Dick clark and john culver. Berkeley would go on to represent iowas sixth Congressional District for six terms. From 1975 to 1987. And i presume he would have served a lot longer if his health had held out, even though he lived another 30 lets see, you add it up, about another 32 years after that. Although berkeley and i didnt share the same political points of view, we did share a common approach for representative government, meaning with dialogue and feedback that was very necessary from our iowans if we were going to represent them properly, and most often the forum for that was our respective town hall meetings. Throughout our Service Together in congress, party labels didnt displace our ability to work with and for iowans. As one example, during the farm crisis of the 1980s, which is much worse than this farm crisis we have right now, we used our voices to raise Public Awareness and steer help to struggling farm communities in our home state. We did Everything Possible to shape f
For equality. Were pleased to have here and without further adieu hegar. Thank you so much and thank you to book people. You have been so wonderful and warm and i keep telling everybody, wherever you bought your book, return and it buy imfrom book people. So thank you yall so much. Ive been speaking for seven years and so nervous right now because im sieging to a bunch of people who i know and love and respect, many of whom are in the audience are toastmasters so i would ask you to please not evaluate this speech. So im just blown away by how many people are here and i kind of just want to save all the time just oneonone if a everybody because a lot of you if i have seen in a while about my mom wanted know speck for an hour and then someone else told me, be brief, be funny, be seated. So im going try to find where in between those two. So read just a short excerpt from the book, and then well talk for like six or seven minutes and then get to the signing. A brief disclaimer with give t
Speaker pro tempore harris on tuesday december 16. The clerk h. R. 2591, h. R. 5859, senate 2338 senate 3008. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to clause 4 of rule 1 the following enrolled bills were signed by speaker pro tempore harris on wednesday, december 17, 2014. The clerk h. R. 1206, h. R. 1378, h. R. 2754, h. R. 3027 h. R. 3572, h. R. 3979, h. R. 4276, h. R. 4416 mr 4651 h. R. 5050, h. R. 5185, h. R. 5331 h. R. 5562, h. R. 5687, and h. R. 5816. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to clause 4 of rule 1, the following enrolled bills were signed by speaker pro tempore thornberry on thursday, december 18, 2014. The clerk h. R. 1068 h. R. 2901, h. R. 3608 h. R. 4030, h. R. 5771. The speaker pro tempore without objection h. R. 647 is laid on the table. Without objection in accordance with house concurrent resolution 125, the chair declares the second session of the is 113th congress adjourned sine die. Host could you tell the folks how one becomes the dean of the house . The first requir
Of this. Have a great weekend. Hello, thanks for joining us, im Martin Savage at the cnn headquarters in atlanta. Im in for fredricka whitfield. Good to be with you. Fiscal cliff talks, we are at a standstill, 32 hours before we reach the edge of this press cis miss. Senate sfleshts taken the time out to speak after the butting heads on two key issue, one involving tax rates, the other Social Security. Ali velshi is in new york, dana bash is live on capitol hill. We will start with you, dana. What has gotten lawmakers now not seeing eye to eye . Reporter actually, let me answer that by asking one of the members of the Senate Republican leadership, senator john thune, who just came out of the Senate Republican meet egg. Senator, can you tell us where do things stand as far as republicans feel . Well, look, republicans advanced a proposal last night. You heard senator mcconnell talk about that on the floor. We are still awaiting a counteroffer by the democrats. And there was an indicatio
Forward to taking their money and buy school supplies. But once they removed all of that, by the time my children got to be 16 years old, they in my we call this crack. They started off with smoking marijuana, and then they would put Something Like embalming fluid, where it would make you get a more potent high. Host debra, thank you for that background. Whats the in your view, whats the current status of the situation . Caller the situation is, they have to get back to putting their children in more afterschool programs. They got to get their children with their lives being upsidedown, these children need to find some kind of way to say, okay, the house is falling down, my life is not that my future. Guest absolutely. There has to be more support for kids in all kinds of ways. Something that somebody brought up about the cutting back this is in a prosperous community, too cutting back on the choices i think reaching high school, that you could take art but you couldnt take do athletic