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
The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms washington, d. C. , january 16, 2015, i hereby appoint luke messer to act as speaker pro tempore on this day signed john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain. Jall mighty ever living god in the heart in all peoples. Graciously receive the prayers we pour out to you for our country, through the wisdom of our leaders and integrity of its citizens, harmony and justice may be assured and lasting prosperity come with peace. Look with favor, we pray on this house and in your mercy, we beg you to grant that its members may be your instruments for us and for the whole world, that the flourishing of peoples the establishment of peace and the freedom of religion made through your gift be made secure. Pour out upon these men and women o god, the spirit of your wisdom, so they may decide everything for the wellbeing
And its one of six montana counties that the keystone x. L. Pipeline will route through. Now, circle like a lot of small communities in montana, has experienced the same economic and population declines that towns have faced in recent years. In fact, the county has significant infrastructure needs that have gone unresolved in the wake of a shrinking tax base. Now, for towns like circle, the keystone x. L. Pipeline isnt just about energy. It represents Economic Opportunity and hope for the future. You see mccomb county alone would see 18 million in property tax revenues from the Keystone Pipeline construction and thats just in the pipelines first year of operation. Now, thats money for neighborhoods, its for roads not to mention the influx of jobs for the area. Now, another 45 million would be distributed among five other montana counties and 16 million would go to montanas schools and university systems. You see these keystone x. L. Pipeline means Lower Energy Costs for montana familie
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 debate. 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 limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida, ms. Roslehtinen, for five minutes. Ms. Roslehtinen thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to strongly oppose the december 17 announcement by president obama on policy changes toward the cuban communist regime. The cuban regime from day one was planning on using alan gross as a pawn to receive concessions from the Obama Administration and their strategy worked. In april, 2013 when asked about a possible swap for mr. Gross secretary kerry testified before congress that, quote, we have refused to do that because the
I am not just thinking about the election but the issues and giving serious thought to where our country needs to go on energy, education, Foreign Policy, health care and a number of other areas. Strongly encourage anyone else to do that. I dont know how you get into a race this important without giving serious thought to the issues. That is part of what im doing at this time. When i did make a decision, it will not be a secret. Im happy to tell everybody. I will say this. For me, it will not be about fundraising or polling. It will be about restoring the american dream. I have been blessed. My parents came over 40 years ago in search of an opportunity. I feel like my brother and i have been able to live the american dream. I want my children and grandchildren to be able to live that dream as well. We have an open primary. I am term limited. We will have an election later this all fall where everybody runs against everybody. If there is not a winner in the primary, the top two would go