>> yes, madam america, item 34, through 36, are being considered for adoption without committee reference. >> okay. does anyone want to sever, any items for adoption without reference? >> seeing none, mat am clerk, could you call the role. >> yes, on item 3s 4, 35 supervisor and 36, cohen? >> yes. >> aye. >> and supervisor ferrill. >> aye. >> kim. >> aye. >> mar. >> aye. >> tang. >> aye. >> supervisor weiner? >> aye. >> and supervisor yaoe in >> aye. >> aye. >> and avalos in >> aye. >> and supervisor breed? >> aye. >> breed, aye. >> sperp campos? >> aye. >> kristin sen. >> aye. >> there are eleven ayes. >> those ar dopted you madam clerk. are there any other items? >> madam president i will call item 33, and that does conclude the other business on the agenda. >> madam president --. >> sir, you are out of order. >> public comment is closed sir, you are out of order. >> emergency. >> sir. sir, sir, you can leave us a document, and we can pass them out to the members of the board. >> thank you. >> can you call item 33, madam clerk? >> item 33 is a motion that the board of supervisors conven

so let's say god bless the united states of america and let's work together for a safe and secure middle east. madam president, i yield the floor. >> holocaust survivors, heads of state and several hundred others gathered this past tuesday in poland to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the auschtwitz berk you in a and nazi concentration camp where more than one million people postly jews were killed. sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern time on american history tv we'll air the ceremony. including remarks by the polish president and holocaust survivors. president and holocaust survivors. >> each week american history tv sits in on a lecture with one of the nation's college professors. you can watch the classes here every saturday evening at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern. next, st. mary's college of maryland professor charles holden talks about the modernist art movement, labor unrest, race riots, the "red scare," and other destabilizing events that he argues characterized the late 19 teens and 20's. professor holden suggests that

so let's say god bless the united states of america and let's work together for a safe and secure middle east. madam president, i yield the floor. >> holocaust survivors, heads of state and several hundred others gathered this past tuesday in poland to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the auschwitz berkenau and nazi concentration camp where more than one million people mostly jews were killed. sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern time on american history tv, we'll air the ceremony. including remarks by the polish president and holocaust survivors. >> with the fcc focusing on net neutrality in february we spoke to chris riley, the senior policy engineer with mozilla and hank killed quist -- hultquist from at&t. >> we need their -- we believe there needs to be reasonable access to network and they need to be effectively enforceable. >> the problem we have where the net neutrality issue is gone, it is not focused on the questions of the rules, which i think there is a lot of consensus around, but is focused around the fcc legal authority to adopt rules and what jurisdiction we should use and our c

america. thank you, madam speaker. i ask for unanimous consent to insert the text of the amendment in the record along with extraneous material immediately prior to the vote on the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hastings: madam speaker, i urge my colleagues to vote no and defeat the previous question. i urge a no vote on the rule and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. the gentleman's time has expired. and the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. woodall: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. woodall: follinth learsp of my friend from florida, i'd also like to ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks include extraneous materials in the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. woodall: madam speaker, i may be an optimist ur but i believe the two -- optimist but i believe the two years wil

madame president, you have a quorum. >> thank you, can you please join me and for the pledge of allegiance. 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. thank you, madame clerk are there any communications? >> there are no communications today, madame president. >> can you please read the consent agenda. >> items 1 through 7 comprise the consent calendar and these item are considered routine unless a member objects. >> seeing none madame clerk can you call the roll. >> items 1 through 7. >> campos aye. >> supervisor christiansen. >> aye. >> supervisor cohen? >> aye. >> supervisor farrell? >> aye. >> supervisor kim? >> kim aye. >> supervisor mar? >> aye. >> mar, aye. >> supervisor tang absent. >> supervisor wiener? >> wiener aye. >> supervisor yee. >> aye. >> supervisor avalos? >> aye. >> supervisor breed? >> aye. >> ten ayes. >> can you please call item 8. >> item 8 is ordinance amending the public works code to modify certain requirements for personal wireless service facility site permits, et cetera. >> this item is finally

