The people in and around houston who again find themselves dealing with serious damages due to flooding. May they and those many First Responders be safe as they begin the recovery of their community. May all that is done be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house her pproval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. Madam speaker. The speaker for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon seek recognition . Mr. Blumenauer pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, i demand a vote on the speakers approval of the journal. The speaker the question is on the approval of the speakers approval of the journal. Those in favor please say aye. Opposed, no. The ayes have it. The journal stands approved. Mr. Blumenauer madam speaker. The speaker for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon further seek recognition . Mr. Blumenauer i object to the vote on the grounds that a q
Bipartisan inhofemikulski amendment to the National Defense authorization act. What does our amendment do . It stops the privatization of commissaries which are an earned, earned benefit for our military and their families. Every year when the Senate Debates this bill, we talk about how we love our troops and how we always want to support our military families, but if we really love our troops, we need to make sure that our troops have the support that they need. One of the earned benefits that does that is the commissaries, and if we love our troops, why would we want to proceed in the direction that we are . Our troops dont view commissaries as a subsidy. They view it as do i as an earned benefit. Im fighting here to preserve this piece of the earned benefit compensation package. Now, what are the commissaries . Since 1826, military families have been able to shop at a network of stores that provide modestly priced groceries. The commissary system is simple. If youre active duty in y
It a boom coalition. I want them all out. If you had that i think people would punch it to a large extent. From my point of view the potentiality is there. I dont have the name, i dont have the way in which it comes together but there is a lot more togetherness with the right and left in certain areas and we think as we look at individual issues. We have one more question, grab your ipads that come up if they have read that may be are we publishing this . Publishing the responses . When it comes to the recession recovery and the federal government made matters worse, made matters better, didnt matter much either way. Bill, third party. I would like peters ideal candidate. I saw your cfo there are enough ideal ceos, real people, all of them, and we pick that person and an independent party needs a democrat to nominate someone to the left of Hillary Clinton, they need someone to nominate someone well to the right of our last two nominees and the leaders in the middle, and the thing that
Brian Keith Lundy, Jr., Petty Officer 2nd class earned his heavenly wings on September 9, 2011. In the ever so brief 25 years that Brian was on this earth,
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