You call us today to grow in the knowledge of that love and invite us to receive your blessings. Accept the prayers we offer for our beloved nation, protect it and keep it ever in your sight. Fill this house of representatives with your holy wisdom and may that wisdom lead to right action. Strengthen these representatives and their staffs as they labor for the common good and for what is just in your eyes. May true harmony, lasting freedom and justice be secured for all so that there may be lasting peace. We ask this in your most holy name, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 thjonastdsppve the pledge of allegiance today will be led by the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Marino. Mr. Marino please join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible, with
Make that will create significant construction and infrastructure jobs. Now, were this just in isolation and it didnt involve the total construction of the forests of canada, if i were a canadian id be pretty upset about that, and perhaps the dirtiest, most environmentally problematic way of extracting fossil fuels from the ground to get these oil sands, the construction jobs might have, you know, might carry the day. But sometimes you have to draw a line. And in this case, you know we also hear its going to lead somehow to Energy Security. Thats interesting because the crude is going to come down without paying any crude, tar stand oil or whatever you want to call it, its going to come down to texas without paying into the Oil Spill Liability trust Fund Creating a potential problem for the future taxpayers of the United States. Go to a refinery in an export zone in texas and it will be refined and then it will be exported. Were exporting millions of gallons of fuel every day. So to so
Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6, 2015, 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, each party limited to one hour, and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes but in no event shall the debate continue past 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from connecticut, mr. Courtney, for five minutes. Mr. Courtney madam speaker, today i rise to remember one of eastern connecticuts most generous caring, and devoted citizens, stanley israeliite. He patched away this past december at age 89 and leaves behind an enduring legacy in his native nor witch and throughout connecticut. I asked the u. S. House to join me in expressing condoences to his wife and children, michael, wendy, and john. After his passing a Memorial Serv
It is an exacerbation of competition leading to less predictable world. Its upset the post cold war paradigm in dangerous ways. We have seen unsettling risktaking. Between china and japan and china and Southeast Asian countries, particularly the philippines. We can go into why. No one knows why there is any effective Early Warning mechanism. The second trend is the jihad he group is growing. They are reinforcing one another and producing brutal acts of terrorism. I think its important to recognize we have not been able to deal with one of the scariest aspects of their ability to recruit new members from large disenfranchised, disenchanted youth populations around the world. That partly refract reflects governments failure to provide an adequate sense of opportunity. The International Community continues to accept imperfect peace processes and to be accessories to failed transitions in which the u. S. You can look at sudan, south sudan. Hopefully the current secretarygeneral mandated ex
We want to go outside of washington today to get your thoughts on your congressional partys leadership. The numbers are on the screen. You can also go to social media. The phone lines are open. We will get to your thoughts in a moment, but first we want to show you what the majority leader in the senate, Mitch Mcconnell, had to say on the floor yesterday about their new majorities majoritys legislative priorities. [video clip] this november people did not ask for a government that tried to do everything and sales and they didnt ask for government that aims to do nothing and succeed. They asked simply for a government that works. They want a government of the 21st century. One that functions with efficiency and accountability, competence and purpose. They want to washington that is more interested in modernizing and reminding government then adding more layers to it, and they want more jobs, more opportunity for the middle class, and more flexibility in a complex age with complex demand