[indistinct conversations] thank you for representing the people. Ive had several people come up and tell me i did an amazing job. I know i did an amazing job, but its so great to hear it. Theres some people saying we need to set a magic threshold to get a welfare check. Infiltrating the party and fighting over the money. And 2012 they had three state affiliates, all of which had a different president ial candidates on the ballot. I do not want that happening to this party. I want this party to stay libertarian for my entire life and beyond. More room tomorrow, to the white house coverage with the libertarian nomination process from florida. Secretary, we proudly votes tof our delegate the next president of the United States [cheers and applause] each year, nancy pelosi holds a womens History Month reception at the capital. This year, Michelle Obama, joe biden, and Cathy Mcmorris rodgers joined her honor Women Veterans. This is one hour. The thank you for joining us for this annual cel
Force behind the creation of southern california. He became the first chief judge of the District Court serving in that position until he was appointed to the ninth Circuit Court of appeals. Judge carter judge keep graduated from the San Diego School of law as its valedictorian, becaming the first female judge for the Southern Court of california and later the first female chief judge. And this honors judge john rhodes who served as a federal judge in san diego for 22 years and was widely respected and beloved throughout the regions legal community. Udge s. Judges, carter, keep and rhodes showed excellence and integrity. Im proud to honor their legacy with this legislation, and i want to thank two of my colleagues in particular, congresswoman susan davis who represented this area before i did, and led this effort for the past several years. And congressman darrell issa for his support and great amendments to the bill. Its better because of his work. And im proud to have worked with the
This House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing is an hour and a half. We will now call a hearing to order. This is a very important hearing in my opinion. Some of them are not nearly as important as others. This one is extremely important because greg and i, the Ranking Member, we are all concerned about the influence of iran in the entire region, also in the gulf region. So today we are here to discuss the expanding influence in the south caucasus, but were also talking about, i intend to talk about some of the problems in the Persian Gulf Region because thats a vital interest to us. The straits of hormuz, persian gulf, or the swiss canal are blocked in any way they could have devastating impact on the United States because we still get a large part of our energy from the region. I traveled to azerbaijan an armenian in early september. And i also stopped in georgia and met with the president. When i talked to these leaders, iran was one of the things that came up at the very beginnin
Secretary of defense leon panetta visits the Walter Reed Medical Center followed by david coombs, Bradley Mannings of turning. The hearing on the republic of mali. The Supreme Court will look at what was passed in 2008 by a majority of 63. Theyre going to say that this president. They decided it was constitutional for them to establish i. D. S they did not say all of those states. Correct. Let me finish. You are misrepresenting what i am saying. When i hear these accusations that black people, voter i. D. Laws a disproportionately affect us. If white people can go through all the laws, what are you telling back people . They are less than . That is what bothers me about rhetoric. We always have to make special there has to be a specialist when we deal with minorities. It there too feeble mind it appeared we need to make concessions. They cannot follow the rules. We treat people like victims, i do not think they want to aspire. Defense secretary leon panetta visited the Walter Reed Medi
Everybody needs to sit down and Work Together. We just complicate things. Thank you. From one vietnam era veteran to another. Let me thank you for your comments. I agree completely about the need to sit down. Guest a National Grassroots organization of democrats, republicans, and independents dedicated to the proposition of stopping to fight each other and starting to fix the country. If youre interested in finding out more, you can go to nolabels. Org. The onlyhe venue for serious bipartisan discussion going on in washington during the entire. The Government Shutdown period of the Government Shutdown. There are going to have to be a lot more people doing that. Host how do you see that playing out in the housesenate budget conference . In most religions, despair is a sin. Therefore, i am commanded to be hopeful for the budget conference. [applause] [laughter] if the goals are defined modestly that an agreement can be achieved if we are still reaching for the grand bargain, i doubt very