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 alabama, mr. Brooks, for five minutes. Mr. Brooks thank you, madam speaker. Secretary of defense leon Panetta States sequestration, quote, would be a disaster in terms of the defense department. As far as our budget is concerned, as far as our ability to respond to the threats that are out there, it has a big impact, end quote. Over time sequestrations disproportionate cuts to National Defense will reduce our military to the smallest number of uniformed personnel since before
We have to repeal obamacare. And it can be replaced with something much better for everybody. Trump telling the wall street journal hes open to preserving portions of obamacare. Not our president not our president this is a tough time for our country. I think weve seen how people have been reacting to the events. If theres any healing in this country, its going to have to start with donald trump walking back a lot of what he said during the campaign. I think the tone is something we saw change on election night. He is now the president of all the people. Well, happy saturday. Your weekend has arrived. Im christi paul. Im victor blackwell. Well get to politics in just a moment. The breaking news out of afghanistan this morning. Four people were killed and more than a dozen others injured after a deadly attack on a u. S. Air base in afghanistan. U. S. Officials have confirmed now an enemy device was detonated at bagram air base. The taliban have claimed responsibility for this attack via
Im rene marsh. Nice to have you in for christine romans. Im dave briggs. It is monday, april 2nd. I hope you had a wonderful easter. We start with trade. China making good on the trade threats opening fears of a trade war. China will slap tariffs on 3 billion of u. S. Goods. The chinese tariffs from agriculture exports and pork and fruit and nuts and steel, pipe, nuts and aluminum. This is escalating tensions with the United States and china. The president has more trade actions in the works like tariffs on 50 billion of chinese goods. Experts warn they could cause further retaliation and a trade war would be devastating for consumers and companies. The president has accused b beijing of unfair trade moves. The exodus of a number of people from the white house like gary cohn and Rex Tillerson may pave the way for the president to move on the tariffs. President trump on an antiimmigrant rant on easter sunday. Much on twitter. Here are the tweets. Border patrol agents not allowed to do t
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