[silence] mr. President. The senator from texas. The mac as your president come i rise today to speak about one of the Saddest Development in the United States senate. Namely the allout assault on the First Amendment been led a Senate Democrat. It is important to clarify what the issue before this body is not about. The issue before this body is not about access to this, despite a whole lot of politicking by Senate Democrats to suggest to the contrary. In this body, the number of people who would do anything to restrict access to contraceptives to anybody is nero. Let me repeat that. There is no one in this body, there is no one i am aware of across the country who is advocating restrict in anyones access to this. Mr. President , my wife and i are blessed with two little girls. I am very glad we dont have 17. Nobody, nobody, nobody is talking about restricting access to this. What are we talking about . What we are talking about is the federal government using brute force to force peop
Republican leader comments on the 2014 Midterm Elections. House democrats present their economic agenda. Then the House Rules Committee considers a lawsuit against president obama. On the next washington journal, immigration and the influx of unaccompanied children from Central American with two members of congress, Iowa Republican steve king and Texas Democrat Eddie Bernice johnson. Washington journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. We are here at Salisbury House in des moines, iowa. Its a home that was built by karl and edith weeks in the 1920s. He was a man of many and varied interests. Nonone of the most notable are his amazing collections in terms of artwork, sculpture, the Library Collection is an amazing collection of rare limited First Edition works. Its incredible. He collected the books that he collected not only because they are important historical works but also because he believes that books themselves were works beyondand had a worse the words on a page. He collecte
To the extent there are positive real subsidies to the except that they improve outcomes, they are either very localize to the family or very localized to the community in question. You work on capitol hill. I worked there for a number of years. Every other person who comes here in the door says its a great thing if you gave a subsidy for their industry and how many jobs they create. Thats what shopped around. They are grossly skabexaggerate. Lets think about housing for a second. We all need a place to live. An Apartment Building is not all that different than a condo. It actually takes the same amount of construction workers. Theres Nothing Specific about the tenure that increases jobs. Again, we all have to live somewhere. I think you should be skeptical of those job arguments that you often here. The chart youre looking at here is the lower bar thats the fannie and freddie market share. We hit long term homeownership rates in this country in 1960. The growth of fannie and freddie w
Thats what shopped around. They are grossly skabexaggerate. Lets think about housing for a second. We all need a place to live. An Apartment Building is not all that different than a condo. It actually takes the same amount of construction workers. Theres Nothing Specific about the tenure that increases jobs. Again, we all have to live somewhere. I think you should be skeptical of those job arguments that you often here. The chart youre looking at here is the lower bar thats the fannie and freddie market share. We hit long term homeownership rates in this country in 1960. The growth of fannie and freddie which really in the 70s they had single digit market shares. This he were irrelevant to the Mortgage Market before the snl crisis. The growth of them has seen no long term indrees in homeownership rates. Its fine to say we want to do things for homeownership but maybe we want to do things that do things for homeownership rather than things that claim to do thing for homeownership. The
Suggests that 50 of these children may need some form of protective service. That is an International Responsibility of the United States responsibility the United States also has to be mindful. Let me address with the chairman raised initially. The president is asking for 3. 7 billion. 3. 4 billion is dealing with the consequences of a failed policy within the native countries. Instabilityy means that is not safe for families and children therefore they are putting their unaccompanied children at risk by transit to the United States. 300 million is being used for dealing with the causes. We have programs in these countries. We have the Millennium Challenge Corporation that is operating in honduras and el salvador. We have partnership for growth operating in el salvador. We have the Central America Regional Security initiative. We have programs that were intended to deal with some of these issues. To me, the most Successful Program that was initiated to deal with a global problem that