Will the Vice President ial teller please collect the ballots from the electors hammon . The electoral votes of North Carolina have been passed on this, the 17th day of december, 2012, through the republican electors, and the result is as follows. Votes cast in the name of paul ryan. Thank you. With secretary marshall please bring forth the certificates to vote. Each elector or will have to sign six copies. I believe we are going to sign one copy, and if at the end the electors will remain seated, we will sign the other five copies. The electors having signed a certificate of the vote, at this point i would like to thank the staff of the state capital, the secretary of States Office, and the North Carolina republicans staff as well as the North Carolina Republican Party as well as the voters of North Carolina for helping make this meeting of the Electoral College of success. If there is no further business to come before us, i wish to recognize dodi allen for the purpose of making a mo
And its less than an hours drive from my Congressional District. We mourn all the people who lost their lives on friday, including 20 Elementary School children and six educators. Over the past few years, we have seen innocent lives lost to gun violence in a supermarket parking lot in arizona, a Movie Theater in colorado, an army base in texas, a College Campus in virginia and now an Elementary School in connecticut. The weapons have spawned these tragedies and long past time that we control them. The Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms but does not guarantee an absolute right to militarystyle, high caliber, semiautomatic, combatassault rifles with high capacity magazines to anybody who wants them. It just does not and must not let Interest Groups persuade us otherwise. We need restrictions and sensible gun control legislation. We need them here and we need them now. Our children are counting on us and we really need to not let them down. I yield back. Mr. Murphy i yield
Everybody here today and try to make a little bit of sense out of the senseless along the way. I think, you know, weve been hearing the news all weekend, and its been so difficult to even be a bystander and listen, and i think the hard thing for all of us and i know even me at home when Hurricane Sandy hit, you could do something. You could send clothes, money. You could physically help them clean up. In this ca you want to do something, but youre peeking into this really tragic, sad world, and the only thing i think a lot of people and parents can do is hug their kids and pray for those families, and i think theres a weird sort of dont you feel like a helpless feeling . You want to do something, and theres nothing worse than standing watching someone who is in pain and not being able to lean in and help. Anybody that was complaining about anything before this happened, it puts everything into perspective, doesnt it . And the fact that there were not only 20 precious little lives, inno
Elementary, with matt lauer, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza, and savi ysa guthrie, live from newtown, connecticut. Good morning. Welcome to this special edition of today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Savannah guthrie is in newtown, connecticut. The president s remarks at that vigil last night were moving, powerful. They were spoken, of course, not only as the nations leader but also, savannah, from a heartbroken parents point of vi view. No question about that. There were loud, audible sobs as the president read through the names of those who had fallen. The president wrote these remarks himself and i can tell you it contained a more forceful call to action than even some close aides had expected. Before that he met privately with First Responders and families of victims. The daughter of sandy hook principal, dawn hochsprung, tweeted these pictures of the president holding her daughter, and said mom would be so proud but not as proud as i am of her. Savannah, classes ar
You guys. Tucker, thank you. Routines are expected to resume today for some in newtown, connecticut. Some students and teachers will head back to the classroom as fup raleigh services for the victims continue. What you are seeing there is a live picture outside one funeral home for today aedz services. Nicole collins has more on this story. Reporter the first funerals for newtown shooting victims were packed and emotional. More are planned throughout the week at least one a day until friday. Another heart breaking funeral today as 6 year old jessica rakos is laid to rest. She loved horses and her family promised her one of her own. That dream will never come true as well as 19 other children. Those who attended Funeral Services monday for noah and jack pinto are reeling. Saddest thing i have ever seen. Investigators have yet to discover a motive when 20yearold gunman killed 27 people including his mother. Were going to do everything that it takes to ensure that we uncover every bit of