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Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to pursuant to the order of the house of january 6, 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. 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 limited to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Gutierrez, for five minutes. Mr. Guti...

Not because i think they want to. They find it of necessity they need to. I think its good that yment events like that were the president invites either wants to have an open dialogue are really helpful. Part of the interest for me and the other folks in the Tech Industry is the decisions made sure have big impact on our companies and what were able to do. S especially given the fact that people might not realize this, but more than 70 of the users are outside the u. S. So we have a whole people to the far corner of the earth who are also affected by all of these decisions. You bet. So you to ...

Last month a threejudge panel on the d. C. Circuit court of appeals heard oral argument on the constitutionality of the senates 60vote filibuster rule. The case is common cause v. Joseph biden. It seeks to have the 60vote threshold needed to overcome the filibuster thrown out and replaced with a simple majority rule. The Lower District Court had dismissed the case saying common cause lacked standing to sue. The oral argument runs about half an hour. Good morning. May it please the court, im emmet bondurant, and with me is Steve Spaulding who is staff counsel with common cause. The District Cou...

That is nonDiscretionary Spending. That is the essence of discretion. If we are going to have an entitlement culture that now funds three quarters almost of the budget spending, and we will say congress has no say at all in funding those three quarters, we push the limit here. It is to favor the ease and convenience of governments. I think we are giving up something in the process. I think it is an inelegant way of doing it, but i think the right path is to have negotiations. The reason you have the debt ceiling and cliffs and any decisionmaking apparatus is to force decisions. Every president...

The ftc is committed to protecting Consumer Privacy and Data Security in the private sector. Since our first Data Security case in 2001, the ftc Data Security program has been a strong bipartisan effort that includes Law Enforcement to my education, and policy initiatives. Several lawsces that protect consumer data. Under the ftc act, the agency can take action against companies that engage in deceptive or unfair practices, including deceptive or unfair Data Security practices. The ftc also enforces several laws that require special protections of certain business sectors. The credit reporting...