An escape artist a tribute to freedom from one of americas most notorious prisons. And we begin tonight with a big boost for the u. S. Led fight against i. S. I. L. Three new nations have pledged to join the battle in iraq including u. K. Where this is the cover of the daily telegraph, britain goes to war. The british voted overwhelmingly to vote to go to war against i. S. I. L, and jets will be joined from denmark and belgium. Jonah hull has more. There is already a Coalition Bombing i. S. I. L. In iraq. Britain could join coon likel sy going to deposit way. We also have to think of the consequences of inaction. If we allow i. S. I. L. To grow and thrive there is no doubt in my mind that the level of threat to this country would increase. The man who led camerons embarrassing parliamentary defeat to bomb syrian targets last year led the support. Although this is difficult it is the best thing to do. There is no greater job for the parliament but for protecting the security and the val
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 imited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate ontinue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. Gallego, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Today as we continue our journey through the 23rd district, id like to travel to a small town some 40 miles west of san antonio, that would be hondo, texas. Its about 9. 6 square miles of yukonic america. As you pass the city boundary, there is a sign this is gods country, please dont drive through it like hell. Hat sign, erected by the local lions club in the 1930s, has been featured on postcards, it even made the cover of National Geographic magazine. I remember that sign even as a ittle kid long before i10 was built and through 90 was the eastwest highway from l. A. To florida. The original sign said this is is gods country, do
Howard oscar is with communications daily. I got upset with the president because they covered the first few meetings i had and they never showed up anymore. When i was walking on the dance floor at the white house i met this woman who was one of the press people. I said, no one ever covers my meetings. She says Mental Health is just not a issue that we toured the country and found out that it was needed and developed legislation and passed the Mental Health act of 1980. It passed through congress, as jamie says was involuntarily retired from a white house and it was never implemented one of the greatest is the premise of my life. Next a discussion on trade agreementagreement s and president ial authority. This event looks at the presence fasttrack Authority Authority which allows the president to negotiate international remnants free of amendments or filibuster. The economy in Crisis Organization hosted this hour and 35 minute event. Good morning and welcome to the National Press club
And 35 minute event. Good morning and welcome to the National Press club. We like to start a program now since cspan3 is broadcasting this live set for 8 30. We realize some people are out waiting two to to the storm last night and perhaps we will have a few people walking in while the program is going on but we would like to get going. My name is less glick. I would like to welcome me this morning to a program called do we need fasttrack trade Promotion Authority lacks some of you may have seen our program last week on the same topic on cspan3. I watched it. They had a panel of the four former u. S. Trade representatives including sue schwab and several others. All of those prior u. S. Trade representatives seem to have similar views on fasttrack. Today you are going to hear some differing views of some distinguished representatives of the Public Interest community and the Labor Movement. Our moderator today will introduce the speakers and i had the pleasure this morning to introduce
House on thursday. It is now being taken up in the senate. The two lawmakers are credited with drafting a legislation that would fund the federal government for the next two years. Heres some of what they had to say about the deal. Well, we didnt get everything that we wanted, but i will tell you what we did get, certainty for the next two years. We are at a point now where were not could you tell everybody that were going to tour the economy in a tailspin because we have to have something. It importantly, a budget agreement is about how we can manage this countrys resources so we can have the things i do care passionately about, whether it is education or health care or transportation infrastructure. We were not managing our country in a way to get the things i cared about. On the right, my colleague in the house spoke to your colleague marco rubio. He called us and unamerican deal. There are conservatives who say that you and others made a promise, acrosstheboard cuts. Going back on