that includes those priorities. i have met with every one of the field office directors in the entire country by video. i have directed them, that if they have any questions, they are to raise it up their chain and ultimately to me who bears the ultimate responsibility with respect to the appropriate enforcement of those priorities, our training doesn't stop just with that. it was a continuing kind of spectrum. and i have also met with our lawyers. there are about 900 of them across the country that work with the immigration courts in order to ensure in their review of the priorities and the people targeted for enforcement that we're complying with those priorities. >> very good. let me ask this question about some reports that have come to our attention about mothers and children in family detention. there is a memo drafted by the secretary explaining field officers and directors should not expend detention resources on areas who are known to be suffering from serious physical or mental illness. in light of this me

that's priority one. employer of last resort, if the private sector won't create good, meaningful jobs, the government could. that debate -- >> that's more of a capital issue. >> the other thing we haven't talked about tonight which has been extremely impactful to balance sheets is what's happening to interest rates. we built an index and it tells people 55 to 75 what's the fair cost of your retirement liability. that index is up this year about 18%. >> 18%. >> if your assets didn't go for a 55-year-old, let me be clear. if your assets didn't grow by 18%, you actually fell behind in what the assets are able to produce in retirement. >> wow. >> that's a lot. >> so the low interest rate environment that we have now and again, you know, i think demographically, you know, you are starting to see more studies that say is this going to be a long term effect where rates are -- >> we are trying to create jobs with low interest rates but not doing a good job and it is causing more retirement insecurity. why not go

priority. the agency released thousands of criminal aliens convicted of offenses involving dangerous drugs assault, assault, domestic violence, stolen vehicles, robbery, sex offenses, sexual assault and kidnapping, voluntary manslaughter and even homicide. 27 percent were level one the worst of the worst. director, ice's 1st duty and highest obligation is public safety, the nonsensical actions of this administration demonstrate his lack of desire to enforce the law. i can only hope that as the knew director you will reconsider these policies put in place by your predecessors and return ice to an agency that puts public safety and the enforcement of immigration laws is number one concern. it is now my pleasure to recognize the ranking member of the immigration and border security subcommittee the gentlewoman from california for her opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. today's hearing is a 1st opportunity to speak with the honorable director of us immigration and customs enforcement tha

it includes the priorities. i have net with everyone of the field office directors in the entire country by video. i have directed them if they have any questions they are to raise it up the chain and ultimately to me who bears the ultimate responsibility with respect to the appropriate enforcement. that was the kind of spectrum. i also met with our lawyers. there are about 900 of them across the country who work with the immigration courts in order to ensure in their review of the priorities and people that have been targeted for enforcement that we're complying with the priorities. >> very good. let me ask this question about some reports that have come to our attention about mothers and children and family detention. there is a memo draflted by the secretary explaining field officers and directors should not expend detention resources on aliens who are suffering from serious and physical and mental illness n light of this memo, how if you know does i.c.e. justify detaining mothers and children with such serio

we're enforcing the priorities. that's how we're going about our business. >> well judge hainan made clear that this court -- if this court had ruled according to government's requested schedule it would rule without the court of the states knowing that the government had granted 108,081 applications despite its multiple representations to the contrary. yet they the government, stood silent even worse they urged this court to rule before disclosing that the government had already issued 108,081 three-year renewals despite their statement to the contrary. if you don't like fraud, does it bother you that you're homeland security department that you work for has actually instigated a fraud upon the united states district court for the southern district of texas? >> representative gohmert, with all due respect, i would appreciate you not yelling. i'll answer your question as well as i can. but my -- >> thank you for your dilatory answer, but i'd like an answer. >> if i may. that whole issue of the 108,000 as you said is

that was one of his first priorities. we've done a little bit of looking and i would be happy to talk to you about it off lean -- line but over the next few years we'll been investing nearly 2.5 billion $2.5 billion through a newspaper of different financial tools through gop, bonds, trust funds and housing fees and inclusionary fees. the $250 million bond that it mayor has propose is 1 piece as part of a major package. i would be happy to talk to you more about and go through the details of and this is certainly his stop priority and we are looking to spending more than $100 million each of the next 20 years on affordable housing. >> can i add that rehabbing public housing and small sites acquisition and rehab are really really important and i'm supportive but i know with the bay area government regional housing needs assessment goals of 60% of hosing -- housing be affordable and like you said it's really important but not getting to what the huge need is. i appreciate those comments. >>supervisor katy tang: i know that

the second and third priorities on the back. again, trying to make an effort to clarify for law enforcement where our priorities should be. so that is what is meant by that. that we're not -- the only thing affected by the injunction was the expansion of doca and the new initiation of the program. >> very good. now what steps is i.c.e. taking to ensure that persons who are not a priority for removal are not targeted for enforcement actions, or are not inadvertently swept up in enforcement actions? >> well, one of the steps, sir, is the training. and it was substantial and we just completed it in january, which was the initiation kickoff of the executive action, and that includes the priorities. i have met with every one of the field office directors in the entire country by video. i have directed them, that if they have any questions, they are to raise it up their chain and ultimately to me who bears the ultimate responsibility with respect to the appropriate enforcement of those priorities, we have -- our training doesn't stop

that is one of your top priorities. and yet you're telling me you don't even know if we have records of how many released or did not release. >> there may be a way to do it manually, sir. >> that's not what i'm asking, madame director. you're coming in today telling us one of the top priorities you have is getting criminal gang members out of the country who are here illegally. >> that's correct. >> but yet you can't even tell this committee that you have the data to tell how many of them you released back -- >> i can't give you that number. i suspect manually one can make that search and give you that. >> but you don't know whether you can do it. >> off the top of my head, i can't tell you what the number is, sir. >> madame director, i'm not ask you for the number. i'm asking do you have any way of telling which of the individuals you released in 2013, 2014, or you're releasing currently are members of criminal gangs? >> i believe so. but it may require a manual search and a little time to come up with that number. >>

need to remain our top priority. but the solution is not to throw more money at it. we spend more now on the v.a. than at any point in our history but too much money is wasted in the bureaucracy here in washington, d.c. and -- washington and doesn't get down to the care givers and the veterans who need the care. my constituents and veterans across the nation are waiting months for routine exams, while others who need special care are stuck in backlogs. mr. speaker, it simply isn't fair and it's not tolerable. our veterans deserve the best and we can deliver that by breaking up this bureaucracy of the v.a. we should give our veterans the option to get health care at the v.a. if they choose or to go to a private health care provider in their local community and have the v.a. pay for it. until we move to that system, mr. speaker, the v.a. at the top is going to continue to soak up the money and the veterans at the bottom are going to continue to not get the care that they deserve. i ask my colleagues to continue to work with me so that we provide the best health care in

supervisor mar and supervisor kim serve on and i was a previous member in service developed the priority conservation areas to led the city and nonprofit organizations that work on the conservation of those areas can apply for state and federal funding i've been working with the conservation on the burr water trail a project that spans several county that helps to expand bay area access and the water trail is a network of current and proposed sites along the san francisco bay area that allow non-motorized both the those that are in the southeast portion of the city not many developed sites to have access to the waterfront improvement will help to improve the recreational benefits to our residents san francisco bay is one of the regions greatest assets we should insure that it is perceived and all our residents have and have not's to enjoy and learn from it we'll hear from ann that will briefing share a few words thank you. i know you're a little bit under the weather so next we'll hear from nick p from supervisor mar's office that's been working on the other priority conservation my apol

we're enforcing the priorities. that's how we're going about our business. >> well the judge made clear that this court -- if this court ruled according to government requested schedule it would rule without the -- knowing the court granted 108,081 applications despite multiple to the contrary yet the government stood silent, even worse they urged this court to rule before disclosing that the government had already issued 108,081 three-year renewals despite their statement to the contrary. if you don't like fraud, does it bother you that you're homeland security department that you work for has actually instigated a fraud upon the united states district court for the southern district of texas? >> representative gohmert, with all due respect, i would appreciate you not yelling. i'll answer your question as well as i can. but my -- >> thank you for your dill tri answer but i would like an answer. >> if i may. that whole issue of the 108,000 as you said is in the middle of litigation. i cannot comment on that. i don't

