With each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip imited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from North Carolina, mr. Jones, for five minutes. Mr. Jones mr. Chairman, thank you very much. Shortly before the july fourth break, we had three marines from camp lejeune, which is in my district, were killed during combat operations in afghanistan. Sergeant davis stewart, Lance Corporal brandon garbrandt, and Lance Corporal adam wolf. May i at this time extend my deepest condolences. Much attention has been given to the chaos building in iraq. However, we must not forget there is chaos in afghanistan. In june of this year, i visited Walter Reed Medical Center in bethesda, maryland. I met through soldiers from fort bragg who lost one leg each in afghanistan. I met two marines from my district, camp lejeune, one marine, 23 years old, had lost two legs
Eisenhowers lived in during their marriage. Few examples of her day dresses. She was very fond of the color in many shadest and styles. Jackie kennedy is well known for the little black dress. Mamies examples of little black dress. She said she would never dress like an old lady. Ofse gowns show her love bright colors. Monday night at 9 p. M. Eastern on cspan and cspan 3. Theavid cameron defended uks intelligence Gathering Program in light of recent allegations the u. S. Spied on several other countries including france, spain, and germany. David cameron took the issue seriously. The Prime Minister also costs,ed energy unemployment figures, and progress in automobile production. This is just over 30 minutes. There are over one million new jobs. We are told the government has a program that clearly leads to the disappearance of one million jobs. Time they admit the british economy is on the mend. We see unemployment coming down. Our growth rate is forecast to be almost three times as fa
Good afternoon, im the chief building inspect err with the department of building inspection. Today we are going to talk about Green Building, anwith me. He works closely to develop regulations and their implementation. In every case where there is a regulation or some other legislation, we have to consider, ok, how are we going to implement this . That is one of the biggest issues. Developing an Implementation Plan and trying to communicate it to you, architects, engineers, designers, is one of our big challenges. We also want talk about some issues relating to Green Buildings current and coming, and i think i have prepared a handout. We will start with a discussion of overall Green Building issues. Most of San Francisco is built with older existing buildings. We have some small number of New Buildings every year. We have the california, and in august, 2009, it ratchets up a lot. We have standards for the ordinance. We do not have a whole lot of stuff that addresses 90 of the citys ex
That is something our moderator was asked earlier today. Observers think the egyptians are in the best position to play that role, but my knowledge they are not playing that role. The conversation today comes at a crucial moment. Who are the palestinians, and what government governs all the palestinians, if any . Does the integration of the amas into side of h the Palestinian Authority reflect the integration of hamas or not . Is the rest of hamas operating separately, and he is that part of hamas contributing to the problem or solution . The Wilson Center has invested attention to the development in the neighborhood. This year we hosted an israeli minister of intelligence, palestinian the chief negotiator. Close to half of our ground truth briefings, something you know about which are telephonic conversations about hot spots, close to half of our nearly 30 iefings have been devoted to the region. Our guests will be introduced by aaron, who is the brandnew father of a son. The senior f
The nfl agreed to eliminate 675 million cap on concussion related claims available to thousands of players as part of a major lawsuit. So without objection i will enter the nfls statement in the record. Part of what were going to discuss today is traumatic brain injuries, a bump, a blow, a jolt to the head or penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain. More mild t. B. I. S, more commonly referred to as concussions have been the center of increasing discussion within the Sports Community in recent years as a growing number of current and former athletes say that they are suffering from memory loss and other impairments caused by repeated blows to the head. Of course, we are seeing the t. B. I. S that are coming home from overseas with our men and women in uniform and the performance of their duties as well. The centers for Disease Control and prevention have looked at 1. 6 to 3. 8 million recreational sports related t. B. I. S. They say they occur in the u. S