Important challenge we have got in our lifetimes. It is always going to be the most important challenge. If we do not get this right, we have got nothing. It is education and it is climate. I have [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2024] we will break away at this pointer for live coverage of the u. S. House. Lawmakers are considering a handful of bills today, including one that doubles u. S. Customs area of operation in coastal waters. Live coverage of the u. S. House is here on cspan. The clerk h. R. 53433, a bill to amend the Small Business investment act of 1958, to exclude from the limit on leverage certain amounts invested in Smaller Enterprises located in rural or lowincome areas and Small Businesses and Critical Technology areas and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuan t to the rule, the gentleman from texas, mr
Relationship with the world is based on irans nations interests and the geneva agreement world powers surrendered to irans national will. Maybe thats bluster. When you look at the evidence not so much bluster. The foreign minister said interconnection between networks of centrifuges that have been used to enrich uranium to 20 so they can enrich only to 5 . These interconnections can be removed in a day and connected again in day. Hes basically saying all weve done is basically pulled the plug and well put it back in if we need to. Heres whats happened since the interim deal. President roo toonie rouhani declared we have struck the first blow in the field of insurance, shipping, the banking system, foodstuffs, medicine, exports of petrochemical materials. He tweeted youre a witness to how foreign firms are visiting our country. 117 political delegations have come here. France, turkey, georgia, ireland, tunisia, kazakhstan, china, italy, india, australia a and indeed sweeden. The French
The speaker pro tempore the yeas are 224. The nays are 19 t the previous question is ordered. The question now is on adoption of the resolution. As many as are in favor will signify by saying aye. Those opposed will say no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. Mr. Polis on that i request a recorded vote. The speaker pro tempore a recorded vote is requested. Those in favor of the request for recorded vote will rise and be counted. A sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 231. The nays are 185. The resolution is adopted. Without ob
Keating, marcy kaptur, sandy levin and representative gerlbling, for their bipartisan help in crafting this legislation and i thank my friend from new jersey, mr. Smith, for his remarks and agree with everything he said. The United States has been a staunch supporter of the democratic, prosperous and sovereign ukraine. At this moment, we must stand with the people of ukraine more than ever before. As the world has watched over the past several months, hundreds of thousands of ordinary ukrainian citizens have turned out to exercise their democratic rights and express their views. The initial impetus for the demonstration was the unexpect red jackson of an offer from the European Union for closer political and economic ties. This rejection represented a reversal of government policy and in the view of a great many ukrainians, a lost opportunity for ukraine to strengthen Democratic Institutions and values and increase economic opportunities. In addition, the demonstrators that turned out
Id like to get back to modeling. Some of you may have questions about drought modeling as well. For donald wilhite, the school of natural resources, one thing we havent talked about is preparedness. The United States of course as i mentioned, we saw in 2012 how terrible it was in so many parts of the country. Droughts over the last decade. Virtually all the regions of the country have been affected. Of course, if any of you live in washington, d. C. , we are seeing we just havent had much of a winter. Just havent had the snowfall because its been way too one. Historically, what has been this countrys approach to drought management . What is our current level of preparedness do you feel for any severe drought thats going to happen in 2013 . Thanks, veronica. First of all, how many of you are aware that we are still in drought . Thats good. Building awareness is really a key to driving to address this issue. Historically the way we dealt with drought in the United States, this is really