that give an officer flexibility in making a decision whether someone fits within the priorities and should not be removed -- should not be put in removal proceedings or does not fit. and should be, because of their public safety concerns. >> thank you. >> thank you. i will now recognize the gentle lady from california. ms. chu. >> thank you. director saldana, the recent expansion of family detention from approximately 80 detention beds to now more than 2400 beds at the new detention center is truly alarming. a vast majority of the women and children escaping the northern triangle region are fleeing domestic and/or gang violence or abuse. in 2011 el salvador had the highest rate of gender motivated killing of women in the world followed by guatemala and the honduras. these women are escaping some of the most dangerous countries in the world to seek protection in the u.s. instead they and their children face prolonged detention while they fight their ally lump claims. in my view there's no way to detain families humanely. when i first learn the average age of a child in family detenti

what seems to be his priority? >> yes what he has announce's a war time government program with top priorityies the. calls for more of that and channelling it to yemen who are in a desperate situation. and the is it priorities for other priorities,ing on the army to be answerable to the government. and a call for the people of yemen to unite and support the effort aft government to bring about a peaceful solution to the crisis in yemen. he refused any idea of a dialogue before the houthis withdraw from part of the country, including this season. so in this statement they have laid out the general points or the main things that his government would like to focus on in this particular time including the higher committee to coordinate humanitarian supplies to the yemenis, and he has reiterated the will of this new government or emergency government to sit down around a table for negotiations but only after the houthis withdraw from parts of the country. >> reporter: now, when he was appointed, he was widely regarded a

another factor is more repeated calls on lower priority incidents. as chief suhr testified earlier as the number of police officers hasn't kept up with issues it takes longer to respond to some priorities and low priorities where it's just taking a report and we have more people calling back asking

. >> it was said that enforcing federal law would not be a priority to those where marijuana is legal. >> i believe the policy seeks to try and work with the states system that tried to take a different approach than the federal government with respect to marijuana and try to find the most effective way to still pursue marijuana cases. the policy that has been implemented still requires federal prosecutors to seek prosecution of marijuana cases particularly where we have children that are risk, where marijuana is crossing state lines where it's being trafficked from a state that has a state that has chosen a legal framework into a state that has not chosen a legal framework and the possible harm they are in and those who are driving under the influence of this. >> they are looking at the risk of those falling into the risk of children and the harm that can be done there. >> of the state is intending to legalize personal consumption at a small level of marijuana what would your advice be to that state? >> if estate were to reach out for its views to the agency, certainly i believe the

that was the priority on the house for. it's bad enough that that was the priority, but guess what? that $267 billion increase in the deficit is not accounted for in either budget. in addition to the affordable care act that you need to balance and say you're getting rid of, in the house we're passing tax cut bills which add to the deficit, which is not factored in here. you add to that the games that are being played in the war savings, the overseas contingency account, and you've got a whole bunch of financial shenanigans going on here to claim balance and to say -- i'm just going to close by reading from last year's republican house budget report. this is not van hollen writing this, this is from the senate house republicans. in the report, abuse of the oco cap adjustment, the budget committee will -- in the fiscal year 2015 budget process, and it will oppose increases above the levels the administration or our military commanders say are needed to carry out operations. unless it can be clearly demonstrated that such amounts are war related. that was the year ago. now, the same b

unless we give it priority. >> i want to make sure we're on the on the same page the mountain tunnel is an example it brings water to mockingucosin you may choose to buy power somewhere but we locked both that deal the wholesale customers their paying 44 and the power company has to pay 55 so therefore someone has to pay the 55 or we go through the process of renegotiating maybe for an agreement i think that was what we're trying to illustrate whatever t is identified as joint under 834 you can't walk away from the power does the water wholesale customers can't pay for it so that is the challenge that we are bringing up. >> okay. >> how do we determine the 55 45. >> well, i wonder who was there around that time (laughter). >> i was there but i don't remember. >> again. >> let me try to take it then you can since you were there. >> so my understanding when we looked at all the assets power and water and joi

