filing under the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title. the clerk: report to accompany house resolution 739. resolution providing for consideration of the bill, h.r. 2534, to amenlt securities and exchange act amend the securities and exchange act of 1934 to prohibit certain securities trading and related communications by those who possess material nonpublic information and relating to consideration of the concurrent resolution, house concurrent resolution 77, directing the president, pursuant to section 5-c of the war powers resolution, to remove united states armed forces from hostilities in the syrian arab republic that have not been authorized by congress. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. proceedings will resume on questions previously postponed. votes will be taken in the following order. motions to suspend the rules and agree to house resolution 546, and pass s. 178. the first electronic vote will b
anniversary of the passage of the act. [inaudible conversations] book here. you want to [inaudible conversations] good evening, everybody. thank you so much for coming out tonight. we re so delighted to have such a great crowd on a middle of august summer evening. my name s liss saw muscatine, i m one of the co-own tokers of politics & prose. on behalf of our staff and on behalf of my husband and co-owner, brad graham, we really are excited about this event and excited to have all of you here. i do want to mention just a couple of things, we are also now running book operations in three of the six busboys and poets in washington with plans to be in all of those, all of them before not too long. so if you happen to be at 14th and v in brooklyn or in tacoma and wander into one of the busboys, you ll find our books there. we also are going to be the bookseller for the national book festival over the saturday of labor day weekend. we encourage you all to come out. there are g
come into come closer at least to the standards that are enforced in this country, in a way that will emphasize, underscore the kinds of opportunities that are unique here in the united states. here in the united states we have the most dedicated and educated work force in the world. we have the most aggressive and ambitious entrepreneurs and innovators. we ve got tremendous infrastructure in this country. infrastructure that would benefit from some modernization. but still, infrastructure that does support a thriving economy. we ve also got a business climate that makes the united states the envy of the world. the president often cites the statistic about when global investors are asked which country they re most interested in investing in, the united states is now at the top of that list. the case that the president makes is that if we leave the rules where they are today, we re going to continue to leave in place a system that democrats complained have disadvantaged amer
if we look at egypt and we see uphold and we see a poll that bread-and-butter issues are the priority this should not full less into thinking that people do not care about freedom and dignity. democracy is a means to an end. dignity and freedom if dignity and freedom will not come to a particular regime they are well aware that they need to it. this does not mean that they have a different set of values. there are universal values. no one wants to be beaten up in a police station. that s what human dignity translates into. the people who left their jobs to stand in front of phoning stations throughout the region since 2011 are things we have never seen before. when they were given a choice to seek out freedom properly, they risk much more. thinking in terms that there are a number of priorities, it doesn t work this way. they need a number of things. all of them, at the same time. sometimes they have the urgent need of survival or bread and butter issues. but that for the
today on road to the white house, the conversation with likely democratic presidential candidate jim webb. he discusses global growing up in a military family and his service in the it no, politics and what he likes about campaigning. i enjoy face-to-face campaigning. i enjoy getting out in town hall meetings in talking to people and listening to their thoughts. what i don t enjoy his campaign finance. i said that when i announced the exploratory committee. one thing i can say is that i will never oh anything to anyone if i m elected. it is a tough proposition to be able to raise enough funds in order to conduct a viable campaign. jim webb, today at 6:35 p.m. eastern on road to the white house 2016 on c-span. president obama is calling the current partnership between the u.s. and germany one of the strongest alliances the world has ever known. the president opened his german visit by appearing with gensler angela merkel. chancellor angela merkel. leaders will di