The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, rabbi avidseth kirshner, temple emanuel. Closter, new jersey. Rabbi kirshner as we embark on the sacred day of work to better the libes of all americans, we ask that you, god, help instill these leaders of the 115th congress with patience, wisdom, empathy and respect to achieve and exceed our goals for today and for tomorrow. Help us demonstrate our gratitude for our Service People and First Responders who work as our partners and fulfilling our shared mission. God, we ask you today to disseminate your sunlight and shower dawn your rain, which will help us cultivate the seeds of securing our freedoms, celebrating our democracy and championing tolerance for now and forever. May it be your will, that the generations to come that will live within and lead this great nation can enjoy the blooming flowers and sweet fruits of our labors on this sacred day. God, we ask you to bless this congress and thes
With enforcing the laws and the courts with interpreting them. This forwards against the abuse of power by any one branch. The separation of pow sers at the core of the fundamental premisele of our constitutional design that a limited government, divided in three branches, exercises enumerated powers is necessary to protect individual liberty and the rule of law. Unfortunately, over the last several decades, congress has aloud its powers to gradually be chipped away at by the other branches. By allowing its powers to be diminished, congress, especially this house, effectively permitting the people to be deprived of their most responsive voice in the federal government. Through the legislation before us today, and other legislation that the house has actively pursued in recent years, we can begin to reestablish and enforce the limits on the authority of the other two branches. Although no package of bills by itself can rebuild congress institutional strength and restore the constitution
General Public Comment item no. 3. Please come on up. I have one card in front of me. Mr. John furlan okay thank you, president cohen. First off, im disturbed about the trend of moving closed session to the front of the agenda and having members of the public have to wait for an hourandahalf and two hours to wait for you to get through the investment calendar. And i would respectfully request that you move the investment calendar back to the agenda, so members of the public dont have to cool their heels while you are dealing with that. Okay. If necessary if you could move it to a special meeting each month, rather than jampack your agenda, so you are not out of here before 5 00 or 6 00 or 7 00; that would be even better. I would like to correct the record last month, ke walker inappropriately and inaccurately quoted that the program for the dalt investment would yield 9. 4 . She misread bob shaws analysis. She was quoting percentage for the loans that have already been repaid, and i be
Mr. John furlan okay thank you, president cohen. First off, im disturbed about the trend of moving closed session to the front of the agenda and having members of the public have to wait for an hourandahalf and two hours to wait for you to get through the investment calendar. And i would respectfully request that you move the investment calendar back to the agenda, so members of the public dont have to cool their heels while you are dealing with that. Okay. If necessary if you could move it to a special meeting each month, rather than jampack your agenda, so you are not out of here before 5 00 or 6 00 or 7 00; that would be even better. I would like to correct the record last month, ke walker inappropriately and inaccurately quoted that the program for the dalt investment would yield 9. 4 . She misread bob shaws analysis. She was quoting percentage for the loans that have already been repaid, and i believe more accurate number of 5. 2 yield on that proposed investment. Im also a little
General Public Comment item no. 3. Please come on up. I have one card in front of me. Mr. John furlan okay thank you, president cohen. First off, im disturbed about the trend of moving closed session to the front of the agenda and having members of the public have to wait for an hourandahalf and two hours to wait for you to get through the investment calendar. And i would respectfully request that you move the investment calendar back to the agenda, so members of the public dont have to cool their heels while you are dealing with that. Okay. If necessary if you could move it to a special meeting each month, rather than jampack your agenda, so you are not out of here before 5 00 or 6 00 or 7 00; that would be even better. I would like to correct the record last month, ke walker inappropriately and inaccurately quoted that the program for the dalt investment would yield 9. 4 . She misread bob shaws analysis. She was quoting percentage for the loans that have already been repaid, and i be