let me turn to priorities. first, protecting people who work in the department is our top priority. oig has inspected physical security at overseas posts for years. however, since the september 2012 attacks on u.s. diplomatic facilities and personnel in benghazi, libya oig has stepped up its oversight efforts related to security. there is no doubt the department has made progress in improving overseas security. nonetheless, challenges still remain. through our inspection and audit work, we continue to find notable security deficiencies placing at risk our posts and personnel. second, oig has enhanced its efforts to oversee the department's management of contracts and grants, which total approximately $10 billion in 2014. contract and grant management deficiencies including lack of training, weak oversight and inadequate monitoring have come to light repeatedly in oig's audits inspections and investigations over the years. lastly, we continue to be very concerned about the department's management of i.t. security. oig's assessments of the department's efforts to secure its i.t. infra

this project has been identified as a priority due to the facts that it is helping to fix some of the city's core it infrastructure. so the foundation for which all of our other project need to be built on including a number of our major it projects. this project started in the current fiscal year. over the next 5 years it's estimated at another million dollars. the recommendation for annual projects allocation, the first is to don't grow this fund by 10% annually, the second recommendation in consideration all of the many critical ict infrastructure needs that we have as a city to take a look at the funding allocation it's for the next year and the third recommendation to identify one time funds help fund priority projects for the city. lastly i just wanted to give a little preview, we are working on a micro site for the ict plan and make it more accessible and more transparent. this is a sdeen for our home page as well as the inter pages of our website. that is my presentation. thank you very much. i am available to answer any questions. i know that miguel gammano is also available.

the steps i'm referring to is the non-priority seating. and basically, many adults are sitting on the frame that's why it's forced to go up. i tried it and i said, i don't think, if a person was a senior or a person who has arthritis legs, they are going to have a hard time getting up those steps even though you already have it in the current hybrid buses, but i never noticed it because i don't go beyond that area. so it's just a concern that i noticed just out of lately. >> i think you bring up really good points about that and it probably has a lot to do with how the passengers arrange themselves on the bus because i would hope the people that need the lower level are given the priority to remain on the lower level and the people who don't need the lower level would go ahead and take that extra step and climb to the tire. >> yeah, that is like a learning cultural change for people who are more ambulatory to the people who really need it. but it's that culture change and it's not easy to change. >> thank you for your comments. we are goin

let me turn to priorities. first, protecting people who work in the department is our top priority. oig has inspected physical security at overseas posts for years. however, since the september 2012 attacks on u.s. diplomatic facilities and personnel in benghazi, libya, oig has stepped up its oversight efforts related to security. there is no doubt the department has made progress in improving overseas security. nonetheless, challenges still remain. through our inspection and audit work, we continue to find notable security deficiencies, placing at risk our posts and personnel. second, oig has enhanced its efforts to oversee the department's management of contracts and grants, which total approximately $10 billion in 2014. contract and grant management deficiencies, including lack of training, weak oversight and inadequate monitoring have come to light repeatedly in oig's audits, inspections and investigations over the years. lastly, we continue to be very concerned about the department's management of i.t. security. oig's assessments of the department's efforts to secure its i.t. i

>> it is a priority now. the city lobbyist got us on the ajunda for repealing the sunset of the pilot for one example. we with are working with department of ed debbie mac mans who runs early education department at cde and has invited us to submit information we have on minimum wage. quite frankly because of the wages we have extensive information and analysis we conductsed on the c wages sites of which the title 5 providers are a huge subset of that program and so we will be providing that report to the state and using it to make our case. i think what is different today than 3 years ago or 4 years ago is suddenly san francisco has [inaudible] we used to be alone in the fight, now it is all of the center providers up and down the state especially on the coast. all the higher cost and there is a lot of operators giving up their contracts or not going after expansion dollars because they can't afford to use the dollars. in some ways our strategies here are support the providers to aloam to use the state dolla

this must be a priority for us. as an arctic nation. now, for many who have never seen the arctic, many nonarctic residents view this as a pristine untouched environment, i described it as something akin to a snow globe that sits on the shelf and it's pretty, contained, and it always looks the same and please don't touch it. don't shake it up, but the arctic is an area that's home to nearly 4 million people. humans have been living, working, hunting there for thousands of years harvesting the natural resources of the region. they've been developing the land. they live and work and raise their families there. just yesterday i had an opportunity to see a series of advertisements from the corporation that sits up in the north slope area, and stunning commercials the one that is probably most powerful is a series of pictures, of a whaling captain who also happens to be the ceo of this native cooperation moving from shots of him out on the ice looking as traditional and ancient as any might, and in the next shot is him in his office looking

