Pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, 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 minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida, ms. Roslehtinen, for five minutes. Ms. Roslehtinen thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to strongly oppose the december 17 announcement by president obama on policy changes toward the cuban communist regime. The cuban regime from day one was planning on using alan gross as a pawn to receive concessions from the Obama Administration and their strategy worked. In april, 2013 when asked about a possible swap for mr. Gross secretary kerry testified before congress that, quote, we have refused to do that because the
Profits sending shares to the top of the french markets. And continental raises its out look. A double digit jump in profits. Well be speaking to the group ceo in the next hour. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange bringing you Business News from around the globe. Now welcome to the show. We just got some breaking data on italian gdp. Its come in as expected for the quarter. For the year of 2014 for the final quarter at 0 for the full year minus. 5 . It was expected at. 3 . So the full year figure just below expectations. A contraction of half a percent. You can see the euro is down three tenths of a percent today but thats come over the last two trading sessions and ahead of the break. Theyre saying they anticipate we should be looking at growth later on this year for italy. There could be slight growth during the first three month of the year instead but italy is one of the interesting ones in terms of potential for surprise. But also so crucial because of the size of the bond market. W
Humming humbling ourselves and seeking your help. I want to thank you, first of all, for who you are, thank you for your goodness, your mercy, and grace in each of our lives and thank you for the blessings that you give to us every day. What i want to thank you for each and every representative and all they do to direct our great country. I pray today that would you have your hand of grace and guidance upon them. I pray god, that would you give them had the wisdom they need on a daily basis to fulfill the office that youve appointed them to. I also ask that you would guide and courage and protect them in their personal lives, as well as their families and loved ones. I love you, lord. Thats in the name of jesus christ, i play. Amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. For what purpose does the gentleman from michigan rise . Mr. Speaker, pu
He said, if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people, their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties, somebody who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grips us. If that is what they mean by a liberal, i am proud to be a liberal. [applause] announcer those words from late senator Edward Kennedy at harvard university, an event he attended before his death in 2009. The dedications are many for the Edward Kennedy institute takes tomorrow in boston where president obama will be among the speakers to do will have live coverage beginning at 10 a clock a. M. Eastern here on cspan. Announcer 2 monday on the communicators, more from the International Consumer Electronics Show as we look at new technology products. If there is something you want to capture, you take it off your rest, and it wi
Mr. Ellison let me thank the speak for allowing us time to talk about the peoples budget. This is a budget that puts. 4 Million People back to work. Earlier in this debate, my colleague on the other side of the aisle, pulled up a chart and did a comparison between our budget and the republican budget. But there was one category that i did not see on that chart and that is how many jobs do you create . How many jobs do you create . This is the right number we should be comparing budgets on. I would say for americans all over this country looking for work, wanting to make a valuable contribution to themselves and their family, this is the right budget because this is the jobs budget, this is the good work budget, and this is the peoples budget. Id also like to give a big thanks to over 150,000 people who signed a petition in favor of the peoples budget. Citizen ack at this slists know whats good for their government. They want the progressive budget, trained economists who have stripped