mr. president, honored guests, it s a great honor for me to be here this evening with all of you. some of you may recognize me from television, but most of you probably recognize my voice and not my face from national public radio. we are assembled here at the embassy of israel in washington, d.c. to award medals and certificates of honor of the righteous among the nations to the late master sergeant roddy edmunds and to the late valerie sveski of poland who risked their lives to rescue jews. the holocaust remembrance authority was created by the state of israel in order to gather all information about the holocaust to commemorate, document, preserve, research and educate. when it was established, the jewish people did not forget the non-jews who stood by their side in it the darkest hours of history, struggling with the enormity of the loss and grappling with the impact of the total abandonment and betrayal of europe s jews, the state of israel made a point of remembering
that they currently exist in, we re just going to have weaker product delivered later. i think we need to have some reform as the next round. and i think there s enormous potential there, not just in the military departments but between the military departments and osd, within osd, and further out into the headquarters in the field. well, i thank you for that. and you are uniquely situated now to play a key role. and i agree with you. just flat-out reductions is just the first step. you have to it s a little bit like sequestration in that it s a meat ax when we need a scalpel and so i would look forward to having you play a role there given your unique background. finally, the source of great frustration this committee, all of us members, is this continued cost overruns on weapons systems. we ve made some reforms. we re putting the service chiefs more involved. you are aware. but it still seems to go on. and every time we really need something, we use that expedited proce
zoomed it s been painful. household budget strain. industry struggling to keep up with cost. pressured upwards to the making and moving goods. in the last few months the cost of a barrel of oil has fall finance $115 to $80. good news, right? but like any good tale involving crude, the answer is more complicated than that. prices at the pump are finally helping to keep pocketbooks plump. the average cost of gas per gallon around the u.s. is now $3.04, the lowest since 2010. we travel a lot more. go home more. it s nice. in 17 states the price of gas is under $3 a gallon. only deal necessar dealers in hawai i charge more than $4. since june oi gas has dropped 0.005 per day. in june the international oil said that the u.s. beat russia in energy extraction. now a barrel costs around $80. but only analysts chris edmunds warns this bottle of the barrel price could spell trouble for domestic producers. at $80 to $85, you begin to hear companies talking about cutting back. at $
gas less than $3 an gallon, couldn t be anything wrong with that? turns out the plunging price of oil has domino effects in all different directions. that s inside story. hello, i m ray suarez. in the last 30 years when the price of a barrel of oil has zoomed it s been painful. household budget strain. industry struggling to keep up with cost. pressured upwards to the making and moving goods. in the last few months the cost of a barrel of oil has fall finance $115 to $80. good news, right? but like any good tale involving crude, the answer is more complicated than that. prices at the pump are finally helping to keep pocketbooks plump. the average cost of gas per gallon around the u.s. is now $3.04, the lowest since 2010. we travel a lot more. go home more. it s nice. in 17 states the price of gas is under $3 a gallon. only deal necessar dealers in hawai i charge more than $4. since june oi gas has dropped 0.005 per day. in june the international oil said that the u.s. b
have a good day. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker s room, washington, d.c., july 31, 2013. i hereby appoint the honorable joseph heck to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. 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 each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida, ms. ros-lehtinen, for five minutes. ms. ros-lehtinen: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore