And a discussion about mexico opening its oil and gas industry to foreign investment. At a House Budget Committee hearing advocates for the poor discussed what governments and charities are doing to raise people out of poverty and how they can be more economically selfsufficient. Congressman paul ryan of wisconsin chairs this two hour hearing. Committee will come to order. A number of our members on our side aisle will be a little late our conference is still ongoing but in the interest of time i want to get started. Welcome everybody. Good to see you. A great full capacity crowd. This is our fifth hearing on the war on poverty. Over the past year weve heard from a number of voice, policy voices, Community Groups and today well hear from people in the middle. People in the privatesector who work with the Public Sector. People who coordinate state programs with private charity. Were also going to hear from an especially important voice, miss tianna gainesturner. I was happy to meet tian
Well, we started in 2002. Initially, the girls, we were engaged in Child Rights Movement and we were meeting different women leaders. We were six or seven young girls and all of the age range was from 1416. So when we saw no women or girl leadership in a civil society, as well, some of the organizations that claim to work for womens rights, but there is no representation. Mostly, the women and girls were either the receptionist or the material level but not at the decisionmaking. So we started work with the young girls. First, we volunteered because all of us had no experience working in an organization working for womens rights. So we volunteered with other women who were already working on womens rights. We volunteered with them for a few years and then we started our own work and started to work empowering young women in the communities. Your organization is expanding from pakistan to afghanistan. A different set of issues, a different set of culture, a different set of challenges.
Is. When youre filling out an application for an employer some of these questions are asked repeatedly what is your felon status . What is your misdemeanor status . So i think we would have to reevaluate how in essence we are getting to the point that the business would accrue that credit. Thank you, time has expired. Gentlelady from wisconsin is recognized for five minutes. Thank you so much, mr. Chairman. Let me make an Opening Statement just given that last exchange between one of our colleagues and mrs. Gainesturner with regard to dependency. Just recently and friday well work on another tax extender where apparently we are going to extend 614 billion in tax extenders on a permanent make them permanent and put businesses on a permanent welfare. These bills the latest, the bonus depreciation, was temporary in nature to stimulate the economy. As you remember, targeted temporary and timely was what we tried to do to stimulate the economy but yet they want to add 287 billion to the def
Information. 14 and above, theyre all fingerprinted. Those fingerprints are run against the databases here in the United States. So that if it was somebody a little bit older that had been deported or had been arrested or was involved in a gang. We need better cooperation, better communication with those other three countries to make sure the vast majority of what were seeing are not in that threat category, but we have to be very careful. Well, as has been reported and i dont have any personal knowledge of this, that the number of drug seizures on the border since this crisis has decreased because resources have been deployed to deal with the emergency of this crisis. Is that correct . The number of drug seizures has decreased in that particular sector, but a couple things. Actually having watched it pretty carefully for the five years i served as the president s drug policy adviser, those numbers fluctuate a lot. Now that we have two state where is you can grow your own marijuana, im
The speaker pro tempore the ouse will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. July 9, 2014. I hereby appoint the honorable kerry l. Bentivolio, 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 7, 2014, 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 the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes each. But in no event shall debate continue 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. We have an unusual prospect tomorrow where a proposal to raise money for the Highway Tru