senator wyden. >> thank you, chairman. let's talk about the middle class. senator cardin and i, we are going after these unscrupulous tax preparers, and the combination of that and nina olsen's comment about the shrinking resources you have to go after tax cheats and those costs often get heaped onto the middle class, what should the middle-class taxpayer expect this filing season? >> as i noted, we're delighted that the filing season three weeks into it has gone smoothly. we encourage people to file electronically. over 85% of people filed electric electronically last year. make sure your return is accurate. if you file an accurate return online, it will be processed quickly. your refund will be processed within 21 days. your filing experience should be a positive one. the difficulties come where people often inadvertently file incorrect returns which cause us to have to write them. he have to write us back. they have to call. and we end up with a significant amount of work for us. and a certain amount of concern on the part of taxpayers. but i would stres

senator wyden. >> thank you, chairman. let's talk about the middle class. senator cardin and i, we are going after these unscrupulous tax preparers, and the combination of that and nina olsen's comment about the shrinking resources you have to go after tax cheats and those costs often get heaped onto the middle class, what should the middle-class taxpayer expect this filing season? >> as i noted, we're delighted that the filing season three weeks into it has gone smoothly. we encourage people to file electronically. over 85% of people filed electric electronically last year. make sure your return is accurate. if you file an accurate return online, it will be processed quickly. your refund will be processed within 21 days. your filing experience should be a positive one. the difficulties come where people often inadvertently file incorrect returns which cause us to have to write them. he have to write us back. they have to call. and we end up with a significant amount of work for us. and a certain amount of concern on the part of taxpayers. but i would stres

ron wyden lanes leans over and says i'd were continued to get to this spot. you've been here for three weeks in a mr. goodell and i feel like recognizing myself for a long speech but they would never ask me back if i did that. senator cantwell, you are up. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, thank you for your comments this morning and your focus on the economic strategy moving forward and for your emphasis on exports. my views are little different from some that event expressed by my colleagues but we have a more integrated trade dependency on the current in the pacific northwest so when future views on a couple of things that i believe are critical for this opportunity that 95% of consumers live outside of the united states, that the doubling of the middle class around the globe in the next 18 years is great economic opportunity for the u.s. and what are the policies that we need to pursue to take advantage of the. so things on our agenda, i almost feel like our economic agenda should just have the word export on the. freight mobility, improving our

i was very interested in your exchange with senator wyden in regards to the u.s. harmonizing with the international community on tax rates and the fact that we have high corporate tax rates. i also was interested in the exchange on simplification where you're trying to -- wyden wants to get the code more simplified, and i agree. i would at least put in a plug that you take a look at the progressive consumption tax that i filed taxpayers, joint taxpayers under $100,000 wouldn't have to file any income tax, and we would have the lowest marginal tax rates in the industrial world. if we're going to harmonize let's take a look at where the rest of the oecb countries are receiving their revenues if we want to be competitive. i urge you to take a look at it because i think it would answer some of your questions. i want to get your comment in regards to the administration's position on doing business tax reform. along with senator thune i'll co-chair a working group that will be looking at the business tax issues. and we have concern as to how small businesses treat it. i

. >> senator wyden. >> thank you very much. directory have done a good job of laying out the counterterrorism challenges and in my years on the committee we have seen the threats from al qaeda in afghanistan to insurgents in iraq and al qaeda the arabian peninsula. these are very real threats and the question then becomes how do we focus on ways to deal with these threats rather than an effect use approaches that waste time and resources? we have to focus on approaches that work. the bulk collection, the phone records collection that has been widely debated has been described by the president's review group and i will quote here is information that could readily have been obtained in a timely manner using conventional section 215 orders. these are all public documents public reports. mike morel for example of veteran of the cia reported this document and my question to you is first congress passes the legislation ending bulk collection would intelligence agency still be able to collect information you and they need to protect o

senator wyden? >> thank you, mr. chairman. secretary burwell, let me start by saying that my assessment is that you have set a new bar for cabinet secretaries in terms of reaching out and trying to be responsive. i hear about it with respect to citizens, apparently you're in virtually every corner of the country taking your family. i can only imagine the challenge of that. you're getting back to senators. i hear senators in both political parties -- conservative liberal -- saying the secretary actually got back to me. i mean, it's like such a quaint idea that somebody would actually do that. and i understand you've got discussions either coming or have already begun with governors. so my sense is you have really set a new bar in terms of reaching out and it is obviously very, very welcomed. now, too many people in america, including millions in our country and in my home state, feel like they're falling behind. they just feel like the economy picks up steam, they're not getting ahead. and it's our job to make sure that doesn't

