[applause] [applause] please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable kevin mccarthy, speaker of the United States house of representatives. Mr. Mccarthy good afternoon, and welcome to statuary hall. Kind of loud. Its great to be here in the peoples house with so many friends. Thank you all for coming out and celebrating a very special day. This is the first portrait unveil as being speaker and i could not think of a tearer friend to have of a dearer friend to have this opportunity than paul ryan. In this unveiling of the 54th speaker of the house, it celebrates a man who everybody in this room respects and admires. I remember before i even became a member of reading of paul ryan. I remember when i first got here, i became the freshman rep to the conference and i got to vote for who would be the Ranking Member on budget. I think that was a very smart decision from the very beginning of our relationship. But let me introduce, there are so many special people in the audience. First
[applause] [applause] please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable kevin mccarthy, speaker of the United States house of representatives. Mr. Mccarthy good afternoon, and welcome to statuary hall. Kind of loud. Its great to be here in the peoples house with so many friends. Thank you all for coming out and celebrating a very special day. This is the first portrait unveil as being speaker and i could not think of a tearer friend to have of a dearer friend to have this opportunity than paul ryan. In this unveiling of the 54th speaker of the house, it celebrates a man who everybody in this room respects and admires. I remember before i even became a member of reading of paul ryan. I remember when i first got here, i became the freshman rep to the conference and i got to vote for who would be the Ranking Member on budget. I think that was a very smart decision from the very beginning of our relationship. But let me introduce, there are so many special people in the audience. First
[applause] [applause] please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable kevin mccarthy, speaker of the United States house of representatives. Mr. Mccarthy good afternoon, and welcome to statuary hall. Kind of loud. Its great to be here in the peoples house with so many friends. Thank you all for coming out and celebrating a very special day. This is the first portrait unveil as being speaker and i could not think of a tearer friend to have of a dearer friend to have this opportunity than paul ryan. In this unveiling of the 54th speaker of the house, it celebrates a man who everybody in this room respects and admires. I remember before i even became a member of reading of paul ryan. I remember when i first got here, i became the freshman rep to the conference and i got to vote for who would be the Ranking Member on budget. I think that was a very smart decision from the very beginning of our relationship. But let me introduce, there are so many special people in the audience. First
Ending after december 31, 2013. Pretty clear, shall apply. Straightforward. The Effective Date for the employer mandate section 1514 of the law, Effective Date, the amendments made by this section shall apply to months beginning after december 31, 2013. It really does seem straightforward. There is no ambiguity there. I would just ask the question, is there a list of laws that must be followed and those that may or may not be followed depending upon whatever the will of the president is that day. I would remind my colleagues, the words of Abraham Lincoln the best way to end a bad law is to enforce it strictly. We should do the same. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the time of the gentleman has expired. The gentlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter may i inquire how much time i have . The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady has 3 1 2 minutes remaining. 1 2 minutes to mr. Clyburn. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Clyburn i thank the gentlelady for yielding me t
Wed be doing great. Is if congressme had the same priorities that or did, that if they felt the same sense of urgency about the cost of college for increases in the minimum wage or how to make child care more affordable, if were thinkingey could have a lot more families. A lot more people would be getting ahead the economy would be doing better. We could help a lot more families and we should. We should be relentlessly focused on what i call an opportunity agenda. Of the great jobs, whats always made our economy strong. Sure that were on the cutting end when it comes to clean energy. Making sure that were rebuilding our infrastructure, our roads, bridges, our ports, our airports. That advance manufacturing is happening here in the United States so we can jobs back. Acturing research and science. That leads to new american industries. Training our workers. Trainingking a job program and using our Community Colleges in ways that allow to constantly retrain for the new opportunity that ar