Motivation for both sighs to get something done before they ave,t leave. But theres a really significant difference between democrats anb republicans over how that package should look. Packag and the big thing is whether youre going to change the law so that its harder for people who are coming in to the country from Central American countriest too get these automatic files. Theres a lot changed in 2008 thats really leading to a lot of people crossing the board right now. And democrats and republicans disagree on how o much you shoua change thaw t lawto to try to mp prevent more people from trying to come in to the United States. And what about the Highway Trust Fund deal . A lot of outrage certainly from governors at the national the Governors Association meeting who are veryn worried that ied Congress Wont reach a deal. Dea. Do you see one in sight . Question. In fact, at the end of last week it looked like the house and ikh senate were becoming really, really close on a deal that wi
Since before 9 11. Situation where we are facing a grave, strategic threat. The president has said he will follow the same course in afghanistan he followed in iraq despite the fact wouldve seen what has happened. I do inc. It is very important to go back and look at what happened in iraq and why and remember what did the situation was before the United States and our allies liberated the country. And again, there is a sense it is almost like the pink gentlemen, wanted to shout people down and that is not what this country supposed to be about. Everybody has a right to speak. We have to go back to what the facts were. You can say to the president , withdrawing the forces or not, you can debate that. Now you have to look at the facts and they are because of the United States is not in there and we walked away and did so without regard, you now have the richest in the world which controls more territory and in a position to be a real threat to this nation. If you think about where we go
The clerk the speakers room, shington, d. C. , july 15, 2014. I hereby appoint the honorable Robert Pittinger 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 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Lumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. Last wednesday i joined several of my colleagues and hundreds of people in the congressional auditorium to watch a gripping new film, the interpreters by vice news about american failure to protect afghans wh
The latest number surpassing the single highest day record set way back on april 25th after the lockdowns and the economic calamity and the mourning and the grief and the fatalities and the deaths and the crisis in this country is today getting worse. And instead of doing something about it, the president is trying to cover it up. Federal government is now, get this, ending funding for a whole bunch of coronavirus testing sites, including seven in the state of texas, which of course has seen record daily increases in new cases. And you might ask yourself on what planet would this make sense . Who would slow down testing in the middle of a vicious outbreak . I mean, texas just hit an alltime daily high in cases. In houston, the biggest city in the state, hospitals are near capacity. Theyre literally running out of beds. We have seen this happen before at other places without outbreaks. This chart of texas cases tells a story. They have an extremely serious outbreak right now, today. You
Who would slow down testing in the middle of a vicious outbreak . I mean, texas just hit an alltime daily high in cases. In houston, the biggest city in the state, hospitals are near capacity. Theyre literally running out of beds. We have seen this happen before at other places without outbreaks. This chart of texas cases tells a story. They have an extremely serious outbreak right now, today. You can see it. And the one thing they really need is to step up testing to make sure that they are capturing transmission as quickly as they can to quarantine people so that it doesnt contain a rise. But instead, no, the president is cutting back. And the reason why is right there in front of all our faces. The president keeps telling us, he does not like testing because he thinks if you do not test, then you have fewer cases. When you do testing to that extent, youre going to find more people. You are going to find more cases. So i said to my people, slow the testing down, please. When you have