mr. secretary. >> yes, ma'am. the current daca program is for those who have been here since july -- or june 2007 which is almost seven years -- over seven years. you have to have been here over seven years, come here under age 16 and have to have been born after 1981. we advised the criteria that by rolling back the cut-off from 2007 to 2010 we removed the birthday limitation from post-1981 to any time. we've made the eligibility for the temporary period three years instead of two years. with regard to the dilly facility that we're opening up, i've sent my own staff -- my own lawyers down there to ensure that the conditions are adequate for family units and it is something that i'm committed to ensuring. >> and secure communities that you streamlined, which have really rounded up mothers and fathers and people who are no threat to the united states of america. >> i support the goal of secure communities. the goal of secure communities is to get at criminals so they can be put in removal facilities.

mr. secretary.> yes, ma'am. the current doca program is for those who have been here since june 2007, which is almost seven years -- over seven years. you have to have been here over seven years, come here under age 16. we revised the criteria that by rolling back the cutoff from 2007 to 2010, we removed the birthday limitation from post 1981 to any time when we have made the eligibility for the temporary period, three years instead of two years. with regard to the dilly facility that we're opening up, i have sent my own staff, my own lawyers down there to ensure that the conditions are adequate for family units and it's somebody that i'm committed to ensuring. >> and secure communities that you have streamlined which have really rounded up mothers and fathers and people who are of no threat to the united states of america. >> i support the goal of secure communities. the goal of security communities is to get at criminals. >> absolutely. >> the program as you know was becoming legally and political

mr. secretary, for those direct answers. i yield back. >> chair recognizes miss miller from michigan. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. good morning, mr. secretary. appreciate your attendance here this morning. obviously there is a huge divide, certainly in congress, and i think out there in the heartland, as well, about whether or not this is a constitutional overreach by the president. and just listening to your testimony, and i read through your testimony last night, and hearing you answer some of the questions, you obviously had a very, heavy, heavy, heavy reliance on the olc's opinion, the 33-page opinion that they issued in here through mr. holder's department of justice. and you said, i wrote a note when you said that they were very, very thorough. but yet it seems to me that the questions that you did ask them were specifically tailored, the three questions that you asked the olc, were very specific in nature, and perhaps there were some questions that you could have asked that you did not. but i would just -- cou

mr. secretary. >> yes, ma'am. the current daca program is for those who have been here since july -- or june 2007 which is almost seven years -- over seven years. you have to have been here over seven years, come here under age 16 and have to have been born after 1981. we advised the criteria that by rolling back the cut-off from 2007 to 2010 we removed the birthday limitation from post-1981 to any time. we've made the eligibility for the temporary period three years instead of two years. with regard to the dilly facility that we're opening up, i've sent my own staff -- my own lawyers down there to ensure that the conditions are adequate for family units and it is something that i'm committed to ensuring. >> and secure communities that you streamlined, which have really rounded up mothers and fathers and people who are no threat to the united states of america. >> i support the goal of secure communities. the goal of secure communities is to get at criminals so they can be put in removal facilities.

mr. secretary. to harangue you or toger you and i will ask you be quick with me so we can get to what i want to know in all sincerity. in previous meetings i have been here i have been told a little that what you said today we need more resources. backlog of caphe spend $800 million on new ports the next five years some of your border folks have told us. but when we ask for operational data to know what the bang for buck is for the taxpayer we get very little data. i was a board member and we were in our previous lives i ok to ay how can i say support resources and more pa taxpayer tax nvolvement we i don't know the return on the cap ex and what the operational effectiveness is macro data.eally can you shed any light on that? missing the boat here? >> i will shed light on my transparency.more i think part of the problem we data.s lack of coherent so, one of the things i directed in the executive actions that we a week before last i directed the office of immigration statistics to create the capacity

mr. secretary thank you for being here. i hope you are able to convey the love and gratitude for the men and women who serve on the border patrol, the agents who put their lives on the line every day for this country. we thank them for their service. what do you say to someone who believe that the president took action to change the law? >> we did not change the law. we acted within the law. >> can you play the clip -- this is from november 25th, this is the president in nevada, talking about this. >> but what you are not paying attention to is the fact that i just took an action to change the law. >> so you say he didn't change the law, but the president says he changed the law. >> he acted within existing law. he acted within our existing legal authority. listen, i have been a lawyer for 30 years, somebody plays me an 8-word except from a broader speech, i know to be suspicious. [ laughter ] >> it says, now you are absolutely right, that there have been a significant number of deportations. that's true, but what you are n

