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The speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yeas are 24 the nays are are 242 the nays are 184, with one voting present. The bill is passed. Without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The house will be in order. All members please take your conversations off the floor. The house will be in order. Please clear the well of the house. The house will be in order. For what purpose does the gentleman from washington seek recognitio...

Is to see to it that veterans get world cap worldclass health care and they get it in a timely way. However we do that the important thing is to get it done. We had some bumps i have met with some of our private contractors and i appreciate those meetings and their confidence in the job that they can do. They may not have been cooperating before. See to it that the two are working seamlessly and if they cant, they will never work. You have to understand their contracts are not just subject to th...

A live look at 5 00 oclock straight up on a friday and were looking live at the Benjamin Franklin bridge. Fastest run ever from the car into wawa to get coffee this morning, it happened today. It is that cold out there. Keep in mind, kids have off from school, that is good news but ones that to have head out there, make sure they are bundled up this morning. We have no problems. But you can see the camera shaking. Wind is definitely playing havoc with us this morning. Got a water main break in K...

The homeland funding bill. I do not think the democrats did that. The republicans put that in there in order to have a fight with obama about his executive order. I feel that they are so well because the homeland funding bill should be separate from anything else. Anything else. They should not have attached that bill. I would just like you to clear it up for people, and me, to let the people know who attached that immigration bill to that homeland funding bill. Host certainly a topic that you h...

We have a vote on the floor which should be over in the next ten minutes. I will talk a little bit and tell you what i want you to know. I will start with testimony from sloan gibson. Make the note that his staff said that was okay. I want to take extra time because this is an important hearing. Last year culminating with the passage of the veterans choice bill problems in raleigh, denver come orlando and answers that were in completed for understandable reasons. Just left about a year early. Go...

Thought. So explain your logic in terms of not allowing them to make that choice than elves. We have spent a great deal of time talking about this. One of the things for us to keep in mind is that 81 of the veterans we provide care for have Medicare Medicaid or some form of private Health Insurance. Oftentimes what you see today, you mention this fact earlier that the veterans have given the option for toys and somewhat elect to stay in and that is precisely what happens today. Roughly half of 4...

Screeria nigeria. Environmental officials from california, indiana, wyoming, wisconsin and new york testified on the hill this week on the challenges and successes with the epas Greenhouse Gas emissions rule for power plants. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee convened the hearing. Senator jim inhofe chairs the committee while senator Barbara Boxer serves as Ranking Member. This is just shy of two hours. Good morning. Before we begin let me get clarification Senate Armed Services ...

North america. Will county is crossed by six class 1 railroads, five interstate highways, several commercial water ports on our nations largest inland waterway. Last year we processed over 3 million containers containing 65 billion worth of goods that are grown, manufactured, assembled, and delivered throughout the United States and the world. Our first and last mile Infrastructure Requirements today total 3. 6 billion of new investment just in our county, and that does not include bringing our ...

At the same time, weve had a large increase in care in the community, choice hasnt worked as intended. Here are some things were doing to fix it. On april 24th we changed the measure from Straight Line to driving distance. Using the fastest route. This roughly doubles the number of veterans eligible for the 40mile program under choice. Excuse me. But there is much more to do. A followon mailing to all eligible veterans is about to go out. Weve Just Launched a major change in internal processes t...

Message where it needs to be delivered, that the time is critical and i look forward to being part of the solution. Thank you very much, mike, for your comments and your contributions. Ill take it a little bit out of order now and take my law partner and former member of congress, state of georgia, congressman Jack Kingston to give his perspective on some of the things theyre doing down in georgia, particularly in the port project area and hes now with us, with these projects probably had someth...