weather so next we'll hear from nick p from supervisor mar's office that's been working on the other priority conservation my apologies for nick not be able to pronounce his last name. >> continue, please. >> you've covered some of the initial points i wanted to make sure that people know what the san francisco bay area trail is so thank you very much the coastal conservation for this we've worked in collaboration with the bay area government and the division of waterways at state parks the conservation tends to nominate the entire program by mayor 30th or puc designation as a reservation asset to the bay area there are many benefits that come with designation of a pc a a and many things that the trail bring they work together one in the area of health and education one is regional planning and supervisor cohen touched on two with regards to the health and education 9 water trail courageous health care through access to the bay area through boats like kayaks we provide information through the website a brochure and educational site for all sites designated our information promotes save person

supportive it plans strategical that are out lined here and goal one was established as the highest priority for us to be focused on which is support, maintain and secure critical infrastructure. followed by increased sufficiency and effectiveness and improved access and transparency. through the budgeting process koits provides funding for a number of sources. the annual allocation to address all of general fund needs. one of the biggest highlights is the i guess of major project funding for several major legacy systems. so the addition of this allocation has increased the general fund sources the in this plan by $91 million and approximately 200% increase from what we have identified 2 years ago in the plan. and the last two categories, the sponsoring department of the department is fund to use on the technology project and to some rate of allocation for general fund and non-general fund departments to help fund the citywide effort. non-general fund sources can range from enterprise department funding, departments who have internal operating funds to pay for projects as well as grant fundi

that was the priority on the house for. it's bad enough that that was the priority, but guess what? that $267 billion increase in the deficit is not accounted for in either budget. in addition to the affordable care act that you need to balance and say you're getting rid of, in the house we're passing tax cut bills which add to the deficit, which is not factored in here. you add to that the games that are being played in the overseas contingency account, and you've got a whole bunch of financial shenanigans going on here to claim balance and to say -- i'm just going to close by reading from last year's republican house budget report. this is not van hollen writing this, this is from the senate house republicans. in the report, abuse of the oco cap adjustment is a backdoor loophole that undermines the integ forfeit of the budget process. the budget committee will use oversight in the fiscal year 2015 budget process and it will oppose increases above the levels the administration, our military commanders say are needed to carry out operations. unless it can be clearly demonstrated tha

another factor is more repeated calls on lower priority incidents. as chief suhr testified earlier as the number of police officers hasn't kept up with issues it takes longer to respond to some priorities and low priorities where it's just taking a report and we have more people calling back asking is that police officer coming? it's been a while." we also have a -- this is something i am interested in what the data says. there might be a possible mitigation of calls from 311 and that was introduced in 2007 and effort to promote that and as time went on and people moved into the city we might have migration of people calling us instead of 311. >> sir, just a quick question for you. do you see the transition of more repeat calls, do you see that going from non emergency, non emergency to emergency calls? >> that's anecdotally what my staff tells me. i am trying to find ways of putting some numbers behind that and seeing what the trend is. >> okay. i have heard that from a number of residents in my district and it would be interesting to see that. >> y

attorney's office, sets priorities and has to. that is just what the president did in my opinion in the executive order. next one we're hearing a lot about executive action being unconstitutional and, so i would like to just talk about that. that is another myth out there. no federal court has struck down executive action. the most recent ral court to hand down a decision supported it. i heard it suggested that federal courts considered executive action unconstitutional. going back to justice rehnquist the supreme court repeatedly bolstered executive action and refused to review agency decisions in the law. two federal cases have been filed. one here in washington by/a pair yo notorious anti-immigration activist and that has been dismissed. one is pending in texas. no courts have struck down executive action. we're hearing speaker boehner and house republicans will be suing the president on this executive actions. i don't think that is a responsible use of executive action. speaker boehner and i disagree, if republicans disagree w

