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 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 debate beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer mr. Speaker, we begin the second week of the republican Government Shutdown. The approximate cause was the republican effort to stop denial to delay money for the government needs to fund to stop the Affordable Care act. Well, its also the second week of the Affordable Care act, which clearly now will not be repealed, defunded or delayed. Just this last weekend, we
Its the end of a terrific week. We need to look forward because while were right in the thick of earnings season, next week is the toughest one of all. Whats the game plan . First of all, next week i have a weird twist to start the game plan. Were going to be doing the big guessing game over Municipal Bonds. Who will be the next to go under after detroit . I dont want go to there because i think detroit is a special case, one thats uniquely horrible as the tax base has been eroding for years. Thats something we dont see anywhere else except some small towns in california. Heres what you need to know as someone who is pretty experienced in this Municipal Bonds business. I would not be a buyer of any Municipal Bonds here. The yields are too low. Wake me up. This is a showdown that has no impact on your pocketbook unless you own the detroit bonds themselves. Now, this huge earnings week coming up. Before we get there, lets go over a pattern ive observed that is going to that is frankly go
Six, rubio. One, kasich, nine, carson. Madam secretary, North Carolina, the land of the longleafed pine and the land where the sun doth shine, where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great. North carolina, home of the Largest Military installations in the world, North Carolina with the majestic Appalachian Mountains on the west and the beautiful Crystal Coast on our east. North carolina, one of the fastestgrowing state economies under governor pat mccrory and the republicanled General Assembly proudly cast our 72 votes as follows, one, dr. Ben carson. Six, senator marco rubio. Nine for Ohio Governor john kasich. And the great conservative tradition of the Old North State and the home of billy graham, we proudly cast 27 votes for senator ted cruz. [ cheers and applause ] North Carolina is a party which was funded and founded by blacks and whites and one of the ports that most people dont know about this state is 10 of all of the historically black colleges and universities are wi
Today we learned about two additional ones targeted at former Vice President joe biden. Hollywood superstar Robert Deniro sent an explosive device at a house that houses his Production Company in downtown new york city. So this story it continues to develop in terms of the number of device apparently sent, the number of targets, also the progress of the Law Enforcement that has enviewed as more devices turned up, we are told the fbi started analyzing these things at their lavenl it is the sort of holly grail for investigators to have this much physical evidence. To have these up, ploeded devices will give investigators leads to pursue. In terms of who put these things together and how and what their intentions were. I will just mention one other thing about this, though. When we bought the news confirmed late last night about the two devices targeting Congress Woman maxine waters, one senned to her offices in southern california. One sent to her offices in washington, d. C. And then to
Also a new target, hollywood superstar Robert Deniro sent an explosive device at a building that houses his Production Company in downtown new york city. So, this story, it continues to develop both in terms of the number of devices that were apparently sent, the number of targets, and also the progress of the Law Enforcement investigation that has ensued since these bombs started turning up. Even as more devices turned up in more places today, we are told that the fbi has started analyzing these things at their lab in quantico, virginia. As we talked about on last nights show, it is the holy grail for investigators to have this much physical evidence to look at, to have all of these unexploded devices is going to give investigators a lot of different leads to pursue in terms of who put these things together and how and what their intentions were. I will just mention one other thing about this, though. When we got the news confirmed late last night about the two devices targeting congr