the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. almighty god of the universe, we give you thanks for giving us another day. we pray for the gift of wisdom to all with great responsibility in this house, for the leadership of our nation. may all the members have the vision of a nation where respect and understanding are the marks of civility and where honor and integrity are the marks of one s character. as members take time in the coming week for constituency visits, give them the ability to hear the voices of all in their districts, even those with whom they disagree. this is difficult to do so endow them with patience and a discerning ear. bless us this day and every day and may all that is done within these hallows halls be for your greater honor and glory. amen. these hallowed halls be for your greater honor and glory, amen. the speaker pro tempore: the chair has examined the journal of the last day s pro
sometimes don t. and so it s fun. it s an amazing story. you ll have a ball. will you read politico europe ? of course i will if you send me a copy. it s on the internet. i m so sorry. of course. thank you, thank you, of course i will. we re honored to have with us several of our british colleagues, pippa, has a question. there s a disaffection with politicians, in our case with ethis westminster system. you have a rare political commodity that cuts through that, authenticity combined with a dash of humor. what can your colleagues at westminster do to help? not everyone s jokes are as good as yours. obviously i reject a lot of the characterization you ve very kindly made in my contribution. but what i think, and this is the point i was making yesterday, when we were having a conversation about cities, i think one of the problems we have got in britain is people do feel alienated and disaffected and they do feel remote from politicians. they feel politicians can
i forgot, you asked a question about policing and stuff, i don t want to be seen to be evading questions. we had a great time, but one thing surprised me was the sheer number of geiger counters that are deployed by the nypd. there are thousands, they have thousands and thousands of radioactivity detectors. i didn t know the threat of a dirty bomb was thought to be so substantial. we re taking that back. you re going to deploy more geiger counters? i ve asked us to do a risk assessment. the early indications are that we don t think it s necessary but it was very, very striking here. super quick. mr. mayor, thank you for joining us. about a month ago, bobby jindal, louisiana governor, was in london and he made some comments about no-go zones around britain. i was very surprised by those statements and you know, with great respect to governor jindal and everybody else who has made this kind of comment, i think they re in need of some sort of gentle education on this po
Arts & Life reporter Valeria Nalani shares her take on the College of Humanities’ “Tucson Humanities Festival” featuring Tim Gunn. Each University of Arizona designer’s outfit was based on a poem.