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on monday, the supreme court issued the stupid opinion which we talked about forgive you for calling that a compromise decision. that s how i do it. just imagine for a moment if during this period of a 4-4 split on the court, brown v. board of education have come up. .. i can t help but think about that and in the context of other cases that are bound to have come up to the court during this period. senator leahy, i am glad that you pointed out that we have some civics students seated behind us here today. i hope they are learning something, but think of the lesson that where we are at this moment in connection with this nomination teaching them is teaching them. these are matters that should be of critical importance to all of us on both sides of the aisle. the future really is at stake. these kinds of decisions that were issued on monday have real consequences. in brown v. board of education, you had decisions in one part of the country that went one way, and in ....
of drugs for severe illnesses and as a result of this work that i was doing on drug pricing in the united states looking at these issues, i eventually began to get more aware of the international discussions about the u.s. could do and what was happening in the countries in 1994, i was invited to argentina and brazil by people that have picked up my name as someone working on these issues and i really became aware for the first time the extent to which the united states and the state department and through the trade office and the whole apparatus of the foreign policy was putting pressure on the developing countries to extend and put in place monopolies on pharmaceutical drugs so wha a lf developing companies have excluded the pharmaceutical drugs from the patent system and you could buy drugs from argentina and others and at that point also from brazil and the u.s. was pushing all these countries to put those in place but also going way beyond that. and i remember when ....
americans with disability act. the law passed in 1990 bands accommodation such as office buildings and restaurants to make their facilities accessible to people with limited mobility. the subcommittee on civil justice is holding a hearing on whether it changes to the law should be made to make it harder to sue for alleged violations of the law. they ll hear from some members of kcongress. they ll hear from a business owners and interest groups as well on a hearing that should get underway shortly. the house is getting underway. the final day of work for the week as they finish up work today on the military construction veterans affairs bill. the senate gaveling in at 9:30 eastern about a half an hour from now and they ll continue work on their combined military construction veteran s affair bill transportation and housing and that will include a vote this morning on zika funding $1.1 billion is the proposal. that s set for the house over on cspan. constitution of ci ....
the constitution of civil justice comes to order. the chair is authorized to declare recessed committee at anytime. welcome to you gentlemen. sorry for being a little late. we called this hearing today to examine hr-3765, the a.d.a. education reform act of 2015 and hr-241, the access act of 2015, which are two common sense proposals that require plaintiffs to require defendants with written notice and opportunity to correct an alleged a.d.a. violation voluntarily before they may file a lawsuit and force a business owner to incur legal costs. overall purpose. when a.d.a. was signed into law by george h.w. bush, it was to provide the disabled with equal access. it s hailed as the most sweeping, non-discrimination legislation of the act of 1964. enterprising plaintiffs and their lawyers have abused the law by filing a flurry of a.d.a. lawsuits aimed at churning out billable hours rather than improving access for the disabled as the a.d.a. intended. these predatory lawsui ....
indulgence. it had nothing to do with discrimination. it had to do with a new policy. and it is true that i did rule and put a self-executing rule in that did answer the question desire of the committee to handle this issue, and i did it accordingly. i thank the gentleman. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman. mr. speaker, it appears that no one is going to be able to tell me what the schedule is for the week to come. i will tell you that s unfortunate. i hope there is a schedule for the week to come. because there s a lot to be done. we haven t done we haven t finalized zika. we passed a bill here which we think was inadequate. we haven t dealt with flint. we need to pass puerto rico restructuring. i think they ve made some progress on that. i congratulate the speaker. and the leader for facilitating that progress. we don t have a voting rights bill scheduled. we need to do that. there are a number of other serious pieces of legislation this house needs to consider. we r ....