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But our world, too, has been torn apart. that all across this land of ours, we have wept with you. governor, i have to tell you, because you and i have been politics at a much higher level. i must say when ronald reagan gave that speech at the loss of the astronauts including christy, the teacher, all the kids were watching that day, watching a teacher die in that split second. speaker o neal, i was standing next to him when he was watching. he was in tears. the minute that speech was over, he sat down and wrote a note to peggy nunu helped the president prepare those remarks. this country was much more united under those leaders, much more united. it s a fact. chris, i think that again, i don t like to have to say these things. i mean, i really don t. but, you know, the lord expects more from us, doesn t he? i mean, when he gives us gifts ....
Got control of things, is that feasible or is it all up to paul ryan? well, actually broken the rule before. you may have remember on fast track authority, about a year ago in the summertime, we the democrats, we needed democrats to help us pass a rule to give president obama fast track authority. so there is some precedent for it. you mentioned infrastructure, i believe that should be the next item of the agenda on the agenda, that s that issue lends itself better to bipartisan cooperation. i think we should do tax reform, i think that s a much harder issue. a lot of democrats want to take on infrastructure as do many republicans. i ll give you a trick, all of the opponents, find out the number of bridges below code, that s what i did when i worked with speaker o neal and blew the other side out of the water. get the list of all the ngerous bridges and makehem defend dangerous bridges whe the school bus goover, got to play hard, thank you so much for ....
The administration behind closed doors, the shutdown can go on as long as it wants because it s politically advantageous. there are no winners here. every day it s shut down, it does real harm to the american people, and you need to step back and look at where we are as a country and kmaen. the united states has been fighting its way out of a recession since the great depression. if you re a parent relying on head start or somebody looking for medical care or a government agency that needs intelligence, they need to open the government up. they could do it today. you mentioned republicans have passed a series of bills in the house to fund parts of the government such as fema, such as the va. why not take them up on that off offer? it just doesn t work. they need to open up the whole government. you can t cherry pick an item here, an item there. there are too many important things the federal government does, and they need to open it up, and they could because a majority is ready ....
Does, and they need to open it up, and they could because a majority is ready to do it. i started out my career in washington working on the hill. i worked for speaker o neal. he said the one thing the american people won t tolerate is obstructionism. the majority needs to be given a chance to work as well. as you know, we are facing a more potentially disastrous deadline, october 17 for the nation s borrowing limit for the debt ceiling to be raised lest the country default on its obligations. let me put this to you very, very clearly. is october 17 also the day the country defaults? let me be clear. we actually hit the debt limit in may. from may until this week, we ve been using what are called extraordinary measures to create a bit of additional headroom. on tuesday i informed congress that i had used the final extraordinary measures, there are no more. we are now limited to the borrowing capacity we have today. on october 17, we will exhaust our borrowing capacity. ....
O neal told me years ago about his relationship with ronald reagan, which was nowhere near as friendly as it s been made out to be. they liked each other but weren t dpaktly best friend. speaker o neal disagreed vehemently with president reagan s policy and ideology. he told me one of the things that allowed him to come together, both of them, both president reagan and speaker o neal had what they called a respect for the voter. he knew that president reagan had won in 1980 and had been re-elected in 1984, and the speaker had a respect for the voter, for the voter s voice. it seems you say a percentage republicans perhaps with the benign leadership of speaker boehner have not given voice to the respect for the voter by disallowing a simple vote. that s exactly right. ....