senator wyden. >> thank you mr. chairman and secretary burwell let me start by saying that my assessment is that you have set a new bar for cabinet secretaries in terms of reaching out and trying to be responsive. i care about it with respect to citizens. apparently you are in virtually every corner of the country taking your family and i can only imagine the challenge of that. you are getting back to senators senators. i hear senators of both political parties conserved in liberal saying the secretary actually got back to me. it was such a quaint idea that somebody of what equity that could understand you have got discussions coming are you have again with governors so my sense is you have really set a new bar in terms of reaching out and it's obviously very welcome. not too many people in america including millions in our country and at my home state feel like they are falling behind. they just feel like the economy picks up steam they are not getting ahead. it's our job to make sure that doesn't happen in the fin

i do think, i want to make a brief comment to senator wyden's comments that we'll have a spirited debate on the fisa issue. i do think there are challenges as we've discussed before both privacy and security related around holding data at the telcos and that will be the subject of ongoing conversations. i want to raise isil and focus on most of your testimony. i would like to hear before the group when we were all at that moment astonished by the actions of boko haram in nigeria seizing 300 girls in the school and 200 of which are still missing and subsequent actions of the united states and sending troops and advisers to that region. we've seen since that time 1.5 million people displaced, more than 3000 killed in 2014 and a coalition arrives most recently nigeria joined with chad and cameroon for a force. could you give us an assessment whether these countries have the capability, whether the tide is swaying, obviously and nigeria has postponed their collections. first question can be can they take on boko haram? it's remarkable with the atrocities they commit are still pushed off the

senator wyden? >> thank you very much, chairman hatch. as chairman hatch noted, the finance committee is joined this morning by two legislators who are at the heart of the last major overhaul of the u.s. tax code in 1986. chairman packwood spent more time than anyone figuring out how to make the numbers in tax reform work. that is the tough work of legislating. senator bill bradley was the intellectual godfather of the reform plan that broadened the base, closed loopholes, and kept progressivity in the code. senator bradley lit the fire that got the reagan administration invested in reform. and i don't think anyone would question my judgment that senator bradley had by a wide margin the best jump shot in the senate tall guy caucus. now if there's one obvious similarity between 1986 and today it's that people are quick to say that tax reform is absolutely impossible. americans say congress can't organize a two-car parade. there's no way they could come to major economic legislation. so what happened three decades ago needs to happen again.

as senator wyden did with secure rural schools. we know this is really important. we know that many of these communities rely on this money for the public services that they provide to the rural residents but also to the visitors to those communities. this budget, as i said in the front end, is a forward-looking budget. it assumes that we move beyond sequestration. it assumes we make investments in the future of this country. i think as you've seen over the last year with continued economic growth in the country when we invest in this country we see a brighter future, and people appreciate that. finding a long-term mandatory funding source for pilt is very important. just as i believe in support for the land and water conservation fund, which has been talked about at this session. we have lots of revenues that are collected on federal waters, for example. the funding for the land and water conservation fund was intended to come from offshore oil and gas revenues. we collect something like $14.7 billion, the lion's share of that from offshore oil and gas revenues. i

senator wyden? >> thank you very much mr. chairman. let's talk about the middle class for a few minutes secretary lew. you all put in a number of proposals, 052nd tripling the child care credit, expanding the opportunity credit, all of theme that are going to be well received. as you know, there's been a pretty solid debate here these already emerged with people like the tax policy center about whether this is going to put more money broadly, broadly into the pockets of middle-class wage earners or will it be select groups like those with young children or college-aged children? i'm of the view that we grow the committee from the middle out, that you've got to get the relief to a road spectrum of middle class americans. did you-all consider a proposal such as significantly expanding the standard deduction? only does does this put a significant amount of money in the pockets of middle-class people, it it has bipartisan support. senator coates interested in that former chairman dave kemp was interested in that i want to know what you thi

