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Journal texas congressman gene green. Us to discussns her new book. Washington journal is live every morning at 7 00 eastern. Cspan, we bring Public Affairs and events from washington directly to you. Putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, and conferences. Offering complete coverage of the u. S. House as a Public Service of private industry. Created by the tv cable tv industry and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. You can watch us in hd. Officials ...

You can see his piece on the atlantic. Com. And now, the house is in session, live coverage here on cspan. 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 ohio, mr. Turner, for five minutes. Thank you, madam speaker. Yesterday in deyton, i hosted a Comm...

It feels a bit big brotherish that at any given moment the government knows where i am. As one of my colleagues said, the more serious problem is little sister, not big brother. It is companies knowing and tattling on you, sharing your purchasing history. Aere was a famous story about father getting very angry wondering why , his young daughter was getting pregnancy literature. Pregnancy testing literature. It turned out her browsing habits suggested she was pregnant, and she was. Before we go o...

Of the majority, before we do something that cannot easily be undone and we have now done it before we discard the uniqueness of this great institution, let us use the current rules and precedents of the senate to end the abuse of the filibuster. Surely we owe that much to this great and unique institution. There was a conversation, which was a formal conversation, between the majority and the Republican Leaders just last january, and heres what the majority leader said. In addition to the stand...

And she wrote to me and said, ive wanted nothing more than to find a new fulltime job and i dedicated every day to that mission. Im asking you to advocate for me and the millions like me who need our extended Unemployment Benefits to make ends meet. I just want everybody to understand, this is not an abstraction, shes are not statistics. These are your neighbors, friends, family members. It could at some point be any of us. Thats why we set up a system of Unemployment Insurance. The notion was e...

Detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This provision makes sense for the security of this country and it makes sense for good intelligence collection. The ban on transfers to yemen is a very critical aspect of this amendment. The amendment bans any detainee transfers to yemen until december 31, 2014. Its been four years since the president posed a moratorium on transfers to yemen from guantanamo following the failed airplane bombing attempt on Christmas Day 2009 by umar farouk. At that time yemen was vie...

James walter green, who has been nominated by the president to serve as u. S. Attorney for the middle district in louisiana. I was very pleased to recommend mr. Green to the president for his consideration. I strongly urge my colleagues to vote with me to confirm him today. He has served our country in a variety of capacities, most notably 20 years in military service. He has been involved in multiple deployments as the recipient of numerous military awards, including Defense Meritorious Service...

Diplomatically in iraq. Gennaro odiernos comments were part of the hourlong speech on the future of the u. S. Army. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the National Press club. My name is Angela Greiling keane. Im a reporter for Bloomberg News in the 106 president of the National Press club. We are the worlds leading professional organization for journalists committed to our professions future through programming with events such as this fostering a free press worldwide. For more information ab...

The issue of statelessness among syrian refugee children . Ill take that and get back to you on that. I know statelessness is one of the unhcrs key mandates, fighting statelessness. And its something we pay a lot of attention to globally. And i dont know the answer so ill get back to you on that. Thank you. So lets use this opportunity to give a shoutout if weve failed to to private sector efforts to try to help in this refugee situation. I understand ikea is trying to develop a new shelter, i d...

But also during mundane and common task of life. Through the power of your spirit, may our senators mount up with wings like eagles, running without weariness and walking without fainting. Lord, give them the wisdom to be patient with others, ever lenient to their faults and ever prompt to appreciate their virtues. Rule in their hearts, keeping them from sin and sustaining their loved ones in all of their tomorrows. Surround them with the shield of your favor as you provide them with a future an...