mr. secretary. >> yes, ma'am. the current daca program is for those who have been here since july -- or june 2007 which is almost seven years -- over seven years. you have to have been here over seven years, come here under age 16 and have to have been born after 1981. we advised the criteria that by rolling back the cut-off from 2007 to 2010 we removed the birthday limitation from post-1981 to any time. we've made the eligibility for the temporary period three years instead of two years. with regard to the dilly facility that we're opening up, i've sent my own staff -- my own lawyers down there to ensure that the conditions are adequate for family units and it is something that i'm committed to ensuring. >> and secure communities that you streamlined, which have really rounded up mothers and fathers and people who are no threat to the united states of america. >> i support the goal of secure communities. the goal of secure communities is to get at criminals so they can be put in removal facilities.

mr. secretary issuing mention secretary gate's autobiography a couple of timed. you have a great moment in "worthy fights pechowski when you're getting ready to make this extraordinary move over to secretary of defense and you first learn the job would be open when secretary gates took you aside after a meeting and said, leon, i'm about ready to go and i just want you to know that i'm going to recommend you to succeed me, and in the book you point out that he left something out. in the book you say i didn't know then, and on alarm from book's memoirs he also suggested hillary clinton, colin powell and michael bloomberg. >> guest: that's right. and bob gates, when he said that, we had gone to lunch for -- used to have regular lurch ford the intelligence operations cia, dni, and others within the intelligence operations. dia. to talk about intelligence issues with the secretary. and so it was after one of those lunches when he pulled me aside and said, i want you to become secretary of defense. and i said, bob, no, i am -- i really do think it's time for me to go h

mr. secretary. i yield back. >> the chair recognizes mr. meehan. >> thank you, chairman, and secretary. i have a great deal of respect for you but i have some fundamental disagreements with a couple of the points that were made. you are the one who said somehow somebody -- what you are doing is creating an opportunity for them to be lawfully in the country. i think it is a unquestioned point that as the law stands today, anybody who illegally enters the united states is a deportable alien. what has happened by this directive is the president has stepped into the authority of congress to determine if under the existing law you have identified somebody who will lawfully be here so long as they, using prosecutorial discretion, they won't be deported as long as they aren't a threat to public safety or border security. how can you create a class of people who are beyond prosecution and not be violating the constitutional separation of powers in which congress has clearly articulated its intent? >> first, during the period of deferred action, you can lose membership in that program if you com

mr. chairman. r. secretary what do you project to be the number of people coming across the border illegally this year? >> the number of people crossing the border this year? >> yes, this year. f.y. 2014 i believe total which are an indication of total attempts to 477,000. about > how many will succeed in actually entering without being apprehended would you guess? >> there's a calculation that is something in excess of that numb number. i'm sure you know, turnbacks ns plus plus what we call gotaways and estimate of total illegal migration. happy ve, but i would be to provide this number to you, what our border patrol's best i believe it is some percentage in excess of the 477,000 to 479,000. >> over a half million people in coming into the united states illegally this year. in ou were to succeed achieving your control of operational control of the border what would you like to to, from half a million to what? >> very clearly, circumstances i -- sir, i would like to see that come down. f.y. 2000 we had 1.6 mill

mr. secretary do you want a response? well, i look forward to working with you a little more closely. >> a better grade? >> i'll grade on the curve and give you a little bit better attaboy. >> curve goes up, not down. >> i'm not even going to go there. let me just say that i want to thank you on behalf of all the members. you have a great deal of respect here. you've equipped yourself most admirably today, even though i think some of these questions are beyond the role of the secretary of state. and yet you have done a very admirable job of trying to explain to the committee where we're at, where we want to go and how hopefully we can get there. i certainly continue to welcome as i have for months in my efforts to try to devolve language that can put the administration in a place that is in sync with the congress towards our collective goal. and i have no concern about our collective goal. our collective goal is to defeat isis. and i am convinced that we will. but i also think that there is a very compelling reason for co

