Violence and harassment complaints. We must do more to protect students and equip universitys to prerespond appropriately to Sexual Assault on campus. This amendment will allow more institutions of Higher Education to implement comprehensive, coordinated responses to Sexual Violence through the Campus Grant Program. The Campus Grant Program was created by the violence against women act of 2005 and reauthorized by the violence against women reauthorization of 2013, a bill which i worked hard to help pass. Increasing funding to this Vital Program representance important step in empowering victims of Sexual Assault and protecting men and women on College Campuses in arizona and across the country. I urge my colleagues to support this amendment. And before i close, i want to thank che chairman of the appropriations committee, mr. Rogers, and the chairman of the commerce, justice, science appropriations committee, mr. Wolf and Ranking Member mr. Fattah for working with me on this issue. Fin
I hereby appoint the honorable frank r. Wolf 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 ebate. 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 but in to five minutes, no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from maryland, mr. Hoyer, for five minutes. Mr. Hoyer mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to pay tribute to an extraordinary life, to an extraordinary individual, to a dear and good friend of mine for many, many years. The el Raymond Lewis was librarian emeritus, the last and lon
Health initiatives, and they were very effective. One last thing, weve had lots of discussions of how we get additional va doctors into the system and what can we do as far as i guess the medical what is it . The medical so that they can get, i guess, forgiveness on their loans when they work for the va or whether in florida, for example, a lot of our interns go out of the state because we dont have the whats the word . They go out of the state residency. And so we dont have those slots. What can we do . Theres two things youre asking about. One is for people who have large med school debt and the average is pushing upwards of a couple hundred thousand now if you dont have help somewhere along the line is can we do debt forgiveness. We have some limited authority. Its insufficient. Particularly where we want to place physicians in underserved areas which is the real challenge, its less of a challenge people want to stay around where they did their residency so in urban areas with bill
Yes. Why is the president not considering Ground Troops at this point that the administration has had troops there, why is that not on the table . Because we dont believe that thats the approach that we should take in this case. We would agree with senator mccain who made that point today that that was his view. What the president was referring to was the question about contemplating air strikes. I have been saying, ultimately the challenge posed by a group like isil has to be met by the iraqy government and iraqy Security Forces. They can be assisted like they have and are being by the United States and other partners. We will review requests for further assistance and other kinds of assistance very closey and obviously in this Current Situation very quickly. Ultimately iraqs future will be decided by the ability of iraqs political leaders to come together in a spirit of unity to deal with all of the challenges that a nation like iraq faces in building its future and specifically in r
Well, i happen to have in my hand, mr. Speaker, the testimony from then Federal Reserve chairman ben bernanke, february 9, 2011. Mr. Speaker, you wont remember february 9, 2011, here in the chamber but that was my first month on the job. Id just gotten sworn in. Theyd just given me the voting card for for the seventh district of georgia, im sitting in the committee and here comes Federal Reserve chairman ben bernanke, to talk to me, just a freshman here in congress, about Economic Policy and how it is were going to grow the American Economy that might have been my first month on the job but it wasnt chairman paul ryans first month on the job. He was a veteran. Hes a veteran of the budget process he asked dr. Bernanke, im looking at the expansion of the Balance Sheet, the chairman id, im looking at qe 2, quantitative easing 2 it was called,ened im trying to figure out what this is going to do to the economy longterm. I want to quote from chairman bernanke because its important. He clari