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america in 2010. this action is inconsistent with that pledge. the senate has just voted of madam speaker 68-31 to pass the rogers-mikulski -- ranking member on the republican side of the senate -- shelby bill. this is not a partisan bill we are talking about. this is the bill we have agreed upon republicans and democrats, and we cannot even pass that. with a knowledge that if we do not, the future funding of america's homeland security will still be in question. yes, we could do it for three weeks. i call it the cold a sec -- cul de sac strategy. going in there over and over again and feeling somehow the pathway will open. the senate is now voting on the collins amendment. as i understand the strategy of the republican party in the house, it is to add the bill that has been rejected of four times on the floor of the united states senate. it did not open up. they went twice, did not open up. three times, did not open up. now, the proposal was to go into that cul de sac a fifth time while we focus on whether or not we are going to fund homeland security, not on the objectives of ho

about the president's power to use force but also to demonstrate to the world america's resolve in this fight against terror. madam president, if we are to pass a new authorization for the use of military force, it is critically important to ensure that this new law is properly crafted. it will define against whom and under what conditions our nation may direct its national might. therefore, senator inhofe and i feel compelled to propose general principles that we believe should guide this effort effort especially since it appears the president will send his own draft to congress shortly. senator inhofe and i are offering these thoughts with no intention to undermine careful consideration of the president's proposal by the senate's national security committees. furthermore, we do not at all wish to complicate the efforts to reach consensus by laying down demands. rather, our intent is to facilitate the legislative process by outlining some of the elements we believe to be the most crucial for ensuring the success of our service members as they confront this great evil. first, the authorization should clearly artic

madam chairman. i believe that america's policy should be consistent throughout the globe as best that we can do so. by way of example, i would like to just make a quick comparison between cuba and saudi arabia, looking at some of the similarities between countries. some of the differences and also the ways in which each is treated by the united states government. on trade american-cuban trade is very limited, as we all know. less than $500 million per year in exports by america to cuba. but america-saudi trade is very robust. roughly $80 per year, perhaps higher. on travel, travel to cuba, very limited by the united states government. saudi arabia, quite the opposite. on embassies and diplomatic interaction. in saudi arabia, we have an embassy and very significant diplomatic interaction. in cuba, we have no embassy and little to know diplomatic interaction. i can go on and on, but i think it is fair to say that the united states treats cuba substantially different than saudi arabia. as i have listened to the witnesses and member comments concerning cuba and why cuba must be treated differently, i c

madam chairman. i believe that america's policies should be consistent throughout the globe as best that we can do so. and by way of example i would like to just make a quick comparison between cuba and saudi arabia looking at some of the similarities between the countries, some of the differences and also the desperate ways in which each is treated by the united states government. on trade american-cuban trade is very limited as we all know, less than $5 million per year in exports to america by cuba but american-saudi trade is very robust. roughly $80 billion a year, perhaps higher. on travel to cuba, very limited by the united states government. saudi arabia, quite the opposite. on embassies and diplomatic interaction, in saudi arabia we have an embassy and very significant diplomatic interaction. in cuba, we have no embassy and little to no diplomatic interaction. i could go on and on, but i think it's fair to say that the united states treats cuba substantially differently than saudi arabia. as i listened to the witnesses and other comments concerning cuba and why cuba must be treated differentl

america so thank you. >> thank you senator. >> thank you madam chair. thanks for having this important hearing on movement of freight when i think of this issue i think so much of washington state and all the product that's come through on their way to asia. and we have in a short period of time seen something like a doubling in the sides of the ships over the last five years so yes, we have a lot more capacity and we obviously have a rising middle class in asia and they want higher -- they want more u.s. products. so the question is what are we going to do to meet that demand as it relates to improving our mobility board which was chaired by mr. downey. i think somebody from the railroad association at least participated in that. the question is how do we move forward on those recommendations and would you support a dedicating funding source to freight so that we could raise the importance of why moving this product is so fortunate our economy and infrastructure and that this alone isn't going to get it done. >> are you asking me. >> yes, mr. farmer or

