I hereby appoint the honorable evan h. Jenkins to act as speaker pro tempore on this 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 and each member other than thmari a mory leade and the noty 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. For more than 70 years our government has followed the most spectacular failure in policy since disastrous 13year experiment with the prohibition of alcohol. 43 years ago the National Commission on marijuana and drug abuse released a report finding that the federal ban on marijuan
Traveled to syria or attempted to travel there and who will return home. At least 3400 of them are from western europe. And that includes visa waiver countries, where theyre a plane ticket away from the United States. What we dont know is how many people are inside the United States following isil, and who are becoming inspired to carry out their own attacks. Separately al qaeda remains focused on conducting attacks against or homeland while aq in the ungoverned areas of pakistan may bes weak as it has been in many years, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, or aqap still poses a clear threat. The group is enjoying a safe haven in yemen, with the huiti the group has already attempted to sense nonmetallic and essentially undetectible bombs into our country on four occasions, beginning with the Christmas Day 2009 bomb. Aq has published stepbystep directions for building that bomb in the latest inspire magazine. Our efforts to confront aqap are significantly diminished with the removal of t
House that is doing all that we can to ensure that our veterans get timely care and the best care that we can provide them. This is cynical and its shameful and i believe, i believe that the American People can see straight through it. So i hope again, madam chair, that the president will reconsider this position. Because there is no place, no place here in this bill for political gamesmanship when it comes to our military families and our veterans. Thank you. I yield back. The chair the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. At this time i yield three minutes to the gentlewoman from california, ms. Lee, a member of the subcommittee on military construction and Veterans Affairs. The chair the gentlelady from california is recognized for three minutes. Ms. Lee thank you very much, madam chairman. Let me thank the Ranking Member for yielding, for his unwavering leadership for our veterans on this committee and for your friendship. Thank you very m
Together so i think you are absolutely correct but i want you to be sure that weve done our best to make this an incl u. S. Ive report. The impet u. S. Is on the agencies themselves i think you guys have done an incredible job and now its incumbent on us to make sure that all the agencies are as informed as they can be chances are they are because they were involved in this process and participated and shared information with you but i want to make sure that happens. Supervisor mar. I was going to say the rapidly aging population and how critical longterm care and the planning counsel their work help s us understand for budgets for the department of aging Adult Services and like the longterm plan are critical i like how theres ethnic breakdowns and other demographic breakdowns too so looking at obesity by ethnicity and neighborhood is really helpful and a lot of our Revenue Generating planning as well i did want to ask about the Affordable Care act i know you quickly mentioned that but
Still dont have access to a dentist. So how do we use that information to inform, you know, where we invest and what decisions we make . So thats what im talking about. Yeah i think that could be a good follow up item for us. That is a great follow up item for us and i want to say while we talk about the master plan being a product of the department of Public Health and Planning Department so for example a lot of the data you see there did come from the department of children and youth and their families and aging Adult Services so we tried to do in this report not to ignore preexisting information that has come out of other agencies but intended to pull all those data sources together so i think you are absolutely correct but i want you to be sure that weve done our best to make this an incl u. S. Ive report. The impet u. S. Is on the agencies themselves i think you guys have done an incredible job and now its incumbent on us to make sure that all the agencies are as informed as they