mr. secretary, on our mutual goal. welcome you back. >> thank you. i want to thank the secretary for being here. -- in fact, i'm pretty sure this is not where he would like to be this afternoon. i thank you for coming before the committee. i want to thank the chairman again to try and set up a process this week that was thorough. that has not occurred. i think everyone understands, some of the things we will discuss are obviously like the ground -- yet, we have no defense presentations here. we have no intelligence presentations here. i want to say, on the syrian half ago e year and a were authorizing something that was, these are my words, one last 10 hours. we were able to go through a process that was much more serious than the one we will have this week. i think all of you will know, what passes in the committee this week will not become law. the comments that the chairman had earlier, at of a this will be part process. thank you for saying that, i agree with that. at the same time, i know were not going to get to places house and senate passed an

mr. secretary. >> well, mr. chairman and ranking member corker, it really is a pleasure for me to be back before the foreign relations committee. during my time here we have some things right. we certainly wound with up wishing we had done things differently. most of us would agree and i saw it during both parties' chairmanships including the years senator luger and i were here that this committee works best and makes the greatest contribution to the foreign policy and our country when it addresses the most important issues in a strong bipartisan fashion. this is one of those issues. the chairman and the ranking member both said that. this is one of the moments when the bipartisan approach really is critical. as you know, the president is committed to engaging with the committee and all of your colleagues in the house and senate. regarding a new authorization for use of military force as weal call it the aumf. specifically against the terrorist group known as isil though in the region it is called d

mr. secretary issuing mention secretary gate's autobiography a couple of timed. you have a great moment in "worthy fights pechowski when you're getting ready to make this extraordinary move over to secretary of defense and you first learn the job would be open when secretary gates took you aside after a meeting and said, leon, i'm about ready to go and i just want you to know that i'm going to recommend you to succeed me, and in the book you point out that he left something out. in the book you say i didn't know then, and on alarm from book's memoirs he also suggested hillary clinton, colin powell and michael bloomberg. >> guest: that's right. and bob gates, when he said that, we had gone to lunch for -- used to have regular lurch ford the intelligence operations cia, dni, and others within the intelligence operations. dia. to talk about intelligence issues with the secretary. and so it was after one of those lunches when he pulled me aside and said, i want you to become secretary of defense. and i said, bob, no, i am -- i really do think it's time for me to go h

mr. secretary, what it gets down to is this. mr. secretary has said there will be no ground troops. the administration was quick to correct it and said we have no plans for ground troops. many of us believe we ought to standby the president's statement about no ground troops. our fear is that if we don't, either this president or some future president will drag us into another deep, long lasting bloody almost pointless conflict. i am troubled that that is the new position of the administration to want authority for ground troops. i thought that issue was clear. >> it is. it is absolutely clear. there is nothing that has changed. there is no thought in his hand of using ground troops. >> i object to saying clearly in our objection to use of military force. >> what is contemplated by that is clearly this notion that we're not going do some big deployment and get involved in an enormous war. you have tried to make that clear. but the issue is can you provide an adequate garn teen for an exception for everything that may or may not arise? there is no effort here to slide or try to chang

mr. secretary. >> well, mr. chairman and ranking member corker, it really is a pleasure for me to be back before the foreign relations committee. during my time here we have some things right. we certainly wound with up wishing we had done things differently. most of us would agree and i saw it during both parties' chairmanships including the years senator luger and i were here that this committee works best and makes the greatest contribution to the foreign policy and our country when it addresses the most important issues in a strong bipartisan fashion. this is one of those issues. the chairman and the ranking member both said that. this is one of the moments when the bipartisan approach really is critical. as you know, the president is committed to engaging with the committee and all of your colleagues in the house and senate. regarding a new authorization for use of military force as weal call it the aumf. specifically against the terrorist group known as isil though in the region it is called dash. specific

mr. secretary. you're a very good diplomat. you've mentioned that the president doesn't need to outline his own aumf because we have one here. but then in your testimony, you state pretty clearly, at least, diplomatically, that we need to do far better than that. and senator johnson, if you go beyond that, i'm looking at a few of them here, 1955 with defense of taiwan, president authorized to employ the armed forces as he deems necessary. look at 1957 in the middle east. authorized to cooperate with and assist any nation or group of nations. 1964, southeast asia, take all the necessary measures to repeal any armed attack. then we come to this one, where the president is authorized subject to the limitations to subsection c. i would submit that's not just very comforting and not very strong aumf. more accurately may be an authorization for the use of not too much military force. when you signal to our enemies and to our allies that we're not going to use ground troops. we certainly don't want to. we may not anticipate that we wi

