Pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, 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 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 gentlewoman from florida, ms. Roslehtinen, for five minutes. Ms. Roslehtinen thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to strongly oppose the december 17 announcement by president obama on policy changes toward the cuban communist regime. The cuban regime from day one was planning on using alan gross as a pawn to receive concessions from the Obama Administration and their strategy worked. In april, 2013 when asked about a possible swap for mr. Gross secretary kerry testified before congress that, quote, we have refused to do that because the
Loretta lynch has a stellar record. She served with incredible distinction during her time as United States attorney for the Eastern District of new york. I suggest to my colleagues that the best way to serve the purpose of stopping trafficking is to confirm her so she can get to work on enforcing that new law. Thank you madam president. The presiding officer under the previous order the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations which the clerk will report. The clerk nominations department of transportation. Carlos a. Monje jr. To be assistant. Manson k. Brown of the district of columbia to be an assistant. The presiding officer under the previous order, there will be 30 minutes of debate equally divided in the usual form. A senator madam president. The presiding officer the senator from florida. Mr. Nelson madam president i want to speak for the confirmation of both the nominees but first of all i want to render the courtesy to the senator from con
This is outrageous senator crapo is exactly right and im proud to cosponsor. A few seconds left. Senator ayotte. I would like to ask my colleagues comment. Thank you. Rebuttal . As senator crapo mentioned, i suspect many of my colleagues will support this amendment. That i did want to add to it that if we are serious about helping the unsubscribe as i suppose all of us are we would not be voting for a budget that slashes funding to the program. Democrats and republicans across the country have said the acrosstheboard cuts are terrible policy and an absurd way to reduce the deficit that must be replaced. There replaced. There are republicans on this committee who have been vocal about the need to roll back these cuts and have expressed the need to raise some revenue. Last year democrats and republicans were able to reach an agreement that the rollback the worst of these automatic cuts which prevented another government shutdown, moved us away from the crisis and restored critical invest
Time, i know how to address customers, ive learned how to make change and ive been promoted supervise e and if i continue to do that for one more year, im going to get to run one of these. So we need to increase skills. We have a thing called climb wyoming in wyoming that allows single mothers to increase their job skills tremendously and get into nontraditional occupations and make a lot of money. Which is the direction that i hope that we can go with improving america is to get people into jobs that pay substantially more and get them the minimum skills so they can by pass that minimum skill position. Senator sessions. Well, supply and demand is a real factor in the world and you bring in more labor from abroad and the price of labor declines. Cbo said that the bill has passed, reduced wages. And that per capita, the key per capita gdp in america would fall. So, thats one issue that i think we ought to think about, but without the government dictating precisely what wages ought to be
Do not read our training manuals and as former head of the training command, said that they lack fully qualified young people, a menacing threat to our National Security. We need to do complex calculation. Quincy will have one minute to close. Thank you. Question woman of oklahoma. Thank you. I want to yield my good friend two minutes. At thank the gentleman. It is ironic my friend talks about uncertainty in the early part of his argument in favor of his amendment. In my opinion, the only thing certain about what we are attempting to do here is the exacerbation or the acceleration of the very problem that put us in the position we are in right now. These caps and firewalls are a matter of law. I want to share this through the lens of an appropriator. A couple on my side of the aisle , ms. Lee and mr. Ryan, do the same. We are in the position we are in right now because of what were seeing there in the red. If you go back to 1962, you can see that about two thirds of spending that we al