The office, saying yesterday representative giffords colleagues on both sides of the aisle honor her and mourn those lost and the speaker was here on the house. he was passionate and remorseful and sad when he delivered the remarks yesterday, holding back tears, john boehner, as you saw, roland. i certainly understand the obligation that he had in the house. the issue for me is not really him accepting the president s invitati invitation. i thought it would have been important for the country to see president barack obama, to see speaker john boehner walk nothing that memorial service for the people of tucson, for the state of arizona, for the country, because it would have symbolized something that s very important. so, i understand what the house did, but i do think he should have been there to be able to say, look, we as a nation are united. also, he is not the republican leader of the house. he is the speaker of the house over the entire house. i do think he certainly should