fame is like an honorable exchange. notoriety it well-known but without the good. notoriety is being known for being known. it craves attention but without sacrifice, without hard work or merit. walking to the well of the house floor doesn t usually capture our attention, most of us take walking for granted. but not br brian mast, not since he lost his legs in service to our country, what really captured my attention, he didn t have to do what he did, most speakers did not walk to the well, they stayed where they were, brian walked to the front of the people s house, he wanted to look his colleagues, friend, teammates as he calls them in the eye. face-to-face, he delivered empassioned plea for his colleagues to stop talking and start doing. stop talking about fights, find something to fight for, stop squandering this gift of leader thing, they have been given by the american people, he wondered why some republicans save their harshest words for one another, i m sure he wonder
course of those two years to lead some of his colleagues to change their votes? some no doubt were motivate the by deeply hill convections about the way the house operates, why those changes could not have been negotiated, worked oagreed last week or last month, or last year, i don t know. why it had to take place on national television, i don t know. i do not this, it is a gift to be trusted to lead, when the country is facing so many challenges, and so many americans think that country is headed in the wrong directed, and so many lost confidence in the institutions we used to rely on. d challenges abowngd. abound. we were their names and honor them with fame. there is and hopefully will