U. S. House here on cspan. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray, lord, father of us all, we give you thanks for giving us another day. At a time when so many are worried about business survival, rent payment and unemployment benefits, impell those in our government that are charged with the general welfare to come together to negotiate solutions benefiting all americans in need. Put forth your spirit of wisdom, patience and goodwill upon all the members of congress during these troubling days for so many of our nations citizens. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to section 4a of House Resolution 967, the journal of the last
Good afternoon. Im senior fellow with National Security program. Its my great honor to welcome Peter Frazier who is the head of gas, coal for the International Energy agency. He is here to launch the coal 2017 coal has been the worlds dominant fuel for a century. Certainly the robust deployment of renewables but then combined with the cheap gas and has been putting quite a bit of pressure on the generation. So the coal 2017 is one of the ieas signature publications. Its previously known as a midterm coal Market Report. It provides comprehensive analysis heater is here to walk us through some of the analysis and help us better understand where the markets are headed to in the near to midfuture, i guess through 2022. Previously between 1998 and 2004 he was a senior electricity policy adviser. This is his second tour. In between peter worked at the Ontario Energy board. From 1989 to 98 he was an Energy Policy adviser at the ontario ministry. It is with my great pleasure. He will speak for
Supply. It involves many issues including market structures. And we could go on and on. Substitution possibilities, etc. But but what we tackled so far were the difficult issues of things like helping ukraine face the winter, etc. This year and that will continue. But this year frankly a harder issue. We are due to report onto the g7 leader summit. And that is a real intermediate to longterm plan for integrated collective Energy Security. And that gets into some very fundamental policy issues in different countries. But that will be a big agenda item for this year. Finally let me say a few words on the quadrennial Energy Review. I have to say a few words about it first. Some of you are familiar and some are not. This is an admissionwide effort that is looking to weave together all of the equities and threads of an Energy Policy across the government. The first of the quadrennial. It to us its one plus one plus one plus one. And in the first one, we are focussing on energy structure. Tr
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
To go to a restaurant, you can apply for a restaurant. They wont hire you unless you are an illegal immigrant. In the state of new jersey, you need not apply at a restaurant to wash dishes, to pump gas, on and on. I could say all of these. Mow lawns, work for a landscaping company. Host we appreciate your comments. We will hear from the congressman. Guest music stressing a frustration and number of people expressed. He is expressing a frustration a number of people expressed. If we pass comprehensive immigration reform, we would make a floor so that people would be able to complain to the department of labor or whoever else that they are not paid properly. It would have to be recorded. An unauthorized worker is hired because they can be paid less, because they have fewer rights on the job, because they are less likely to complain. If everybody has a status and has the right therefore to exert their rights, then it should stop the wage decline that he is concerned about. Let me also say