at sea crow so as you can see then i'll wrap up we on page 7 identified what we see as the higher priority issues which are the mechanic control limits bans our last conversation the enforcement rates and policies this form seven hundred electronic issue and the bundling and reporting and perhaps additional reporting for gifts of traffic jam and the rest awhile certainly important we'll consider of lower priority and so as a result we created our chart thank you at the end that essentially says we refer to the seven hundred form committee issues basically through september number one with the mechanic controlled community that involve you know a lot of work in terms of building the appropriate record and go to the bundling reporting and the enforcement regulation and policy discussion so that's the sum and i'll be happy to answer any questions or take any comments. >> questions. >> just a comment i think you've done a great job in the discussion you've done. >> i guess just for information purposes on our memo on page 3 you sort of list bullet power points to get to the candidate controlle

and as you point out, the priorities vary dramatically. mike rogers: that's why you always have this problem of coming to a common -- it's really by design of the department. they are designed to solve sets of problems and these are new wants problems that do not exactly fit. donna shalala: and the committee structure also doesn't lend itself to integrated funding. mike rogers: the congressional committee infrastructure does not lend itself to much the dni has something in the order of 22 committee siesta -- committees that he has to show up and testify. candidly, congress needs to get its act together. if you wanted to be bold in your report you could suggest that. try to limit, to a reasonable number, of cross committee reports. how much staff time do we spend in these departments trying to get ready for those briefings? any big event that happens, we lose the dni for a period of a month coming up to 22 different committees, some which will have jurisdictional impact of which you would want them to be in front of his time you scratch you

that was priority at house floor. bad enough that was the priority but guess what? that $267 billion increase in the deficit, is not accounted for in the republican budget. so in addition to the affordable care act revenue that you need to balance and say you're getting rid of, in the house we're passing tax cut bills that add to the deficit which isn't factored in here. you add to that, the games being played in the war savings overseas contingency account and you've got a whole bunch of financial shenanigans going on here to claim balance and to say, i'm just going to close mr. chairman, reading from last year's republican house budget report on oco. this isn't van hollen writing this. this was from the senate house republicans. in their report. abuse of the oco cap adjustment is a back door loophole that undermines integrity of the budget process. the budget committee will exercise its oversight responsibilities with respect to the use of oco designation in the fiscal year 2015 budget process and it will oppose increases above the levels the administration or mil

this must be a priority for us as an arctic nation. now, for many who have never seen the arctic, many nonarctic residents, they view the arctic as this pristine untouched environment. i described it as something akin to a snow globe that sits on the shelf and it is pretty and it is contained and it always looks the same. and please don't touch it. please don't shake it up. but our arctic is an area that is home to nearly 4 million people. humans have been living and hunting and working there for thousands of years. they have been harvesting the natural resources of the region. they have been developing the land. they live and work and raise their families there. just yesterday i had an opportunity to see a series of advertisements, the corporation that sits up in the north slope area. stunning commercials about i am a -- and the one that is probably most powerful is a series of pictures of a whaling captain who also happens to be the ceo of this native corporation, moving from shots of him out on the ice looking as traditional and anc

looks like from within mta and the other agencies so mta we're trying to manage a number of high priority programs vision zero with the high coordinator map and the build out of the bicycle plans all the programs in fact, the same streets it is important that when we touch a street we making all the improvements that we have programmed to meet all our priorities for that street before we go down the path to engineering and design we're requesting all the project managers communicate with one another he'd the scope of their projects not just the specific priorities they're there to implement liquor the bicycle planners are not just checking their project but all the transportation priorities are reflected in their scope in the project is on the high network matt haney if it's a project targeted for action by vision zero regardless of whether the project is initially funded through our vision zero funding resources we have a required coordination process to make sure when that projecting progress all the pedestrian and traffic safety scope has a safety into the project that is beyond 2014 p

. >> i wouldn't say that property crime is a priority it is not a different standard for crimes committed not whether the evidence holds us u up not a decision we want to do to disruptive a case but our obligation to protect the intrieth of the system on the property crimes the thing our office worked closely with the police department it is difficult in a one opt case for a judge to take into consideration seriously we've tried to do in partnering with the police department to know they're the people that condominium multiple of those cases and build a case it doesn't show you one car break in but 10 or 15 we're in a better situation whether to request a punishment and more likely to go forward and we inlate some of the situations we see otherwise we've started a multiple of those with the police department working jointly on a couple of operations i can't go into the calls but they'll bear fruit in terms of of identifying the people that commit those 50 and 60 in a month i'll be happy to work with you identifying what is appropriate. >> let me extend that question my understanding is th