mr. secretary general. as i am sure you know, there have been intensive meetings going on over the last few days on the israeli-palestinian conflict and the possibilities of trying to get some action here at the united nations. what would you like to see, out of the security council to mac what track what kind of a resolution to mac. >> i active discussions are taking place between members of the security council and relevant stakeholders. this is ultimately a matter for the security council to decide. that being said, i would would certainly welcome the council's engagement and guidance for advancement of the middle east peace project. i have been personally reaching and engaging with the leaders of palestine and israel, leaders in the region and global leaders as a member and secretary-general of the united nations. we are strongly urging again that israelis and palestinians should sit down together. the security council can take actions, but it is ultimately up to two parties, to leaders so that they can

mr. secretary. i think there is undoubtedly -- and i will let the members express themselves -- there is a bold bipartisan view that we need it to defeat isil. and there is no debate about that. virtually every political element of of the spectrum from those considered dovish to those considered hawkish and everyone in between has a common collective goal of defeating isil. i must say they have not sent us five, six months into the engagement in aumf and had the administration sent an aumf maybe we would be better for congressional debate but that's not happened. if we wait for that and it's not forthcoming, by this or any other administration then the absence of getting an aumf from the executive branch and congress not acting because it's waiting for an aumf from the executive branch would create a de facto veto of pro rate of growth tifs and responsibilities the congress has. there are many of us on the committee for the purposes of understanding the administration's views felt it is congress's r

mr. secretary. u.s., we can meet under the offices of the strategic partnership dialogue and i think that we did what -- this period ing which mr. secretary has been in office. he visitors -- he visited us this year and we met at the african summit. this shows the commitment of the u.s. in a positive way. thank you very much. [applause] >> the first question will be from allie weinberg of abc news. >> thank you. mr. secretary, there is a lot going on the world. i hope you will indulge me in asking about two topics. first come in cuba, several members of congress have artie made their thoughts known. how do you expect the political atmosphere here in the united states to affect your efforts to normalize relations with you but? and, you met with alan gross today and talked a little bit about that. how did you perceive his health and demeanor? can you tell us a little bit about how he was doing? second -- >> third. >> fair enough. palestinian leaders are reportedly planning to submit a u.n. revelation

mr. secretary. we thank you for your incredible service. i am one of the few members of congress who voted for the authorization of military force in 2001 and 2002. when i look back at that, i never contemplated that it would authorize 2.5 million american military personnel to go to iraq and afghanistan. envisionedld have that 670,000 of them would be declared officially disabled or treated for ptsd. that the health care bills would now have risen to over $1 trillion, separate from the trillion spent on those conflicts. so it is from my perspective, -- we are trying our best as a congress to ensure that we don't. i never imagined that george bush would interpret the 2002 authorization the way he did, but he did. even as we debate this authorization it will go into the next presidency will stop we have to be careful, necessarily. i think that is why we are all being very cautious. we have lived through this recent american history that we don't want to repeat. i'm looking at iraq right now, looking for hope. you have had some breakthroughs.

mr. secretary. let's take a look at the seven cities the secretary mentioned.eland, boston, asheville, milwaukee, lansing, and south bend. in each area it was necessary to a day in the cooperation of local sponsoring organizations, usually one that was already aware of the problem. let's start in baltimore. the sponsoring group is the health and welfare council is to williams ringer is the director. -- and mr. william springer is the director. >> this project covers the baltimore metropolitan area. in a few months it has developed over 600 jobs that are considered appropriate for older workers who lack definite skills or formal educations. we have found that employers in the baltimore area are very receptive to hiring older workers through this project. >> this is mrs. james. unemployed for -- unemployed because of her age for over one year. through the baltimore project she was retrained through the maryland general hospital. now she is filling a needed role, needed by the hospital, useful once more to herself. >> everywhere that i applied for a job everybody

