Washington, d. C. March 21, 2024. I hereby appoint the honorable mary e. Miller to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, mike johnson, speaker of the use of the speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 9, 2024, the chair will now from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recoition 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 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from arkansas, mr. Westerman, for five minutes. Mr. Westerman thank you, madam speaker. I rise tote a significant milestone. The 50th anniversary of western energy alliance. Oil and natu and reliable sourcs of energy that drive progress, power industries, and fuel innovation. The alliance is a leader among the oil and gasdkâ– ons in understanding th
That when we with that back in the, the end of december, early january, the situation has only deteriorated since then. What im hearing from colleagues that are working, that now the palestinian doctors and nurses we were working with is that the situation is, is even more catastrophic than it was when we were working together back in, in january. That still seeing hundreds of patients, many presenting with complex medical problems. But of course also patients with complex and a traumatic injuries, often poly trauma in the context of the ongoing violence. Israels bites, as youve seen, is, is ongoing, still in the middle in the north of casa, and increasingly also in the south. And when you say the conditions will have high reflect that there was catastrophic, that would terrible injuries that you were seeing. Can you described to us a little bit more about the conditions that you and your colleagues were facing at all . Like the hospital . We were effectively encountering multiple mess
And southern casa people on the road. As there is evening. He read present all the time and military trappers an attack of drones in the area, presenting at the defense, the code number, the impairment, if you can reach into the area and the covering body to be carpeted as of last night. About midnight. When do were gathering the logic, were waiting for a getting to go the northern part so far what weve quoted at this hospital at 21 people have been killed and we are looking at close to 75, a bid for an injury that a ride to shoot the hospital in 01. That is very difficult to treat right now live in the, the situation in the status of a ship, a hospital, a thousands of muslim worship as have attended the 1st friday, present the log some most compound, since the muslim holy month of ramadan began, i likes the most compound is the good holy of science and as long as ready, police say that at least 3000. 00 and security personnel have been deployed across the city. At least 80000. 00 wors
At least theres initially requested by the United Nations when the situation in haiti started to spiral out of control and did have this happen a year ago. And it was already, you know, going to be deployed, kenya said that it has a 1040. 00 sophie says, ready to be on the ground. 400 of them were vetted, for example, for human rights abuses, which was a major concern that were hearing from the state department. That apparently theyve been in touch with a kenyan government saying that this is normal, that theres going to be a designated Prime Minister that there is going to be a government in haiti that the current uh, the Current Mission would be with the authorization of the United Nations Security Council with the mountain dates of the un Security Council, it would be deployed under the chapter 7, which would be when theres a threat to peace in a country, but certainly on the ground. People are very anyway, distrustful of forwarding and prevention. Theyre distrustful because of what
Hello, im Robert Mackenzie and welcome again to the fine old Harper Library in the university of chicago. A group of guests have come together to see and to discuss the latest film by Milton Friedman in his series to choose. In this, he examines working of the labor market and the role of labor unions. And again comes up with some controversial views. In answer the question, who protects the worker. People who earn their living in a modern, heavy industry, seldom engage in the kind of back breaking toil that was the everyday lot of most workers a century ago. And yet they far more what has produced these improvements. The offhand reaction of most people is likely to be that labor unions are largely responsible for the enormous progress that workers have made in the past two centuries, but clearly, at least for the United States, that cannot be true. After all, in 19th century, when workers very well, there were hardly any labor at all. And even today, no more than one out of four or fi