Senator mike lee speaking earlier at the summit. Senator ted cruz now speaking he for those gathered here in washington. That summit continues through the weekend. Earlier today, we spoke to steven dennis, White House Correspondent with roll call, about the latest on the budget impasse. To talk about the negotiations. We should not call the negotiations, right . It depends on what they are negotiating about. , manyesident made clear times, that he would not negotiate over some kind of ransom but he has been open to talking about setting up a budget process, some kind of framework for getting a bigger budget deal done. That seems to be where they are going. That is the opening he provided a few days ago in his press conference and is one that they have continued to subtly put out there as a way to give republican some assurance that those negotiations would be real and substantive and cover some of the issues they want to cover , and yet, reopen the government. That is the real question
The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Quigley, for five minutes. Mr. Quigley thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this body has attempted to repeal the Health Care Law 41 times. E this is this is being leveraged in the current budget fight. I want to take a few minutes to remind people why we passed the Health Reform law in the first place. Lets remember the situation before obamacare became law. Clearly, the status quo was not sustainable. The number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the United States was medical costs and
At mondays veterans day day ceremony at Arlington National cemetery president obama talked about ending the war. Here is a little of what he had. On tour after tour in iraq and afghanistan. This generation, the 911 generation has met ever mission and because of their service the core of al qaeda is on the path to defeat and our homeland is safer. There are many people like the soontobe veteran i met a while ago. Hogan survived to iraq twice and survived three separate ied explosions and deployed again to afgh afgh afghanistan once she was well. She wears the combat action badge and is xht committed to helping others recover from the trial of war. Helping the truth is what she said all about. My fellow americans, that is what we should boo be all about. Soon one of the first marines to arrive in afghanistan 12 years ago, daniel yu, will lead the last trip that is set to deploy and more troops will come home. This winter the troop levels in afghanistan are down to 34,000 and by this Time
Day, 2013, inside look at cemeterygton national and memorial. And across the bridge, a look at the Vietnam Veterans memorial, which was completed in 1982. Tois a number of memorials veterans throughout washington, d. C. A day commemorating Veterans First called for by Woodrow Wilson in 1944, first called armistice day. It was changed to veterans day by proclamation of president eisenhower. Be speakingama will at Arlington National cemetery. We will begin our coverage at 10 50 a. M. Eastern with the ceremony itself slated to get underway about 11 00. You can watch that live right here on cspan. A little bit later, remarks from Charles Schwab ceo walter bettinger. He is talking about retirement issues. Whats that live at 1 p. M. Eastern also here on watch that live at 1 00 p. M. Eastern also here on cspan. Mrs. Kennedy is very well a as a dialogue cant style icon. She put a lot of thought into her wardrobe when she was representing the country at the white house and while trevor ling abr
In terms of the physical place to live, she said in the famous interview with theodore white, the camelot interview the week after the assassination said she wanted to live with my children in the places i lived with jack. Georgetown and on the cape. She could have gone to the cape. She went to georgetown. Avril larriman loaned his home and she bought a home across the street. It was inundated with tourist buses, tourists, photographers, peeping into her windows and coming up on the porch. She couldnt bear it. After a relative few months, she took off for new york and spent the rest of her time there. Did mrs. Kennedy have to testify for the Warren Commission . She did. She did. June of 1964, earl warren and one or two others came to her parlor in georgetown and asked her about the motorcade. It was brief, i think it was less than a half an hour, but she did have to testify. Thats on the record. Some of her physical description was wounding and kept for sometime because it was too grap