Represent the 35 cgressional district of and is one of neay 80 new house members in the 118tcongress. A former member of the austin, texas city, he told cspan about previous work as a community and labor organizer. His progressive philosophy and how his family first came to texas from, well, my mom and dad both came here shortly before i was born. My dad, a physician in texas, but actually my grandmother back and forth from mexico as well, because when there was violence in mexico in the teens, the twenties, her father was, her father was killed and so and her mother actually came pregnant over to texas and to el paso and then came back to mexico. And thats where they grew up in so many ways. My family does things just like some of the other families have of coming back and forth between mexico and texas, ultimately making texas a really great place to live. But i was born and raised in texas and im really proud of my state and honored to be able to represented here what part of texas
Represent the 35th Congressional District of and is one of nearly 80 new house members in the 118th congress. A former member of the austin, texas city, he told cspan about previous work as a community and labor organizer. His progressive philosophy and how his family first came to texas from, well, my mom and dad both came here shortly before i was born. My dad, a physician in texas, but actually my grandmother back and forth from mexico as well, because when there was violence in mexico in the teens, the twenties, her father was, her father was killed and so and her mother actually came pregnant over to texas and to el paso and then came back to mexico. And thats where they grew up in so many ways. My family does things just like some of the other families have of coming back and forth between mexico and texas, ultimately making texas a really great place to live. But i was born and raised in texas and im really proud of my state and honored to be able to represented here what part o
Speaker. The speaker without objection, the appointments are approved. And the house will be in recess subject subject to the call of the chair. Pursuant to clause 12a of rule 1, well be back soon. The election of mike johnson is historic tst louisianan to be elected. Hes aduate of l. S. U. And l. S. U. Lawchl. These are his current positions which he wl ve up. Becoming speaker. Republican Conference Vice ai Armed Services and Judiciary Committee, republica Study Committee chair, ande was first elected in 2016. Want to get your views on hearing about the election of mike johnson. 2027488021 for republicans. All others 7488922. You can see the text number there at the bottom as well. 7488903. If you do send a text, include your first name and city. We are going to start with a call from Mike Johnsons own district in louisiana, robert a republican there. What can you tell us about your congressman . Caller ive known mike for many, many years. Who is he . Hes our congressman northwest lou
Now. But i want to focus on then. And see if we can get some insight into lincoln and his times and this, as guy said, this hot topic. Let me start with december 6, 1864. Thats just a month after his reelection as president. And its the day that Abraham Lincoln sent his fourth and as fate would have it, his final annual message to congress. The equivalent, as you know of todays state of the union messages, except by the tradition of the lincoln era, they are not orated in person. They were sent Via White House staff and read by a clerk. Maybe with feeling. Probably not. Certainly not the way lincoln himself would have read it. So we can only imagine how the document was received by a body that would ultimately just take a reading copy and study it more closely. I would think that one passage, particularly, caught the listeners attention that day. And keep in mind as we set the stage, not only had lincoln recently been reelected, but the civil war had been raging for three and a half ye
Now. But i want to focus on then. And see if we can get some insight into lincoln and his times and this, as guy said, this hot topic. Let me start with december 6, 1864. Thats just a month after his reelection as president. And its the day that Abraham Lincoln sent his fourth and as fate would have it, his final annual message to congress. The equivalent, as you know of todays state of the union messages, except by the tradition of the lincoln era, they are not orated in person. They were sent Via White House staff and read by a clerk. Maybe with feeling. Probably not. Certainly not the way lincoln himself would have read it. So we can only imagine how the document was received by a body that would ultimately just take a reading copy and study it more closely. I would think that one passage, particularly, caught the listeners attention that day. And keep in mind as we set the stage, not only had lincoln recently been reelected, but the civil war had been raging for three and a half ye