I hereby appoint the honorable scott r. Tipton to act as speaker pro tempore on this dafmente day. Signed, john a. Boehner speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore 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, each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. It was interesting to listen to some of the congressional reactions after the United Nations Security Council on monday unanimously approved a resolution that creates a basis for International Economic sanctions against iran to be lifted. This was a 150 vote for
Cant get where you want to go. Got to pay for a taxi to get home now. Reporter still no more specific information as to what caused that pause in service. It was restored around 4 00 p. M. Im mac king, fox 5 news. Steve American Airlines says it has fixed the computer outage that grounded flights in three cities. American and American Eagle flights coming in and out of chicago, dallas and miami were stopped for nearly two hours problem. The airline later said it fixed a connectivity issue. No word how many flights were affected. Dari the mother of the High School Football player caught on video hitting his opponent in the head with a helmet is defending her son. Steve zachary is live in linden, new jersey, where the mom spoke to the media. Reporter on one side, you have a student athlete whos had no behavioral issues until this point. He made a mistake. On behalf of his family, he issued an apology. On the other side, you have a superintendent who says the team is better without this p
See which convicted child molesters are going to be recidivists. Most of them are. And im not willing to take the risk that our kids should be left alone with people like that. We have a National Sex Offender registry for a reason because these people recognize the danger that extends past their time of incarceration. Parents need to know about that and thats why we have this national registry, and schools need to avoid the danger. To be clear mr. President im not suggesting that a convicted child molester can never work again anywhere, but i am saying they shouldnt work in a school, and i think thats completely reasonable. Im shocked frankly that these organizations would come out against this, against this commonsense legislation. But the objection in fairness, some objection that comes from our side of the aisle as well. I have a colleague who i have all the respect in the world for, the senior senator from tennessee is a wonderful senator, and i agree with him on far more than i di
Tonight. So far the white house has had no response to that federal judges ruling today. Also today in that botched election in North Carolina that has resulted in there being no member of congress seated from that district, we now know how we are going to get somebody seated from that district. The state elections board today unanimously ordered that a new election must be run there from scratch. Also today, lawyers for the president s longtime adviser roger stone put mr. Stone on the stand to explain why he put a picture online this week targeting the federal judge who was overseeing his case. That judge did not jail roger stone today, which she might have done. She did issue a strict gag order and she warned that if stone breaks the gag order by speaking publicly about his case in any way he will go to jail ahead of his trial. The judge told him today specifically, quote, i will find it necessary to adjust your environment. So its been a very busy, busy news day. And of course the w
How does adding more minority and women judges affect theadministration of justice? Using a Tobit regression model andcontrolling for such factors as the sentence recommended by thePennsylvania sentencing guidelines showed that black judges handeddown longer incarceration sentences than white judges and that,although white judges did not tend to sentence black offenders anymore severely than they did white offenders, black judges did tendto sentence black offenders to longer prison terms than whitejudges gave to white offenders.