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 limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. One of the most difficult and challenging situation any family faces is dealing with circumstances surrounding the end of life. Earlier this week, n. P. R. Ran a fascinating story on a little known fact that physicians die differently than the rest of us. They are more comfortable, theyre more likely to spend their final days surrounded by loved ones. They seldom die in an i. C. U. Or in a hospital setting. Thats because doctors understand what works and what doesnt. Doctors are very clear about their wishes, and they choose quality of life and concern for their families as well as their own well
In the clear right now but look at the heavy thunderstorm activity moving through northeastern maryland and cecil county now edging into Chester County and New Castle County along i95 just to the south of newark and heavy rainfall entering newark and scattered showers in the wilmington area. Were getting a showery, stormy start this morning and the threat of showers and thunderstorms will stay with us during the day today. But its not going to be an allday rainfall. Scattered showers and thunderstorms at 6 00 73 degrees. Well see mostly cloudy skies and a chance of scattered showers at 9 00 77 and there will be some breaks of sunshine but also more storms heading into the noontime hour. Well warm into the low 80s but climb into the upper 80s this afternoon. Your hourbyhour future weather when i come back in ten minutes. Right now, lets check out how the roads are going and see if the rain is affecting the traffic just yet. Jessica boyington standing by. We definitely see rain in differ
Along with the director what our options might be as we proceed forward. This is something i would recommend all of the members that they become educated in on a periodic basis. Because this is not the end of Technology Advances and therefore this is not the last challenge were going to be faced with from a technology standpoint. Senator langford. Thank you mr. Chairman and you are right, this is not the last one this is the latest Technology Battle were dealing with. George comey thank you for your work and pass on to the folks that work some very long hours leading up to july the 4th our appreciation for what they did for the nation and the citizens of my state and people around the country. We do appreciate their work very much and you have a terrific team. The challenge we face on this is not only on the Technology Side and dealing with terrorism, it is the benefit gained from this. I would say the folks at opm would be glad that touk about to talk about encryption if they would ha
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And needs to continue to evolve but i dont believe we need some kind of fundamental new direction for fundamental restructuring of the program. Host ms. Wilensky, your final thoughts . Guest we didnt hear much from the people who final who really count, the people who are paying for medicare and are worried about whether it will be there or not. It was interesting to listen to those who are on medicare. The current recipients. But as youve indicated, the millennials, and many of the people under 65, dont believe the programs will be there for them, Social Security or medicare. It would be helpful if they would become more active in the political process. They have a lot of stake. They will be paying in no matter what. The question is what will be there for them when they get there. Medicare has been and are successful for the current Medicare Beneficiaries has been very successful for the current figure Medicare Beneficiaries. The unfunded liabilities are not small, even for washington