Thank you. And, we are all set. Great. Mr. Speaker, you used to teach history. Today you are about to step into the history books. How has your background prepared you . It gives you extreme exposure in trying to explain things to human beings. It is the personal touch you have day in and day out. Teaching is communicating making things relevant to young minds. This job is not that much different. You have to talk to folks day in and day out. You have to make things relevant. You have to tell a story so people understand how things move in sequence, so it is very much like teaching. Morning. How are you doing . You look very nice this morning. Thank you. How are you . Looking dapper. Good morning. How are you . Come on in. [laughter] [indiscernible] nice to meet you. My wife, jean, my son ethan heidi. My buddy, tom, from indiana. Nice to meet you. An exciting day. I woke up this morning in the shower was cold. [laughter] at least i woke up. Good. You look nice. [indiscernible] we went
And the longer i live, the more convincing proofs i see of this truth. That god governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid . at that point, the Constitutional Convention stopped. It took a day off for fasting and prayer. Then they went back and solved the great question of the large and small states, and they wrote the constitution, and the United States was created. If each of us will reach out prayerfully and try to genuinely understand the other, if we will recognize that in this building we symbolize america, that we have an obligation to talk with each other, then i think a year from now we can look on the 104th congress as a truly amazing institution. Without regard to party, without regard to ideology, we can say here america comes to work and here we are preparing for those children a better future. Thank you. Good luck. And god bless you. Let me now call on mr. Dingell. [a
The house says those insurance could on the house side. What do think about those benefits being passed. Writeups about it today in the papers. Has a bitgton post of a breakdown on not only what the bill entails but what happens from here. Measure will restore federal funding that pays for Unemployment Insurance after statesponsored insurance and after 26 weeks. It easily passes senate on monday evening. Now it is to the house. In the the wall street journal this morning again, the vote taking place on the senate side. It goes to the house for consideration. The overall topic, though, is Unemployment Benefits. These expired last december. Want to get your thoughts on this for the first 45 minutes. If you want to reach out on the phone, the numbers are on the screen. You to send us a tweet or email , and you can recharge us on facebook, as well. Post has aton breakdown of the vote from yesterday. By the numbers, it says it is a vote of 6138 that invoke cloture on the legislation. If you
Jane supported her husband throughout his political career, which begin in 1971 with a seat on the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, then hit the national stage in 1976 when