The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , february 4, 2014. I hereby appoint the honorable john j. Duncan jr. 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 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 mo event shall debate continue but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. Were used to a world with gloomy news regarding t
Consolation. Bless as well the men and women who serve our nation this day in our armed forces. May they and their families be assured of our deep gratitude for their service. O god, you have blessed every person with the full measure of your grace and given us the bounty of your spirit, lead us this day in the ways of peace. We pray for peace in our hearts , that we will be freed from selfishness or envy, that we will replace any enmity with goodwill and hatred with charity so we might lead lives of generosity and kindness. May there be peace in our world among all nations. May each nation sense its shared destiny and in a new spirit of hope and trust, one with another. Help us to be men and women without excuse and may all that we do this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The p
The modifying video competition report, some of those things. I have got a piece of legislation weve passed out of the full house twice now, very bipartisan, i think it was unanimous earlier in this Congress Called the fcc consolidated reporting act which really tries to take a broad view and to eliminate a lot of the outdated reports, to streamline the reporting process. Something that i think you have seen bipartisan support to do in the house. Were trying to get the senate to take that up. Im not sure if you have a comment on what you think should happen there, if thats something youre supportive of generally, especially as it relates to the bipartisan bill in the house trying to move through the senate to ultimately become law to streamline the process as your staff has suggested. So on the senate side, its senator heller who has been pushing on this, and i know that he and senator rockefeller are talking about it in terms of their package of legislation over there. I definitely ag
Contra cost California Transportation Authority last week. They have the new test track for the mercedes Autonomous Vehicle thats going to be located in their county x he said one of the things and he said one of the things in the future, benefits that he sees is that these vehicles could benefit to the county, that these vehicles could go out and detect potholes and immediately transmit the data back to the contra costa or any Transportation Authority so that thered be be a fleet of vehicles that would be communicating information in realtime so that they could maintain the Transportation System better. I just wonder ored from mr. Scribner and mr. Otoole whats your view of that and the cost, also, of transmitting all this data back to a county Transportation Authority. Well, i dont see anything wrong, if he wants to get that information, for him to design an app and upload it to apple and android, and then people can volunteer to download it. If theyre driving on a road thats unusuall
And now provide limited cooperation regarding the terror threats to u. S. Olympic athletes. The uss that these are isolated events or do you see russia returning to more of a cold war posture towards the u. S. . Thats a great question. I do think that this is somewhat reflective of current a leadership and i think there is clearly a desire to return to great and global power status, and i think that colors the behavior of the russian government. And the pursuit of their interests in which they are competitive with us. Thank you. Specifically on the olympics in sochi, the uss that the russian government has taken adequate precaution to protect olympic athletes and visitors . Let me, if i may, sir, pass that to matt olson, who has been working this problem pretty intensely as the director of the National Counterterrorism center. We are focused on threats to the let the games and were working very closely with the russians and with other partners to monitor any discrepancy disrupt as you