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mr. conyers: mr. speaker, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan reserves his time. the gentleman from virginia. mr. goodlatte: mr. speaker, at this time it's my pleasure to yield one minute to the gentlewoman from minnesota, mrs. bachmann. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from minnesota is recognized for one minute. mitts backman: thank you -- mrs. bachmann: thank you, mr. speaker. i also thank mrs. blackburn who is responsible for this bill this evening and i wholeheartedly support, and this is why. last weekend i think the nation was stunned when our president said that he would unilaterally use his power, raw power, to effectively grant amnesty to five million to six million foreign nationals here in the united states illegally. he said that he would do that with his power. and what happened this week is that this body came together and we decided to answer the president's unconstitutional call. so this bill effectively, this daca bill, we'll put forward the strongest possible legislat
mr. conyers: mr. speaker, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan reserves his time. the gentleman from virginia. mr. goodlatte: mr. speaker, at this time it's my pleasure to yield one minute to the gentlewoman from minnesota, mrs. bachmann. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from minnesota is recognized for one minute. mitts backman: thank you -- mrs. bachmann: thank you, mr. speaker. i also thank mrs. blackburn who is responsible for this bill this evening and i...
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mr. conyers for his questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. would you discuss director rodriguez, the sheer numbers we are talking about? how many young people have come across our southwest border so far this year and last year and the year before? >> congressman, i apologize that as i sit before you, i can't tell you the specific numbers. certainly those numbers have grown over time. they remain essentially in the tens of thousands, but it is the fact that those numbers continue to grow. >> well, i have 50,000 for 2013, 25,000 for 2012, and even lesser number for 2011. does that figure in agreeably with your thoughts on this? >> my general understanding is that the trend until very recently was an upward trend. i think that trend has begun to level off. one thing i would notice i actually started reading latin american newspapers in honduras, guatemala and el salvador. spanish is actually my first language. there are increasingly stories in the media, one about individuals being returned, two about the fact daca offers no benefit to these in
mr. conyers for his questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. would you discuss director rodriguez, the sheer numbers we are talking about? how many young people have come across our southwest border so far this year and last year and the year before? >> congressman, i apologize that as i sit before you, i can't tell you the specific numbers. certainly those numbers have grown over time. they remain essentially in the tens of thousands, but it is the fact that those numbers continue to...
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mr. conyers: i yield to the gentleman. mr. cicilline: is it not a fact we are here because the republicans oppose this legislation in the senate and not sufficient votes to move the bill, and that's why we are here. the speaker pro tempore: the ntleman has not stated a parliamentary inquiry. mr. conyers: i reserve. mr. goodlatte: it's my pleasure to yield to the gentleman from texas, mr. poe. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. poe: i'm one of those who come from the state of texas and like many in this house, i have been down in the texas-mexico border. you have to be there to know what's going on. i went up and down the river with law enforcement officers from the state of texas and we see the people on the mexican side and the mexican government is complicit waiting for us to pass and they start coming across. and the other side talks about it being one group of people, children. that's not true. because the people that are being apprehended are not just children, a lot of them are teenagers, a lot of
mr. conyers: i yield to the gentleman. mr. cicilline: is it not a fact we are here because the republicans oppose this legislation in the senate and not sufficient votes to move the bill, and that's why we are here. the speaker pro tempore: the ntleman has not stated a parliamentary inquiry. mr. conyers: i reserve. mr. goodlatte: it's my pleasure to yield to the gentleman from texas, mr. poe. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. poe: i'm one of those who come from the state...
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mr. conyers. the gentleman from north carolina is recognized for his questions. >> pleasure, mr. chairman. director rodriguez, good to have you with us this morning. mr. rodriguez, the bush administration required that certain employers such as federal contraries, those employing foreign students in the optical practical training program and others use e-verify. what plans do you have to expand mandatory e-verify use? >> right now there are obviously very limited segment of employers subject to mandatory e-verify. i have been pleased to say that the accuracy rate for e-verify is at a high level. and our ability to adjudicate temporary nonconfirmations appears to be very effective. employers who utilize e-verify report high level satisfaction with that system. our agency has prepared a report to this body which was delivered some time ago that talked about what would be required to move to universal mandatory e-verify as a capability that we could achieve. i look forward to a continuing conversation with how we get there. >> i thank you for that. how do you ensure that employers -
mr. conyers. the gentleman from north carolina is recognized for his questions. >> pleasure, mr. chairman. director rodriguez, good to have you with us this morning. mr. rodriguez, the bush administration required that certain employers such as federal contraries, those employing foreign students in the optical practical training program and others use e-verify. what plans do you have to expand mandatory e-verify use? >> right now there are obviously very limited segment of...
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mr. conyers for five minutes. ou are recognized. >> let me begin with the policy director and i want to express my appreciation for this discussion going on here. it's quite balanced and quite revealing. mr. levin, can you speak about states that have eliminated or reduced mandatory penalties and their affect on the crime rate and the guilty plea reflects the cooperation rate? >> thank you very much mr. conyers. in 2000 it eliminated the drug mandatory minimums including retroactively including the subsequent decade the crimes fell 14% and i mentioned earlier south carolina is another example in 2010 and will back the drug mandatory minimums and seen the crime drop 14% since then. georgia under the governor who is a former prosecutor and his judge one of the best solutions we have babel back the drug sentencing laws about a year ago that penalties on the low-level drug possession and they have seen the crying continued to decline in georgia. so texas where i'm from we are still definitely tough on crime and we say
mr. conyers for five minutes. ou are recognized. >> let me begin with the policy director and i want to express my appreciation for this discussion going on here. it's quite balanced and quite revealing. mr. levin, can you speak about states that have eliminated or reduced mandatory penalties and their affect on the crime rate and the guilty plea reflects the cooperation rate? >> thank you very much mr. conyers. in 2000 it eliminated the drug mandatory minimums including...
