emmer, from minnesota. >> thank you mr. chair. and it is difficult to follow that from a new colleague. so i won't. i won't try to follow that. all i will do is say thank you for this hearing mr. chairman. especially in light of the president's decision to somehow restart diplomacy with the regime currently in charge in cuba. they talk -- and there are still concerns for some of us about why the president would have used the process he used, sidestepping the state department, having over a year of secret meetings that didn't involve normal process. but that part aside it really is all about human rights and the cuban people. which is why it's so interesting to me. the discussion about normalization of the relationship is really what we're here about today. and i appreciate that you and the ranking member have decided that we're going to bring in some people to talk about some basic freedoms, the situation, exercise the oversight that was the jurisdiction of this committee. because thankfully the president has acknowledged that he

emmer, from minnesota. >> thank you mr. chair. and it is difficult to follow that from a new colleague. so won't. i won't try to follow that. all i will do is say thank you for this hearing mr. chairman. especially in light of the president's decision to somehow restart diplomacy with the regime currently in charge in cuba. they talk -- and there are still concerns for some of us about why the president would have used the process he used, side sidestepping the state department, having over a year of secret meetings that didn't involve normal process. but that part aside it really is all about human rights and the cuban people. which is why it's so interesting to me. the discussion about normalization of the relationship is really what we're here about today. and i appreciate that you and the ranking member have decided that we're going to bring in some people to talk about some basic freedoms, the situation, exercise the over sight that was the jurisdiction of this committee. because thankfully the president has acknowledged that

there is a lot of slow traffic in richmond and emmer is em-- el -- el cerrito, we deep an -- we keep an on eye 680. that's a mess from earlier crashes in pleasant hill that have been moved to the side. 680 and 242 are backed up from highway 4. you need extra time on this commute. it's 7:02. back to the desk. >> thank you, sal. >>> police in sunnyvale are investigating a shooting involving an officer from another south bay city and a suspected car burglar. janine de la vega joins us live from sunnyvale to tell us how this all unfolded. >> reporter: police had this intersection at el camino real and wolfe road closed for several hours gathering evidence that they hoped would lead them to a white mercedes sedan. >> the roads are reopen. but officers are hoping any witnesses will come forward. it started at 6:00 in the city of santa clara, where two officers were investigating auto burglaries and found a suspect. they followed the suspect vehicle, that white mercedes sedan into the city of sunnyvale. when the sedan pulled over on el camino there wolfe road. one officer got out of the veh

doctor or nurse, food industry then emmer say, part of a function of your job to get the vaccination.o, but rule is swallowed by exceptions. melissa: is it a problem to ask workers if they have been vaccinated? >> or their children. that's different. to say, if you're interviewing somebody perspectively, you probably can but generally not. what the employee is going to say, that is my fundamental liberty, my fundamental right of privacy you're invading on. if you ask me about my children whether they have been vaccinated you can't be doing that. melissa: what about somebody always work for you, same thing? >> you can but answer from the employee could be i'm not going to tell you. realistic sense what employee will say that? they don't want to lose their job. melissa: i don't know. what if employee suspects coworkers have measels and, this guy sits next to me and itching a lot and see red. >> see red. melissa: what should employer to do? >> the employer has duty to keep clean environment, nonhazardous environment. that could be because of bugs crawling around. could be because your co

emmer. mr. emmer: thank you for your leadership on this issue. i rise today to address the urgent health needs of this nation. i asked my constituents to share with me how obamacare has affected them and i want to share a few of their stories with you today. troy wrote that his family's premium went up and coverage went down drastically -- went down drastically -- drastically affecting the cost of his son's hearing aid. a mental health clinic has steadily lost clients due to regulations. today congress will vote to get rid of this fundamentally flawed and unworkable law, but this cannot be for show. it is not enough for congress to simply be against obamacare, we need to offer alternatives. . by offering market-based consumer-base reforms, we can find real solutions and i'm committed to working with my colleagues to get it done. it's time to stop playing party politics with the public's health. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: i now yield two minutes to mr. mcdermott -- we're talking about health so d

