we want to listen to sylvia burwell who is speaking now. she's the hhs secretary. let's take a listen. >> conditions that are difficult for many of us to imagine. oftentimes, they are preyed upon by smugglers who have made it their business to bring unaccompanied children across the borders. i had the opportunity to meet a few of these children last week as the chairwoman mentioned. we visited a customs and border patrol station along with a temporary shelter at an air force base in texas. we met the remarkable americans who are caring for these children and supporting this mission in other important ways. some of the folks work for cbp, fema, and hhs, others are grantees and community members, all going above and beyond. the children had heartbreaking stories to share. a teen-aged girl told us how she had fled her home when her uncle had been murdered in front of his house. sadly, the story is not an anomaly. many of these children are escaping violence and threats by gangs and they and their families are being preyed upon by smugglers. a situation of this magnitu

withorking relationship secretary sylvia burwell from health and human services is excellent.and also there is the work they're doing with attorney general eric holder and the increases being asked for immigration judges, etc. and with the volume of families coming in, do they require a different type of facility? how are you screening these individuals? obviously in recent weeks we have had one notable case, a gentleman from guatemala was released with his children, reunited with his girlfriend, who had been released with her children and months prior. he is arrested in texas, two days after she is found dead in a louisiana apartments. what is the screening process before these individuals are released with a notice to appear, to go back to immigration and customs or so days?thin 15 >> having had a long career in lawns were spent, seeing people released and having to the people in seattle who were released fromople custody -- not immigration related, but custody -- these are terrible things. these are tragedies. to have a domestic violence homicide as a result of somebody bei

jeh johnson and health and services secretary sylvia burwell testified at 2:30, and we suggest you use facebook and twitter. >>> our republicanism so focused and dedicated not being made so futile by unthinking and stupid labels. [applause] >> i would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. and let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. >> senator goldwater's acceptance speech at the 1964 republican national convention this weekend on american history tv's real america sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >>> house democratic leader nancy pelosi told reporters today that she's not in favor of altering the 2008 immigration law but said it is not a deal breaker. the law dictates how the federal government deals with unaccompanied children from non contiguous countries. pelosi said the president's $3.7 billion supplemental request for dealing with the border should be brought up and voted on immediately. >> good morning, everyone. >> good morning. >> some good news this morning from the comm

gerri: i had to ask but the health and human services secretary sylvia burwell.g statements that you want to comment on. she says we're saving lots and lots of money because of obamacare, and fact, she says that we have saved $8 billion. really? really? >> if you look at payments, the administration loves to tout these payments back from insurance companies. they like to tout the savings people have on insurance plans because they're receiving subsidies. that money didn't come from nowhere. we're paying higher taxes, penalty in lower growth. higher insurance premiums, if you don't have subsidies, you are worse off. people have lost plans, changed doctors, there's a lot of costs associated with the law as well and at least in my mind they well outweigh the 8 billion she's talking about. gerri: you have to take a look what americans are saying about the law right now. i think it's really telling. 18% say they're better off, and i believe it's 35% say they're worse off. 35% say they're worse off. 46% say the same. what's happening with the popularity of this law now

secretaries jay johnson and sylvia burwell testified before the appropriations committee yesterday. this is about three hours. >> senator shelby is on his way from voting and the official part of the hearing will begin sho short shortly. as you all know, today is the hearing on the supplemental request submitted by the administration to cover the unexpected and unanticipated needs of the significant number of unaccompanied children coming to our border. i want those who follow our committee so very closely to know that on tuesday we will be marking up the defense appropriations subcommittee and will do a full committee mark-up on defense appropriation on thursday. the committee should be alerted if we can get other things done during the week, with appropriate notice following the rules, we will do so. however, we will not do anything till after tuesday afternoon. we know tuesday morning will be the subcommittee on defense mark-up, we'll look also for opportunities because there are unfinished business at the full committee level. the opportunity perhaps to go to the floor with one

secretary sylvia burwell said she was down on the border just last week visiting with children, seeing what their sessions are. she said they need to get these -- what their situations are. they need to get these children prosprocessed more quickly and have more shelters overall. >> federal law says that hhs's role is to feed, shelter and provide medical care for unaccompanied children until we are able to place them in a safe and suitable setting with family members or a sponsor while they await immigration proceedings. as the number of children has grown, our resources have been stretched thing. . >> burwell emphasized that if they get the funding, if it's secured, they can save money over the long-term because she says beds, for example, can cost anywhere from 200 to $1,000 if they can get them reserved and dealt with farther in advance, the cost goes down. and it ultimately won't be quiet as expensive, michael. >> libby, no surprise the republicans have a different take on the what the obama administration is trying to do. what type of opposition is the president facing on this iss

