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
good morning, everybody. welcome to squawk box on cnbc. i m becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. it is jobs friday. the major markets are closed in observance of good friday but here we are open for business. there s some limited trade willing taking place this morning so let s bring you up to speed. here s what s open. you got the dow, the s&p and nasdaq futures, all open until 9:15 eastern, treasuries open until noon eastern, treasury futures until 11:15 a.m. the currency futures open until 11:15 a.m. there is more revamping for blackberry research in motion. the vice president has departed and senior vice president alan brenner will be leaving the company shortly. this is what the ceo calls a strategic, comprehensive review. after layoffs of 2,000 workers this week, scott thompson tells yahoo! employees he s emphasizing moving forward and getting stuff done. hale be holding an all-hands staff meeting on tuesday to talk about its strategy. and sam