Thank you. All right, lets get to work. We have a lot to do. Mr. President , mr. Speaker, Lieutenant Governor, fellow state officials, ladies and gentlemen of the General Assembly and honored members of the judiciary, members of the clergy and all the citizens of our great state. Thank you for the privilege of inviting me into the peoples house. Let me offer my sincere congratulations to those of you taking on new and important leadership roles, as well as those who have been reelected into leadership positions. I also want to congratulate the new members sworn in today. I look forward to working with all of you. Let me note, since we were last year together, we have lost some dear friends, including mary fritz and betty bokis, both of whom served in this house. Our hearts are heavy as we continue to mourn their passing. As always, let us thank connecticuts brave men and women serving around the globe and pray for their safe return. Thank you as well to my dear friend and the best Lieu
[ room noise ] [ room noise ] so the House Rules Committee taking a break here. When members return, this meeting will continue live on our companion network cspan 2. On the house floor votes are currently under way. Members are voting on two bills including one that aims to prevent suicides among veterans. The measure requires an annual thirdparty review of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention programs at the png and veteran affairs department. Thats live now on cspan. And in the senate today there was a procedural vote on a bill authorizing construction of the Keystone Xl Oil pipeline. The vote was 6332. Which was enough to limit debate and advance the bill for a vote on final passage at a later time. As always, you can watch the senate live on cspan 2. Here are a few of the comments weve recently received on the 114th congress. The thing that really needs to happen is going back to what the incomeing majority said, is they need to get back to regular order. If they go back and pass
Screeria nigeria. Then the u. N. Secretarygeneral talks about priorityies for the u. N. In the new year. The u. S. Naval academy recently hosted a debate on the role of Air Contractors carriers in u. S. National security environments. Two retired Navy Officers looked at whether the vessels were the most effective and efficient Maritime Defense strategy for the u. S. Military. This is just over an hour. Food good evening. Im c. C. Felker. On behalf of superintendent vice admiral ted carr, i want to welcome those flag officers and navy senior civilian leaders escaped the beltway to join us our distinguish faculty in the indianapolis economy, and most of all our midshipmen, who are the real reason were here tonight. Id like to recognize Lieutenant Commander claude bareby for respond forring this event. Hes continued the transformation of the Naval Academy museum to a more active educational medium for the midshipmen. Tonights debate is representative of his energy and imagination. Id also
With his capabilities. Many of us in Higher Education understood that as a challenge to us as well. I was wondering what Higher Education do to be more supportive and useful to you in your mission . Thank you. Thank you, doug. Coming from an institution like George Washington as i look at academia, i count on us having lots of dialogue associated with deterrence at large. Across the Broad Spectrum that i talked about, from the various areas. Nuclear, space cyberspace, but this business also of extremist organizations who would love to have in their hands a weapons of mass destruction, for example. And then talking about the art of deterrence and what do things can we have in the tool bag . Perhaps some of them are not so new, but to make sure they are being gone about as we go forward. Also, in our nation has a whole the education spectrum particularly in cyberspace. Everybody uses it in a big way but the vulnerabilities associated with things. I could go around and ask everybody to ra
Of irresponsibility, saying it does not need to happen. Were going to be talking with the White House Communications director in just a couple minutes. We are right now awaiting movement in the senate. Just this past hour, House Republicans voted again to make funding of the government contingent on delaying the implementation of Health Reform. In the next few minutes, the senate is expected to reject what House Republicans just passed. They did it before, expected to happen again. Then back to the house, rinse, repeat, ad nauseam. At this point, House Republicans are expected to be meeting behind closed doors to plan their next moves. Throughout the night, of course, we will bring you live, breaking news as it comes in. When president obama was first elected in 2008, he, of course, came to washington with something every president wants, a house and a senate controlled by his own party. And in the two years where the democrats had the white house, the house and the senate, we got wall