Day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, 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 each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. Since i was a High School Student ive watched the escalation of the war on drugs, especially marijuana. I slowly became aware of its widespread use. As a freshman legislator in oregon 40 years ago, my opinion was set by a hog farmer from Eastern Oregon who was a state representative named stafford. Stafford held the oregon house and the people
Working. Tonight there are rough over 3,s putting the death rate at roughly 1. 8 . This is fox news night, im Shannon Bream in washington. We are here to bring the very latest facts tonight and every night. Early on your member critics said it would take weeks for the Navy Hospital ship comfort two weeks new york. She is there now and so is rick leventhal. Good evening, rick. Good evening, shannon. The last time the u. S. Comfort docked in new york city it was just after 9 11 to offer support for First Responders. And now shes back, offering relief and a morale boost to the medical workers who are overwhelmed by the influx of covid19 patients. The u. S. Comfort arrived here this morning bringing 1,000 beds, 1200 doctors, nurses, surgeons, and other staff, and 12 operating rooms handle noncoronavirus patients and allowing hospitals to focus on the pandemic. The ship arriving is not just an example of help arriving in a physical form, its not just about the beds and the doctors and equip
Distancing measures may be working. That are roughly 160,000 diagnosed cases in the us, 3000 is putting the death rate at one. 8 . This is fox news at night. We are bringing the latest facts tonight and every day. Early on critics said it would take weeks for the Navy Hospital ship comfort to reach new york, shes there now and so is rick leventhal. Last time the comfort docked in new york city was just after 9 11 and now she is back offering relief and the morel boost to the medical workers who are overwhelmed by the influx of covid19 patients. Arrived in new york harbor bringing 1000 beds, 1200 doctors, nurses, surgeons and other staff and 12 operating rooms to handle noncoronavirus patients allowing hospitals to focus on the pandemic. The ship arriving is not just an example of help arriving in physical form, not just to get out the beds and the doctors and equipment but also about hope. The soldiers in this phase are our healthcare professionals. The doctors, the nurses, the people
Heard from Polly Williams . No, there wasnt, david. Thats a big problem. In august i actually talked to some pastors who wanted to spread a similar message of peace, but when i asked them about education in the community, and education, as you know, leads to jobs. Your ability to do the job, to get a job. They werent talking much about that. Unfortunately, there wasnt a Polly Williams down there, and that is a tragic, tragic circumstance in that city right now. But, rich, i get the impression that the media focuses more on the dividers than on the uniters. Im sure there be other Polly Williams in the country, although she was unique. Well, thats the nature of our media world today. The more outrageous you are the more twitter followers you have and things like that. Look, what ferguson needs most is jobs. Im so glad david mentioned that and to have jobs you need employers and what do employs want . They want people who will show up to work on time, who can read and write and have the c
Reported in december, kushner may have discussed creating a secret back channel so the Transition Team could communicate directly with the kremlin. Whats more here, kushner suggested, quote, using russian diplomatic facilities in the United States for the communications. The post cites officials briefed on intercepted between the kremlin and Russian Ambassador. The president himself is defending kushner to the New York Times saying jared is doing a great job for the country. I have total confidence in him. He is respected by virtually everyone and is working on programs that will save our country billions of dollars. In addition to that, and perhaps more importantly, hes a very good person. Let me add on to that the two top Trump White House officials are down play iing those report. We have back channel commu communications with a number of them. So generally speaking, without back Channel Communications what that allows you to do is communicate in a discreet manner. It doesnt predisp