i thought jeh johnson, in particular, and sylvia burwell did a great job, and i think that we'll gethe questions answers and i think it will go out of the senate because we just can't do nothing in this particular instance. now, in hindsight, it would have been great if the house would have taken up that bipartisan immigration bill that we passed a year and a half ago, because if the speaker would have put that on the floor, and if you put it on the floor now, i think it would pass the house of representatives. if that would have been done a year and a half ago, we would not be here today talking about $3.7 billion in an emergency supplemental. >> the house republicans, their role in the decision-making process about what gets done for us as a country right now, president obama yesterday, he said governor perry, quoting from the president here, governor perry, he suggested maybe you need to go ahead and act and convince republicans they should go ahead and pass the supplemental. the president said, i had to remind him i'm getting sued right now by mr. boehner apparently for doing ahe

health and human services secretary sylvia mathews burwell met with several governors on sunday. many expressed concern about the cost of hosting undocumented immigrants. many are pushing back against the president's $3.7 billion request to address the crisis. i'm joined by nbc's brian mooar in washington. brian, are we going to see a resolution anytime soon? >> reporter: well, that's the big question. here in washington whatever is done it has to be done quickly because congress is about to head off on its august break. with that clock ticking down, the white house is now looking to the states for help. this vacant army reserve building outside of baltimore might have been a temporary shelter for some of the thousands of children streaming across the u.s. border. until residents and local officials said no. >> the bottom line is, the community doesn't want it. the representatives from congress don't want it. the department of health and human services shouldn't be looking at it. >> reporter: it's just one example of the pushback that the obama administration is facing as it trie

that dominated a closed door session between the governors and sylvia matthews burwell. while martin o'malley is attempting to position himself for 2016 he said we are not a country that should send children away and send them back to certain death. other governors expressed concerns about get the resources from the federal government to house children in their states. >> we have a lot of questions that we want answered about the children that are coming. how is it going to be paid for, how much is it going to cost our nation, how long are they going to stay here? if it's that easy for a 6-year-old or 12-year-old coming across the border, who else is coming across the border of the united states. >> we have the resources to address the immediate situation and i look forward to hearing what the comprehensive plan is. >> with the 2014 elections less than four months away and 36 governor's mansions up for grabs, it's no surprise partisanship was also on display in nashville, so were not-so-veiled 2016 ambitions as bill haslam said you can be in a room where you have six, se

i'm glad sylvia mathews burwell is still over at h.h.s. i'm happy to support shaun's nomination and hope all my colleagues do as well. thank you, madam president. i ask unanimous consent that the vote of confirmation on the donovan nominee occur at 2:05 p.m. and that senator murray be in control at the final two minutes prior to the vote. that's my request. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. carper: thank you. mr. vitter: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. vitter: thank you, madam president. madam president, i rise today to discuss the growing crisis of unaccompanied daily children streaming across our southern border. it has been called a mounting crisis, including the security crisis it is. there are some 52,000 who have come across in the last several months according to recent reports up from just a few thousand a year ago. and the threat is that that will grow significantly. it is continuing to grow. this has been called a humanitarian crisis, and it is. these are in most cases vulnerabl

homeland security secretary jay johnson and also from the health and human services secretary sylvia burwell about that request and about the issue the unaccompanied children at the u.s.-mexico border. live coverage of that at 2:30 eastern on c-span3 and you can also follow that on line at c-span.org. earlier today before the president spoke to her from texas senators in texas senators and mayors on the senators on the senate floor about the situation at the border. >> today in the state of texas sadly he is not visiting the border. he is not visiting the children who are suffering as a result of the failures of the obama policies. instead, he is doing fund-raisers. he is visiting democratic fat-cats to collect checks and apparently there is no time to look at the disaster and the devastation being caused by his policies. just a couple of weeks ago as the senior senator from texas observed i was down at lackland air force base where they are roughly 1200 children being housed. there's one thing president obama said about what's happening that is absolute correct. this is a humanitarian disas