mr. roscum. >> thank you. secretary starr and mr. linick, thank you for your time. find your argument inconsistent in this sense. i just want to bring to your attention statements you made to my colleagues, some of the realities that i perceive and walk you through my thinking. a couple of minutes ago you told ranking member cummings there has been a culture change in the department. and if there has been a culture change in the department that presupposes that you basically offer everything up that's an obstacle and reflect, look, this is a problem and we're going to rid ourselves of every single problem that was an obstacle to a remedy. a couple minutes ago, you made the argument to mr. schiff -- not an argument, but you made the point, increasingly dangerous world. nobody here disagrees with that. it was compelling. you used words like extremism, disaffected youth and these posts are unaccompanied because they're miserable places to go, presumably. and yet one of the things that is the remedy to that is the waiver authority and recommendation number 13 that the d

mr. secretary has been in office. this and he visited us year, and we met during the african u.s. and this shows the commitment of the u.s. in a very positive way, and we would like to encourage this effort on the part of the u.s. thank you very much. >> the first question. >> thank you. mr. secretary, there is a lot going on in the world so i hope you will indulge me about asking for two topics. first on cuba several members of congress have already made their opposition known to lifting the trade embargo and relateded message announced today. how do you expect the political atmosphere here in the united states to affect your efforts to normalize relations with cuba? and second, you met with alan gross today and you talked a bit about that. but how did you perceive his health and demean snr tell us about how he is doing. second on the -- >> third. >> fair enough. palestinian leaders are planning to submit a resolution as early as this afternoon, perhaps they've already done it. that would demand an israeli pullout. what is your understanding of the status of that resolution at th

to the secretary, mr.rst of all, i want to thank you for the great job you do and that your team does. you have a new person in el paso, texas, the person i had the honor of representing. any callahan is doing a trippy job. works well with our team, works well and is attentive to the families in el paso. i want to thank you in the team in el paso to a phenomenal job. thank you. >> as your predecessor, mr. morrow come even responsive to estimate personally. we are able to talk on the phone about concerns before they become real problems. i want to thank you for that as well. i think the cemetery in el paso is in many ways remarkable. it is very clean, well cast, a great staff and the response and i think you probably have to data to back it up in terms of surveys from those customers to serve has been great. but as you know, there is one disconnect between the ncaa and el paso when our offices and that is the fact that el paso is one of three waterways the term you use, cemeteries out of the 101 in the syst

mr. secretary-general. as i'm sure you know there have been some intensive meetings going on in the past few days on the israeli-palestinian confli conflict, the possibilities of trying to get some action here at the united nations. what would you like to see, out of the security council? what kind of resolution? >> i understand discussions are taking place on the issue between members of the security council and relevant stakeholders. this is a matter for the security council to decide. that being said i would certainly welcome the engagement and guidance to advance the middle east peace process. i have been personally meeting and engaging with the leaders of palestine and israel. the leaders in the region and global leadership. as a member of the quartet and as the secretary-general of the united nations. we are strongly urging that the israelis and palestinians, the leadership sit down together and resolve this. the security council can take their actions but it is up to the two parties come the two lead

mr. secretary-general.as i'm sure you've known there've been intensive meetings going on in the past few days on the israeli-palestinian conflict and the possibilities of trying to get some action here at the united nations. what would you like to see come out of the security council, what kind of a resolution? >> i understand that active discussions are taking praise on the issue of the members of the security council and relevant stakeholders. this is a matter for the security council to decide. that being said, there is no guidance to advance in the middle east peace process. i have been meeting and engaging with the leaders of palestine and israel and the leaders in the region. we are strongly urging again that they should sit down together and reserve all of this the security council can take their actions but it is ultimately up to the two parties so that they can discuss all the issues. i believe that they have identified all of the issues and they know what are the fundamental issues to resolve. i h

mr. secretary. in the past the u.s. has simply blocked resolution at the u.n. feels threaten or undermine israel, this time you have made this trip to europe to discuss various proposals with your counterparts. can you tell us what has changed that has led you to do this, and mindful of your concern about discussing details about resolutions, could you tell us what the u.s. would like to see or would need to see in the resolution to support it? and finally, given the challenges that the u.s. has faced in trying to broker a mideast peace deal over these many years, it is time for the process to become more of a multi-lateral affair? >> it has always been a multi-lateral affair, but the united states clearly has a unique role to play as a result of our long-time friendship and relationship with israel, and the role we have played historically with respect to camp david, ozwell, and so forth. in the end this has to be decided by the parties. the parties have to want this. and the parties have to make key decisions that can lead to the resolution. now coming back t

