Despite little evidence to support that. Too often theyve been unable or unwilling to grapple with the reality of those whose lives the law has forever change for the better. On the other side of the aisle we mostly democrats have often shied away from acknowledging some of the laws weaknesses. I know many of my colleagues have been eager and have offered fixes to the law but willing republican partners, we havent made enough progress. Mr. President , as ive spent time in my home state of delaware in recent months listening to families and other folks whove been affected by the law for better or for worse, its become clear to me that this stalemate is unsustainable. On many days ive met delawareans who love the Affordable Care act whose lyes haveliveshave literally been saved by it. But inbetween those encounters, ive also met many Small Business owners in particular who want to offer Health Insurance to their workers and are struggling to afford it. This much has become clear to me me
That discussion for davids i think we really have to all think very seriously about it not just in our normal thinking about longterm fiscal policy that we have had for the last 25, 30 years but in terms of what has happened in fiscal and Monetary Policy in the last seven or eight years. So on one hand i think much of the premise of what we did in the 90s was precautionary savings. You can see that we have to project not only that you might have a down turn but that you might need a stimulus effort and what that does. The other side of that, though, is that to look at the other extreme, germany, where a bias towards this has been one of the most harmful things in the world. And where i just think that in fact, i believe that we have some Great Central bankers here, that we are seeing heroic efforts by bernanke, kohn and others, draghi. They are efforts that are exceptional things that Monetary Policy has to do because fiscal policy has completely failed in europe, is trying not to fail
Agenda this afternoon. House rules meeting this afternoon on the federal Government Spending measure. Wil in order. The prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain reverend aron mcenrees, Unitarian Universalist church of arlington, arlington, virginia. The chaplain creator god, spirit of light, we come here today with our spirits open to the sun of your loving gaze. We come, humbled by the work entrusted to us, to tend to your children, for we know that we are, all of us, your children, bearers of your divine spark. May we remember this, no matter how thick the stacks of paper on our desks. When we are weary, may we be filled with your generosity of spirit. We will pass it on with interest. When we dont know which way to turn, may we find stillness and listen for the soft voice of wisdom. Help us today to do justice, to serve mercy, and to walk humbly with you and the better angels of our nature. And most of all, beloved god, may we practice the arts of kindness in all that we do and
7488002. Guantanamo bay prison, what should be done with it . Withary miami herald the story. Sixdeal that dropped detainees in uruguay is seen as the vanguard of future south american settlements in attempts to close guantanamo. Rogers, who is currently the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee was on cnn cost state of the union yesterday. [video clip] them are not from uruguay. There from all over the rest of the world. Some of the services that do these agreements cant do it. We pay money. To these countries who take these prisoners that is not their culture or they are from. The services are supposed to monitor these people. What we have found in the past is that it does not work very well. I do not think that surprises anybody. Maybe we ought to rethink what we are doing here. Some past released prisoners are reengaged in the terrorist fight. Those of us who try to do the review of this were so concerned because they were so interested in getting them out, they forgot due d
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