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Our nation, surrounding it with the shield of your favor. How worthy you are of our praise. Strengthen our lawmakers for todays journey. Give them strong hearts, sound minds, and diligent hands. May they do their ethical best to represent you, joining their plans to your will in order to accomplish your purposes. Incline their hearts to your wisdom and love as you keep them on the path of integrity. We pray in your sacred name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledg...

More opportunity for the middle class, class and more flexibility in a complex age with complex demands. That is why we try to pursue common sense jobs ideas including those with bipartisan support. Things like; reforming a broken tax system to make it friendlier and simpler the job creators, opening more markets to create american jobs at home and moving forward with bipartisan Infrastructure Projects like the keystone xl pipeline. Americans are changing this congress and president. And they ar...

Elections. President obama seems to have missed the november elections entirely. Republicans know we have an obligation to the American People to deliver effective efficient and accountable governing. We have an opportunity stated obligation to put americans first. Last night president obama showed he wants to put washington first. Republicans are not willing to help this president continue down the same wrong road that the American People have rejected. Lets be honest this past election was a r...

Touted it in the weeks leading up to this march. Conservatives are still happy that at least this bill, which was considered last year is now being considered on the floor. It is an issue that also came up last september in the gao report that said some of the federal subsidies under the health law were being used to cover some abortion services. Is this the kind of measure that we we mentioned at the top that the march for life happening in washington this week, is this the sort of measure that...

Nondiscretionary duty to control immigration under the immigration and nationality law. Specifically, the courts said we are not aware and have difficulty conceiving any standards for determining whether immigration control efforts by congress are constitutionally adequate. Why . Because theres an interpretation of the law and an administrative component of the law. Likewise, in heckler vs. Chainy the courts said an agencys decision not to take Enforcement Actions is unreviewable under the act b...

Record to reflect the views of mr. Van hollen earlier about not having amendments where we can fully discuss in the house the twoyear funding for the syrian rebel army, and also to make sure that we do not have combat troops actively engaged in iraq. But, mr. Speaker, i am rising right now to strongly state my deep disappointment in a version of the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange act that was included in the National Defense authorization. Heres the National Defense authorization bill, and in h...

For a living wage. You wouldnt have to have legislation about minimum wage if you werent bringing in millions of people illegal and ausing them to compete with people that are trying desperately to find jobs, doing everything they can to find jobs. But we also know that for the First Time Since president carter, over 90 million over 16 Million People who could work, are not looking anymore. With this new five Million People the president is all of a sudden with the stroke of his wand, all of a s...

Show you the project. It runs from hardisty in alberta, canada, all the way down to our refineries in texas along the gulf coast. This project will move 830,000 barrels of oil a day. Some of that will be oil from canada. Some of that will be domestic oil from the back an region bakken region in montana and north dakota. This is part of the building the infrastructure so we can build a comprehensive energy plan for our country. Were producing more and more oil and gas in our country from the shal...

And its one of six montana counties that the keystone x. L. Pipeline will route through. Now, circle like a lot of small communities in montana, has experienced the same economic and population declines that towns have faced in recent years. In fact, the county has significant infrastructure needs that have gone unresolved in the wake of a shrinking tax base. Now, for towns like circle, the keystone x. L. Pipeline isnt just about energy. It represents Economic Opportunity and hope for the future...

I think we understate the importance of this pipeline project and these deliberations to our relationship with our friends in canada. I have no doubt about it because i have seen it and hypocrisy which they have no objection to and then refusing them the same opportunity, that is you want to call about the United States projecting a bad image in conducting a double standard in the world, this is one of them. I look at the states through which the pipeline runs and i happen to look at where the s...