The different regulations are a violation of the First Amendment. This oral argument from last week is an hour. We will hear argument, first, this morning in case 13502, reed v. Town of gilbert. Mr. Courtman . Mr. Chief justice, and may it please the court the towns code discriminates on its face by treating certain signs differently based solely on what they say. For example political signs may be 32 square feet, may be unlimited in this number and may be placed in the rightofway of the entire town for phi months before five months before the election. But the churchs signs can only be onefifth of that size, only placed in the dark of night the night before the Church Service. While the churchs signs with directional content are only allowed up for 14 hours other signs with directional content are allowed up for much longer. For example builders directional signs to home sales events are allowed up the entire weekend, and Homeowners Association event signs are allowed to be up for 30
Cayman islands and virgin islands, the amount of profit they attributed to these countries is in some cases 1600 more than the Gross Domestic Product of these countries. This is outright tax avoidance. Im a Small Business owner. I know many Small Business owners pay their taxes legitimately, but some corporations take advantage of these tax havens and tax laws. Specific lit one that really has gotten a lot of attention lately is this inversion process. The fact we know already pharmaceutical companies and Manufacturing Companies have been looking at this, but most recently some Retail Companies like walgreens is in the process of potentially going down this road, which would be a whole new area we havent seen taking advantage of this practice walgreens, if i understand it right, there is an estimate over five years we could lose 4 billion worth of tax revenue if they were to do this practice, which is something that i think the average person would look at as nothing more than thes not
Still has significant power but the power is no longer exclusive. It can only be exercised in cooperation with others. The transatlantic cooperation can be the bed rock if we lesson our learns and look ahead to the future of the role in the world. Our bonds, the transatlantic bonds, cannot rely only on our common pasts. Now its a moment to shape our common future. If we want to shape a world order based on cooperation and respect instead of competition and confrontation. And already the events of the first weeks of this year shows us how urgent our cooperation is to address the challenges we face. From the conflict between russia and ukraine to iraq and syria, from the terrible attacks in paris to the carnage spread boko haram in nigeria. We need this Transatlantic Partnership more than ever. We need cooperation in a world that is more infer connected, conflictual and. Polycentric than ever. Mega trends in human say it all. Global tourist is expect to near 2 billion by 2030. Migration
85 of the projected growth in spending over the next decade is driven by health care and retirement entitlements and interest on the debt. So thats where reforms need to target. To balance the budget before the end of the decade, we saw in the last house budget, it takes more than 5 trillion in cuts. That is assuming you start cutting right away. If you decide to cut in future years and not address spending next year, it takes bigger cuts to get to that ballpoint. So the sooner lawmakers can start cutting, the better. Where exactly should they start . Repealing obama care has to be their First Priority simply because 44 of the growth in sbiltsment spending is driven by the health care law. So if we are to rein in growing spending and debt obama care is where we need to start. This needs to be combined with reforms to Medicare Medicaid, and Social Security. During this process, lawmakers should be guided by focusing benefits on those individuals with the greatest need and delivering tho
David w. Jolly 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 time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Berra bera for five minutes. Mr. Bera thank you, mr. Speaker. Today i rise to honor the memory of Sacramento County sheriff deputy danny oliver. Deputy oliver served the citizens of Sacramento County for 15 years when he paid the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty this past october. Later that day the sheriff investigative junior was shot by the sa