Tolbert of Kaiser Family foundation it. A message from the senate. The secretary the senate has passed section 3113, limitation of laboratory certification. The speaker pro tempore thank you. Pursuant to the order of the house of january 17, 2012, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. This morning. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. Jones, for five minutes. Mr. Jones mr. Speaker, thank you very much. This afternoon a group of members from both parties are going to meet together to discuss possible legislative options to start the process of bringing our troops home from afghanistan in 2013. Yesterday, i was on the floo
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A political casualty. But after the constitutional onvention, which, of course, washington sanctioned and mason it spelled in , many ways an end to their friendship. Twitter, george and Martha Washington, quite the power couple. We close out bringing us full circle, what are the important things for people to the influence of Martha Washington. I think its important to powerful she and on and how dependent he was her. His achievements were his achievements. Him aving her there with made them much more possible. I think thats true. Defined influence in a way that perhaps contemporary have difficulty understanding. But the fact of the matter is, she was the most influential of the earth face with the president of the United States. This says Richard Norton of george graphy washington patriarch Still Available if youd like to learn weve been talking about the book martha ashington with the striking portrait of young martha on the cover and widely available for people who want to know more
And affection for each other. It was as close to her how many town. She would own most of this block going back a couple acres, which mean she owned a huge chunk of what williamsburg was. There was a lot of tragedy in Martha Washingtons life, she lost her first husband. She was raised a rich woman. Now, what that means in 18th century is not familiesly what it means today. When she marries George Washington she brings with her to mount vernon 12 house slaves, and that is really almost an unimaginable luxury. It takes her 10 days to travel here to valley forge from mount vern oranges in her carriage with her slaves and servants with her. And this was a difficult journey. Marthas experience had really prepared her to become the first first lady. Born in New Kent County, virginia in 1731, Martha Washington was 57 years old in 1789 when she and George Washington once again left their beloved mount vernon, Virginia Home in service to the country. This time their destination was new york cit
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