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Establishment republicans. Tea Party Republicans were, however, favorable towards mitt romney, a 77. Paul ryan, a 79. Ann romney, 77. Even george w. Bush, 72. More favorable even than the Establishment Republicans. So this is consistent with the last paper that said, you know, as we got when they really had a rally behind their candidate, the feeling thermometer questions indicate that perhaps they did that. So whether those divisions are going to persist is when we looked add the media question. So im going to turn that over to jay morris. Well, its clear that theres a division on several issue positions and on how Tea Party Versus Establishment Republicans view, um, certain candidates, certain issues. Do they get their news from different sources, we already know through the research on partisan media that democrats, republicans, liberals, conservatives, get their news from very different sources in todays fragmented media environment. When you look here just at Tea Party Versus Esta
2014. I hereby appoint the honorable luke messer to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. We lain conroy loving god, give you thanks for giving us another year. We give you thanks, also, for e first session of the 113th congress and your sustaining us with your presence, wisdom, patience and love. We ask that the efforts of the first session might prove fruitful and the benefits redowneding to our nation and its people. We ask as well your forgiveness for the smallness of actions on some occasions and the inability to Work Together when so many were adversely affected. We know that this is not what you wish for us, not what the American People wish for our nation and not what the members of this peoples house have been elected for. We ask now your blessing on each member of congress that they might be their bestselves and representing no
We must keep the government functioning and address the out ofcontrol debt and the many challenges presented by the health care law, obamacare. For many months, and particularly the last two weeks i have worked tirelessly with , colleagues to find an agreement. I particularly want to thank are presented to ron kind, senators Susan Collins and joe manchin, and the many other members who participated in many discussions. This lays down a foundation to reach an agreement on issues that need to be addressed. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this legislation and to join with those of us who share an obligation to govern and seek bipartisan solutions. I yield back. The gentleman from kentucky reserves. The gentleman from new york is that gentlewoman from new york is recognized. Im very pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from pennsylvania a member of the appropriations committee. The gentleman is recognized for one minute. Thank you, madam speaker. I rise to urge an expedite
This project was undertaken with walt stone and with meredith who will present it. Meredith has been involved since she was a sophomore at william and mary. She graduated in may. She is with the education Advisory Board after a stint as an intern where she was the resident expert on the tea party for the pew center for people in the press. Meredith is going to take this and go with it and make it sound far more intelligent than i could. Thanks. To give you an idea of what is coming, we will look at divisions within the local party and then we will compare rank andfile republicans to Tea Party Activists using that Freedom Works sample. Once again looking at issues and political style. Finally, we look at the response of the tea party to the 2012 elections, including perceptions of why romney lost, change over time and willingness to time and willingness to compromise, and evaluation of the Republican Party and its leaders. We begin by examining the actual conflict between Tea Party Repu