my name is jennifer palmieri and i m very excited to welcome my friend susan page to annapolis, proud edgewater [applause] i am p a proud edgewater reside. susan and i ve known each other for a long time because she s covered a lot of people i work for. i was hillary clinton s communications director. barack obama s communications director, worked foror president clinton. [applause] johnrd edwards. john edwards presidential campaign, and in some ways i think nancy pelosi would say the same thing. you kind of grow and think about and learn from the losses and a tough situation like the edwards family more than other situations. a little easy and susan so susan and i have first met her where you know, if she was usa today when i work for president clinton and very happy to i m not sarah alfred states that are help with supposed to do this. they re in session. so sarah asked me if i would moderate that i was like susan page. i m talking about nancy pelosi. this is defini
The clerk pthe house will be in order. Mr. Doorkeeper. The doorkeeper mr. Clerk the speakerelect, Newt Gingrich representative from georgia and the escort committee. Its a whole new world. Mr. Gephardt ladies and gentlemen of the house, i first want to thank my democratic colleagues for their support and their confidence. I noted we were a little short. But i appreciate your friendship and your support. As you might imagine this is not a moment that i had been waiting for. When you carry the mantel of progress, there is precious little glory in defeat. But sometimes we spend so much time talking about the winners and the losers, we lose sight of the victory we all share in this crown jewel of democracy. You see, mr. Speaker, this is a day to celebrate a power that belongs not to any Political Party but to the people no matter the margin, no matter the majority. All across the world from bosnia to south africa, people lay down their lives for the kind of voice we take for granted. Too o
The house selects Newt Gingrich as speaker of the house. [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen of the house, i first want to thank my democratic colleagues for their support and confidence. I noted that we were a little short. I appreciate your friendship and support. As you might imagine, this is not a moment that i had been waiting for. [laughter] when you carry the mantle of progress, there is precious little glory and defeat. Sometimes we spend so much time labeling the losers, we lose sight of the victory that we all share in this crown jewel of democracy. You see, mr. Speaker, this is a day to celebrate a power that belongs not to any political party, but the people. No matter the margin, no matter the majority. All across the world, from bosnia to chechnya, to south africa, people lay down their lives for the kind of voice that we take for granted. Too often the transfer of power is an act of pain and carnage. Not one of peace and decency. Here in the house of representativ
Yes we do have time for questions. I think the unifying theme that you hear from this Diverse Group is, people want our leaders to govern and we want them to lead. It is time for them to doppler urging from one crisis to another and focus on some of the longerterm issues. I will quote Erskine Bowles here who regularly says we have made all of the easy choices. We have made all of the stupid choices and now it is time for this country to start making some of the real choices. We hear a lot of the interest here about just how important that is. I would be glad to turn questions over to the secretary, to any of our speakers today. Yes . You talked often about sequestration, ask to the head, suicide. It is deal actually submits the cuts under sequestration, putting the Defense Department for the foreseeable future. If thishe senate deal is a failure of leadership as you have referred to it . The fundable the fundamental challenge was to do whatever was necessary to and the shutdown of the
Our first 45 minutes this morning, your thoughts on questions that should be asked by legislators of the ceo. Is more oversight from Congress Needed on this issue . If you want to send this email, journal at cspan. Org. Fletcher writing for today. The headline says as families grieve, gms chief executive faces a grilling. On the phone, ms. Yeager. Thanks for joining us. Tell us alone bit about the hearing today and the rest of the week. One of the topics that will be covered . Thehat happens today is committee on the house side. Tomorrow is the Senate Committee that holds its hearing. It will both have the same two witnesses. The ceo of General Motors and the acting head of the Highway Safety administration. One thing that will be interested that will be interesting, she situate up provide answers about what went wrong. She has an internal investigation. She is found to be transparent hurt the Company Knows they have screwed up and they are trying to figure out what went wrong. There a