the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. loving and gracious god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. help us this day to draw closer to you so that with your spirit and aware of your presence among us we may all face the tasks of this day. bless the members of the people s house. help them to think clearly, speak confidently and act courageously in the belief that all noble service is based upon patience, truth and love. may these decisive days through which we are living make them genuine enough to maintain their integrity, great enough to be humble and good enough to keep their faith always regarding public office as a sacred trust. give them the wisdom and the courage to fail not their fellow citizens nor you. may all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. amen. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day s proceedings and announces to
we will produce some of the uncertainty coming out of washington, d.c. had the spoken with mr. council this morning? what is your reaction to a long time, well known lawmaker losing in the primaries. you have heard me talk all year about the rebellion going on in america. i have never seen more americans engaged in government in my lifetime. the voters of delaware have spoken. you re going to continue to hear the american people speak. you ll hear them speak loud and clearly come november. some people are saying that it will benefit challengers in both parties. what advice are you getting to your income but members incumbent members. i talked to my members about engaging with people. by and large if you look at the house republican incumbent members, they have done a great job of reaching out and working. center boehner, everybody is talking about not only the possibility of the republicans taking over the house and you becoming the speaker, but the likelihood of
markers, that are non-interest bearing and we have to borrow every time we spend. stop it already. now, to put the social security tax money into the social security trust fund will require us to actually make some tough calls. and since this majority condemned us all the time for running spending too much money, then i think a good idea would be to go back to the budget of 2006. i know some are talking about 2008. we go back to that budget and i think that would help us maybe take care of the issue and give us a good start by being able to put all the social security tax money into the social security trust fund. now, the republican is so brilliant he told me we could never do that. i was shocked. why not? because the government would probably buy bonds with it and be the biggest bond holder, we could never allow that to happen. well, not really. we could create a treasury note that s interest-bearing. so it s not risky, it doesn t put the social security trust fund at ris
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