mr. flores of texas. the chair: the gentleman from texas, mr. flores, and a member opposed will each control five minutes. mr. flores: i rise to offer my amendment which reaffirms the first amendment rights of students, teachers and school administrators to exercise religious beliefs. the founders of our nation recognized the singular importance of religious freedom. one only need to look back at the first clause of the first amendment to know that the james madison, the founder of the bill of rights saw freedom of religion as central to our liberty and our freedom as human beings. since ratification of the bill of rights americans have been protected from religious oppression. as a result in present day, for many, religious freedom may seem like a given a right that has always existed and will always exist. we know we can't be so cavalier. just look around the world and see that the religious protections enjoyed by americans are not union vertally embraced. every christmas we hear stories of elementary children being forbidden from handing out c

mr. flores from the pit river nation. >> my name is fy lemon flores i'm with the indians education program title vii welcome to san francisco welcome to the revolution >> (speaking foreign language.) >> welcome to the revolution >> (speaking foreign language.) >> all my relation thank you. (clapping.) >> >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (cheering) i'm with came on house. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (cheering). >> i'm emily from the san francisco dependent on the status of women. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (cheering). >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (cheering). >> (speaking foreign language.) >> filipino and san francisco. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> >> (speaking foreign language.) >> freedom free. >> i'm from san francisco. >> hi. >> my name is merriam. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> my name is north america did care with the foundation welcome to the san francisco revolution push on. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> that was just a small and beautiful sampling of over one hundred and 20 languages spoken in san francisco so thank you any sisters i really ap

mr. flores from the pit river nation. >> my name is fy lemon flores i'm with the indians education program vii welcome to san francisco welcome to the revolution >> (speaking foreign language.) >> welcome to the revolution >> (speaking foreign language.) >> all my relation thank you

mr. flores mr. hultgren, mr. mckinley, mr. womack, mr. hudson, mr. messer and mrs. radewagen. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2015, the gentleman from california, mr. garamendi, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. garamendi: thank you very much. alzheimer's. alzheimer's. a word that brings fear and trauma to families all across america and indeed around the world. tonight we're going to spend our time talking about this dreaded disease, for which there is no known cure and which always ends in death. i'd like now to turn to my colleagues, this being a bipartisan special order hour unusual, to be sure, but absolutely appropriate, given the fact that this illness affects virtually every american family. i'd like now to turn to mr. goodlatte, our colleague from virginia. mr. goodlatte: i thank the gentleman from california for organizing this special order for one hour to talk about the blight that we face here in america and i'm sure in many other countries around the world, known as alzheimer's. an

flores thank you so much. let's go to peter judge on the phone. he's with the massachusetts emergency management agency. mr.judge, thanks for joining us. just minutes ago the subway system announced it's suspending service after 7:00 this evening. what are the dangers of the snow once the sun goes down tonight? >> well the sun goes down you know we will see a lot of freezing on the roads that have been plowed so certainly driving is going to be a problem. the mbta is going to have issues relative to dealing with ice on the third rail on a lot of the transportation problems so you know there's a lot of stuff we'll have to deal with this evening and again, as rosa just said folks, pedestrians who can't walk on the sidewalk walk out in the street and street's not wide enough for the cars let alone pedestrians as well. >> how dangerous has it been for people in boston in the last -- or massachusetts, more largely, in the last couple weeks? have there been fatalities have roofs caved in and actually hurt anybody? >> knock on wood there have been only a few fatalities in the original storm. there were a few folks