The speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yeas are 24 the nays are are 242 the nays are 184, with one voting present. The bill is passed. Without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The house will be in order. All members please take your conversations off the floor. The house will be in order. Please clear the well of the house. The house will be in order. For what purpose does the gentleman from washington seek recognition . Madam speaker i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection the gentleman is recognized. Thank you. If i could have everyones attention please. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman will suspend. Please take your conversations off the floor of the house. The gentleman from washington is recognized. Thank you, madam speaker. I just wanted everybody to hear this because this is a very important week. This is National Police week. Mr. Re
Stuck in traffic and cant get home in time for dinner with her kids. And in the very worst cases cases like we saw yesterday on amtrak it might very well mean a love one is lost. Congress looks at this like an academic exercise, numbers on a page to score points or balance a budget make an argument about which are worthy of support. That is not the real world. In the real world, the choices we make have an impact on peoples lives, on their incomes, it has impact on our nations ability to compete. On americas ability to leave the economy globally in the world. We in congress are failing to recognize the realworld impacts on the choices we make about transportation infrastructure. We have a passenger railroad that expired in 2013. We have a Highway Trust Fund on the brink of insolvency with no plans to fix it. We have an outdated Aviation System that we refuse to adequately fund. We have failed to upgrade the available technologies that can reduce the number of failures. We have appropri
Mr. Ehrlich its not obamacare, is it . [laughter] my family lived right across from ocean city, maryland, and delaware. A little closer to home, my wife and daughter have complete coverage for Preventative Health services and my 19yearold son gets to stay on our health plan for at least another seven years. My question to you, what would an ehrlich plan do to the Affordable Care act . Giving in mind that almost 40,000 granite staters are mr. Ehrlich if burwell is decided the way that i think it is going to be decided, which is a Supreme Court case, we will have a mess because the subsidies are going to go away. My alternative is this. If you like obamacare, keep it. If you want more freedom to secure a Health Insurance policy that meets your circumstances, not a onesizefitsall from washington, that meets your health care needs, you should be able to secure that policy by having policies written across state lines. This is going to be a huge issue in american politics. If the Supreme Co
Asia mostly cannot continue to to cheat and sell into our country with a bonus and penalize us when we try to sell into theirs. This body delivered one strong message this week, unprecedented. I cant think of the last time the senate spoke with such an emphatic voice on a trade issue. The simple message we cannot have trade promotion without trade enforcement. We shouldnt be passing new agreements while doing nothing which the senate tried to do on tuesday but was the senate stood up and said no. We shouldnt be passing new agreements while doing nothing to enforce existing laws and support American Companies dealing with unfair competition. We need to stand up, particularly for our Small Businesses who are always who are always hurt to a much greater degree than Large Businesses because when a Large Company when a Large Company in cleveland or toledo or lima shuts down production and moves to china getting a tax break from our government, amazingly enough that this body wont close that
Police beat where i live. I need to know my neighbors better. They actually told us they want to get out and get to know each other. Were looking at increasing Community Resident engagement in our highcrime neighborhoods, activating neighborhood associations who have been latent for many years. We have free cleanup assistance Tree Planting beautification projects for up to 5,000 grants. Theres so many things our city is offered and what i have found in my presentations in those neighborhoods in long beach, those neighbors dont even know these programs exist. So our job as a city is to go door to door and activate those residents to come to the Association Meetings and to begin to reform their neighborhoods from the inside out. We all know that unemployment is an issue as well. We overlaid the map of unemployment rates with poverty. Those same census track high poverty, high levels of unemployment. How do we develop a strategy that we go door to door and ensure our unemployed residents