but what they nderstand immigration reform as potential that improves the quality of the llbor force, allows us to meet some of our growth needs. >> lou: robert rector and it is your response to his response. here is robert. >> egan has numbers, in fact of what you are concludg in your report, he ss it would reduce the deficit by $2.5 trillion. >> i spent six months preparing this report. it's about 80 pages long. the appendix it desibes the methodology of what i did is over 30 pages long. anybody can loo in every detail of m analysis. mr. egan doesn't have a study or report. he has a press release about a study he might do. he has provided about a page and a half of information. >> lou: how do you respond to that? >> well, iay brevity is the soul of wit. what we looked at was the difference between the typical immigration scenario and what the census called a high scenario. we reported the facts on labor force participation, higher than native born, business start-ups by immigrants, higher than the native born. then it's just arithmetic. >> lou: let me ask you something. what is the

today we have three excellent persons who agreed to help us ,nderstand where we go particularly given the mountain of challenges that pakistan faces, internally and externally. let me quickly introduce them. then i will invite each one of them to speak briefly, then we will have a discussion and bring you into that. if all goes well, we will end at 1130. first of all, ambassador maleeha lodhi, joining us from pakistan via skype. she is well-known to washington audiences. she has served twice as ambassador at very critical junctures in the u.s.-pakistan relationship. she has always been an active observer of the pakistan political and economic scene at home and participates in a number of indian-pakistan track to dialogues and regularly write on events in pakistan. , hiswe have the ambassador detailed biography is with you. it is important to note that he has been ambassador to china, and foreign secretary. he was foreign secretary under the government of general musharraf. he decided he would advise against taking the case to the un. there was a parting of ways. maybe he has a differe

the reason i am giving you military 101 is because this framework is important to nderstand. not command and control anything from u.s. special operations command. my mission is to provide the right talent, the right capability to those dear special operation commands so that they, in fact, can support the geographic combat commanders. as special operations command, i have a functional responsibility hat is global. by having that, i can look into what has happened in central command and see the relationships between central command and african command, african command and southern command, southern command, pacific command. i can begin to put these pieces together because now i have an institutional relationship with those beer special operations command. each one of those works for the geographic combat commander. they also have subordinate command. as you are thinking through this, you have to think of a network. you can think of it just like any other network. you have notes, and from that you have branches. the geographic and then commander has some support command. tsoc

if not, we will go to senator -- a complete substitute, as i nderstand? >> i want to call up the mendment 18. this deals with the w visa. a temporary worker program that can provide for the needs of the american economy is an essential part of preventing future illegal immigration. >> that one would not be in order, that will be later n. i will protect your ability to bring it up, but it is not -- that part is not before us at this point. >> could we bring that up at a later time? let's do that. >> you also have amendments 1 and 3. >> if we could hold off on those, that will be great. >> let's have our staff discuss that. >> this is schumer amendment one. it adds technical corrections involving spelling, grammar or striking redundant language and it does make a few qualified technical changes or clarifications. the reauthorization of the brand travel promotion funding to mark pryor language did not make it clear that bill did not intend to redistribution -- redistribute funds that were meant for travel promotions. it clarifies the manner in which -- famil