Believe how humid it was, it wasnt raining but felt wet, the air just felt wet. And feels nasty out there. Rough for football practice today for the eagles, so, it will be tough out there. Humidity sticks around, next couple of days, and we do bring more showers and Storm Chances in our forecast. Little bit cooler than last week. Little cooler, yes, dont have any nines for the next few days, get a break this that. Depends where you are, dealing with more rain this morning, and again, later this afternoon and tonight. Central southern bucks county, north end of philadelphia, looks like that heavier shower, starting to mover out, still part of south jersey, Cumberland County seeing slow moving heavy shower, roll on through, and then ocean county headed toward long beach island, watch out for some heavy rain. And do the slow moving showers, flood advisory has been issued, philadelphia, parts of southern bucks county, into part of western mercer county, new jersey, and Burlington County, a
But in the stand your ground case that now we are all very well aware of, i think it goes back to what we spoke about earlier. And that is the pressure. Guess what . If people started to make phone calls and putting the pressure on, it would be different. And then that would help encourage you as a legislator help encourage Law Enforcement to speak out. Because now they are not alone. As long as youre going behind and whispering and say hey, im with you. But, you know, what . Every day we are losing eight kids and teenagers a day daily to gun violence to eight kids a day. I think is still pricing to legislation of gun violence. I have been at numerous protests and ive seen, i have seen prolife Supporters Holding up a 16 by 20 or even large posters of fetuses and mothers have been impacted by abortion. And again, im in the business of pictures. Im in the business of narrative. Im in the business of storytelling. And it still stuns me why, if i am protesting that im kind of get an issue
2014. I hereby appoint the honorable luke messer to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. We lain conroy loving god, give you thanks for giving us another year. We give you thanks, also, for e first session of the 113th congress and your sustaining us with your presence, wisdom, patience and love. We ask that the efforts of the first session might prove fruitful and the benefits redowneding to our nation and its people. We ask as well your forgiveness for the smallness of actions on some occasions and the inability to Work Together when so many were adversely affected. We know that this is not what you wish for us, not what the American People wish for our nation and not what the members of this peoples house have been elected for. We ask now your blessing on each member of congress that they might be their bestselves and representing no
We must keep the government functioning and address the out ofcontrol debt and the many challenges presented by the health care law, obamacare. For many months, and particularly the last two weeks i have worked tirelessly with , colleagues to find an agreement. I particularly want to thank are presented to ron kind, senators Susan Collins and joe manchin, and the many other members who participated in many discussions. This lays down a foundation to reach an agreement on issues that need to be addressed. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this legislation and to join with those of us who share an obligation to govern and seek bipartisan solutions. I yield back. The gentleman from kentucky reserves. The gentleman from new york is that gentlewoman from new york is recognized. Im very pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from pennsylvania a member of the appropriations committee. The gentleman is recognized for one minute. Thank you, madam speaker. I rise to urge an expedite
This project was undertaken with walt stone and with meredith who will present it. Meredith has been involved since she was a sophomore at william and mary. She graduated in may. She is with the education Advisory Board after a stint as an intern where she was the resident expert on the tea party for the pew center for people in the press. Meredith is going to take this and go with it and make it sound far more intelligent than i could. Thanks. To give you an idea of what is coming, we will look at divisions within the local party and then we will compare rank andfile republicans to Tea Party Activists using that Freedom Works sample. Once again looking at issues and political style. Finally, we look at the response of the tea party to the 2012 elections, including perceptions of why romney lost, change over time and willingness to time and willingness to compromise, and evaluation of the Republican Party and its leaders. We begin by examining the actual conflict between Tea Party Repu