Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, 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 each, to five minutes but in no event shall the 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. We are here in the capitol awaiting decision by the republicans in the house about the next step to deal with the fiscal crisis they have created. Its not really that complicated. The monday deadline approaches to continue the operation of the federal government with a shutdown looming because the republicans have refused to work on a bipartisan basis to resolve the funding issu
Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is seen as the republican front runner for the white house in 2016. Now hes involved in a local political fire storm tarnishing his national image. Emails suggest top staffers were involved in closing lanes to the George Washington bridge. It was payback against a democratic mayor who refused to support christys reelection. The stunt caused massive traffic delays on one of the worlds busiest bridges. Chris christie is viewed as a top challenger to clinton. Fall out from the scandal could impact president ial aspirations. We have a story of a traffic jam on a busy commuter brim. Who in their right mind would close down access to the busiest bridge in the world to send me a message . The mayor of fort new jersey says governor Chris Christie has explaining to do after documents revealed the shutdown of leaps was an act of retribution because the democratic mayor refused to endorse of the re
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 no but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Royce, for five minutes. Very ce well thank you much, mr. Speaker. And this saturday, on january 11, people throughout our country here, people throughout the world will be observing Human Trafficking awareness day. The start of this new year, i think, is a fitting time to focus on the shameful fact that human slavery is not a relic of ancient history, that in fact its with us today, its a brulal reality, a reality faced by more than 20 mill
Lets agree first that it cannot be used that islam is not militaristic that isis and with tomas and with the Muslim Brotherhood with the egyptian in muslim of brotherhood and the jordanian moslem brotherhood. So that is the point that i want to make that those views violence who use violence we have to complete but those who dont have the right to be included in the political process. In the arab world the big campaign is against those who dont use of violence against the Muslim Brotherhood in egypt but those you do we have not seen such a campaign that we have seen here. But my point is once you except the principle of excluding from the political process because you do not agree with their views in the same breath allow them to exclude you. So selective democracy is not a democracy. But it again we go back to tunisia. It is historic in more than one way but one important way it is the first time probably in the world where the Islamic Party wins and loses an election by the ballot bo
Will continue to see episodes of tactical convergence between the United States and iran and cooperation but for his personal interests we will continue to see this strategic enmity between the United States and iran not because it is in the interests of either country or something pushed by the u. S. Government but the parochial interests of the Supreme Leader to maintain this strategic enmity. Thank you for that pessimistic but realistic appraisal of where things are headed. We will turn to questions in the interests of time, three questions at a time. Please identify yourself and your affiliation and keep it to a question and very brief. My question to anyone who would ask, in february of 2014 u. S. Treasury issued in which they sanction Companies Including a couple of cooperative, treasury stated these operatives bringing fighters from afghanistan to syria to al qaeda. It doesnt make sense. Al qaeda related groups including isis. Can you shed some light and turn this . With knowled