mr. secretary, you mentioned edward shevardnadze. you spent a lot of time with him both before and after that particular period. i recall that you were actually out shooting sheep with him in mongolia when -- >> no, he wasn't shooting sheep. i didn't say i wasn't shooting sheep. >> yeah. would you say that again? >> although the fact of the matter was i really wasn't shooting sheep because the national security advisor we had at the time told "the washington post" i wanted to hunt sheep and they wouldn't let me do it. >> so those opening days of desert storm, you and edward shevardnadze were doing something in mongolia. >> no. we were negotiating arms control in siberia. we're sitting there. i got a call from bob kimmitt, undersecretary of state for foreign affairs. he said we're worried about what intelligence is reporting to us about iraqi on the border of kuwait and you might check with your interlocutor there to see what he knows about it. at that time, iraq was a client state of the soviet union. so i turned to him and i said, e

mr. secretary, we would like to hear from the administration, wwhat the what you see.and i do not believe that placing on this aumf sends a message of weakness. this is meant to authorize the do our er-in-chief to part in the combat against isil. isil not just an american problem, it is a global problem. no strategy can rely on americans alone.

to the secretary, to mr. walters, first of all, i want to thank you for the great job that you do and that your team does. you have a new person in el paso, texas, the community have the honor of representing, who is doing a terrific job, incredibly responsive, works well with our team, works well and is attentive to veterans and their families in el paso, so through you i want to thank her and her team in el paso who do a phenomenal job. thank you. >> as was your predecessor mr. morrow you've been very responsive to us, to me personally. we're able to talk on the phone about concerns before they become real problems and so i want to thank you for that as well. i think the cemetery in el paso at fort bliss is in many ways remarkable. it's very clean, well kept, a great staff, and the response, i think you probably have the data to back it up in terms of the survey, from those customers that you serve has been great. as you know, there's one disconnect between the n.c.a. in el paso and our offices. that is the

mr. roscum. >> thank you. secretary starr and mr. linick, thank you for your time. i find your argument inconsistent in this sense. i just want to bring to your attention statements you made to my colleagues, some of the realities that i perceive and walk you through my thinking. a couple of minutes ago you told ranking member cummings there has been a culture change in the department. and if there has been a culture change in the department that presupposes that you basically offer everything up that's an obstacle and reflect, look, this is a problem and we're going to rid ourselves of every single problem that was an obstacle to a remedy. a couple minutes ago, you made the argument to mr. schiff -- not an argument, but you made the point, increasingly dangerous world. nobody here disagrees with that. it was compelling. you used words like extremism, disaffected youth and these posts are unaccompanied because they're miserable places to go, presumably. and yet one of the things that is the remedy to that is the waiver authority and recommendation number 13 that the

mr. secretary. tough act to follow secretary kerry, but i'm sure we can do it. let me start with a question i think you probably get a lot and that secretary kerry probably gets a lot which is -- what is the harm in doing keystone? >> i wanted to get into the question of corporate tax reform. there's a lot affected by the issue of weather corporate tax rates should come down and targeted breaks should be given up. you promoted so many energy credits and r&d credits and stuff like that. is there a cost to not using tax credits, the tax policy as incentive for behavior? >> let me broaden to in general the tax policy set of incentives we have to accelerate the transformation to a low-carbon future. make no mistake about it -- the president has made it clear that we are committed to going that direction, so let me give you a couple of examples. first of all, this is not in the tax world, but the department of energy has rather enormous loan guarantee the authorities. we have $40 billion left in play. we intend to continue the great success with that portfolio over t

mr. carlos monje, to serve as assistant secretary for policy at the department of transportation. mr. monje is currently concert u.s. transportation secretary anthony fox a role in which he works on the administration's proposal to reauthorize transportation programs on the discretionary grant program efforts to promote equity and economic development. mr. monje previously served as a senior policy adviser and chief of staff at the white house domestic policy council where he works on a wide variety of domestic policy issues. if confirmed as physician mr. monje will play a critical role in working across the executive branch and with congress in the coming months as we look to renewing inspiring authorizations for surface transportation aviation in real programs. we also have dr. bella dinh-zarr. is it dinh-zarr or dinh-zarr? nominated to serve as the national transportation safety board. she will be available experience of the bar. currently dr. sim producer director of the u.s. office of fia foundation and international philanthropy dedicated to promoting safe and sustainable transpo