i've spoken with chairman hatch about this and ranking member wyden. chairman hatch was one of the small numbers of authors of this bill in 1997. we know what it's meant. uninsured rate among children in 1997 was 14%, today it's 7%. we know other things about c.h.i.p. we've modernized it. it works in its present form very well today. my state it's 130,000 children most of them have -- are sons and daughters of working parents. but they fall in a place that they just weren't getting health care because those parents either don't have insurance -- don't have insurance and don't have the income to make those decisions to send their children to a family doctor for preventive care and other things. i have here mr. chairman if i could enter them in the record, i'm asking unanimous consent to do that. >> without objection. >> thank you. these are letters from 40 governors, including my republican governor, john kasich, 40 governors express how critical the current c.h.i.p. program is to their states the need to extend funding now, rather than later. senator c

i've spoken with chairman hatch about this, and ranking member wyden. chairman hatch was one of the small numbers of authors of this bill in 1997. we know what it's meant. uninsured rate among children in 1997 was 14%, today it's 7%. we know other things about c.h.i.p. we've modernized it. it works in its present form very well today. my state, it's 130,000 children, most of them have -- are sons and daughters of working parents. but they fall in a place that they just weren't getting health care, because those parents either don't have insurance -- don't have insurance and don't have the income to make those decisions to send their children to a family doctor for preventive care and other things. i have here, mr. chairman, if i could enter them in the record, i'm asking unanimous consent to do that. >> without objection. >> thank you. these are letters from 40 governors, including my republican governor, john kasich, 40 governors express how critical the current c.h.i.p. program is to their states, the need to extend funding now, rather than later. sen

and that's just unacceptable. >> well senator wyden would like to comment on this whole matter. >> mr. chairman, i just want to make clear what i think today is all about. today is about the hhs budget. this multibillion dollar budget that involves millions of americans. that is the topic at hand. and i'm very interested in working with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle on health policy. i've shown that plenty of times, and so have my fellow democrats. but i think the idea this morning that we are going to ask a witness to speculate about a court case, to speck slate about something hypothetical, and in effect have a big debate about something, i think misses the point of the challenge at hand. the challenge at hand is about the budget. and i hope that we can figure out a way over the course of the morning, we have plenty of colleagues who still want to ask questions, to talk about the topic that was scheduled. and that's the budget. and not talk about hypotheticals, about something else. by the way this is not the department of justice's budget. this is the department of h

let's go to senator wyden. >> secretary jewell, thank you for being with us. there's plenty to say that is supportive of your agenda. i just had town meetings across oregon over the last week and there is so much support for example, for the land and water conservation fund, making it permanent, fully funded and your leadership on that has been especially helpful. i want to talk about a couple of issues that are especially important to oregon right now because i think it would be helpful for the public to get a sense of your leadership and what's ahead. we finally have a bipartisan bill on secure rural schools which, of course, was written in this room. it was written in this room in 2000. senator larry craig, i, a whole host of others involved. a real lifeline to resource dependent communities, for funding schools and roads and police and basic services. and it is particularly important that we get mandatory funding for pilt back, because as you know at the end of the year there was this one-year arrangement for pilt and a lot of rural communities are finding

it's out there breaking the maryland icy conditions frigid and wyden -- windy and is it they'ring to? this enables commerce to get up and down the bay so people are working and getting important supplies. they even work because the bay is in both maryland and virginia they went out to the famous tangier island to free residents that were iced in to take food and fuel. the coast guard is on the job. they're working in the cold, they're working in the wind, they're breaking up ice in not only maryland but all over to these frozen ports and what do we say? good job guys, there they are on tv and we love you but we might not pay you. what is this? they're out there saving lives and we're playing parliamentary ping pong. then there's this whole issue of this despicable barbaric group called isil that essentially says we're out to get you and not only are we out to get but but then they threatened the fact that there could be attacks on the malls the shopping malls, here in the united states. we need then additional security from homeland security, and we also need to be able to work with o

senator wyden has one more. >> i'm going to be very brief and thank you both for that simplicity discussion because i've thought for a long time that this insanely complicated tax code plays right into the hands of the special interests and the lobbyists and it will be even more challenging today than it was in '86. we talked about gucci gulch and wonderful descriptions in it about the lobbyists who would wait in line outside of the ways and means room for a phone booth. well, today a lobbyist is going to sit in the back of the room and set in motion a tweet that is in effect probably going to go to millions or tweet directly to millions from the back of the room. so simplicity is going to be hugely important and i think there are some contenders for how to do it and senator bradley mentioned one in his testimony with respect to the information that the irs, in effect, has in giving the citizen an option of in effect having the irs mail something, it wouldn't be required, just an option. the postcard concept, in effect, you can put a tax return on the back of a w-2 and that is something wor

