and one of them was the husband of one of her favorite stepsisters, emily. exactly. and he was killed. and the lincolns had emily to stay at the white house for some extended period of time. in fact, there is a scene where i believe there was a general at the dinner table, complaining about sharing the dinner table with a rebel, and lincoln said, mrs. lincoln and i do not need any help from you in deciding who our guests will be. anyway, mary made it very clear that her siblings had taken up arms, not only against your country but against her husband, and she saw no reason. nancy is in indiana. you are on, nancy. thank you. a wonderful, unique woman, who is my hero. something that is not brought often, about her mental condition, but i have never seen anything about what she took. i do not understand why more people do not bring this up, especially as her mental condition got worse as she got older. thank you, nancy. do you know anything about that? no, i do not
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here are the numbers to call can also find us online. send us a tweet i writing @cspanwj. or you can join the conversation on facebook, look for www.facebook.com/cspan. our e-mail address is journal@c- span.org. here is the headline in the washington post we will hear more about what happened yesterday at an immigration-related hearing. the senate judiciary committee. we will bring that to you in just a moment. the chairman, patrick leahy, chastised just chastised some of his gop colleagues by time ast week s attack to comprehensive immigration bill that was introduced last week. ill the hel we saw some things post-9/11 that were enacted that, if we had a bit more rational time to think it through, perhaps we would not have had some pushback on it. what you think about this? kathleen is our first call from chicago, illinois. , i do not think the bill should be pushed back. the republicans have gotten one agenda, and that is to try to tear president obama s agenda.
this bill, the one we are now considering, will tend to improve or enhance your ability to enforce the laws? it is real difficult for us to say at this point because we are like everybody else. we are struggling to read through this monster and reference back and forth. you, iuite honest with know there are some improvements in here, but i have not seen a lot of them. i am confused by some of these things with regards to three misdemeanors and the standards, the crimes involving purple to did we have now. it should be a misdemeanor, one within five years. how does that make sense with these three misdemeanors? what are significant misdemeanors? this is not a legal term we are significant we are familiar with. it is something we struggle with already. this makes a lot more questions than i think it provides answers. it will take a lot of digging through this. i have seen some things with regard to getting affiliation. we areeral concept, about that. but a finer stand corre
good morning, everyone. i am your congressman. it is great to be back. how is everyone feeling today? are you fired up? is everyone excited that the vice president is here with us today? i want to thank you for joining us on this incredibly important day. how many of you remember, two years ago today, the president signed into law affordable, accessible, health care for all? how many of you remember? [applause] today is about the history that was made that day. it is also very much about our future. if the other guys get their way, we are headed right back to the failed policies of the past. you have heard them. you have for them on the campaign trail. it is all the same. whatever they say about social security, let it go bankrupt. what did they say about the medicare? let it go bankrupt. what do they say about america is a new health-care law? let s eighth go bankrupt. what did they say it to florida seniors, let them go bankrupt, too. do you know what is bankrupt? their i