raffi i drives from tel aviv towards hebron. they have arranged to meet at israel's tarqumya checkpoint. raffi waits for his passengers among thousands of palestinian workers who've managed to obtain a coveted israeli work permit. it's not easy to find someone in the morning crush. but then he spots them. the palestinian father and son have to cross the checkpoint on foot. without raffi to transport them, zakaria and his father would be stuck here. they could never afford the expensive taxi fare to tel aviv. like zakaria, tens of thousands of palestinians are treated in israel every year. that means 30 to 60 trips every day for the road to recovery volunteers. the men chat half in arabic, half in hebrew, about their families, kids, everyday life. after the hour-long drive to tel aviv's sheba medical center, they say goodbye. another volunteer will take the two palestinians back to the west bank later. kajed: we avoid talking about politics during the drive, because i don't want to say anything bad about the israelis. i don't wan

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. -- denothing raffy. -- demography. again, the native fertility rate in western societies is below replacement. i'm in favor of it. we need to have replacement immigration of some kind in order to have -- prevent the population from going into a death spiral. the east asian societies have avoided having significant immigration to date with not terrible impacts, but i think when your birth rate is 1.4% or 1.7%, and it takes 2.1% to maintain a population, and you are losing 1/4 or 1/2 of your population every generation, at some point there is a crisis there. i don't see the birth rates in the developed countries rising rapidly, so i think there will be continued pressure, which will succeed, for migration. but what that does is, it constantly replenishes the demographic political base for multiculturalism, which is a social reality in cities that are gateways for immigration. so, even if you got rid of all of the particular ideologies and studies programs and so on, you're still going to have these quite different commun

sharon gonzalez raffi. from the i'm not and public works committee, richard russell, mary francis repco, andrew rogers, kristof tuloo and jack pillman. i'd like to place the names of the staffers in our partner committees in the house who played key roles in this important legislation. on chairman shuster's staff individuals who should be thank include chris vissan, john rayfield, bonnie bruce, luke preston, and cameron humphrey. from the ranking member defazio staff thanks go to kathy dedrick and dave jansen. mr. president, i'm sure i left someone off this list and for that i apologize, but it just underscores the amount of collective effort that went into our work here. and i could also easily expand the list to include those at the coast guard and at the environmental protection agency who provided valuable assistance and technical expertise. we look forward to working with them on the implementation of this bill. mr. president, as i said earlier, the coast guard reauthorization that we just passed is a