Under reconciliation rules. U. S. Overage now of the house on cspan. House on cspan. Nnounces to the house his approval ereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from assachusetts, mr. Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The speaker without objection, the gentleman from louisiana, mr. Graves, is recognized for one minute. Mr. Graves thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to give tribute to pastor kevin mckee who opened the prayer this morning this this chamber. Kevin and his wife have been amazing pillars in our community as we have been through extraordinary associated with hurricanes katrina, rita, gustav, isaac, a 1,000 year flood last associated year, wor spill in the nations history. Incredible shootings of five of our Police Officers last year. In
Website. And so, i think your words need to be taken down. Accusing staff our staff of leaking that is not true. Those words should be taken down. Madam chair . Blackburn the staff had asked for the documents to be shared. Before thehared website, released to the entity. In order to take comments down, they have to be personal in nature. So with that, let us begin with our opening statement. And then, we will receive our first panel of witnesses. As i was beginning earlier, i want to welcome all of our witnesses who are here today. Im going to introduce each of you later. As we move forward with our testimony on the pricing of fetal tissue, as part of my opening statement, i will present a narrative about the exhibits that todays hearing will discuss. I have said many times that my hope is that both parties can Work Together on some things. And todays subject matter should be an opportunity to do so for a couple of reasons. First, at our initial hearing on bioethics and fetal tissue, a
Turnedones have been off. We will, of course, post our the heritage home page following our presentation today. Opening our session is jennifer marshall. Ms. Marshall serves as our Vice President for the institute for family, community and opportunity. Oversees our Research Areas that determine the character of marriage,ducation, family, religion and Civil Society. Andalso heads our Richard Helen center for religion and Civil Society. Manages our familyfacts. Org online source for the latest social science on those issues. Joining us here, she worked both at empower directornd as senior of family studies at the Family Research council. Please join me in welcoming marshall. [applause] jennifer . You, john. Ank and thank you all for being here for this conversation about in america. Were really pleased to debut this index of culture and onortunity, and here with me stage is David Azerrad, my colleague at the heritage foundation. Directs the simon center for principles and politics. And t
Way. Whereas the house of representatives may have about 40 or 50 members that are predominantly Food Production represents Food Production districts. Every United States senator represents at least some Food Production. That includes from the smallest states of rhode island and delaware to, of course, the largest states. And historically, those interests were dominated from people by the midwest and the heartland states. So illinois, indiana, missouri, my own state of kansas. And the midwest, up through the dakotas. And states in the south where you had members of congress and especially members of the United States who were elected forever. They accumulated great amounts of power, and they were able to influence the political process rather significantly so the states of mississippi, which was one state that had accumulated a large amount of power over the years. But all of the southern states, georgia, south carolina, north carolina, called the southern crops had very, very powerful
And the reason they couldnt do that because 22 people sunk their boats in the harbor so that ship couldnt get close enough to make it effective. 22 patriots sunk their boats for a lost cause. 22 patriots were probably told by their friends, what are you doing . Its a lost cause. Youre sinking your boat pipts your livelihood. Many of them were fishermen. Yet 22 patriots decided they needed to act. Now, i share that because many of you may have friends who are telling you that youre fighting for a lost cause. And im here to tell you just as were about to sing the sparspangled banner, 22 patriots did an act, we dont know their names, perhaps youre working with 20 of your fellow comrades to work on a particular issue that is not winnable might be winnable. Im here today to tell you the voice of the American People has never been stronger. Its never been stronger on this particular issue. Its never been stronger really when it comes to just letting people know they love their country and th