[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] hello ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to politics and prose on this balmy spring avenue afternoon. Forget started if you please sign in you shall have my eternal gratitude and let you know this evening we are recorded and we want to make sure that your questions are recorded as well for posterity. You will see to the side of me theres a microphone so when we have our questionandanswer session tonight, they could we speak directly into the microphone to ask your question i would appreciate. Finally once the event is over i wish if please do us a favor of folding your chairs up and putting them up and once again youll have my eternal gratitude. Charles wheelan is the reason why so many of you are volunteering your afternoon to listen about foreign policy. The best math teacher you never had and formerly a correspondent for the economist mr. Wheeler went on to write statistics and was widely praised for ruthlessly stripping away the jargon
Your Credit Rating goes dowfnlt the tragedy of this is that were not only going to add to the deficit and debt of this country by playing this brinksmanship, we are going to hurt every american, every american who relies on credit, whether it is a mortgage, whether it is car loan, a student loan. Weve now linke link student loo this problem. Think about the dollars and think about whats happening to the American People when we dont do the things that we need to do. We shut down government but wont let people go to work, serve the public, but then say, oh, dont worry, were going to pay you. And then we cost by shutting down this government we have cost millions and millions a and millions and billions of dollars, adding to the deficit and debt. Dollars that we didnt have to spend. And now were going to play this brinksmanship in our debt limb. Debt limit. Were going to shake up not only the american markets, were going it add to the interest costs not only of the American People and of
Pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip , but in o five minutes no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from indiana, mr. Messer, for five minutes. Mr. Messer thank you, mr. Speaker. Hank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to recognize the career of two extraordinary indiana state legislators, senators allen paul and johnny nuget. These two Close Friends have served the state of indiana for decades, and i want to personally thank them for all their hard work and recognize them for their many accomplishments. First, let me tell you a little bit about senator allen paul. Allen volunteered for the u. S. Army in 1967, and is a decora
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