer to the other teams like lab

one of them was implement the oig's earlier recommendation and put in place this policy. needs to be an understanding among all the wardens and all 121 institutions that when and how should single celling be used . if i could give you a censoring covid. ers celling as a quarantine method. unless there was an extraordinary reason to do so. seven of thwere quarantined individuals during covid. not because they were acting up because covid quarantine. five of the seven had not had the review done before they were single cell to see if they had indicia of mental health illness potential. after action reviews indicated that all seven dead. >> striking. director peters, can you respond to that question about having a policy in order to implent? >> absolutely. first i want to say thank you for your comments about the partnership with the inspector gene i would love to say the partnership has been exceptional. i am the former inspector i know very much to respect his hard job. we are working on implementing all of the recommendations. here is what we have done as relates to the f

food plant because it focused on making sure who work collaboratively on recommendations as we do with oig>> in may of last year the plan for the 2026 reevaluation my understanding is usda as additional data on food prices and guidelines for americans to have insight on how the information will impact the taxpayers? will begin the process for the reevaluation. >> obviously we don't know because we don't have the information but i think appropriate to ask the information we have to deal with what's happening in the market of actual cost and a better understanding of what family skus and need. i can go into great detail in terms of assumptions about families struggling financially but they were not wind up to the reality. the amount of time preparing food from scratch other items purchased not aligned with everyday american life is important to have information to make an informed decision. >> i'm concerned that a lot of us are concerned about california's prop 12 and state laws on animal housing at a time when producers andk even. preventing chaos in the marketplace other similar initiative

i have a couple of unanimous consent request, i seek unanimous consent to enter into the record the oig inspector general report on some of these unaccompanied children of the border. i further seek unanimous consent to enter the stanford internet observatory publication into the record. mr. tebow , the last time i saw you in person in tallahassee, i know this is a challenging dynamic, but it is good to see you again person. >> had to see you, as well, i can't be that last part. sorry, not sorry. >> i now recognize the ranking member of the whole committee for five minutes. y >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. madsen, you are once the commander of the north florida internet crimes against children task force. what kind of cases did your unit investigate, and what percentage of your cases were related to the identification of child sexual abuse material victims? >> so, the type of cases that we dealt with where anything that had child exploitation and the internet related, originally. the computer forensics, proactive filesharing investigations, also undercover chat investigations. people m