Pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of he house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, 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. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. An interesting column in the morning post about the congressional response to the Opioid Crisis. Both the administration and congress have been good at hyping the crisis when it comes time to actually crisis. When it comes to actually taking action, nothing happens. This is appalling since most of the Opioid Crisis is the
This is aljazeera. Welcome. Watching the news live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the army takes control in zimbabwe military commanders to know its a coup they say the president Robert Mugabe is safe. An act of aggression lebanons president says nothing justifies the detention of the Prime Minister sites in saudi arabia. Also this just the u. S. Secretary of state visits me in mali to condemn the crackdown against rango muslims but he stopped short of calling for sanctions. And im sorry if will have all the days more including demarcus qualify for the football world power for the time. Her history of a rash the republic of ireland by one in their play on. A fast moving top story for you here on the news our Army Commanders in zimbabwe well theyve seized control of the country but they deny their takeover is a coup in an address on state t. V. An Army Spokesman said criminals around the president Robert Mugabe were being targeted military command
Call the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to order. We thank our witnesses for being here, and im looking forward to your testimony. As much of the world concentrates on the isis threat and instability in the middle east, the Committee Takes this opportunity to consider efforts by the United States and other partners to counter extremism in the Subsaharan African area. Longterm development has been the norm across much of africa including here tell you what. Ben, even with large letters i cant see anymore. [laughter] including here in our committee with the recent signing of the power africa legislation, which were all very proud of and appreciate the way the administration has led on that effort also, that we hope will help bring investment to a key sector for Economic Growth and opportunity. Whereas in the middle east we have been reacting to abhorrent state and terrorist violence and the uprooting of millions of people, in africa weve had the opportunity of years of influence thro
Support against terrorism. So i strongly support that. But as you each pointed out, the recruitment of terrorists is because theres a void, and there are individuals who feel that they have no other choice and theyre prime for recruitment. So my concern is, are we giving countries a free pass who are our partners in our counterterrorism campaigns on human rights and poor governance . I say that, and i give you many examples. In ethiopia, they just had a parliamentary election. Not a single opposition leader, the person was elected. Weve seen the Security Forces there who have killed hundreds of protesters. In chad we have a dozen military officers who have been arrested because they wouldnt vote for the president. In somalia we have a report in yesterdays Washington Post that theyre using children for spies. Weve had extrajudicial killings by the military in nigeria and kenya. And yet, i dont see a response by the america, u. S. , in regards to these activities. Am i wrong . Are we giv
Thats all kosher. But doing the same type of Data Development through surveillance electronic surveillance and you can kick the tire on specific people you identify is somehow prohibited by the Fourth Amendment. It cannot be. Well, i disagree with most of the details that david laid out, but im going to try to go to the core of your question. Your name was edward, right . Which is why do so many conservatives depart from the text of the constitution and the original intent and so many liberals do likewise depending on what the particular issue is, rather than consistently trying to honor both the text and the original meaning or understanding of the constitution. And i have some comfort to offer you, which is that on a number of very important recent privacy cases in the United States supreme court, before Justice Scalia died, when the court had nine contentious individuals who would often split 54 and being even more fragmented, weve had a number of recent decisions in which all nine