Combatant is a necessary incident to the conduct of this war. There is no question about the constitutionality of the detention at Guantanamo Bay. Lets talk about the merits. Current detainees have been off the battlefield for some time. They may continue to provide vital intelligence to u. S. Intelligence collection is that we now focus on those who are there today. Theyre still engage in the counterterrorism battle all around the globe. We need to have a secure location in which to detain captured enemy combatants. Intelligence collection that occurs at this location is enormous to our efforts to continue to identify and capture additional enemy combatants and defeat our enemy. I just returned from a trip to afghanistan as well. I can assure you there are many folks there that would either be to kill or capture. We will serve our National Security far better if we were able to capture them. We talked about options. What are our alternatives . We could release them to third as senator
Care law, if you have 49 employees as we talked about, there is no increase in the cost because you e, dont have to provide the overnment mandated expensive coverage, so there is no coverage. Thats why they keep the employee rate at 49 and dont hire the extra employees. If you are at 50, though, and you are under the mandate. The increase is 800 per employee. If you are at 75 employees, the increase is 1 1,200 per employee. 150, en 1,400 and then 1,600 per employee. Thats why so many of these Small Businesses are right there, my colleagues at 49, with no increase, because no job growth or employees that are hired at 29 hours a week trying to support yourself, much less a family at 29 hours a week. I yield to the gentleman from kentucky, mr. Guthrie. Mr. Guthrie i appreciate you being part of the doctors caucus. Im not a doctor but i preert the opportunity to talk about the Health Care Bill and as much as this has been organized and so we can be here to talk about a topic that is critic
Univision, lou barletta and abcs matthew dowd. Hello again. President obama says that our headliner has the toughest job in washington. Top republicans claim he makes it harder than he needs to be and no single senator will have more influence over the president s agenda than harry reid who we met for this exclusive interview. He was feisty and confident. Especially on this weeks top issue, Immigration Reform. It has to get done. We have to work hard to get it done. Its really easy to write principles, to write legislation, much harder and once we write the legislation we have to get it passed but i think things are looking really good. Looking good for a number of reason, the right thing to do and number two, the republicans can no longer stop this. Theyve tried it and it hasnt worked. What they tried to do to me a couple of years ago, look what they tried to do with the president just this last time and it just didnt work. But it still seeps there will be a big sticking point, the bi
The chair on this vote, the yeas are 277. The nays are 142. He amendment is adopted. The Unfinished Business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 69 printed in house report 113170, offered by the gentleman from new york, mr. Nadler, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. The clerk will redesignate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 69 printed in house report number 113170, offered by mr. Nadler of new york. The chair a recorded vote has been requested. Those in support of the request rise. Ecorded vote shall a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a twominute 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 th
That we are considering tonight, now would encourage the remaining states to work on passing and enacting similar legislation. This will bill creates treatment programs administered by the department of health and Human Services with states that meet certain requirements that are in the bill. Food allergies affect 9. 9 million children. This legislation is especially important because 25 of individuals who are injected with an epipen dont know they have allergies that warrant the use of epinephrine. No student experiencing a severe allergy reooks should lose their life because there was no medicine present signed to them. The passage of this bill will save lives of countless students across our great country who live with severe allergies. I commend the bills author, my steny from maryland, hoyer, who has worked on this legislation for three years and for congressman phil roe for their bipartisan work. At this time, if its appropriate, i would like to yield such time as he may consume