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mr. conyers and these individuals have taken time and are here with us today. we are very appreciative. we will go by -- as people arrive, we will turn to them for them if they have any questions for the witnesses or reaction to the testimony. with that, let me welcome you. welcome these three fine, brave, courageous young people that are here with us today. let me begin with dulce. she is 15 years old and from guatemala. she lives with her younger sisters, her mom, and stepdad. she groped without her parents. her father died when she was two years old and her mother traveled to the united states when she was young because she cannot support her two daughters as a single mom in guatemala. she was almost sexually abused by a man working on her uncle's house. when she was told what happened, she immediately left the u.s. to bring her daughters the safety. dulce also witnessed attempted murder of a woman who sold food door to door in her street. she was shot by a man right outside of her home. she saw the woman was badly hurt and fled into her house so she could not also be harmed. she is
mr. conyers and these individuals have taken time and are here with us today. we are very appreciative. we will go by -- as people arrive, we will turn to them for them if they have any questions for the witnesses or reaction to the testimony. with that, let me welcome you. welcome these three fine, brave, courageous young people that are here with us today. let me begin with dulce. she is 15 years old and from guatemala. she lives with her younger sisters, her mom, and stepdad. she groped...
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mr. conyers from michigan where he pointed out that we must now, once and for all, draw a line with the use of national security as an excuse for all sorts of illegal and illicit activities generally that result in the erosion of freedom and just to test whether or not national security really was the purpose of this burglary in california when dr. fielding's offices were burglared by the plumbers to procure access to the psychiatric files of daniel ellsberg allegedly for a national security purpose but in reality to interfere with the trial that was to begin involving dr. ellsberg, you only have to examine the language of the president in his conversations with mr. dean on march 21st and march 17th. >> time of the gentleman has expired. [ inaudible ] >> i appreciate that. it's hard for me to complete a sentence when i want to analyze the conversation but let me just -- i appreciate that. [ laughter ] i do appreciate that. i refer to march 21st, and the conversation that i will be reading will be a description of how the ellsberg case became a national security case. the president is told b
mr. conyers from michigan where he pointed out that we must now, once and for all, draw a line with the use of national security as an excuse for all sorts of illegal and illicit activities generally that result in the erosion of freedom and just to test whether or not national security really was the purpose of this burglary in california when dr. fielding's offices were burglared by the plumbers to procure access to the psychiatric files of daniel ellsberg allegedly for a national security...
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mr. n conyers. >> thank you. i want you to know i think the over-criminalization panel is one of the most important in the house judiciary committee. what we are doing is working on ways to get this as much legislation as possible. we would welcome any thoughts you have no or in the future about this is it that critical. and after the votes this morning in 2026 rayburn right down the hall we are going to have a personal narratives of witnesses that have experienced some negative collateral consequence so we wanted to invite not only you two distinguished lawyers but everyone here to join us, if you can. my first question to both you is how can we ramp this subject up as effectively and thoughtfully as possible without overdoing it or creating a backlash or anything like that? do you have any thoughts on this, gentlemen? >> i do. thank you for the question. first of all, the collateral consequences project that was funded by the nha and completed by the bar association. we got this grant and many reasons because o
mr. n conyers. >> thank you. i want you to know i think the over-criminalization panel is one of the most important in the house judiciary committee. what we are doing is working on ways to get this as much legislation as possible. we would welcome any thoughts you have no or in the future about this is it that critical. and after the votes this morning in 2026 rayburn right down the hall we are going to have a personal narratives of witnesses that have experienced some negative...
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mr. chairman, ranking member nadler, chairman goodlatte, ranking member conyers and other members of the committee. pandora appreciates this opportunity to testify at this important hearing. without question pandora's delivering tremendous value to listeners, artists, songwriters and the music industry. 77 million listeners tuned into pandora last month and listened for an average of 22 hours. every month pandora performs more than 1.5 million songs by more than 100,000 recording artists, 80% of whom were not played on terrestrial radio. pandora contributes hundreds of millions of dollars to a new royalty stream for artists that did not exist 20 years ago. just nine years after launching, pandora will celebrate a major milestone later this summer. $1 billion in total royalties paid. as this committee considers opportunities to improve music licensing, pandora hopes the committee will appreciate the essential aspects of our current system of statutory blanket licenses, including the consent decrees, which encourage innovation through simplified licensing procedures, protect music users fr
mr. chairman, ranking member nadler, chairman goodlatte, ranking member conyers and other members of the committee. pandora appreciates this opportunity to testify at this important hearing. without question pandora's delivering tremendous value to listeners, artists, songwriters and the music industry. 77 million listeners tuned into pandora last month and listened for an average of 22 hours. every month pandora performs more than 1.5 million songs by more than 100,000 recording artists, 80%...