i know my colleagues, senator wyden and murkowski, the gao, the interior specter, aim sorry, interior'm concerned we consider the real impacts of climate change on our public lands. in is not just important to places like washington and alaska, to many places in our country, than tacoma news tribune pointed out many of the climate impacts at mt. rainier national park and in the past decades about glaciers melting and snowpack decreased as much as 18% between 2003 and 2009 so these are real issues everything from mud slurries to floods to repairing park infrastructure and we all know that historic drought conditions in california and the west have demonstrated climate-related change are present challenges to businesses, to the government, to families and because of this, i'm pleased that the budget includes a 15% increase for climate-related research. so i hope that this will help us bring bitter understandings about how to prepare for these issues similar wildfire impacts throughout the community, our state experienced one of our worst wildfire carlton complex which the destruction re

. >> senator wyden, you may remember my predecessor, give me control of the procedures and i will control the substance of democracy. this was not really a planned procedure. the house pretty much ceded us the right to write the bill and if they liked it, they'd adopt it, but i wasn't making any progress following normal procedures. it was only when the thing was not moving at all that i came up with this idea of half a dozen of us getting together in secret and in this group we had, four republicans, three democrats. we had an agreement. if any four of us could agree on something, it would be put in the chairman's mark. i recall no vote. four democrats, three democrats. i recall a number of those where i was on the three side of the vote, but we had that agreement. but it wasn't planned, nothing worked, but yet, the circumstance was there to make something work and that's how it i don't know if the circumstances here. you feel it. you don't plan for it. it arrives. i'm not sure how to make it arrive. >> i'm trying to get that feeling. >> senator harper, you're next. >> thank you, mr. cha

the headline from cq roll call after the news conference, obama and netanyahu's rift over a ron wyden's. a suggestion that was inappropriate for israel's prime minister to seek an invitation to address congress before parliamentary elections. the israeli leader reaffirmed his plans to speak to lawmakers on march third. obama had knowledge tn netanyahu have a difference around iran sanctions. netanyahu called a potential agreement with iran a bad deal that will endanger israel. he said, therefore, i am determined to present israel's position before the

. >> senator wyden. >> thank you, mr. chairman. director, it's great to see you again.k you've done a good job of laying out countertenor challenges. my years on the committee we have seen the threats move from al-qaeda in afghanistan two insurgents in iraq to al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula. so these are very real threats, very real threats, and the question then becomes how do we focus on ways to deal with these threats rather than, in effect, use approaches that waste time and resources? we've got to focus on approaches that work. mobile collection, the bulk phone records collection that has been widely debated has been described by the president review group, and i'll just quote here as information that could readily have been obtained in a timely manner using conventional section 215 orders. these are all public documents public reports, mike morrell, a veteran of the cia supported this document, and my question to you is first if congress passes the legislation ending bulk collection, would intelligence agency still be able to collect the information you and the

the headline from cq roll call after the news conference, obama and netanyahu's rift over a ron wyden's. a suggestion that was inappropriate for israel's prime minister to seek an invitation to address congress before parliamentary elections. the israeli leader reaffirmed his plans to speak to lawmakers on march third. obama had knowledge tn netanyahu have a difference around iran sanctions. netanyahu called a potential agreement with iran a bad deal that will endanger israel. he said, therefore, i am determined to present israel's position before the american people. president obama said netanyahu's visit threatens to politicize the relationship between the u.s. and israel. that is from cq roll call. next up, today's joint news please be seated. as always, it is a great pleasure to welcome my close friend and partner, chancellor angela merkel, back to the white house. angela has been here many times. but this visit is a chance for me to congratulate her on two achievements. well into her third term, angela is now one of germany's longest serving chancellors. perhaps more importantly, t

we talk about ron wyden who has certainly opposition to all of these programs the reason senator wyden been so public is again you may agree with him and not me but in the committee which knew fully of these programs, he consistently lost the vote 13-2. >> if i may i'd like to go in the short time we have available here, i'd like to go to what i think is implicit in this discussion. and that is a lack of trust in our government on the part of the american people. [ applause ] >> i would like to go further and say to you, i believe personally that that lack of trust is one of the health yethsiest aspects of our society today. that skepticism, that challenge, and that insistence in, again in my judgment, on a strict interpretation of the constitution will i think help to preserve god willing this constitutional republic. i think it is also important that we understand that that trust you mentioned they had in ranking members of the senate and house intelligence committee will in my view and i would actually would like you both to give us your assessment they have not provided vigorous an

