George holding to act as 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 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. 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 each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer yesterday, the New York Times produced a carefully balanced rationale for ending the federal ban on marijuana. In more that 40 years, this failed attempt at prohibition has been hopelessly out of step. The times editorial said marching toward criminalization, adult use while the federal government maintains its schizophrenic
Their future is certainly difficult in the sense that israel is not willing to reconsider out itself to hamas theg a dominant player in palestinian scene. That is why when hamas and the faction of palestinian president bbad announce a unity government, they were opposed to that. How to normalize hamas or bring them into the political process . That has been the big elephant in the room for such a long time , that even when you have a u. S. Sponsored peace negotiation, those are done with m Mahmoud Abbas. According to the u. S. , they are a terrorist organization as well as to israel. The other option would be to eradicate hamas. We have seen time and again that that is not really possible. Inas is deeply embedded Palestinian Society in terms of social services, parallel , and they have mass support. Not a majority necessarily, but a significant portion of the population. Au cant really eradicate group like that altogether. That is why it becomes such a dilemma, because eradication does
To the state department for a report on religious freedom. We will have that live for you on cspan. President obama is in town today. He is taking part in a town hall meeting at the washed fellowship for Young African leaders. You will be able to watch that live on cspan two. The house and senate are in session. The house starts at noon. They will start to work on 16 suspension bills. Another will be strengthening sanctions against north korea. The senate against at 2 00 eastern. For more on their agenda we spoke with a congressional reporter this morning. The house has its own bill and the senate has a version as well. When might the house take up their legislation . You can see it happening this week. There is lot of contention in the caucus about this bill. Are they giving too much money . Is there enough for Border Security . You are going to see john boehner and Kevin Mccarthy really working their conference this week before they schedule a vote to ensure that they have the abilit
Window set to last four hours. They said it does not apply to areas where their soldiers have been operating. Announcement came on the heels of the deaths of 19 people when a shell hit a u. N. School where palestinian families had taken revenue. Some 1283 people in gaza are now confirmed dead, deaths on the israeli side stands at 56. The israeli spokesman joins us. We want to talk about this humanitarian window. We understand that there was supposed to be an hour left in this window of opportunity to sort of get some people out. Some supplies in. Already weve witnessed and her and seen several explosions just in the past few minute. It sounds as though this ceasefire is over. Well, the truth is we announced earlier today a humanitarian ceasefire. We did that in coordination with the United Nations at their request. The trouble is hamas rejected it and then continued to shoot. And a ceasefire means not just israel ceasefire. A ceasefire means that hamas must ceasefire too and if rockets
It took no moral courage but a lack of a moral compass to officially declare recognition for a state that has no defined borders, no democracy, and no economy.