A communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. , january 25, 2013. I hereby appoint the honorable andy harris to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. You have blessed us with all good gifts and with thankful hearts we express our gratitude. You have created us with opportunity to serve other people in their need, share together in respect and affection and to be faithful in the responsibilities we have been given. In this moment of prayer, please grant to the members of this peoples house the gifts of wisdom and decertainment that in their words and actions they will do justice, love with mercy and walk humbly with you. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro tempore
Living allowance and the personal independents payment, we see that the overall amount of money were spending on disability is going to go up and knocked down. My right honorable friends admiration for the economic and political wisdom of our noble friend board heseltine as well known. And in light in light of his speech, would he consider inviting lord assault kind to conduct an inquiry into the consequences for the uk if we leave at the European Union . Lord heseltine to conduct an inquiry into the consequences for the uk if we leave at the European Union . Idol always listen closely to what he says. On the issue of europe, we have not always agreed. He was a leading proponent of a joint of britain of britain joining the single currency. I have always been opposed to that. On the issue of the referendum, a gently remind my right honorable and learned friend that referendum was very much a part of his manifesto at the last election. In the interests of coalition harmony, i think we wi
Again, i appreciate everybodys concern with the process here but you put a situation with all these amendments were things would get messed up. Last congress is any judge, this is a committee that had 77 restricted rules, and 55 closed rosato think anybody will have any problems for limiting the number of amendments year. But i would also say this about those who were talking about oversight, oversight, oversight. We have borrowed like 1. 5 trillion for wars and iraq and afghanistan. And have argued have not been given oversight. And time and time and time again we tried of an miniature called for more oversight. We dont get them allowed. I mean, i which is to say these are people in our country who are hurting and they need money now. And i think you have done a very good job of scrubbing what the requests are to make sure that this is all needed. There will be future oversight as the funds are given out. But i will also say its hard to do the kind of recovery in a piecemeal fashion.
Limits for all elected officials. Termresident already has limits. Your governors, senators, mayors, city council, dog catcher, tax collector. Are you in favor of term limits, yes or no . Here are the numbers. Host you can also reach out to us by social media. Host i want to show you some of the numbers from the recently released gallup poll. They ask americans support for establishing term limits for federal lawmakers. Suppose on election day you could vote for key issues as well as candidates. Or againstote for the number of Terms Congress and senate can serve . Nationally among adults those voting for term limits are in the 75 range. Those who say they would vote against term limits, 21 . Those who had no opinion, 5 . Breaking it down among political parties, republicans, those voting for, who say they would vote for term limits, 82 of republicans questioned in this gallup poll, 82 say they would vote for term limits. 15 say they would vote against. 3 say they have no opinion. Indep