america. so thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you senator klobuchar. senator cantwell. >> thank you madam chair, and thank you for having this important hearing on the movement of freight. when i think of this issue, i think so much of washington state and the products that come through on the way to asia. we have a short period of time seeing something like a doubling in the size of the ships over the last five years, so yes we have a lot more capacity, and we obviously have a rising middle class in asia and they want higher -- they want more u.s. product. so the question is, what are we going to do to meet that demand as it relates to improving our infrastructure? one of the things that has occurred is the recommendations of the freight mobility board which was chaired by mort downey, i think someone you're familiar with mr. greuling, and ms. farmer, i think someone from the railroad participated in that. how would move forward with those recommendations and would you support a funding source to freight so that we could raise the importance of why moving this product is so critical to o

how is that good for america? madam speaker, thanks again to the gentlelady for hosting this. this is an incredibly important subject that we need to be discussing and it's great that we have some time on the house floor to discuss this. i hope what this does is it kind of gets the people that are watching this to say, huh, maybe there's something to this, maybe i should call my representative, what does he or she think? how would he or she vote on such a border bill? is there something missing in the bill and is there some reason they wouldn't support the bill and what is that? what would i like as an american to see about my border? should we be let be anybody that darn well pleases come across the border unchecked, to come into my community and do whatever they would, take my job, harm my family, or do i want something more as an american? and where is my representative -- does my representative stand? i think it's a great opportunity to call your representative write your representative email, talk to staff and say, what does my representative think of this? so i appreciat

. >> america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all thank you madam'd like to call roll please. thank you

madam chairman. i believe that america's policy should be consistent throughout the globe as best that we can do so.by way of example, i would like to just make a quick comparison between cuba and saudi arabia, looking at some of the similarities between countries. some of the differences and also the ways in which each is treated by the united states government. on trade, american-cuban trade is very limited, as we all know. less than $500 million per year in exports by america to cuba. but america-saudi trade is very robust. roughly $80 per year, perhaps higher. on travel, travel to cuba, very limited by the united states government. saudi arabia, quite the opposite. on embassies and diplomatic interaction. in saudi arabia, we have an embassy and very significant diplomatic interaction. in cuba, we have no embassy and little to know diplomatic interaction. i can go on and on, but i think it is fair to say that the united states treats cuba substantially different than saudi arabia. as i have listened to the witnesses and member comments concerning cuba and why cuba must be treated differently, i c

constitutional responsibility when we said we will do, we take an oath to protect america against all foes foreign and domestic. madam president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. vitter: thank you madam president. madam president, i rise in strong opposition to stripping off all of the house language from the homeland security funding bill and proceeding with a --quote, unquote -- clean bill. and i do that, madam president because i took a constitutional oath and i take that oath very seriously and that language which we're debating in the homeland security funding bill from the house goes directly to that oath, goes directly to that responsibility. it does so for two reasons. first of all this executive amnesty had five million illegal aliens getting a blanket significant amnesty because of the president's executive action is a big deal. it's a big deal in terms of policy. it's a big deal regarding his overreaching his legal and constitutional authority. first, madam president policy. you know, it's a fundamental rule of economics it's a fundamental rule of life that when you

. >> america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all thank you madam president i'd like to call roll please. thank you inspector. >> commissioner president loftus commissioner turman is executed commissioner hwang commissioner melara commissioner kim you have a quorum and also the chief of policies chief greg suhr. >> hello and welcome to the tenderloin please line district meeting it is great to be here in the tenderloin it is a stunning group stunning turnout of community members we're thrilled to hear from all of you we've been hearing from you up until now and going to have another opportunity we're glad you're here just to lay the foundation for what this meeting is if you're folks that come to the meeting we have one item on the agenda to talk about the tenderloin map and to have the department present the data they've used to come up with the map and more importantly is public comment where we get to hear from any guys and get and feedback so that's what we're going to do and it's great to be here since it's a community meeting my colleagues wil

get through this to and i think we'll get to a clean bill that basically secures america and keeps us safe. thank you madam president. i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: madam president i come to the floor today to join my colleagues to call for an end to any political games that are being played with this bill to fund the department of homeland security. i want to thank senator shaheen and senator mikulski for their leadership on this issue. they'vent dued legislation that i'm -- they've introduced legislation that i'm proud to cosponsor that provides the critical resources the department of homeland security needs today and the remainder of 2015. the issue of funding the department of homeland security has become particularly important to my state. it is important to every state. new hampshire cares a lot about the coast guard and many of the other agencies involved in security. in minnesota we've actually had active recruiting first from he will -- el shabab that recruited young men to go to somalia and fight to become suicide

