Thank you, ladies and gentlemen thank you so much audience chanting stephen cheers and applause youre the heros youre the people doing this, not me cheers and applause folks, thank you so much for being here. Folks, you know, i really need thank you for that energy because i need it because, folks, i gotta tell ya, i come to you tonight a shaken man. Because recent revelations have proven that the American People were systematically and repeatedly lied to. For more, lets go to my colleague brett baier. Last night was the big night, the airing of the Discovery Channels eaten alive, where a man offered himself up to be consumed by an anaconda. Many viewers found the payoff tough to swallow. Turns out the snake sort of put his mouth around his head and the guy tapped out, pull me out, pull me out, and that was it. 70 minutes into the show, rosolie tapped out saying the snake was about to break his arm. So he was not eaten alive, not even a scratch. Stephen for shame, Discovery Channel you
Because, folks, i gotta tell ya, i come to you tonight a shaken man. Because recent revelations have proven that the American People were systematically and repeatedly lied to. For more, lets go to my colleague brett baier. Last night was the big night, the airing of the Discovery Channels eaten alive, where a man offered himself up to be consumed by an anaconda. Many viewers found the payoff tough to swallow. Turns out the snake sort of put his mouth around his head and the guy tapped out, pull me out, pull me out, and that was it. 70 minutes into the show, rosolie tapped out saying the snake was about to break his arm. So he was not eaten alive, not even a scratch. Stephen for shame, Discovery Channel you promised paul rosolie would be eaten hence the title eaten alive. But you only gave us cuddled alive thats just snake first base. And im not the only one angry. Twitter tweeted, next time i watch something called eatenalive, somebody better get eaten alive. And this guy had one job.
Gregg harper to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 17, 2012, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. 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 limited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Defazio, for five minutes. Mr. Defazio well, yesterday the republicans released a vague press release saying it constituted a counteroffer to the president s road map to avoid driving over the fiscal cliff. Now, the republican plan purports to cut 1. 3 trillion and raise 800 billion in new revenues. It did contain four specifics. Four. Cut medicare specific num
The First Time Since 1970, congress is meeting between the christmas and new years holiday. Preparations are underway as lawmakers if lawmakers fail to act. We are 17 hours until the deadline. Midnight is the deadline east coast time. Here are the numbers. Host also, send us an email and jonas on facebook, join us on facebook or you can send us a tweet. Lets take a scan of the headlines and we begin with the atlanta journalconstitution. A lot of talking but still no votes. The deadline has come and gone. One last day for a fiscal deal is the headline from the boston globe. We are also keeping an eye on wall street. The markets are queasy. From the headlines the wall street journal. Host a lot of activity on the house and senate chamber. We will be falling all of that on the cspan networks. We have the Deputy White House editor from politico. Tell us where we stand. Guest we stand in limbo, is the best way to put it. The senate was hoping they could be the ones to reach a deal over the
Long time. This is a man who, for me and for millions of other americans who have studied him, realized that he is, a giant and giant, must always be remembered. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome honored guests. House speaker nancy pelosi, accompanied by republican leader mitch mcconnell, republican leader kevin mccarthy, senator roy blunt, representative emanuel cleaver, the second and mr. Clifton daniel. Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable nancy pelosi speaker of the United States house of representatives. As speaker of the house, is my privilege to welcome you to the united capitol as we celebrate one of our nations finest president s, president harry truman. Theres only fitting that this son, independence, missouri, takes his rightful place here in the rotunda of our temple of democracy, the United States capitol. Now, at the time at this time, please rise, as you are able for the presentation colors and for the National Anthem anthem. Oh. Oh. Oh, say, can you see im standing. I