You can also catch up with us on all your favorite social media pages. Twitter, facebook or email. A very good Christmas Morning to you. We are talking about the American Dream. Traditional polling has the American Dream defined as possible to start up poor in this country, work hard and become rich. A that measure according to recent poll in the New York Times, americans are less optimistic. The story from earlier this month. Alongside the story is a timeline of the polling over the years on that question. Possible,think it is since 1996, started dropping in 2010. Now, down to just above 60 . Those who think it is not possible, that has been rising since 2010. We want to hear from our viewers this morning. Republicans, democrats, independents or outside the u. S. , the phone overs are there. Phone numbers are there. Is the definition of the American Dream still the same in your mind . Thatcolonists picked up on poll. Comments for the washington post. The much excited statistic stems f
The speaker pro tempore the speaker pro tempore the yeas are 181, the nays are 241, the motion is not adopted. The question is on passage of the bill. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. Mr. Speaker. I demand the yeas and nays. The speaker pro tempore the yeas and nays are requested. Those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. A sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This will be a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any usef csecaptioned covera of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly pribited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yeas are 270, the nays are 152. The bill is passed. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The Unfinished Business is the vote
Their own. And i have to say the majority over there tried. The democrats in the senate stopped consideration of that spending bill four different times over six weeks. In the meantime, the house had to sit here waiting for the senate, and we have been waiting six weeks until just now. Finally, this more the senate has passed a bill funding the department for the balance of the year. Which differs from the house passed version of that bill so we got to go to conference. Thats the way the framers set things up when the house does something, and the senate does Something Different on the same subject, youve got to bring them together into conference to work out the differences and come up with a bill for the president to sign. Thats where we are. Finally now we can go to conference. We could not have earlier because the senate had not passed the bill. Now we can go to conference. And well be asking the speaker for that designation today. But in the meantime we cant let the Department Sto
Commissioner bridges pr commissioner driscoll marry commissioner melberger commissioner paskinjordan commissioner stansbury we have quorum quorum is presented. Please join me in the of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all couple of announcements item none 17 approval of the minutes for the retreat will be pulled and brought to the next meeting item number 5 will be staff presentation open important Public Comment ill continue the vote on that item because the agenda did not properly identify the potential investment of a interesting amount i want that to be perfectly clear to the members of the public know what were acting upon before the meeting takes place. Excuse me. Id like to acknowledging that supervisor avalos has joined us. Number one Public Comment will be taking 3 minutes for public speakers today. Good afternoon. Im patrick commissioner paskinjordan 2010 annual form one hundred ending 2010 lis
Later in the day, a conversation with state department officials. The work will be talked about that is being done for the board created in 2012 to prevent genocide and other Human Rights Violations around the world. That is tomorrow at 6 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan. President obama will be in boston tomorrow for the dedication ceremony for the kennedy institute. It includes every creation of his u. S. Capitol Office Sometimes referred to as the hideaway office. In 2005 senator kennedy gave cspan a tour as part of our documentary on the capital. I dont believe so. It was one of the great honors. A wonderful time to serve in the United States senate with my brother and it has been a terrific experience serving with my son as well. To be able to serve with your son as a colleague, almost, as an equal house representative in the senate to talk about these issues is a great thrill as a father and very meaningful. The Capitol Building itself what does it mean to you . I think of the capital b