The secretary i am directed by the president of the United States to deliver to the house of representatives a message in writing. 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 o five minutes no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentlelady from North Carolina, ms. Foxx, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to talk about h. R. 899, the Unfunded Mandates information and transparency act, which will be considered by the house later this week. I realize, mr. Speaker, that this name doesnt come trippingly off the tongue, but it is an important piece of legislation. Every year federal agencies
Group. It is clearly a major regional threat. It has also created an enormous safe haven in syria and iraq and attracted numerous foreign fighters which give it key assets for plotting terrorist acts abroad. While they hay want to carry out attacks in the west, to date, it has not carried out or even attempted a covert terrorist organization outside its theater. Indeed, i think we have to ask a question, is it focused on us . I would submit that right now its focus is not principally on us. Despite the appalling executions of the last two weeks they are consumed by their efforts to tear apart iraq in a sectarian conflict. And to quote the direct i dont have director of nctc from his speech yesterday, at this point in time we have no credible information that isil is planning to attack the United States he added in our view, any threat this is from the sympathizers and foreign fighters, any threat to the u. S. Homeland is likely to be limited in scope and scale. We as a nation have made
Government interests too quick to tax. Long ago nader passed beyond single concerns with seatbelts. He is built a National Network of citizen groups that have had a major impact in tax reform, nuclear energy, and health and safety programs. In his latest book, he warns the United States is at a pivotal moment. Americans are more disillusioned with their political leaders than never, and large majorities save a corporations have too much political power. Norquist established americans for tax reform in 1985. That group works to limit the size of government and opposes higher taxes at all levels of government. He is best known for his antitax pledge to which he says 260 lawmakers of the 113th congress swore to uphold. He recently advocated for the government to stay out of the proposed comcasttime warner merger, saying the marketplace is adjusting to consumer demand and the government should not meddle in a free market transaction. Today we will hear our guest discuss where the left and
People tell me they dont want to go back to the broken system. They want us to fix and improve this law, and that is exactly what i am doing. But when i look at what speaker tillis does, he was to repeal this law. He would take as act to that broken system when seniors would back to that broken system when seniors would pay more further coverage than men im sorry, women would pay more, seniors would pay more than theyre paying today. Their prescriptions would the more. If you have a preexisting condition, forget about the availability of health care. That is not what our seniors for the or the American People other thing speaker tillis would support, a budget that would turned medicare into a Voucher Program. Seniors, this would mean Financial Insecurity, higher outofpocket costs, and it would certainly take our seniors back. It is not medicare turning it into a Voucher Program is not good for our seniors. I dont think speaker tillis understands the needs of the American People. What w
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