senator wyden has one more. >> i'm going to be very brief and thank you both for that simplicity discussion. because i've thought for a long time that this insanely complicated tax code plays right into the hands of the special interests and the lobbyists and it will be even more challenging today than it was in '86. and we talked about gucci gulch and wonderful descriptions in it about the lobbyists who would wait in line outside of the ways and means room for a phone booth. well today a lobbyist is going to sit in the back of the room and set in motion a tweet that is in effect probably going to go to millions or tweet directly to millions from the back of the room. so simplicity is going to be hugely important and i think there are some contenders for how to do it and senator bradley mentioned one in his testimony with respect to the information that the irs, in effect, has in giving the citizen an option of in effect having the irs mail something, it wouldn't be required, just an option. the postcard concept, in effect, you can put a tax return on the back of a w-2 and that is something

by senator cory booker and co-sponsored by senators claire mccaskill, ed markey, angus king and ron wydenrriers for constructing municipal broadband networks. it is unfortunate however that this issue has become a partisan one as of late because it was not always that way. indeed in 2005, an effort by senators john mccain, lindsey graham norm coleman, john kerry, russ feingold and the late frankxd lautenberg sought to block states from restricting local governments abilitylz to provide internet service through the community broadband act of 2005. when the bill was reintroduced in 2007, senators-the late senator ted stevens, olympia snowe and gordon smith co-joined as co-sponsors. across the hall, a house version of the bill, co-sponsored by representatives fred upton and rick [zmu(rq) made it not quite, but it was y but what is strikinga5 s that the language in all of these bills is nearly identical. the only thing that has changed is the lack of bipartisan support. so i am hopeful that in this time in time,v unite across party lines to endorse measures that will break down barriers to in

wyden wants to get the code much more simplified command i agree. i would put in the plug that you take a a look at the progressive consumption tax that i filed. taxpayers under taxpayers under 100,000 would not have to file any income tax than we would have the lowest marginal tax rate in the world. if we are going to harmonize i urge you to take a look at it because i think that it would answer some of your questions. i want i want to give your comment in regards to the administration's position on doing business tax reform. i will cochair a working group looking at the business tax issues, and we have concern as to how small business is treated. if you deal just with corporate tax rates, then those who have pass-through entities or use as corporations would be at a competitive disadvantage if that is all we do. because of the high individual rights. i would i would ask how can you really just do corporate tax reform and be fair to small businesses in our country? >> sen. we have always talked about business tax reform, not corporate tax reform be

i know senator wyden and murkowski, the gao, the interior inspector general. many press articles have been raised about this issue and i plan to raise any own concerns about this as well. similarly i'm concerned we adequately consider the real impacts of climate change on our public lands. this is an issue important to places like washington and alaska. to many places in our country. tacoma news tribune recently pointed out many of the related climate impacts a mount rainier national park and glacier melting and snow pack decrease as much as 18% between 2003 and t 9. so these are real issues. from mud slurries to parks and infrastructure. and we all know drought conditions in the west have demonstrated climate changes are present challenges to the businesses, government families. and because of this i'm pleased that the budget includes a 15% increase for climate related research. so i hope that this will help us bring better understands how to prepare far these issues. similarly issue of the wild live impact throughout the cuneate.ommunity. the carlton complex

senator wyden to chairman packwood to my friend, bill bradley, it's great to see you. just great to see you. i was talking with brian seelander, who you graciously sent to me when you withdrew from the presidential race. one of the reasons why i'm here today is because of that kind gift along with shawn barney and a couple of others who came as well. so, thank you for all of them. now i serve on this committee where you both once provided great leadership. a couple of years ago we had -- we were having a hearing on the issue of deficit reduction and we had a bunch of really smart people here to talk to us that day, too. one of them was alan blinder. he had previously been vice chairman of the federal reserve. as you may recall. he's back now teaching economics at some school in new jersey. starts with "p." princeton, that's it. in his testimony he said to us, in terms of deficit reduction, health care costs. he said if we don't get our arms around that we're doomed. he said more than that but that was the sum and substance of what he said. we had a came to ask question

