People talk about the idea of service. What would he think about a former secretary of state making 225,000 to give a speech . John well, thats an interesting question. Of course, in his day politics was not a root to wealth. The opposite. And when he was a young man, he ran for the state legislature of massachusetts. Most of his friends who were all lawyers like him wouldnt do that because the theory was first you make dough as a merchant or a lawyer, whatever it was, and then when you are comfortable, you can afford to go into politics because no one ever made a nickel. Congressman in those days would get 9 as a per diem. Adams struggled economically his whole life but he thought that it was right that he struggle. And i think that, again, part of his sense of its Public Service is that you accept the fact that youre not going to make money doing it and youll die poor. Indeed, the president s who preceded adams, jefferson famously, but madison not so famously, monroe not so famously
And she followed henry through the army camps in the revolution. And ten of her children died. But she reminded henry several times that he was not a commander in his own home. And she was quite firm about that. And all of her children went to fine schools. So i dont have real statements about the importance of education for women, but clearly she would have believed in that. Peggy, her counterpart in philadelphia, who married benedict arnold, lucy becomes a patriot and peggy becomes a spy, and the question is why. She became a coconspirator with benedict much later. When they married, he was a military hero. They were both educated. Peggy came, again, from an affluent, educated family. We know he educated her beyond the french cipher and reading, because she was a teacher. She was a student of politics and finance twice. So we know that education and again, as a mother, and i can only speak to that, because you have to understand her parents burned all her accordance when she w corres
The departments relationship with Small Businesses that can take part in the sbirsttr program and it encourages the secretary to enter into agreements with the program at the National Science foundation. Our National Labs have been at the cutting edge of Technological Development and we must always ensure that development is in the national interest. A discovery lost in the labs is a discovery wasted. Thats why id like to thank my good friend, mr. Kilmer, for partnering with me in this effort, as well as mr. Fattah and mr. Nunnelee, who were sfounding founding members with me. Chairman smith and chairman lummis as well as Ranking Members johnson and swalwell were also key in this legislation coming together and bringing it to the floor. This is a true bipartisan, bicameral effort and senators have a similar companion bill on the other side of the hill. I encourage my colleagues to support this bill and i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves the
The complainer was mrs. Harrison. Mrs. Kerry harrison. She was found in terrible condition and disliked it a lot. Structurally it was bad and the walls were in bad shape. And actually after the roosevelts, the Franklin Roosevelts went out, the trumans went to a beat up house. 13 van loads of furniture taken by the roosevelts. Their possessions. There were white squares where the wallpaper where pictures had been you know, 13 years. And they that was that was pretty run down. Thats not why truman remodelled the house, though. No president has time to take off and do the house over. They had it as a requirement for him. And the security was the basis of this. With truman. Not the fact that it was shabby. But the secret service and all of a sudden its too dangerous. This is the wood primarily inside with the lamp and all that, one fire bomb could ignite it. Truman was presented with a report that had been done a week or two after pearl harbor when they begged roosevelt to leave. He said i
If you remember nothing that i said tonight, then you probably had too much to drink. [laughter] if you remember one thing that i said tonight, let it be this. As dire as things look right now, i am profoundly optimistic. We have seen things look dire before. I am optimistic for three simple reasons. Number one, we are right. Freedom works. [applause] there is a very simple dynamic, conservatives win when we effectively articulate what it is we believe. This is fundamentally a center right nation. Liberals win when they effectively off the skate obduscate what they believe. Their policies do not work and all we have to do is speak the truth. Secondly, there is a new generation of leaders stepping forward in washington. New, young at leaders, people like rand paul and marco rubio and mike lee and kelly ayotte. [applause] you know what is incredible . Five years ago, not one of them was in office. You have to go back to after world war ii to see an instance where the generation of leader