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 American Samoa, mr. Faleomavaega, for five minutes. Mr. Faleomavaega mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to extend and revise my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. Mr. Faleomavaega mr. Speaker, i rise today to thank our fellow americans and the people of American Samoa for the opportunity they gave me to serve them. Having grown up in a small village in American Samoa and graduating high school in hawaii, i never expected the people of American Samoa would choose me to serve the
Impact on every Single Family in this country. It has an impact on my families that i represent and that is why i am so proud to stand here and support this legislation and i yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentlelady from california is recognized. Mrs. Napolitano thank you, mr. Speaker. May i inquire the amount of time left on both sides . The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from california has eight minutes. The gentleman from washington has 13 1 2 minutes. Mrs. Napolitano thank you, mr. Speaker. I would now yield four minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. Huffman. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from california is recognized for four minutes. Mr. Huffman i thank the gentlelady. Mr. Speaker, some of our colleagues from other states may be experiencing a sense of deja vu right now. Yes, this is the second time this year that the house has voted on a California Water bill that would harm Northern Californi
7488002. Guantanamo bay prison, what should be done with it . Withary miami herald the story. Sixdeal that dropped detainees in uruguay is seen as the vanguard of future south american settlements in attempts to close guantanamo. Rogers, who is currently the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee was on cnn cost state of the union yesterday. [video clip] them are not from uruguay. There from all over the rest of the world. Some of the services that do these agreements cant do it. We pay money. To these countries who take these prisoners that is not their culture or they are from. The services are supposed to monitor these people. What we have found in the past is that it does not work very well. I do not think that surprises anybody. Maybe we ought to rethink what we are doing here. Some past released prisoners are reengaged in the terrorist fight. Those of us who try to do the review of this were so concerned because they were so interested in getting them out, they forgot due d
Operated before us. You write it is between letter writing and conversation was blurred by the custom of dictating outgoing letters to describes and having incoming letters read aloud to them. Indeed, you would have a describe and a messenger bringing them to friends and they were capable of reading and writing. They got more done back then. The reason week we can do social media is because it is fast and cheap to deliver image. And for the romans they had slavery and they were able to have a social eco system where they passed mej messages to each other. What were the wax tablets you talked about . They had devices that looked like like ipads. You might use a wax tablet and you would scratch the message or a describe scribe would do it and the recipient would bring it back to you. Cicero refers to this as roman texting. It was a note pad as well and people used them to learn to write. They are the same size as the ipad. And dollar there was a lot of examples of people depicted holding
Years that ive learned that there was a process you are supposed to follow. I just went out and keep bugging people until they give you as much dollars as you needed. You have commoditized it for small companies. We get on average a couple of hundred emails a year that say hey, i have got a great idea. How do i get started . That touches on one of the key problems we saw that exist today. If you are out there raising capital, what are you not doing . Youre not talking to your users or your customers. We are not building your product or services. Fundraising becomes a huge process, a huge effort. It is a process. To break it down and make it real for you and give you a sense, while youre barely keeping your head above water as it is, you are also willing to meet with groups such as angel groups or pitchign to vc firms, where you sit in a room and they ask questions and you say thank you very much. You have a little side conversation. You get all of the checks together. If youre lucky, y