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madam chairman. this is a big deal here. we have this great new resource for us in america that is giving us an edge that we haven't had in a long time in other areas and how we make this decision is really, really important. i appreciate very much different states come a different perspectives but this is a big deal. i want to first say to mr. smith, thank you for d.o.e. not only taking service with the need to move forward on understanding that you need to update your study on economic impact for america. and the fact that you are doing that. and i do know why we wouldn't wait for that to happen if we want to make sure we're doing this the right way. but i want to thank the secretary, and thank you for doing that. we know jobs are created when we don't export facilities, right? but we also know according to the charles river associates using natural gas increases american manufacturing output is white as five as the overall economy as just jobs in general. and creates a times more jobs than exporting. so i don't know why we are not very concerned about what transport is saying. you're the end-user the guys who buy this. y

madam president this isn't some liberal cabal that's talking about this. this is the -- let's take, for example, one of the most conservative publications in america, "the wall street journal." they wrote a featured opinion piece today about republican members of congress. they say, "the wall street journal" says, the republicans' strategy is doomed to fail. even the very conservative editors of that newspaper said today that republicans' reckless scheme is destined for a spectacular crackup. i ask unanimous consent that the whole article be placed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: but here -- i'll read parts of it. and i'm quoting "if homeland security funding lapses on february 27, the agency will be pushed into a partial shutdown, even as the terrorist threat is at the forefront of public attention with the charlie hebe hebe dough and islamic state murders. fails to intercept and islamic state agent on route to detroit. so republicans are facing what is likely to be an another embarrassing political retreat and more interparty recriminations. the g.o.p.'s restrictionist wing will blame leadership for a failure that he shar

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america. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlelady reserves. the gentleman from kentucky. reserves. the gentlelady from new york is recognized. mitts lowey: -- mrs. lowey: madam speaker, i'm pleased to yield one minute to our distinguished leader, ms. pelosi. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one mnt. -- minute. ms. pelosi: thank you, madam speaker. i thank the gentlewoman for yielding and congratulate her on her exceptional leadership as the ranking member of the appropriations committee. i also commend our colleague, congresswoman roybal-allard, as ranking member on the subcommittee on hurt for her great leadership to protect the american people. to keep american security strong and certain. i also thank the chairman of the committee, mr. rogers, for the important work that was done leading up to december to have bipartisan legislation, to have an omnibus bill that funded all of the departments of government, except, unfortunately, homeland security, for the full-time. that's really a disagreement because the first thing we do as members of congress is to take the oath of office to protect and defend the american people. that we woul

publish an in-depth feature called plundering america which expose a way which underground criminal networks have exploited u.s. policy toward cuba. madamhairman denies its open its doors to the cuban people so they could have a better life free from the oppressive castro regime and the overwhelming majority of those who come here have made it an incredible contribution to this country and become a deep fabric of our society. great examples we have here on this panel are colleagues and my friends. policies put in place to ensure that those who sought refuge in the u.s. would still be able to see their families or send remittances are being taken advantage of by small binaries for criminal gain. officials engaged in organized criminal activity have turned her humanitarian policy into an underground criminal enterprise by using their ability to return to and from cuba to engage in illicit fraud activities particularly the report noted medicare fraud and transporting large sums of cash back to the island and evading arrest from the cuban regime as that they will not exit ip switches. they have turned her open door policy into a revolving d

