i am so grateful for the opportunity to serve. i promise you and i m going to keep serving and fighting in the same way that you have seen in the past. thank you. [applause] and i can tell you that one of the things as i travel across the country, everyone always wants to know how in the world we got the best federal delegation in the country. all i tell them is that south carolina is blessed. we have a great group of legislators that fight every day, that get what we want and they fight for it. they just don t go along with the pack. they fight for it. i am so thankful that so many members came to be supportive of tim. i want to make sure that we have our senior senator speak who i often, who i enjoy working with and who has been there every time i have called him, senator lindsey graham. [applause] thank you, thank you very much. well, tim, if you add up all of the courses that we flew together, people will begin to understand how the government works. here is the good
and to end them, we must change. and now we learn more about the victims that unforgettable friday morning. the ultimate question remains, why did it happen. and we may never, ever get an answer to that question, why. welcome to a special edition of starting point from newtown, connecticut. i m joined by early start co-anchor john berman. today, two 6-year-old boys will be buried and children across the country head back to school. jack pinto, a little guy who loved new york giants. and noah pozner, the youngest of the 26 victims who died on friday morning. he is a twin. his sister survived. still doesn t know how her twin brother died. president obama here, trying to bring comfort to the inconsolable, promised to use his powers, everything he can do as president to end this kind of madness. this is our first task. caring for our children. can we truly say as a nation that we re meeting our obligations? three around. come down now. one, two, three, ready, and go
a dell luge of criticism after calling forearmed guards at every single school in the united states. the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. this hour, we get reaction from the head of the democratic party, the florida congresswoman, debbie wasserman schultz. also, house republicans in disarray. john boehner heads home with no deal on the fiscal cliff and not enough support for his own so-called plan b. but now what? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with the national rifle associations defiant restriction in the wake of the newtown, connecticut, shootings. instead, the nra is calling forearmed security guards at every school, every school in the country. cnn s tom foreman is joining us now. you were at that speech that wayne lap ichlt erre gave announcing the reaction of what happened a week ago today. tell our viewers how it went. well, as you know, they kept a very low profile but today they came out to say th
the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker s room, washington, d.c., december 18, 2012. i hereby appoint the honorable nan s. hayworth to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the house will receive a message. the messenger: madam speaker, a message from the senate. the secretary: madam speaker. i have been directed by the house sflat that the house that the senate has passed a bill in which the concurrence of the house is requested. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 17, 2012, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and
i had to break it to all the folks who were assembled at the firehouse that their children or their loved ones were not coming home. that s an exercise that i will live with for the most of my life. house speaker john boehner is now willing to consider a tax increase for those making more than $1 million a year. the nfl took a moment to reflect. teams and players paid tribute to those affected by the school massacre. if congress wasn t so afraid of the nra, we d all be a lot better off. a free people should be an armed people. once you start drawing the line where do you stop? and all that matters. silent snit . she was the best mother anybody could ask for. she was the type of person that could just light up the room. i m so blessed to be her dad. on cbs this morning. god has called them all home. for those of us who remain let us find the strength to carry on and make our country worthy of their memory. welcome to cbs this morning. i m charli