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Transcripts For CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20150307

Justice, youve got to make sure that youre also taking advantage of the opportunities that you currently have. But that brings me to one last piece of advice for young people, and that is, think about more than just yourself. [applause] think about how you can have an impact beyond yourself. The people who i know who are really happy and successful as they get older, its because they have an impact on something other than just their own situation. Theyre not just thinking about how do i get mine. [applause] theyre thinking about how does everybody get their fair share. And when they do that, that gives meaning to your life; that gives purpose to your life; that gives you influence and a sense of purpose. And youve got to have a sense of purpose beyond just the almighty dollar. I mean, look, we live in a free market society, and one of the things that sets america apart is business and entrepreneurship and hustle, and folks are out there just theyre trying to make a new product or creat ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20150306

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. Eternal god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. The house has come to the close of an eventful week and we approach a weekend during which many members of this assembly will gather to remember a historic event in selma, alabama. 50 years ago, brave men and women americans of all races, colors and faiths walked together to help guarantee freedoms that were still denied men and women in alabama. Bless the members of this assembly and us all that we would be worthy of the call we have been given as americans to nurture and guarantee democratic freedoms to all who dwell in our great nation. Help us all to be truly thankful and appropriately generous in our response. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to section 2a, the journal of the last day ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Booknotes 20140222

As far as this goes. That being said. [applause] next some booktv, encore booknotes. In 1994 or Liz Carpenter discussed her books unplanned parenthood the confessions of a seventysomething surrogate mother. The book focuses on ms. Carpenters experiences raising rates three teenage nieces and nephews at age 79. She also discusses her years in the white house working as press secretary for Lady Bird Johnson. This is about an hour. Cspan Liz Carpenter, you say early in your book that, by heritage and by profession, i am a storyteller. Where did you learn that . Guest i think growing up. I grew up in rural texas. Rural areas seem to you need entertainment, and so my family had been rooted in texas for five generations and they were full of tales that had been handmedowns. We heard them a lot around the fireplace while youre ....

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