and congressman emmer, on the economics and tpa, i'll just close by saying one of the great changes that we face in the world today is the enormous increase of much more powerful competitive economic entities. none of them match the size of the united states. but they're getting bigger more active, there's more global market competitiveness than there has ever been before. and if you were you know anybody engaged in international business knows how quick you have to move, how voracious you have to -- how disciplined you have to be in grabbing market share and knowing the markets and working with other partners. it's a different marketplace than it was in the 1960s '70s when we were the dominant, single economy. and so this kind of trade regime that we're talking about putting together under the tpp or the ttip is far more critical to american jobs to american growth, to america's influence, to america's ability to continue to play the important leadership role we have played in the world. and so if we don't get this kind of an agreement written to the higher standards of international bu

emmer. mr. emmer: thank you for your leadership on this issue. i rise today to address the urgent health needs of this nation. i asked my constituents to share with me how obamacare has affected them and i want to share a few of their stories with you today. troy wrote that his family's premium went up and coverage went down drastically -- went down drastically -- drastically affecting the cost of his son's hearing aid. a mental health clinic has steadily lost clients due to regulations. today congress will vote to get rid of this fundamentally flawed and unworkable law, but this cannot be for show. it is not enough for congress to simply be against obamacare, we need to offer alternatives. . by offering market-based consumer-base reforms, we can find real solutions and i'm committed to working with my colleagues to get it done. it's time to stop playing party politics with the public's health. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: i now yield two minutes to mr. mcdermott -- we're talking about health so d

. >> reporter: and emmer and started--. >> reporter: a live look in july at the golden gate bridge andcheck when the kron 4 morning news returns. >> reporter: this is what looks like out at the golden gate bridge we are seen low clouds pretty much everywhere around the bay. tatars are about to allow low 50s. this is the clout and how they look on the satellite perspective that it will begin to a breakup. integers and the south bay upper '60's and '70's. and and not we will see mid-60s and east bay shoreline staffers this go downtown 64 mid-60s and the no. 8. . >> reporter: if you're headed up to top all this is a look at the snowbound dot com 50 in. of date--bay reaching 6 ft. 6 in. of snow. >> reporter: san ramon valley commute northbound getting up and took a ceremony in to danville the lazier even without accidents the this is why it is a mystery. we are still back up into stockard to 42. --concard. two accidents we are recovering from one period to 80 has improved from its problem. --280. the 2811 interchange here the bridges were looking at the riot at the bay bridge westbound sti

i hereby appoint the honorable tom emmer to act as speaker pro tempore on this day, signed, john a.oehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house

i hereby appoint the honorable tom emmer 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 6 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. 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 minority whip limited to five minutes. but in no event shall debate continue beyond 1:50 p.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. thompson, for five minutes. mr. thompson: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, the 25% fund act of 1980 required 25% of the tax receipts from timber harvested from the u.s. national forest to be returned to the counties where the tax receipts originated. since local property taxes cannot be leffveed on federal lands, these dollars along with payment in lufe taxes, or pit funding, are critical in national forests and other federal lands.

emmer. mr. emmer: thank you for your leadership on this issue. i rise today to address the urgent health needs of this nation. i asked my constituents to share with me how obamacare has affected them and i want to share a few of their stories with you today. troy wrote that his family's premium went up and coverage went down drastically -- went down drastically -- drastically affecting the cost of his son's hearing aid. a mental health clinic has steadily lost clients due to regulations. today congress will vote to get rid of this fundamentally flawed and unworkable law, but this cannot be for show. it is not enough for congress to simply be against obamacare, we need to offer alternatives. . by offering market-based consumer-base reforms, we can find real solutions and i'm committed to working with my colleagues to get it done. it's time to stop playing party politics with the public's health. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: i now yield two minutes to mr. mcdermott -- we're talking about health so d

emmer: thank you, mr. chair. thank you mr. speaker. rise today in support of the fighting hunger incentives act of 2015. roughly one in 10 minnesotans live in poverty. sadly this means that many minnesotans, including children lack access to the food and resources they need to maintain a healthy and active lifestyle. this morning i had an opportunity to tour and make sandwiches at martha's table, an organization here in d.c. that reaches more than 18,000 people through their program. i saw firsthand the need for legislation like this. this legislation will permanently extend the enhanced charitable deduction for all businesses that donate food to charities and food banks. this will encourage more businesses to chip in and help in the ongoing fight against hunger. we have an obligation to help those around us and this is a nonpartisan bipartisan way to make a big difference. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from wisconsin reserves. the chair recognizes

