House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. This is one hour. My name is Jane Campbell and i am the ceo of the United States capital Historical Society. A position that i took an of february. It is new for me, and this is my first salute to congress. I am so glad the you are all here with me. And so, the first thing is for us to all rise as the Capital Police ceremonial unit will present our nations colors. Please rise. Please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Thank you. Very much , you may be seated. I am honored tonight , as we gather to salute the 116th congress. To present to you when the most consequential political figures of our time. A woman who makes history every single day. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the 52nd speaker of the house of representatives. She made history in 2007, when she was elect
We will get more in depth on that. A question this morning is about the Border Patrol does it need more funding or more from congress . Here are the numbers. Democrats, 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. 5853882. S, 202 we also set a side a line for border state residents, 202 5853883. Us by want to reach social media, you can do that on twitter. Ur handle is cspanwj facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Get to the editorial from the boston globe. It is on Border Patrol. Responsibility as the changes of immigration policy takehome, the headline is the Border Patrol needs to clean up, not more funding. They write that the ebola crisis has sparked no small number of irrational statements, but one of the least sensible is the call to invest heavily in u. S. Border enforcement. Obamas highly anticipated plans for executive action on immigration were announced last thursday, including booster Border Security. Thinkingsecure, the goes, should be the policy priority. The United States has alread
Work hard and we go home. This is going to be weeks and weeks and weeks. This is going to be a long day. And its going to be a hard day. And its going to be an ugly day, and its going to be a sad day. This is a rescue mission that youre on. The mission is to save lives. Thats what youre doing. The rescue mission is to save lives. And as hard as we work, were not going to be able to save everyone. And whats even more cruel is this enemy doesnt attack the strongest of us. It attacks the weakest of us. It attacks our most vulnerable, which makes it even worse in many ways. Because these are the people that every instinct tells us were supposed to protect. These are our parents and our grandparents. These are our aunts, our uncles. These are our relative who is sick. And every instinct says protect them, help them because they need us. And those are the exact people that this enemy attacks. Every time i have called out the National Guard, ive said the same thing to you, i promise you i wil
Unnamed congressman. He has not been charged with any wrongdoing as of this point. Our Jessica Snyder is at the courthouse in virginia where the two men are set to appear. Jessica, they were arrested last night in Dulles Airport. Pick it up from there. Where do we go now . Reporter they were, boris. These two Close Associates of Rudy Giuliani, lev parnas a and igor fruman were arrested at Dulles Airport. They are set to appear in court at 2 00 this afternoon. This is an indictment from the Southern District of new york, but theyll appear here first before facing those charges in new york. The indictment alleging conspiracy and also Illegal Campaign contributions. It says that these two men helped funnel foreign money into u. S. Elections here, and the two men did give hundreds of thousands of dollars to a trumpaligned superpac. According to the indictment, it says this, that these contributions were made for the purpose of gaining influence with politicians so as to advance their own p
0 going to actually benefit from generations much hard work that these union members have put in overtime, andrea. ron mott right in the middle of all of it out there in lansing, and joining me now from inside the statehouse, of course, the michigan governor rick snyder. governor snyder, thank you very much for joining us. tell me why now and why this issue, why take this on? this is not what you campaigned on. no. i appreciate that, andrea. it really goes back to last summertime. the labor movement, labor leaders were pushing forward something called proposal 2. they were doing signatures to put on it the ballot, which would have been a massive overreach into michigan s constitution regarding collective bargaining. i believe in collective bargaining, but this was way over the top, and i asked him not to go forward, and the reasons i said is you are going to start a very divisive discussion regarding collective bargaining first, but it also will get into right to work. it will crea