america michael nutter, mayor of sotloff you. -- mayor of philadelphia. [applause] mayor nutter: good morning. madam chair thank you very much for this wonderful opportunity to address this incredible democratic national committee and this meeting this morning. it is truly a great honor, but to start what i would like to do is ask that we join in cheering on and supporting our great chair, who will lead us to an incredible victory in 2016. the work that she is that provide financial security for the dnc, to focus on issues related to our challenges going forward, while i thank the governor for his work in the task force, re-examining challenges from the past that will help us as we move this party forward, as we move our nation forward, and for all of that, she is our great leader. she is tough. she is strong. she is focused. she gets the job done. for all of that and so much more, would you please recognize and maybe come to our feet to recognize our great chair and the leadership is. -- the leader she is. [applause] she has told you to sit down. to my friend and colleague in the work of mayors, ou

america. . now the president wants 14% levy on those and impose a 19% tax on future earnings to finance infrastructure and investment. madam speaker, we've heard this before this mantra how we are going to build infrastructure if you just give us $900 billion, we are going to rebuild the infrastructure of america. what happened? well we got some democratic friends who got lots of monies in grants and all kinds of benefits and we didn't get the infrastructure we were promised. so every time the president wants to trot out a new program, he throws that in, because it worked. seriously, it worked six years ago. americans bought into it. majority bought into it. let's give him the money so we can build infrastructure and we saw that that was a word that was not kept. and the point that many have made about the president's new proposals -- he brought up in the state of the union address to help the middle class to help the nation's poor we've seen how the middle class had been helped under this president. the middle class has gotten smaller. the gap between the ultrarich and the poor has wider and we got more poor. we have more

madam speaker, must be to ensure public safety. the proposed keystone pipeline is a massive project that would carry tar sands sludge throughout the middle of america. even supporters agree that it should not be built until we have some assurance that it will be safe. and keystone poses real risks. over the last few years a litany of tragedying failures have reinforced the need for pipeline safety standards. in 2011 another exxonmobil pipeline ruptured in montana spilling crude oil into the yellowstone river. the oil was carried hundreds of miles down the river threatening the livelihoods of ranchers. in july 2010, a pipeline carrying tar sands oil ruptured in michigan. over 800,000 of gallons flowed into the kalamazoo river. it has proven harder to clean up than conventional crude oil. transcanada and its supporters have repeatedly assured the public and the congress that we shouldn't worry about this pipeline carrying tar sands sludge through the middle of america and across the aquifer. they say it will be ultrasafe state-of-the-art pipeline. the problem, though, is that we've heard this before. transcanada's first keystone pipeline, which bring

madam chair. there seems to be no doubt among any of our panel members that solving this threatened impasse or crisis on the west coast is necessary to america's near term and long term competitiveness. is that correct? but moving onto the broader issue mr. grueling's excellent testimony about our ongoing failure and it is a kind of slow motion implosion of america's competitiveness. the ongoing failure to spend more than 2% of our gdp on infra infrastructure investment which compared to 8% in china, 9% in india. even mexico 4%. it extends not only to roads and bridges which are crumbling but also areas of our infrastructure like rail great. just days ago we saw the consequences of a rail grate causing that could have been made safer and could have prevented the deaths and injuries that occurred there. the fact of the matter is there are more than 2,000 crashes every year causing more than 230 deaths it and 700 injuries. not to mention the economic costs of those collisions which are very difficult or impossible to calculate. that's just one example of our failure to invest in infrastructure. so let me ask you as to the $2 billion that you rec

america in 2010. this action is inconsistent with that pledge. the senate has just voted, madam speaker 68-31 to pass the rogers-lowey-mccull i ask -ranking member on the senate side-shelby bill. this is not a partisan bill we're arguing about. this is the bill we have agreed upon, republicans and democrats. and we can't even pass that. with the knowledge that if we do not, the future funding of america's homeland security will still be in question. yes, we could do it for three weeks. i call it our culled sack strategy -- culdesac strategy. going into a culdesac over and over again and feeling a path is going to hope -- open. the senate is now voting on the collins amendment. as i understand the strategy in the house is to add the bill that has been rejected four times on the floor of the united states senate. it went into the cul-de-sac once, it didn't open up. cul-de-sac third fourth time, didn't open up. now the proposal is to go into that cul-de-sac a fifth time while we focus on whether or not we're going to fund homeland security not on the objectives of homeland security

