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[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2012] speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 17, 2012, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minorit...

Businesses and the middle class struggling to pay for Health Insurance, what does this mean . When we implement the exchange, we are going to pick up 400 million in federal subsidies to help poor and middleclass families get reimbursements from the fact youre not getting before. That is a big win for the state of vermont. If we all make it work and then let the states be laboratories for change, once you do not go below those basic threshold, we all know we need health care. This bill allows us ...

Identity theft reported as a result of the web site and ongoing. And of course hire copays, higher deductibles, more money out of patients pockets. Well, there was a new report out last week that brings this additionally to the fore in terms of concerns that people are having, and its even from people that supported the Health Care Law originally. There was a report out last week by a major labor union talking about how bad this Health Care Law is hurting its members. To put this into perspectiv...

Can encourage better behavior from north korea as opposed to imposing sanctions now and trying to coerce north korea into the fold. That is a difference of opinion of strategy. China really believes we ought to be engaged with north korea. United states feels every time weve tried to engage with north korea, they basically turnaround and failed to respond. What is the most important thing the chinese leaders want from you every day . The want greater cooperation with United States, because the u...

Just prior to the bill being brought to the floor. The gentleman from virginia, mr. Good lat, gave some background with regard to why a bill is necessary, ever since the library of congress ruled last year that unlocking your cell phone violates copyright law. Theres been a number of us on both sides of the aisle who have worked to ensure that consumers have the right to unlock their wireless devices and use their property as they see fit. Im proud to be a cosponsor of congressman geoff greens b...

Workers strike. 570 buses could stop rolling at midnight tomorrow as the union threatens a walkout thursday morning. If the buses go on strike, theres no way for me to get to school or work. I dont know how im going to do it. I apologize to the public. I know a lot of people depend on us. Reporter theyve been unable to reach an agreement workers can live with. Not only are they upset at a proposed hike in the cost of medical benefits, they say safety concerns are huge. Three shootings took place...

Figure out how to get her to daycare. We have to plan for that. Reporter planning has been tough for b. A. R. T. Riders. Its very annoying. Reporter especially when they dont know if b. A. R. T. Managements last best and final offer is really the final offer. We are working within the financial parameters of the last best and final offer. We are open to ideas as long as we remain within the financial parameters. Reporter and when the union says they will strike, will they really hit the picket l...

That all of our residents can access, through transit, the Nonprofit Community provides. So i very much look forward to that conversation, and im taking on good faith that we are going to have a real conversation about that in the coming months. But with that i will be supporting supervisor elsbernd. Any further discussion . Colleagues, lets take a roll call vote on supervisor elsbernds amendment. Clerk calvillo supervisor mar, aye. Supervisor olague, aye. Supervisor avalos, aye. Supervisor camp...

Nonprofits. I thought long and hard about this andnjr o talked to a lot f folks about it and i actually dont think thats the direction that we should be going. That we should be going. I think thate with a nonprofit status should be paying into the Transportation System and because of that i would much prefer a different approach as opposed to a blanket exemption. I actually would much prefer having a higher level of Square Footage exemption to we are able to hold some of the smaller nonprofits...

Thats what we did. And how many of you stood up to do that . None. Zero. Zero. Lets talk. Lets not water the wine here. Lets say it like it is. Let me bring in Washington Post National Political reporter Malia Henderson and wendell potter. Well have congressman pascrell in a second. But lets start with the admission from steny hoyer that some policies, people would need to get more extensive coverage. It is not that you would be abandoned and left without anything, but if your coverage was a bas...