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Chesapeake Bay Foundation has Environmental Education centers on smith island and tangier island. Inhabited islands in the mid bay. Residents of smith and tangier are losing their homes. They are losing their island. Day after day, week after week, losing their home. On a property in the chesapeake Bay Foundation, in just the last 25 years we have lost an entire pine forest, several dozen acres, several hundred trees to sea level, bay level rise. Ive submitted my testimony, but let me just summarize briefly. The impacts of Climate Change are multiple, but let me tell you about three for Chesap...

Strong handle. I want to ask secretary lew and secretary kerry about the consequences of Congress Voting down this deal. I heard senator rischs frustration the frustration made by the administration theres no choice. In fact, i hear you to say the very opposite. I hear to you say this is not, in fact, a referendum on this deal. This is a choice between two set of consequences. A set of consequences that flow forward if we approve the deal and then a different set of consequences that flow forward if Congress Rejects this deal. So as i look at that second set of consequence we have to be fully ...

Sanctuary cities act, and i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from virginia reserves. The gentleman from michigan is recognized. Mr. Conyers madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans recognized. Mr. Conyers members of the congress, i rise in strong opposition to h. R. 3009, the enforce the law for sanctuary cities act. This thoroughly flawed measure is a blatant attempt by the most of the majority to insert its antiimmigrant status agenda into local policing initiatives. And it does this by prohibiting s...

Anywhere, people want to be able to test as quickly as possible to determine if the substance is anthrax or not. A large number of labs like to have this capability. I would like to add one thing. Because this was relieved to be inactivated, we were not intending to actually use laboratory staff. We were trying to grow new partners in technology. For that reason, they were trying to show that new technologies for detection and diagnostics against anthrax worked. We sent them an material to show them that their diagnostic testing worked. We were trying to grow the Technology Basis for our Natio...

With him. Our two reporters will be asking questions. Rachael of politico. And daniel. Daniel your first. Daniel as we mentioned, the process seemed stalled. It has been widely reported that an amendment was brought up i democrats, three amendments in fact. Can you just take us inside what happened on tuesday night through the end of that week, when the interior appropriations bill was pulled from the floor . Rep. Rogers the amendments that the democrats offered caused a number of our members to declare that they did not support the bill on fast passage. The bill was removed from the floor. It...