mr. don ellison to come up and recognize one of our training instructors and managers. >> mr. ellison. >> gjdz good afternoon be our operator training unit has focused on comfortably operator training. it's good to recognize a training instructor for work well done i'd like to introduce her and her manager who will say a few words >> good afternoon chairman noilg and director reiskin. i appreciate this opportunity to recognize one of my employees. there's many things i could say but i'll save you time. i'll say for those who who have worked in management there's also that one employee that you say in the back of your mind i wish i had 20 of those and ms. cleaver is that person. she's done an exceptional job. he's been selflessness in those areas where a she didn't have the expertise she makes it her business to get that expertise she's been above and beyond approach. i'm very, very happy and honored to be here today to recognize her. (clapping.) >> thank you. thank you. >> on behalf of the board and the entire agency thank you for your work throughout the years we're deeply app

mr. ellison says, it appears that cece mcdonald defended herself after a bias motivated attack came on herrbing intolerance of transgender citizens, and i hope through her struggle, the plight of trans people has come to greater public awareness. so i wanted you to know that your representative sees you in exactly that way, as a role model to give us an opportunity to talk about the inequalities facing trans people. >> and that's very, exciting and good to hear, because a lot of times, people don't even acknowledge or understand the lives of trans women, especially african-american trans women, because we always are faced with such hardships. and it seems like, i feel like sometimes we're just taken as props or people just see us as gimmicks and a lot of times, we're misunderstood and, you know, people usually don't take us serious, because they see us as something other than human beings. >> the point that cece is making there, laverne, is such an important one. and is reproduced in our media, reproduced in our popular culture, over and over. and i wonder, as we think about cece's case, i

mr. ellison. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from minnesota is recognized for one minute. mr. ellison: mr. speaker, we are told that the exchange information disclosure act is just a good faith effort to try to get some transparency. but wait, what? isn't this bill come interesting the same party that shut the government down to try to kill it? didn't that just happen? my memory is not faint about t my memory is very clear that we stood here watching the republican majority shut down all of government to prevent people from health care access. and now we are supposed to believe, oh, we just want to make the bill a little better with transparency. no. what has happened is that millions of people are signing up. people know that if you snatch a benefit from people that they have and expect to have that that's going to cause issues. so now the tactics have changed. instead of an overt or a 50th repeal bill, now we'll just try to undermine it by making a bunch of paper requirements, more distraction, more paperwork, more division, more distraction, more obstruction t now, i think i

mr. ellison: mr. speaker, the polluter pays. the polluter pays and that's a simple idea with very broad appeal. the company responsible for causing the pollution should have to pay for the cleanup. makes sense. this bill would relieve many companies that have responsibility when it comes to the most polluted sites in the country. instead, taxpayers would pick up the tab. it's another bailout. currently if a company is part of an industry with a record of pollution, it needs to post a bond or buy insurance. this requirement helps to prevent a company from polluting until it goes out of bounds of, leaving -- until it goes out of business, leaving the taxpayer with the bill for the cleanup. h.r. 2279 allows the company to skirt its financial responsibility. in essence, to internalize all the money they make while they're polluting, but to externalize all the cost after they're done and leaving everyone else to shoulder the burden. that's not free market enterprise. that's crony capitalism. the bill would also reduce funding for the

mr. ellison: mr. speaker, when lindsen baines johnson came before this house -- lyndon baines johnson came before this house and this nation to say that the united states, the richest country in the history of the world, should not have people living in squalor and in poverty, shouldn't have seniors eating dog food, shouldn't have poor kids living with no chance of a better life, he did what this nation really is all about, he really lived up to the true meaning of liberty and justice for all and he made those words real when for so many years they had not been real. . and yet those programs that lift sod many americans out of poverty, that war on poverty that lifted so many out and gai so many a chance, after about 10 years there became a war on the war on poverty. the latest battle in the war on the war on poverty took place on december 28, 2013, when this house refused to extend unemployment insurance for 1.3 million americans. this is no way to uphold the great legacy of the war on poverty. let's

mr. obama. joining us, ellison basher, a writer at the "washington free beacon." george w. bush was so unpopular because the country was embroiled in two wars by the time his sixth year in office began. the iraq war ended. the afghan war is winding down. president obama should be acue crewing some of the benefits for that and still poll numbers are pretty low for him. >> in theory it makes sense people are pessimistic. if you look at polls the issue people care about the issue is the economy. no matter how the white house tries to spin it we have 6.7% unemployment. since the recession where americans lost $14.7 trillion in wealth they only gained half of that. a poll put out in may said americans only regained 45% of the wealth they lost in the recession. so they don't have spending power to boost up the economy. white house spins we gained this many jobs this month and tiny little gain you have a big gap how people have been doing under this president. that is why you see people being pessimistic. jon: with the economy the big worry the president is talking about income in

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