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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 but in to five minutes, no event shall debate continue beyond past 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Quigley, for five minutes. Mr. Quigley thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, since the Clean Air Act was enacted into law more than 40 years ago, weve seen tremendous progress in cleaning up our air and protecting thousands of communities around the country. Unfortunately, Many Americans are...

Department of Homeland Security into rain in a executive overreach. That is it. It is simple. There is no reason for democrats to block it. Politico reports that Senate Democrats intend to to block the homeland spending bill. One democrat who has spoken out against it is Senate Minority whip dick durbin. He called for a clean appropriation bill while speaking for the american advocates group, americas voice. You can watch tuesday at 2 30 eastern. As always, we will have coverage on cspan3. Next, transportation secretary anthony foxx talks to a committee about the future of the Highway Trust Fu...

Lundquist and Safety Community help agencies go through that. There is a Police Accreditation coalition that brings tremendous resources. Some organizations do not have the capacity to support accreditation itself. Those help to help shepherd organizations. Should we require departments to develop a plan to reach accreditation . It is a pretty good the sort of Gold Standard of policing, that they aspire to. But should we rather than just encourage it, should we consider some system where we require departments at least to articulate a plan to get this way . I think a requirement is important, ...

Vicki needham so, obviously right now, congress is working on trade promotion authority. Could you explain what that is . What that means or the trade agreements . And why you are opposed to that right now . Congressman sander levin well it is fasttrack. What it means is that the negotiating is being done. And all we have at the end is yes or no. We cant do any amendment. So that makes it all the more important that we get tpp right before we fasttrack it. And we dont lose our leverage. That is what this is really all about. I am in favor of expanded trade. I would like to see a tpp i could su...

Trade representative. And at the end, all congress can do is to say yes or no. There is the argument that we could withdraw it, but we have that power now. And that is why there are other techniques to withdraw, but that is not going to happen because we can already do it. Host and tpp . Congressman sander levin the Transpacific Partnership. A dozen countries. This is an expanded trade effort. 40 of the gdp. That is why it is so important we get it right because it is important document and trade agreement. Host ok. Go ahead with your next question. Emma dumain i was going to followup on vicki...