witnesses in the hearing including jeh johnson and sylvia burwell. >> senator shelby is on his way from voting. the official part of the hearing will begin surely shortly. hearing will begin shortly. i just wanted to go over two things. one, as you all know, today is the hearing on the supplemental request submitted by the administration to cover the unexpected and unanticipated needs of the significant number of unaccompanied children coming to our border. i want those who follow our committee so very closely to know that on tuesday we will be marking up the defense appropriations subcommittee, and we will do a full committee markup on the defense bill -- defense appropriation on thursday. the committee should be alerted that if we can get other things done during the week with appropriate notice following the rules, we will do so. however, we will not do anything until after tuesday afternoon. so we know that monday, tuesday -- tuesday morning will be the subcommittee on defense markup. we'll look for also opportunities because there are unfinished business at the full committee level

on thursday, homeland security secretary jay johnson and health and human services secretary sylvia burwell will be on capitol hill. they'll be before the senate appropriations committee to discuss the president's request for additional funding to deal with the situation along the border. that's thursday at 2:30 p.m. eastern, live coverage here on c-span 3. >> tune into book tv this weekend for the harlem book fair with discussions on the state of african-american multicultural publishing and the arts movement. live coverage starts at 11:45 eastern on c-span 2's book tv. >> next, federal reserve chair janet yellen talking about monetary policy and the economy at a recent lecture series hosted by the international monetary fund. the event begins with opening remarks from imf managing director christine lagarde and michelle camdasue who served as director from 1987 to 2000. this is an hour and a half. >> it is a tremendous privilege to open the lecture series in the actual presence of the person to whom this series is actually dedicated. thank you, michelle, for being with us. [ applause ] an

our meeting yesterday and sylvia burwell talked about how much it would cost per bed per child per dayer answer was somewhere between a0 -- between $250 and thousand dollars. if i don't plan on a vacation properly, i'm not spending a thousand dollars per day to stay at the most expensive hotel. again, the debate we are having is, does this administration, who apparently didn't plan on this even though the action caused it, does it really need another $3.7 billion to handle this? if we're going to try to spend money trying to solve the drug countries, isse that just a pipe dream that we're going to have any effect whatsoever on that? >> i don't think it is a pipe dream. we have had examples of having a transformative effect of the criminal justice system of other countries. it is been for the benefit to the national security of the united states. we have to engage with these countries. to the tunengaged of a billion dollars over the last -- years, just economically. >> thank you for the testimony. i agree with what is been said by my colleagues. let's get at the real goal here. the real

homeland security department secretary jay johnson, and health and human services secretary, sylvia burwell, talking about the administration's request and their initiative on the influx of minors at the southern border. that will be coming up thursday. the senate appropriations committee at 2:30 eastern, again that will be live on c-span3. in education news, education secretary arnie duncan is brushing off a call for his designation from the national education association. the n.e.a. adopt add resolution last week at its representative assembly in denver where the air was, quote, charged with anger, as members buzzed about some frustration at secretary duncan. the reporting here of politico, secretary duncan and president obama yesterday had lunch with a group of teachers. here's some of the president's comments. >> good afternoon, everybody. i am here with some outstanding teachers as well as secretary arne duncan. the reason we are here is with the school year now over, it is a great time for us to focus on what we need to do to make sure that next year anti-year after that and the year

now hhs secretary sylvia matthews burwell is pleading with governors for both parties to back the administration up but that is hitting speed bumps as well. >> don't blame this on any one. be a leader. layout a plan and i will suggest -- actually, the president doesn't have to have this big amount of money. he could pick up the phone today call the dod and direct him to have those 1,000 national guard troops on the border. >> it's up to health and human services to take care of these children within three-days of arriving and figure out how to house them and put them up with relatives in the u.s. supporters of the obama administration say that is a lot more effective than kicking these kids out. >> we can handle 50,000 people coming and processing them according to the law. i say put the children in the safe place give them their day in court and make sure we are not simply handing them back over to drug traffickers and human smugglers. >> in the last nine months 57,000 kids have crossed the border by themselves, most are from el salvador and guatemala. 57 percent of the young illegal immigrants

secretary of homeland security jeh johnson, the head of department of health and human services sylvia burwell, and both tell us that their agencies run out of funds by september. so we must respond, and this is the response today. for not only are they managing the humanitarian crisis at our border, but they're also charged with protecting human life and homeland security. earlier today, i met with immigration judges from the united states department of justice's executive office of immigration review. they informed me that they are desperate for increased resources with which to handle not only the influx of children's cases but also a current backlog of 375,000 cases. now, listen to this: due to there being only 243 immigration judges across the country, immigrants today wait 587age of days for a hearing -- average days for a hearing. that's a year and seven months before they have the opportunity to come before an immigration judge. with adequate funding from this supplemental, which provides for immigration judge teams, legal representation, and services, government immigration litigation

