David w. Jolly to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner 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 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 1 50 p. M. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Berra bera for five minutes. Mr. Bera thank you, mr. Speaker. Today i rise to honor the memory of Sacramento County sheriff deputy danny oliver. Deputy oliver served the citizens of Sacramento County for 15 years when he paid the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty this past october. Later that day the sheriff investigative junior was shot by the sa
Intention of fulfilling. The president scheduled to do his budget the week of april 8. The senate going to meet with House Republicans today. Give us the nature of these meetings and what will happen. Today is the second of four trips up to capitol hill for president obama. Its part of this consensus where hes trying to win over congressional support for a grand budget bargain. This has been an effort that was kind of served by failing to avert the squeft a couple of weeks ago. Hes got almost the opposite challenge of what he did yesterday when he met with Senate Democrats, when he was meeting with Senate Democrats yesterday they were pressing him on his kind of willingness to accept Social Security cuts and changes to medicare, entitlement programs. Democrats are very much in opposition to that. Today hes going to go face House Republicans who as we know are very much in opposition to any increase in tax revenue. And so while yesterday he was kind of trying to win over democrats for a
Not. But this much we now know to be true its better with a democrat. The economy, that is. So says two economists at princeton university. Alan blinder and mark watson. Now, these are two of the Top Economists in the country. And in july they released a paper entitled president s and the u. S. Economy an economic exploration. Maybe the title doesnt scream 63page summer beach read material, but nerdland rejoice because we have the highlights. Among them, the u. S. Economy has grown faster and scored higher on many other Macro Economic metrics when the president of the United States is a democrat rather than a republican. The members tell the tale. From 1947 to 2012, the economy grew at an average annual rate of 4. 35 with a democrat in the oval office and 2. 54 with a republican. Whereas we can get into deficit spending versus supply side economics, stimulus versus austerity, social safety net versus wall street coddling, it turns out it may be just better to be lucky, you know, than t
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