Is allowing anyone to purchase a firearm who is prohibited under current law or regulations. I want that to be very clear. I want it to be very clear right after the bat so that no one misinterprets this as some effort to let people own firearms who would normally be prohibited. This legislation is needed because a very disturbing trend has occurred in the past decade share the glory with someoneade else and we think theres good in legislation and every piece of legislation has hat the Veterans Administrations relying are way back if the 1970s. That predates even the National Instant criminal background check system and is way, way long before the Supreme Court held the Second Amendment to be a fundamental, constitutional right. These regulations grant limited authority to determine incompetence only in the context of financial matters. The regulation reads like this. Quote, rating agencies have Sole Authority to make an official determination of competence or incompetence for the purp
Disagreed and there are a lot of compromises that we had to have because we knew we had to have the the bill. The we wouldnt have if we dont pass this bill the European Reassurance Initiative to stand up against russian aggression. I went over i shouldnt have done this because i was on the ballot this year for reelection, but for the week prior to our election here, i went over to see what was happening in ukraine because ukraine was having their elections a week before we had our elections. And not many people are aware that in ukraine, fo poroshenko,n ukraine, a Political Party cannot have a seat in parliament unless they get 5 of the of the vote and the vote was taking place a week before our vote. Well, this will be the first year, the first time in 96 years that the communist party will not have one seat in parliament. Now, thats amazing. And, you know, we have to understand what is happening with with putin. I also went over toe lithuania. Lithuania, estonia and latvia and those
Thank you so much, everybody. Im going to be relatively brief. I came up here right after the storm. Was on the jersey side. And i had promised to everybody that i was speaking on behalf of the country when i said we are going to be here until the rebuilding is complete. And i meant it. So im going to come back today but im also going to be coming back in the future to make sure that we have followed through on that commitment. I want to thank the outstanding leadership thats been provided by state and local officials. Obviously, Governor Cuomo and mayor bloomberg have done an outstanding job. To borough president , thank you so much for your leadership at a time when the folks here on this island were obviously going through extraordinarily difficult times. The people of long island who are going through really tough times. Across the board what we have seen is cooperation and a spirit of service and, you know, for the First Responder who is are here, the police officers, the firefigh
This important legislation is a small step towards a big reward. Without it the United States exporters and Service Providers will continue to lose business to our foreign competitors that have already have trade relations relationships with russia. And once we lose those markets, our competitors will only become stronger and better positioned to surpass the u. S. In a critical marketplace of the 21st Century Global economy. According to the National Association of manufacturers, russia imported over 500 billion in goods last year, and of that total only 5 came from u. S. Exports. This bill will lift outdated policies and restrict american access to russian markets. As a result studies show u. S. Producers can expect to achieve doubledigit increases over the next decade in exports of heavy machinery, agricultural machinery, chemicals, and services. This is particularly critical for my home state of illinois where we have fallen behind japan and korea in these export categories. Most im
We will be forced to austerity. It will be pledged upon us. We ought to be doing that now before that happens rather than when somebody else is telling us what we are going to do. Thank you. Coming up next, attorney general holder releases the details of the 4. 5 billion in the bp oil sediment. Ed markey reacted to the settlement with bp. That is followed up by president obama touring a Hurricane Sandy damage in new york. In 2010, the deep water rights and rid explosion was the worst oil spill. Rig explosion was the worst oil spill. There was a 4. 5 billion settlement case. This briefing is half an hour. Good afternoon. Im here with the assistant attorney general from the Justice Department and the security and Exchange Commission of enforce. And head of deep water verizon task force and announcing the latest step forward in our ongoing efforts to achieve justice for those whose lives and livelihoods were impacted by the largest environmental disaster in the history of the United State