You for joining us. Rep. Boyle thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] our freshmen profile continues with a representative ralph abraham. He spoke for about 20 minutes. Congressman ralph abraham, you are batting 1000 when it comes to elections. This is your first ever beheld office. Rep. Abraham that is correct. Fortunately we won it. Host why did you want to run . Rep. Abraham i have grandchildren now. The direction i thought this country was going in was somewhat different than the way it was going. We need to lead a better country. That is why we ran. Host was it hard to get the family on board . Rep. Abraham not at all. In a just about everything we do in life. She is sort of the wind beneath my wings. We have three children. I told them we considered running. The first word was, do it. Host how old are your kids . In
That the same or looked at differently and the role of federal government may be different in them in supporting the states to accomplish these opposed to the state supporting the municipalities and the counties to getting things done. There are environmental issues, theres housing, this employment. Theres civil rights. Theres union rights. Its all those things. Its access to health care, affordability of health care, access to education and Higher Education coul. Bill what has surprised you the most since your swearing in . Rep. Coleman my republican colleagues refusing to drop the issues like a womans right to and myopically immigration from the southern border perspective as opposed to internationally. Things of that nature and our refusal to move beyond those issues. Up, i wante we wrap to ask your daytoday routine on capitol hill. What do you like the most and what you like the least of the things you have to do day in and day out . Rep. Coleman i like the movement. Toike moving f
Until diane found a something affordable and what i thought was at least fairly reasonable, i didnt camp on the couch for a couple of weeks. I did camp on the couch for a couple of weeks. Now i am in a little apartment across town, so to speak, and the rent is still high, but manageable. Bill do you get home to louisiana and your district every weekend . Rep. Abraham almost every weekend. There may be two or three times at most where i stayed at in washington over the weekend. I prefer to go home of the week and it has i get to see the people i represent. The week that we get off during each month to go back in the district is a favorite week of the month for me. Bill what is it about washington where people who are not washington insiders that they should know about how it runs . Rep. Abraham in todays day and age, there is still a lot of bipartisan support. We passed 80 80 5 of bills coming down from leadership. This 80 85 of bills coming down from leadership. We could not it without
Anyone here from hermany tonight . Any her manians . I was off last week. Officially i was off because my son billy was supposed to have a heart surgery but we had to postpone it because we all had colds in the house. Truth i was waiting in line for the new iphone all week. Then i spent the weekend trying to figure out how to type the letter i in my phone without a weird symbol and the letter a popping up all the time. Anyway, my son is doing fine. I want to thank everyone who filled in for me. Some list of guest hosts last week, jennifer lawrence, channing tatum, dave grohl, shaquille oneal, i want to thank shaq twice because hes enormous. Weird sitting home and watching other people host the show. And you guillermo, you cheated on me. Guillermo sorry, jimmy, wont happen again. Jimmy good to have time at home with the kids, but there is such a thing as too much time at home with the kids. Last night at 6 00 p. M. I reach that limit. My daughter jane refuses to eat anything. Shes 3 yea
Anyone here from hermany tonight . Any her manians . I was off last week. Officially i was off because my son billy was supposed to have a heart surgery but we had to postpone it because we all had colds in the house. Truth i was waiting in line for the new iphone all week. Then i spent the weekend trying to figure out how to type the letter i in my phone without a weird symbol and the letter a popping up all the time. Anyway, my son is doing fine. I want to thank everyone who filled in for me. Some list of guest hosts last week, jennifer lawrence, channing tatum, dave grohl, shaquille oneal, i want to thank shaq twice because hes enormous. Weird sitting home and watching other people host tagain. Jimmy good to have time at home with the kids, but there is such a thing as too much time at home with the kids. Last night at 6 00 p. M. I reach that limit. My daughter jane refuses to eat anything. Shes 3 years old. Its hollywood. Shes concerned about her weight. That was a joke. Dont tweet