He doesnt get to do that. Okay. Now his own dhs secretary, jay johns Johns Johnson stated it to enforce a duly enacted constitutional law thats beyond simple prosecutorial discretion. I think that the a least three of our witnesses believe the president has crossed that line. Could you be more specific and let me start with mr. Dupree. Thank you. I think secretary johnson is correct when he says there is a line. I think in this case the president not only crossed the line but that line is far, far, far in the distance. Thats kind of like the line he drew on syria. Right . I think that is an apt analogy. Thank you. I dont know that the constitution requires a certain number of people beyond which he could not grant deferred action to. I dont think the constitution speaks to that degree my time is limited. Im just going to quote very quickly from the opinion quoted by members of this committee and some of the witnesses and that is the cheney opinion. This is the part thats conveniently i
Get the turks and the turks wont do it unless we go after assad. So are we getting sucked deeper and deeper, and back to the original question, what should we do, jim . Well, i mean, i think theres no doubt that isis eventually will be driven out of the Population Centers in iraq or at least lose control of them. I mean, they may go underground but they will lose control because theyre a minority of the sunni population which is a minority of the iraqi population, and so the kurds and the shia between them with whatever marginal help they get from the sunnis are eventually going to retake that territory with our assistance, and i dont think that means that you have to put american infantry on the ground. There are boots on the ground. There will be forward observers and advisers and some of them may get killed, but thats a different level of engagement. The real question is syria. I mean, this group emerged out of syria. Many of them are iraqis, but essentially emerged out of syria. It
The goal of assuring Economic Growth as part of it, particularly as it is felt by as Many Americans as possible . Is that the tile of goal we should be forcing . Yeah, you want the economy to grow and you want everybody to benefit from that. And when we did this bill, as i said earlier, we had four principles, these are the things you should consider. That the market is a more efficient allocator of resources, the ways and Means Committee and finance figured out we should do this or that activity. Second equal incomes should pay equal tax. It is not fair to have your neighbor pay less because they have a particular tax benefit. And third those who have more should pay more. The progressive principle. And fourth if you can simplify it, please simplify it. To me those are the four principles. The Economic Issues and growth you would want people to move up and say to people at the top you have to pay a little bit more. So i think those are the principles that i would use going forward. Yo
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. Each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and majority whip minority whip limited to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Lumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, madam speaker. Today is rural toillet day. The concept make children giggle, some adults blush, and others want to change the subject. But the title is designed to address this serious subject directly. No one can afford to be squeamish, make jokes, or change the subject about the fundamental issue of adequate sanitation. Because 2. 5 billion people live without it. Causing about 700,000 premature deaths each year and its getting worse. We made some progress, but the number living without access has increased
Answer to that question. I wish to yield a brief moment to the Ranking Member. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I, too, would like to welcome director mel watt to the hearing today. I was somewhat torn when he received this appointment. While i know, and always knew, he would do a great job at fhfa, i knew i would miss him on this committee. Not only because he was such a thoughtful, well prepared member of the committee, i could count on him as the one person who had read every line of the bill. Melmel watt had not only read every line of the bill, he was the one who could come up with a question that no one else could come up with because he spent so much time reading the bill. I also appreciate the fact that he served an important role. When there was a need for tough negotiations, bonnie frank turned to mel watt and asked him to work with the opposite side of the aisle, and he did that on any number of occasions. Bonnie frank could never trust me with that. [laughter] i understand why, and