Pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, 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. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Gutierrez, for five minutes. Mr. Speaker, this past saturday i was a guest at Lincoln United Methodist Church in chicago where we had an emergency meeting to discuss how we would defend daca, the deferred action for childhood arrivals initiative, started five years ago. Daca has allowed nearly 800,000 dreamers, immigrants who were brought to the u. S. As children and grew up h
State bureau of investigation is heading up its investigation. The facts begin to come out, brown is asking the public for a moderate response and for plenty of patience. Reporter a mothers grief, shot and killed her son. Reporter an officer was trying to question the man on a felony drug charge when he took off running leading the police on a pot chase around noon. The witnesses say he hopped one fence and a second and say that is when the fatal gunshots rang out. This is a sad day. There was a response, expressing condolences for the mans family and a promise to fullest extend. A gun was found chose to the deceased suspect. Haweapon along with all other elements available at the scene will be that weapon along with all other elements processed. Threatened the officer. These investigations take time. He has a criminal history that includes 8 arrests, a past drug conviction and a violation. He was also a father to two young boys ages 2 and 3 working on getting his ged and his teacher s
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 the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. Jones, for five minutes. Mr. Jones mr. Speaker, im back on the floor today because while we were home during the easter break, there was a tragedy in afghanistan that largely escaped the national news. On april 8 army medic john dawson was shot and killed and eight other americans were wounded by an afghan soldier who opened fire on them. This tragedy is yet another example of the american blood spilled in afghanist
Start for little children. Big oil, over little children. Instead of closing tax loopholes for corporations that shipped jobs overseas, 750,000 jobs will be lost here. Because of the sequester and the continuing resolution that contains the sequester and the fix were in because of the refusal of the Republican Leadership to close those loopholes. Instead of ensuring americans pay their fair share, our military readiness will be impaired. Unless the defense we have kids who wont get proper training to take them into harms way an health care for americas military families will be cut. There is an answer to all of this, that is we need to close, stop the tax, the spending in our tax code. Everybody talks about reducing spending as our colleagues on the other side of the aisle do. And we all adepree we need to reduce it. Thats why 1. 6 trillion in spending cuts and we can try to find more. But why cant we stop the spending on the tax code, the spending of tax giveaways. Theyre called tax e
Me here or there . Sandra safe in our studio. Good to see you, bill. Im sandra smith. The president will be traveling to North Carolina to bear witness to rising floodwaters threatening homes in the state. Bill an attorney for the accuser now saying her client will not testify on monday unless the f. B. I. Opens an investigation into her claims. There should be an investigation. Thats the right thing to do. If there is not an investigation would she appear on monday . She is prepared to cooperate with the committee and any Law Enforcement investigation. That has been her position and continues to be her position. She will cooperate with the committee in whatever form that takes. Sandra peter doocy is live on capitol hill this morning. If dr. Ford does not testify monday, how much longer will the kavanaugh confirmation be delayed . Not long. The republicans say they gave her a weeks notice. If she doesnt show up its time to move on. Corker says this, after learning of the allegations ch