May all that is done within the peoples house, be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from new jersey, mr. Lance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The speaker the chair will entertain up to five requests for oneminute speeches on each side of the aisle. I pledge all to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. For what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition . Without objection, the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Lance thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to congratulate three State
Our neighbors are feeling here across portions of new england. Temperatures are off to a coal start. The dont get me wrong. Even though we will see more chill with the days ahead we are off to a cold start. Single digits and teens and it does feel colder with just the most modest breeze but as the day progresses we will get you to flirt with the the 30degree mark in the shore points we are talking lower 30s as well. We will start off with sun and included build in but we are seeing snow showers moving in later today toward night fall but i do expect much if any accumulation out of them. More than anything they just add to the wintry atmosphere out there. Isnt it magical. Yes. Isnt it. I saw that boston total and my facial reaction was like. It could be worse. The it could be worse. Good morning, out and about right new we are not seeing any major problems on the majors but traveling in the neighborhoods specifically the northeast we have a situation on our hand. We had an earlier house
To think that health caring. Gov could be built so quickly and then secured, to me, is very hard to believe. When we have a web site to be reviewed, typically we start at the very beginning before the site is actually developed. We do things as far as audits, we do vulnerability assessments, also pin testing. All three of these things are required to actually look at and examine the site. Pin testings a very important part of this process, because pin testing means were looking at the site the same way the attacker would, were seeing what would the attacker see, what could they use, what could they do with this, and how could they leverage this potentially for attack. I dont believe those types of assessments have been done to this day and have been properly completed. So whats been reported currently is that when we see with healthcare. Gov that they are running weekly assessments, they are potentially patching the site. But a lot of that activity were talking about is reactive in nat
Necessary tunneling capacity under the hudson and tunnels currently serving extraordinary number of passengers on amtrak side and very diplomatic, mr. Chairman. Much painful history. Those tunnels are over 100 years old. Your first, do i agree, that it is an essential investment . We absolutely must do something about those. I believe were approaching 110yearold tunnels. They not only constrain capacity but at certain point they will become a real safety risk. And you know, think about the upheaval that will result if we were to lose that capacity all of a sudden. Could it be a candidate for the new starts program . Yes it could. What we would need is a local project sponsor to come forward to do all the Development Work and most importantly, come up with the necessary local match. And your final question, i need special legislation to help make that happen . Well take a turn on that but i dont think so. I think, i mean obviously the entire Program Expires at the end of the year but i
Time to resolve these stalemates over our budget policy again and again. He will continue to negotiate with congress. But it is nonsensical in our view that is the only approach to take. Simply persuasion from the president or anyone else about the right course to take would be enough for republican that it is better to ask Corporate Jet owners to forgo their special interest loophole atlanta to throe all of these people out of work the fact of the matter is, Congressional Republicans are going to listen to the American People and thats why it is important to engage the American People and not just speak to members of congress. We have to do both, weve always done both, and well continue to do both. Do you think i dont want to make predictions. I would note that congress is out this week which says something, i suppose. But the fact of the matter is, the march 1 deadline is looming and congress has an option, a simple option, which is to take up the proposals put forward by Senate Demo