Learned that theres no reason why we cant work on the issues at hand. So hopefully thats a lesson that will be internalized and not just by me but also by democrats and republicans not only the leaders but the rankandfile. Thanks very much, everybody. Mr. President , will this happen all over again in a few months . Well for the first time in 17 days the federal government is up and running this morning, a final congressional vote last night, capped an ugly drama on capitol hill where partisan politics drove the nations economy into the very brink. In the end lawmakers avoided defaulting on the federal debt but nevertheless theres plenty of damage to go around. 87 House Republicans joined democrats in supporting legislation to fund the government into early next year while raising the debt ceiling to cover whats already been spent. Not a single democrat opposed it. On the senate side 18 republicans opposed the bill among them ted cruz, mike lee, rand paul and marco rubio. For those Tea
list of this mortgage, 26-1. the associated press called the rays just after 8:00 p.m. eastern time, more than an hour after the polls closed. there kantor had to come out with his wife and concede the race 20 minutes after that call. thank you, thank you. obviously we came up short. serving as the seventh district congressman and having the privilege to be majority leader has been one of the highest honors of my life. i know there are a lot of long faces here tonight, and it s disappointing sure, but i believe in this country. i believe there is opportunity around the next corner for all of us speak to us for the next senator, he said the people have spoken. i think the people are just ready for some major changes in this country, and i was blessed. it s a miracle. what do i attribute it to first of all? i am humbled and thankful. i am a believer, so i am humbled that god gave us this win. right with that, god acts through people, and got acted through the people on my b
because they re tired of the way their caucus is being run. bud mckeon, who you worked with, just announced his retirement today. he said i think every member of our conference should look at themselves and evaluate what they were sent here to do. if they can t support the leadership, then let them run for leadership. but until you do that, it s important to follow. no one s following john boehner, eric mccarthy or ear rick cantor. you re having a civil war within your party which has ground the house to a halt. we can t get anything done. well, i think it hasn t ground the house to a halt. when you have a senate controlled by the democrats and president obama who won t even negotiate with the republicans, yeah, we re having a big and during this primary season, a
saying about the creation of a responsible modern republican party which they finally have a shot at after the craziness of the last year. they went off the leverage and finally the elders of the party said wait a minute if we re going off the leverage with these folks, with the tea party folks and back to erick cantor let s go back to some real republican roots and we have a chance of it in this country now. the idea of a responsible opposition on both sides would be one of the best things that could happen to this country in the last 40 years. what do you think? i think that s all well and good and true. the problem, those is that there s no fix for the congressional wing of the republican party. the republicans have been so successful in the last two censuses in redistricting, gerrymandering seats.