The 114th congress of the United States. Floor strength yen and inspired by the support of our colleagues. The constituents and the love of our families. My special thanks to all of you my children en, nine grandchildren, and the family for their support. The people of san francisco. The continued honor to represent them here. My heartfelt thanks to my colleagues for extending to me the honor of being nominated to the speaker of the house. Thank you very much. Said to his constituents and this congress with honor for 25 years. Peaker john boehner. In his story we are reminded of the enduring exceptional promise of america. This hardworking son of an ohio bartender and owner who grew up to be the speaker of the house of representatives. John boehner talked about the American Dream. John boehner, you are the personification of the American Dream. As youall know, Speaker Boehner was a formidable spokesman for the republican agenda. My republican colleagues, im sure you know and i can atte
News 4 midday starts right now. Wisconsin congressman, paul ryan, will soon be taking the reigns as speaker of the house. In just a moment, he was just actually elected. You are looking at live pictures from capitol hill where that vote wrapped up minutes ago. John boehner just stepped down from the post before he was hired tomorrow. He said just moments ago, he has a couple of regrets or few regrets as he leaves the office he has held for five years. Anything can happen if you are willing to make the necessary sacrifices in life. If you falter, and you will, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and do it again. Hope always springs eternal. In just a moment, minority house leader, nancy pelosi will present speaker elect reason and he will be addressing the house here and then later take that oath of office. She is starting right now. Lets listen in. Today, as every day, we come to this floor strengthened and inspired by the support of our colleagues, the trust of our constituents and th
So go red for women. We did not text one another, we both were on the same page. Your traffic and weather together, cloudy conditions looking live from the Broward County camera, a line of heavy downpours rolling through much of south florida. The roads are slick, and we have lingering showers along key largo, and as we take a look at what is happening, here is that cold front, and temperatures are cooler and breezy, anywhere from 18 to 22 miles an hour sustained winds, hour. Look at these numbers, low 60s in the broward and dade county. Highs will only be around 69 windy, 65 to the night, and another cold front on the weekend. I totally your red on purpose. Your red wore red on purpose. We have some construction, flashing lights, and the tones are lined up on the righthand side at the palmetto northbound. 595 eastbound two u. S. One, the ramp is shut down. The dolphin expressway has the westbound lanes at shut down and you can take the side streets, eight street, flag street or the pe
They are, in henry james words, perfectly equipped failures. And i wanted to talk about them beginning with huck finn because i think huck finn is americas literary declaration of independence. And i felt that at the end of huck finn that people started moving out and going to other landscapes of america. So babbitt becomes the antihuck which is the standardization of thought. That is what is really threatening us today, indifference, sleeping consciousness which is all the things that is talked about. Okay. And then carson [inaudible] and then, of course, the great, the incomparable James Baldwin who was not just a writer, not just an africanamerican writer, not just a gay africanamerican writer, not just an american writer, but a writer. Who speaks to all of us and whos so important today. And i think we should remember baldwin. I dont have time to go into it. And i want to end by a quote from mark twain. Mark twain gives a talk to what he calls the mayflower tribes, the descendants