madam chairman, my amendment will preserve the ability of agencies to quickly respond to emergencies that threaten america's health and safety by striking one of the most pernicious elements of this legislation. section 5 of h.r. 527 contains one of the bill's most problematic provisions. as drafted, it could undermine the ability of agencies to quickly respond to health and safety risks. so this section repeals the authority under current law that allows an agency to waive or delay the initial analysis required under the regulatory flexibility act. in response to an emergency that makes compliance or timely compliance and practicable. rather than leave this critical exception under current law in place, section 5 replaces it with a provision empowering the chief counsel for advocacy to issue regulations about how agencies in general should comply with the act. without any provision allowing agencies to respond to emergencies through expedited rule makings. thus, if there's a looming national pandemic or environmental disaster that could be avoided or mitigated through regulation, the bill prevents agencies

congratulations to all entrepreneurs across america in this space today today is a day when you should be celebrating. i yield back the balance of my time madam president. i ask that we recess until 1:45 p.m. as provided by the previous order. the presiding officer: without objection. the senate stands in recess until 1:45 p.m. a modern economy is built innovation and commercialization to promote widespread gains for its citizens. now some tensions exist between these two ingredients for the strong economy. because coming up with novel ideas is risk-taking, focus on future possibilities. some ideas or inventions -- or inventions were filtered by turning ideas into successful products require is capitalizing on already existing ideas. the trick is to balance one with the other so that we can produce the products of today efficiently and at the same time invest integrating the product of tomorrow. both our competition and our intellectual property laws played by the role and balancing our goals for today and the others just over the horizon. our competition laws focusing on promoting our economic goals for the near-term with and i in particular

america secure -- good clean. and severely we are happy to debate immigration to the republicans heart content. but let's stop this governed by crisis mentality, especially when national security hangs in the balance. so madam president i urge speaker boehner, i urge senator mcconnell to come to their senses, in this wild goose chase and let us vote on a clean bill forthwith. i yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. >> madam president i come to the floor in my position as the vice chair of the appropriations committee. and to urge the senate to pass a clean homeland security appropriations bill. now, yesterday the senate rejected a procedural vote to take up the house homeland security funding bill. madam president this is not about debating the weeds of the which bill versus that bill. there are two distinct differences. the house bill has both the funding for fiscal year 2015 and it that would take care of every single agency under the department of homeland security to defend and protect the nation. but at the same time it is loaded with five immigration writers that we call poison pill riders because the president said if legislation for homeland security passes with these five immigration ri

america secure. and separately we are happy to debate immigration to the republican's heart content. but let's stop this governing by crisis mentality especially when national security hangs in the balance. so madam president i urge speaker boehner i urge senator mcconnell to come to their senses end this wild goose chase, and let us vote on a clean bill forth with. i yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. nelson: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. nelson: madam president i ask consent that the quorum call be lived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. nelson: madam president, i want to talk about the necessity of having an appropriations bill for the department of homeland security and the fact that it is being held up over the issue of folks down in the house of representatives that want to not appropriate money for the actions that the president has taken in trying to improve a dysfunctional immigration system system the fact that this is happening, holding up the fund funding for the department of homeland security appropriations is absolutely ridiculous, in the opinion

america secure. and separately we are happy to debate immigration to the republican's heart content. but let's stop this governing by crisis mentality especially when national security hangs in the balance. so madam president i urge speaker boehner i urge senator mcconnell to come to their senses end this wild goose chase, and let us vote on a clean bill forth with. i yield the floor up to 10 minutes each. thank you madam president. madam president, i come to the floor in my position as the vice chair of the appropriations committee, and to urge the senate to pass a clean homeland security appropriation bill. now, yesterday the senate rejected a procedural vote to take up the house homeland security funding bill. that's this is not about debating the this bill versus that bill. there's two distinct differences. the house bill has both the funding for fiscal year 2015 in it that would take care of every single agency under the department of homeland security to defend and protect the nation but at the same time it is loaded with five immigration riders that we call poison pill riders because the president said if legislation to fund homeland security passes with these five immigration rideers, he