homeland security secretary jeh johnson and hhs secretary sylvia burwell will explain the president's request tomorrow afternoon in front of senate appropriations committee. c-span3 will have live coverage of that. it is tomorrow 2:30 eastern. on c-span3 today the senate foreign relations committee is looking into european energy security. committee chair, senator chris murphy, recently returned from a trip to eastern europe where they discussed the natural gas pipeline from russia to bulgaria. live coverage of that hearing gets underway at 2:30 eastern. that will be on c-span3. after the senate here on c-span2, the house veterans affairs committee will hold another in series of hearings on issues in the veterans affairs department. they will hear from va whistle-blowers. live coverage begins this evening at 7:30 iron. >> now the lead engineer of the curiosity rover that landed on mars. he was part of this year's annual new york ideas festival. his comments last about half an hour. >> we're going to talk about mars for the next few minutes. this is adam steltzner, excuse me. who is an

jeh johnson will be grilled and hh s secretary sylvia mathews burwell about the funding request. >> i cannot vote for a provision which will then just perpetuate an unacceptable human crisis. >> take these minors, identify where they came from. i have gone online. it costs $207 on a one-way trip in terms of plane flight, put them into a hotel, feed them, and return them to the country of origin. >> frankly, my republican friends can't have it both ways. sue the president for abusing his executive authority, and at the same time come to this floor and criticize him for a lack of leadership. >> and all across the country americans are debating the crisis. last night people in vassar, michigan, protested a plan that would house central american children there. >> if we don't have a border, we have no nation. i don't want these people here. i want them back where they came from. >> they are still our neighbors. if your neighbor comes to your door and knox on knocks on it a asks you for help, do you ignore it? these people, they're human. you're going to let them go back home and starve? >

tomorrow jay johnson and sylvia matthews burwell will face questions on capitol hill. the way the law works, they do get handed over to hhs.face que. the way the law works, they do get handed over to hhs.matthews questions on capitol hill. the way the law works, they do get handed over to hhs. senator jon tester is a member of the committee and he'll have an opportunity to grill them. good morning, sir. >> good morning. good to be here. >> so where are you on this request from the white house, the cost, what they're asking for? are you inclined to be supportive of it or have you not decided? >> i'm open to it. it's a lot of money. i think it's unfortunate we did not get comprehensive immigration reform passed. i think probably wouldn't be here today if that was the case. but we are where we are. i think it's going to be up to the folks in hope land securime and appropriations to ask how the money will be utilized, make the administration justify every penny. and then either modify the number or pass it out. >> do you expect the number to be modified? the white house as

meeting a couple of months ago and he specifically asked the secretary of health and human services sylvia burwell, if you're going to put any of these illegals in our state, let us know, will you? then he logs on to the h.h.s. website and discovers 760 of the kids have been released somewhere in tennessee, 30,000 all across the country. as it turns out, he didn't get a heads up even though he apparently was promised one. >> he actually went out to slam the president and those that he met with, with the warning that he requested unfulfilled saying this, quote, not only was our state not informed prior to any of the children being brought here, i still have not been contacted, have no information about these individuals or their sponsors other than what was posted on the h.h.s. website and subsequently reported by media. some of the questions he's looking for answers to are how did the federal government locate these sponsors? what medical screenings were done for the juveniles that have crossed here and been poured into our state? what is the immigration state of the actual sponsors? how long are

although secretary sebelius recently left health and human services, i expect the new secretary sylvia mathews burwell to take this issue very seriously. ultimately, the secretary of h.h.s. has the responsibility to ensure the health research grants are not abused. she needs to ensure that agencies within h.h.s. have all the tools that they need to recover money lost to fraud and to prevent it from happening, even in the first place. secretary burwell should investigate dr. wright's allegations about the office of research integrity and fix the problems that dr. wright outlined before his resignation. oversight is an extremely important part of the government's role. unfortunately, it is often ignored and taxpayers' dollars are abused. when researchers abuse the public trust, health and human services and all of its components should use all the powers that they have to investigate, resolve the problem, and get the money back. they owe it to the american taxpayers. i yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: quor