Force behind the creation of southern california. He became the first chief judge of the District Court serving in that position until he was appointed to the ninth Circuit Court of appeals. Judge carter judge keep graduated from the San Diego School of law as its valedictorian, becaming the first female judge for the Southern Court of california and later the first female chief judge. And this honors judge john rhodes who served as a federal judge in san diego for 22 years and was widely respected and beloved throughout the regions legal community. Udge s. Judges, carter, keep and rhodes showed excellence and integrity. Im proud to honor their legacy with this legislation, and i want to thank two of my colleagues in particular, congresswoman susan davis who represented this area before i did, and led this effort for the past several years. And congressman darrell issa for his support and great amendments to the bill. Its better because of his work. And im proud to have worked with the
And to visit the plants that have been displaced. The titans that run these global transnational corporations, they are operatives and the wall street giants that finance them could care less about workers anywhere or the community in which they live. And frankly, these new bosses of Global Production dont care about democracy or the rule of law either. They pay whatever they want and they can pay off as they see fit. Ive seen workers in making may tag washing machines in monterey, mexico. They used to be made in newton, iowa. Those workers dont make enough to buy the washing machines they make. The poverty rate in newton has dramatically increased in the town that paul may tag built. The quality of those machines has gone down too. Who can be proud of what is happening . I visited the homes of those workers from monterey lived and other maquilla factory zones and seen firsthand their impofferished living standards. I stood at a surreal location in mexico witnessed the jobs outsourced
This morning, we are opening our phones on that debate. We want to hear from you. Give us a call. Republicans can call the numbers are on the screen. You can also catch up with us on social media on twitter or facebook, or email us. And a very good thursday morning to you. This president ial request to congress is the front page story of most papers around the country. We will be taking you through that authorization for use of military force. Here is what Washington Post had to say here is the president and a little bit more from that address from the white house saying what is not is in what is not in the authorization for use of military force. [video clip] the authorization does not call for use of Ground Forces to be deployed to iraq or syria. It is not an underground war like afghanistan or iraq. The 2600 american troops in iraq today largely serve on basis. And yes, they serve face the risk that come in any combat environment. They are focused on training iraqi and kurdish force
I hereby appoint the honorable evan h. Jenkins 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 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 thmari a mory leade and the noty whip limited to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. For more than 70 years our government has followed the most spectacular failure in policy since disastrous 13year experiment with the prohibition of alcohol. 43 years ago the National Commission on marijuana and drug abuse released a report finding that the federal ban on marijuan
Naval base . That issue is not on the table with the would the it could be on our table. Would you object . I dont know the answer to that, as a matter of executive policy. Let me go on to mr. Smith. We have the cuban solidarity act that doesnt allow us to deal with Certain Properties that have been seized by americans. Youve got new regulations on travel credit cards, etc. How do you plan to make sure that american travelers arent making breaking the law from staying in hotels violating the cuban american solidarity act . One thing i should say about that, the act, what that does is you cant provide a loan or credit or provide financing to further those transactions involving confiscated property. It doesnt say you cant stay at a hotel or engage in any kind of does the Credit Card Company extend a loan when you use a credit card to pay for a hotel stay at a confiscated property . The Credit Card Company may extend the loan to the traveler. Facilitate staying at the hotel, you think th