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Measure is a job. And many of us believe that if someone works hard all day, all year around, that he or she should be able to earn enough to keep their family out of poverty. Thats why the president and democrats in congress have proposed to raise the minimum wage, which has less purchasing power today than when harry truman was president. And according to the Congressional Budget Office, that measure would lift over 1 million hardworking americans out of poverty and raise low wages for another 15 million working americans. Here in the house, speaker boehners refused to even allow a vote on that measure to raise the minimum wage just as he continues to refuse a vote to extend emergency Unemployment Compensation to 3 million americans. But we all know that even if we raise the minimum wage, huge challenges remain. And we must examine the past to chart the best way forward. A january report from the council of economic advisers did just that. It found that about 50 million americans rem
Taxpayers. The issue that we seek to address is known technically as corporate inversion. The details of inversion sound complex, but the principle is not. Inversion means avoiding potentially billions of dollars in u. S. Taxes by changing a corporations address for tax purposes to an offshore location. What we have here is a taxable scheme, an enormous loophole that allows companies to avoid billions in taxes without any significant change in where they operate, where their profits are generated, where the location of the executives who manage and control these corporations. A recent prominent example involves pfizer, a u. S. Drug company, and astrozeneca, a u. S. Based company. This corporate takeover which pfizer makes abundantly clear is all about avoiding u. S. Taxes has gotten a lot of attention and for good reason. It would cost the United States about a billion dollars a year in tax revenue. But this is not just about two companies. This is not just about one merger. Even a mer
Many of these diseases are related to the handling of wild and Domestic Animals in food production, slaughterhouses. Presenting disease starts at the farm, which is where the inspections take place. Preventing animal infections at the farm level can reduce foodborne illnesses. For example, reducing the number of salmonella in farm chickens results in a 50 fewer incidents of people getting sick from the bacteria. Salmonella chicken herds it is fundamentally irresponsible for this body to be cutting the food safety and Inspection Service budget. God help us all if there is some widespread outbreak in this country where we dont have 3,000 deaths a year, we dont have 30,000 deaths a year but we have 300,000 deaths a year caused by poor food inspection standards. We must restore this money to the budget and i ask my colleagues to support this amendment. Thank you. I reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. Does any member seek time in opposit
Before this was a political issue, that established by the state, establishes use consistently throughout the statute a particular way, when state is defined in the statute, a definition that they didnt mention, states expressly defined in the statute to include d. C. , not include the federal government, territories that are defined as equivalent for certain purposes, federal government never is, when people outside the political context engaged the statute, what was there unpoliticized read of the statute . Federal agencies havent been very forth coming with everything, but, you know, there certainly are efforts to try and look at what did neutral folks, when they read the statute, think it meant, because obviously now everyone who reads the statute has a sense of what the possible implications are. Crs, for example, did an early read where they said basically go by plain text. Pretty strong argument that this is limited. Acknowledge that you could also find it ambiguous. Irs, again,