Good morning, everyone. This is US immigration attorney, Hardam Tripathi from Trip-Law based out of Tampa, Florida. Just want to say thank you to the panel for discussing kind of how all these policies do impact your day to day practice, because it truly does. These things do have lifelong implications on our clients and the way we actually have to adjust and pivot based on policies that do come out on a day to day basis. Immigration is very fluid.

It does change from week to week. And my whole goal as one of your congressional and legal correspondents here on the academy is to make sure that you also update on what's actually going on in the halls of Congress, what discussions are being made, who are the key players in Congress understanding the actual political and policy based vehicles that these congressional members use to pass a policy that does affect our practice, that affects our loved ones for all of you, all that are listening in, and also just kind of understanding what vehicles are they using in terms of like a chess game, in terms of getting things done in this kind of partisan type of politics that we've ended up getting kind of used to, unfortunately.

So one big thing I want to start off and preface it with is kind of just kind of let you know who the key players are. That's what's been going on in the past week and a half in the halls of Congress, along with who are the key players? How how does this actually affect the discussion moving forward? And how will this have an affect on your practice? And also how will it affect your loved ones and your neighbors and your family members or yourself if you are a dreamer or you are that, who needs these things so you can live that American dream a little better life in these great United States of America.

So first and foremost, I just want to kind of start off by saying who is the number one key player this week that really was very pivotal in terms of passing some of these policies. And I would say that the Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth Donahue, this person we don't really talk about parliamentary procedure or a lot of people may not understand how parliamentary parliamentary procedure works in the halls of Congress, because at the end of the day, the parliamentarian does have a lot of power.