mr. secretary. you have outlined an impressive track record of the 22 agencies within the department but many would say there is still room for improvement in terms of integration of those. >> i would be the first to agree. >> when you issued a directive for one dhs initiatives could you take a little time to speak to what progress you have seen in terms of that integration and what things you still would like to see to create a more corporate entity? >> we created a decision-making process within the department which is typically chaired by the deputy deputy secretary to bring forward various different decisions that are made with the input of all the components sitting around the table and that concerns her budget process and a host of other issues. that process is already in pla place. less formally we have routine discussions not just normal staff meetings but routine discussions around the table and department headquarters where we gather component leadership to talk about a variety of issues a

mr. secretary, i will not allow you to go there, it was authorized after activity by the congress. >> theals want them to shut it down, of course and the reason for it is they were stupid enough to do it twice, they didn't learn it the first time, they didn't learn it the second time. and would we like to raise money? yes. >> i'm so glad we agree. >> just to tell you, listen to charles. >> i actually think that the house vote on immigration is a smart one to have. i understand it's symbolic, but it's an important one to have. if i were a reporter, and i was on the hillary cam pain trail, i would be asking her every single time to clarify her position on it. >> i didn't say that they can overturn it. i said in 2016, you could. >> also eric had an excellent sports metaphor there. sitting on the ball, i didn't know exactly what that meant. >> making new sports fans every day. >>> stay tuned, because dana's got some breaking news in the cooking world to tell you about, a major shake-up to the way girl scouts sell their sweets and,'re going to hear it next. good morning everybody. we are about

mr. secretary-general. as i'm sure you know, there have been some intensive meetings going on in the past few days on the israeli-palestinian conflict and the possibilities of trying to get some action here at the united nations. what would you like to see come out of the security council. what kind of a resolution? >> i understand that active discussions are taking place on the issue between members of the security council and relevant stakeholders. this is ultimately a matter for security council to decide. that being said, i would certainly welcome the council's engagement and guidance to advance the middle east peace process. i have been personally meeting and engaging with the leaders of palestine and israel and leaders in the region and global leadership as a member of the quartet and as the secretary-general of the united nations. we are strongly urging again that the israelis and palestinians, the leadership, they should sit down together and resolve all this. the security council can take their act

mr. roscum. >> thank you. secretary starr and mr. linick, thank you for your time. find your argument inconsistent in this sense. i just want to bring to your attention statements you made to my colleagues, some of the realities that i perceive and walk you through my thinking. a couple of minutes ago you told ranking member cummings there has been a culture change in the department. and if there has been a culture change in the department that presupposes that you basically offer everything up that's an obstacle and reflect, look, this is a problem and we're going to rid ourselves of every single problem that was an obstacle to a remedy. a couple minutes ago, you made the argument to mr. schiff -- not an argument, but you made the point, increasingly dangerous world. nobody here disagrees with that. it was compelling. you used words like extremism, disaffected youth and these posts are unaccompanied because they're miserable places to go, presumably. and yet one of the things that is the remedy to that is the waiver authority and recommendation number 13 that the d

mr. daily not related to peter is here as well secretary treasurer and mr. really from the local 10 is here if you want to say a few words. >> thank you, welcome commissioners over the last 20 years i've had an opportunity to work with pier 80 with religious containers and things since 2008 they had to generate two which revenue for the longer shore distribution e division this will be a nice opportunity to give back to san francisco we both loaded and the ships they've made many years this place has been dormant with metro quite a few years knowing how well, we work together with san francisco it will be nice to have them back in business and having the revenue come back to the city of san francisco and having the long-term shoreman back to work get back to business and work get that terminal open we've had an opportunity over the last 6 years for the jobs it is related to the longshoreman division we go to pier 94 and knowing where we were that place needs to be reopened san francisco needs to generate revenue we'll have lost it there it will be nice thank