tom emmer of minnesota. >> i'll try to be brief. i apologize for going back and forth. there seem to be a whole bunch of things going on at the same time. and i don't want to cover old ground, but i'm afraid i might touch a little bit. my understanding, first we're here because the president has requested renewed authorization for military force. and it seems everything that i've read and everything that i've been listening to including your testimony everybody agrees that isil must be defeated. there seems to be absolutely no disagreement. i heard today, and i think this is for you, dr. brennan, if you would. the others can certainly expand on it. you must first start by stopping the military manifestations. we've had reference to you got to cut off the revenue sources. you've got to -- i just wrote another one down listening to the testimony. we have the ability to interrupt or interfere with internet, social media, the like. i'd love to know to the extent this new authorization of military force. is that something the administration is planning on doing on every leve

emmer of minnesota. >> thank you madam chair and thank you to the panel. it is interesting. i hear often in the past few weeks that if something hasn't been working for 50 years, you should look at changing it. but nobody seems to go directly to the issue except some of the comments i've heard today about how nothing has changed within the country. i'm interested in a couple of things. because much of it has been covered already. but the president broke with policy by appointing a couple of white house aides to conduct these secret negotiations. i'm interested -- and i think it is probably miss jacobson because you seem to have at some point been brought from and made aware of what was going on -- what happened that caused that moment in time where the president decided to appoint these two to negotiate secretly with the cubans, and why? why did he break from policy? >> i can't -- i can't answer that question on behalf of the president. what i can tell you is that 1 of the 2 people engaged in those discussions is a foreign service officer on loan to the white house house, a

tom emmer of minnesota. >> i'll try to be brief. i apologize for going back and forth. there seem to be a whole bunch of things going on at the same time. and i don't want to cover old ground, but i'm afraid i might touch a little bit. my understanding, first we're here because the president has requested renewed authorization for military force. and it seems everything that i've read and everything that i've been listening to, including your testimony, everybody agrees that isil must be defeated. there seems to be absolutely no disagreement. i heard today, and i think this is for you, dr. brennan, if you would. the others can certainly expand on it. you must first start by stopping the military manifestations. we've had reference to you got to cut off the revenue sources. you've got to -- i just wrote another one down listening to the testimony. we have the ability to interrupt or interfere with internet, social media, the like. i'd love to know to the extent this new authorization of military force. is that something the administration is planning on doing on every le

tom emmer of minnesota. >> i'll try to be brief. i apologize for going back and forth. there seem to be a whole bunch of things going on at the same time. and i don't want to cover old ground, but i'm afraid i might touch a little bit. my understanding, first we're here because the president has requested renewed authorization for military force. and it seems everything that i've read and everything that i've been listening to including your testimony everybody agrees that isil must be defeated. there seems to be absolutely no disagreement. i heard today, and i think this is for you, dr. brennan, if you would. the others can certainly expand on it. you must first start by stopping the military manifestations. we've had reference to you got to cut off the revenue sources. you've got to -- i just wrote another one down listening to the testimony. we have the ability to interrupt or interfere with internet social media, the like. i'd love to know to the extent this new authorization of military force. is that something the administration is planning on doing on every level

emmer: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to honor the 90th anniversary of one in minnesota, born on february 10 1925 walter is a world war ii veteran with a remarkable life of service, both to his community and to his country. shortly after graduating from delano high school in 1943, walter was drafted into the u.s. army air force. when his plane was shot down over germany, he spent six months as a prisoner of war to the nazis. after surviving this brutal experience, walter came back to minnesota serving as delano's postmaster until his retirement 34 years later. freedom is a very special thing, he reminds delano students through his scholarship essay contest. you take it for granted because it's always been there and always will be. but will it? thank you for your service walter. happy birthday. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland rise? mr. hoyer: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the

emmer: thank you mr. speaker. i rise today to applaud the house for passing america's small business tax relief act of 2015. i want to thank congressman tiberi, chairman ryan and leadership for their work to pass this important piece of legislation. if we want the united states to continue as the most productive economy in the world, we need to modernize our tax code, allowing businesses to plan ahead and allocate their resources will generate wealth, jobs and a higher standard of living for everyone. making section 179 of the tax code permanent is one way we can do this. section 179 enables companies to accelerate depreciation of new and used equipment that is purchased and put into use during the same year. this expense can stimulate business by reducing the cost of capital and increasing cash flow. investing in the future of america is critical to long-term growth and economic prosperity for all, and i urge my colleagues to join me in support of this important legislation. i yield back, mr. speaker. the speaker