And to tap the resources needed by the members of this peoples house to do their work as well as it can be done. May they be led by your spirit in the decisions they make. May they possess your power as they steady themselves amid of pressures of persistent problems. May their faith in you deliver them from tensions that tear the house apart and from worries that might wear them out. All this day and through the week, may they do their best to find solutions to pressing issues facing our nation. Please hasten the day when justice and love should dwell in the hearts of all peoples and rule the affairs of the nations of earth. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker pro tempore thank you, father. The chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentlewoman from california, ms. R
Microphone, please give us your name and where you go to school. If anyone would like to come up. Here is our first inquire. He is adjusting it. Until someone gets the courage up, you mentioned nate silver. He offers the fascinating thesis that it is that talking heads on all the cable channels are the ones who are constantly predicting things that, believe it or not, have the worst prognostication records. He said that the amount of minutes you are on television are inversely proportionate to the accuracy of your predictions. I listen to your show every sunday afternoon. I want to know, i saw on your web site that you went through an independent bookseller. I am wondering about the role of amazon in the book industry and how it is hurting it. Actually, norton bought the book. They wanted it. I was delighted that they did. We were proceeding along very well. It is owned by time warner, and they came in and said by the way, we own all rights to it. We can do what we want with it without
On capitol hill. Why . Because we will have reached Critical Mass. I think that is where we are going. You have to prove the point. You have to have Critical Mass in order to move the market and that is where we are going to be this next year. This is for both of you gentlemen. With cable news, with whether it is on the left report right or the right there is a dialogue and tends it would seem to perpetuate that polarization. When do you say to an elected elected he figures when they have to go official when they have to go back and face a constituency. What do you say to the elected official . How will you convince that elected official that forging the compromises is not going to cost them their next election because of the polarization and the perpetration of that by both the left and the right . Well, that is an excellent question. For those who arent familiar with my states politics, as the senator mentioned Richard Luger served for 36 years in the United States senate in indiana.
We know from similar data that breaks down what people say they care nd want in Health Benefits are e broadly supported. The the resilience of American People, even when theyre trying to get insurance, when we, because of the troubles we caused with the site, it was incumbent on us to fix. Theyre still there demonstrating in high volume the fact that they believe that this and want ng they need and want to learn more about. Were focused on delivering the benefits to them. Well see down the road how the Affordable Care act and the benefits it provides. Well get about the business of delivering. You have said, the president aid he wants to extend Unemployment Insurance. You have any ideas how to play for that . I know there are ideas for paying for it. Its a plan. Something were not new to the game on. Looking to congress to do what we had in the past. Thats to sit down and figure get it done. To because not depriving and a million efits to families right after christmas, a, because of t
They sawed both in texas and minnesota. The texas parents being presented a chance to opt out of any research use and five million stored blood samples being incinerated without being used for research. The minnesota case is still pending. Find out what your states Public Health law is. Theyre probably not going to give you the results. The results will be just on these handful of diseases, depending on how old your children are, either five, six diseases or 30, 40 diseases, and almost certainly negative on all of them. But somebody did those tests. I would like to clarify one thing, though. The tests that were done, say in the 1970s or 1980s, were not genetic tests. No one was look at d. N. A. They were looking at other levels, so they were what would propering called a metabolic screening. Although with proper respect, i think thats a quibble, in the sense of they werent testing d. N. A. , but we arent testing it now. Were testing the proteins for most of the neonatal testing. Its st