Upstate Medical Center blues 18 million a year. Its going to hurt the economy. So i voted to repeal the Affordable Care act. Beyond that we voted for bipartisan support for three free trade agreements that will aid in increasing the number of exports from our district. We have time for rebuttal. What are your thoughts regarding the stimulus act . Maffei i think the recovery act was essential at the time. First of all were lots of small tax cuts that were essential to those families. Secondly, we kept police on the street, kept or teachers to me laid off in our classrooms from blowing up in size. And firefighters. So certainly we had to do something. The thing that i am really confused about, thats bad but there do the right thing on the taxes apparently. But now some of the economy is starting to be fine for millionaires and billionaires. Im doing the wrong thing by asking them to pay their share. And get we need to balance the budget but where is the money going to come from . None of
Bridge gate trial has come to an end. What i want to do is start with alex and dan, they are outside the federal courthouse in newark. Minutes after being found guilty on all charges in the bridgegate case. This is not over, i assure. The tiers tears started inside when kelly heard her name and was found guilty along bill baroni. Outside the courthouse kelly said little. The lawyer did most. Next after kelly, bill baroni steps in the microphone. They use today talk about him in the same sentence of future governor, future senator but hes still innocent. Im innocent of charges and im very, very looking forward to this appeal. His lawyer was much more angry towards the government and spoke about what he felt was what the government did wrong and what the judge did wrong in telling jurors not to take into account whether or not kelly and baroni try today punish the mayor with a massive traffic jam. Disgrace. Next the mick phones came, governor Chris Christie is predecessor, one of signatu
Committee come to order, house bill 1124. May postpone proceedings on measure matter adopting amendment on which recorded vote is ordered. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. First item House Resolution 737 condemning and censuring commissioner of Internal Revenue service, the clerk will designate the resolution. House resolution 737. Condemning and censure John Koskinen international revenue. Issued a subpoena to John Koskinen. Ask it read and be opened at any time. Without objection, so order. Now recognize myself for five minutes to explain resolution. Complying with subpoena is mandatory, not optional. Truthfully testifying before congress is also mandatory. When a senior official doesnt fulfill core duties of compliance with subpoena and testifying truthfully to congress, there must be repercussions. House resolution 737 as introduced is a necessary repercussion for irs commissioner John Koskinen. His conduct deserves condemnation and censur
Philadelphia itself, were not seeing as heavy of rain as we are across the river. Gloucester county really getting hit. Glassboro getting some of the heaviest rain right now going into winslow. A very, very slow movement, and that is why there is a flood advisory for much of the philadelphia area, northern delaware much of south jersey here. That is until 8 00 tonight. There will be some localized flooding out there as more rain continues. The storm in berks county not moving very much. There is a flood advisory for that, too. The doppler estimates in the blues, many areas already over an inch. And some over two, as you can see in the purplest colors. Mostly in delaware. Weve got one area north of dover tracking over three inches of rain. And much of that has fallen just in two or three hours. Another big burst farther to the north in delaware. But in bucks county, for example, mercer county, not a drop of rain so far during the day today. You can see some of these rainfall amounts, tw
Come out. So that, for us, was the process of creating the 9 11 commission. So you can imagine that when we finally did create it and it was signed into law by president bush the day before thanksgiving in 2002. For us, that was the beginning again. And this time, we had to meet the commissioners. Who are these people . There were a few bumps in the road along the way and when we got introduced to governor cain and congressman hamilton, we knew that we were in good hands and of course with we met the rest. We have richard and fred fielding. Jamie, jim thompson, unfortunately bob kerry and jjo lehman couldnt be us today. We knew we had great team of people and i had to say at the beginning of the 9 11 commission i couldnt imagine i would be standing here today and be so honored to introduce the remarkable americans. The individuals that not only came together 12 years ago to start their investigation into 9 11, and ten years ago to stand behind the unanimous report. Theyre still here to