orrin hatch and senator ron wyden and representative paul ryan has settled most disagreements over theegislation. one remaining issue is how congress could move a deal from fast track process. complications from that could unravel any agreement." rick. caller: hello, america. america, what you all do not understand or ce, look behind this gentleman. you see a capital that was no by slaves. a white house that was built by slaves. the president is staying in his place. it is the reality of this country. america, i love this country. most black people -- 99.99% of black people in this country love this country. by live in a state where confederate flag is flying. that was an anti-terrorist group. you know what they used for the terrorist groups over there -- they use the confederate flag. you understand? this is ingrained in american society. the prison system. corporate america. host: from cincinnati, ohio. republican line. caller: speaking of the mayor, i love the man. he said exactly what a lot of people are thinking. i love what he said. i agree with them. i was just waiting for someo

senator wyden. >> thank you, mr. chairman. let's talk about the middle class for a few minutes.t in a number of proposals of the earner credit all of them that are going to be well-received. there's pretty solid debate that authority mercia people like the tax policy center about whether this is going to put more money broadly, broadly into the pockets of middle-class wage earners or will it be select groups like those with young children were college-age children. i am of the view that we grow the economy from the middle out. you've got to get the relief to a broad spectrum middle-class americans. did you all consider a proposal such as significantly expanding standard deduction. not only does this put a significant amount of money into the pockets of the middle-class people, there's bipartisan support. senator kos has been interested now. former senator dave campo was interested in that. i want to know what you think is in the budget that would growth a paycheck for a 50-year-old autoworker whose children are already out of the mess. >> senator wyden we designed a budget that

and this letter was written on july 22, 2014, and it went to chairman ron wyden and ranking member orrin hatch of the finance committee. and what the letter says -- and i quote -- "as the largest nonprofit/nonpartisan organization representing the interests of americans aged 50 and older and their families, we write in advance of the committee's legislative hearing on the social security disability insurance program to express our support for social security including its disability insurance functions and our support of rebalancing payroll taxes to ensure the earned benefits of 11 million disabled americans and their families are not reduced or put at risk." once again aarp "we support the rebalancing payroll taxes to ensure the earned benefits of 11 million disabled americans and their families are not reduced or put at risk." and, mr. president, i would ask unanimous consent that that letter be entered into the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. sanders: thank you mr. president. but, mr. president it is not just the aarp who holds that view. it is dozens and dozens

that's why i'm proud to introduce legislation today with my colleague senator stabenow and wyden and casey and leader reid to protect the chip program to extend its funding to match the authorization till 2019. the protecting and retaining our children's health insurance program, pro-chip, the act is straightforward, it's common sense, it will provide much-needed budget predictability for our states, the republican governor of my state supports chip, he understands they need it in ohio and across the country sooner rather than later so they can properly budget and plan and avoid gaps in health care for vulnerable children. again, these 130,000 children in might state alone overwhelmingly are sons and daughters of working families, wrote parents who don't make enough money to pay for health insurance out of pocket and who are working at companies and businesses who don't provide health insurance. i'm than 30 of our senate colleagues have already joined as cosponsors, providing health insurance to low-income children isn't just the right thing to do it's the smart thing to do. children

victims of trafficking act today, and i particularly one to express my gratitude to senator klobuchar, wyden and kirk for serving as michael authors and sponsors of this important legislation. senator portman, senator feinstein, senator schumer deserve credit for their great contribution but the truth is this has been a collective effort of a lot of the members of the committee. indeed, i would daresay the whole committee, and hope that we were successful as soon as we can get the bill to the floor, passing this important legislation. the fight against human trafficking is one of the most important human rights issues of our time. in 1865, the 13th amendment was ratified outlawing slavery in the united states forever. yet nearly 150 years later, thousands of american children will wake up every morning to a life of forced prostitution. today, we are here to help them put an end to that nightmare. at the core the justice for victims of trafficking act is about breaking down the barriers between victims, law enforcement, and society by adopting a holistic approach to fighting domestic human tr

it's out there breaking the maryland icy conditions frigid and wyden -- windy and is it they'ring to? this enables commerce to get up and down the bay so people are working and getting important supplies. they even work because the bay is in both maryland and virginia they went out to the famous tangier island to free residents that were iced in to take food and fuel. the coast guard is on the job. they're working in the cold, they're working in the wind, they're breaking up ice in not only maryland but all over to these frozen ports and what do we say? good job guys, there they are on tv and we love you but we might not pay you. what is this? they're out there saving lives and we're playing parliamentary ping pong. then there's this whole issue of this despicable barbaric group called isil that essentially says we're out to get you and not only are we out to get but but then they threatened the fact that there could be attacks on the malls the shopping malls, here in the united states. we need then additional security from homeland security, and we also need to be able to work with o