Days after the house resumes. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offer aed by the guest chaplain, reverend david gray from bradley hill Presbyterian Church, bethesda, maryland. The chaplain let us pray. Gracious god, your love is never ending. In these hallowed halls, your sovereign spirit comes to us, calms us, calls us and infuses us with your grails. Give us strength this day to look outside ourselves for the opportunities which come from connection and collaboration. Give us faith to bring our bestselves and to seek your will our best selves and to seek your will. Give us confidence that solutions can be found and problems solved. Grant us gratitude for the trust placed in us, for the privilege of living in this free land, and for your presence here with us. Llow us to rest in and rely on your hopefilled spirit. Loving god, we ask your blessing upon this body and all who gather here. Help us to receive your assurance, your encouragement, your wis
And so individuals have told me as spouses, that they have gone out, sought fulltime employment and again passed over that salary to the respite person. Thats the sort of painful pressure under which individuals and couples, families are living. Many have chosen to keep their loved ones at home. There are issues of safety, economic duress, and certainly our system has to respond to that. So the sooner we set our sights on a cure, on funding thats adequate and effective for reserge purposes and for developing the responsiveness of the medical teams out there, via perhaps pharmaceutical assistance and development there, the better our Economic Situation will be in regard to these struggles system of heres a chance for congress to respond in very magnanimous terms that will allow us to state cumulatively that we get it. That were there in an order of compassion, that we understand its about a dignity factor, its about quality of life, its about providing hope to situations that may be ren
This week on q a, yuval levin. Yuval levin, your wikipedia site has in the second sentence, he has been called, quote, probably the most influential conservative intellectual of the obama era. Whats that mean . Thats a very good question. I wonder by whom. I think its jonathan chait. Ok. Well then probably, in the course of criticizing me for something or other, but i guess what it means you know an intellectual in politics is a person who tries to connect events and practical questions to deeper currents, theoretical or philosophical currents. There are narrower definitions. You know paul johnson, the Great British historian, wrote a book called intellectuals in the 80s in which he said that an intellectual in politics is actually a person who tries to remake the world in the image of some theory he has. In that sense, there probably is no such thing as a conservative intellectual, but i think if you take a broader view of it and a notion that an intellectual tries to connect theory a
Of clemency. I do not think the Death Penalty is appropriate punishment, nor life imprisonment. Ofse who call for some sort frontier justice need to understand there should be equal protection. ,ames clapper committed perjury punishable by five years in prison, if you want to throw the book at snowden, it is hard to say we are not going to do anything about James Clapper lying to congress. You are not going to compare what he did with whats noted n did . With what snowde i think i just did . [indiscernible] clapper did something worse than snowden . It is not my job to compare them, but James Clapper has harmed the credibility of intelligence agencies, making it hard for us to believe them when they come to capitol hill. He lied when he was prepped for a question. As he said, he told the least untruthful thing he could think of. It has greatly damaged the intelligence community. It is arguable. [indiscernible] one or two more. Comment on governor christie. He has enough questions to an
Sadness that i was betrayed by a member of my staff. Sadness that i had people who i entrusted with important jobs who acted completely inappropriately, sad that that had lead the people of new jersey to have less confidence in the people i have selected. The emotion i have been displaying in private is sad. And as i said earlier, i dont know what the stages of grief are, but i know anger gets there at some point, im sure ill have that too. But the fact is right now im sad. Reporter [ inaudible ]. Let me just clear something up about my childhood friend david. It is true that i met david in 1977 in high school. He is a year older than me. David and i were not friends in high school. We were not even acquaintances in high school. I had a high school in livingston, a threeyear high school that had 1800 students in a threeyear high school in the late 70s, early 1980s. I met david on the tom kaine for Governor Campaign in 1977. He was a Youth Volunteer and so was i. Really, after that time