This is one of my favorite days of the year. As speaker, as a great, great grandson of kilkenny, i have the privilege of hosting the annual friends of ireland luncheon. This is a tradition that days back to Ronald Reagan and tip oneill. I cant tell you how much i look forward to welcoming the president and the irish Prime Minister which we refer to and taoiseach. Its going to be good food, good company and knowing me some fairly lame jokes. Today, though, the House Budget Committee took up the American Health care act. Its the Third Committee part of our open and transparent regular order process. We look forward to strong support there. Putting us another step closer to keeping our promise, keeping our promise to repeal and replace obamacare. From there it will go to a Fourth Committee before it goes to the house floor. Lastly, as we have said from the start, repeal and replace will be a stepbystep approach. That is why yesterday the majority leader announced that the house will be co
This is one of my favorite days of the year. As speaker, as a great, great grandson of kilkenny, i have the privilege of hosting the annual friends of ireland luncheon. This is a tradition that days back to Ronald Reagan and tip oneill. I cant tell you how much i look forward to welcoming the president and the irish Prime Minister which we refer to and taoiseach. Its going to be good food, good company and knowing me some fairly lame jokes. Today, though, the House Budget Committee took up the American Health care act. Its the Third Committee part of our open and transparent regular order process. We look forward to strong support there. Putting us another step closer to keeping our promise, keeping our promise to repeal and replace obamacare. From there it will go to a Fourth Committee before it goes to the house floor. Lastly, as we have said from the start, repeal and replace will be a stepbystep approach. That is why yesterday the majority leader announced that the house will be co
A look at our recent visit to charlottesville, virginia. I call it a president ial cold case. There were always questions about this house. Architects look at the little house and say that does not really look like a wing of a president s house. Similarities to other dependency buildings from other plantations. The questions were lingering. When i got here, there were answers to questions i did not quite fully understand. Maybe it is just a willingness to say that i dont understand that. Because maybe it is perfectly clear but i just dont understand. Lets look further. We are standing now in the center of the spot where James Monroes original main house stood. This is where we discovered the well preserved foundations just below ground surface. We have covered cap while we are not excavating. That is how we preserve an archaeological site. We laid these down on the Ground Service to get a sense of the footprint of the house. It was laid specifically over the places that we have excavat
I think that some people were motivated to get in touch with Law Enforcement maybe maiden investigate ms and wondered where they had gone. Now third person we mentioned greneta else walsz coo of the company that they had formed. But indictment says that miss else previously was convicted of Money Laundering and spent time prison. Now today at the aarraignment here in federal court two of them were held without bond until a hearing on wednesday. The pastor terri mellinder was held and his wife was free to go and the judge also held greneta else and those two will be back in Court Wednesday for another hearing. Live outside the federal courthouse in alexandria, paul wagner, fox5 local news. A new synthetic drug has been moving across the country and now blamed for death of the drug is scald u 47 and police often refer to it as pink. It was recently placed under same classification as heroin and hall us againic drug piote. What makes pink so dangerous, what are local officials doing to co
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