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thank you. thatet me remind you also in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. [applause] senator goldwater s acceptance speech at the 1964 republican national convention, this weekend on american reel america. sunday on c-span3. house gaveled the out on thursday, steny hoyer talked about the upcoming legislative agenda with the incoming majority leader, kevin mccarthy. role taken up usually by the current majority leader, who is set to stay step down from his current position at the end of the month. this is from the house floor and is about 15 minutes. i suppose the majority leader-elect. a few weeks from now. but we ll be doing the colloquies and i appreciate his stance. we had the opportunity to have lunch. i m hopeful we can have a very productive rich: as i m sure this house and relationship as i m sure the house and the country hopes. i m pleased to yield to the majority lead hrn elect. mr. mccarthy: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i look forward to a very st
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prayer. almighty god, our father in heaven, grace this capitol centerpiece of our nation, as we bestow the congressional gold medal upon the great hero, raoul wallenberg . forgetesolved, never to 6 million of our sacred brothers and sisters, over one million children, killed in the senseless slaughter during the holocaust by the not see butchers. as we pray for the survivors who need your support in the twilight of their days, let us resolve never to forget raoul wallenberg, a great light in the darkness. you, almighty god, command us to cherish and preserve all live. raoul wallenberg did this at the risk of his own, and 100,000 people, those he saved, and their descendents, live and breathe, and work to make your hisd better as result of ultimate sacrifice. words of those, those engraved on the metal, he lived on through all those he saved. through this special and historic space, and the presence of our leaders, on the half of my fellow americans, we beseech , until when? s
escorted out into a hostile crowd. islamist protesters are cleared from cairo s al-fatah mosque turned morgue. more than 750 people are officially reported killed after four days of violence. meanwhile, the government is backtracking from its earlier threat to dissolve the mis muslim brother hood saying there can be no reconciliation. and divers in the philippines suspend their search for dozens trapped in a sunken ferry. 31 already confirmed killed after a cargo vessful collision. after four days of blood letting the unrest in egypt appears to be subdued this evening. as long as the curfew remains in effect. this evening, the focus is on cairo s al-fatah mosque with a standoff that included exchanges of gunfire. faced with growing international condemnation, the fellowship has insisted that security forces are confronting what it calls a terrorist plot with self-constraint and self-control. since wednesday, over 750 are reported officially killed nationwide. we look back