Chuse. They even spelled it 18th century style. Choose its speaker and other offices. There were no other duties mentioned. It was assumed since the founders knew all about speakers from colonial ledge islators that what the speaker was. A presiding officer, but in our congress the speaker was not only a presiding officer, he quickly became the powerful person because he appointed committees. And that evolved as Party Systems evolved, First Congress didnt have organized parties the twoparty system developed the speaker became the leader of the majority party. And took on political ramifications. The constitution is very silent on this of the powers. The power of the speaker are what the speaker can make of them and thats the unique part of it and some have exercised great power where they even rivalled the presidency in terms of setting the National Agenda. Most of those in recent times, but also 100 years ago, two powerful republican speakers, thomas bracket reed and joe cannon of ill
Its just that life has changed a lot. I dont think anybody likes war. We are theke aggressors and we are doing it when you see these people the heading our people or killing innocent people because they have a different belief in religion or something. Pretty tough. Cracks im told our time with you is running out. We havent even gotten to education. What are you most proud of . Proud. Passedble to get a bill early on my second term that said we were going to build a big landfill. I was able to get a bill passed to make that go away. I was able to work on wilderness legislation. We did good things on education. ,e had reauthorizations done things that had not been done for a long time. In the committee, a lot of democrats have thanked me for the job that i did. I think of henry hyde. I used to just love this. Wanting to change the world. I hope that i can just get out of town with a little dignity. It was chairman of the judiciary committee. I had the opportunity to go and see how wonde
I never release my full movie list. But lets talk to the specifics of what we now know. It was announced today and we can confirm that north korea engaged in this attack. I think it says Something Interesting about north korea that they had the state announce an allout attack on a movie starring seth rogen and james franco. I like seth and james, but a notion that they are a threat gives you some sense of the kind of regime we are talking about. They caused a lot of damage, and we will respond. We will respond proportionally and in a place and time and manner that we choose. It is not something i will announce here today at a press conference. More broadly though, this should be caused to work with the International Community to start setting up some very clear rules of the road in terms of how the internet and cyber operates. Right now, it is the wild west. Part of the problem is you have weak states that can engage in these kinds of attacks. You have nonstate actors that can do enorm
So theyre all right on the ropes after years of anemic support. When we meet with them, we hear from them the same thing that you hear from them, they cant get the equipment that they need to fight back against isis. So in late august, a team of state department briefers met with committee staff, which had requested a briefing of the situation in aleppo. The state Department Official said it was a question not of when it would fall, but it was a question of when, not if aleppo would fall, a question of when not if aleppo would fall. When our staff was asked if Administration Viewed it the state Department Said that the administration was still trying to decide if it was. Which sounded like it was can diplomatic speak for no. And as events have played out over the past few months, it seemed clear that that was the case. Isis continues to advance on aleppo, the barrel bombs continue to drop on the city and this is now on a daily basis. So ambassador, if were serious about combatting isis
So the comebination of intelligence and law enforcemented is a big deal. We have to make sure that there are good mechanisms in place. If we know somebody is getting on a plane out of liguardia or dulles to fly over to ankora we need to recognize we know who they are, theyre being tracked and have the right visas. And turkey needs to know what theyre doing over there. Weve got to know why are you going there . Are you part of a Nongovernmental Organization . Are you part of a private organization . Or are you going e going there for some other ill gotten game. Let me ask this. Weve seen whats happening in yemen. Its collapsing before our eyes. Our u. S. Marines, the embassy staph. You see the chaos thats going on there. It was not long ago that this was one of our Foreign Policy successes in how we dealt want terrorism that we were in support of the government there, that our Counter Terrorism efforts was e were successful. A couple questions of the yoo u. S. Foreign policy. From my pe