As speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore now the prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain the reverend orrin warder, from st. Pauls Episcopal Church from alexandria, virginia. The chaplain let us pray, god of the universe you have created us and given us life. Blessed are you god of this earth. You have set our world like a radiant jewel in the 111th and filled it with beauty and hope. Blessed are you god of these United States of america for all the lessons of our past, for all that remains for us to do. Blessed are you god of truth and justice, guide the men and women of this house of representatives. Grant them insight, courage, compassion, and imagination. Protect them from corruption and arrogance. And grant that we whom they seek to serve may give them the support that they need. Increase our trust in one another, strengthen our quest for justice, and bring us to unity and a common purpose. B
Do they enroll their children in the school where they are now or assume theyll be confirmed by then and look at enrolling them in the country in which theyll be serving . Why are we putting people who are serving their country through that type of uncertainty and anxiety . But we are. We are, by failing to move in a timely way the nominations that have been brought forward to us. Ill just mention one other example. I started with the hearing that i chaired today on behalf of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee dealing with four nominees. One was the ambassador to vietnam. I was just recently in vietnam. I met with our current ambassador, ambassador scher. I mention that because hes been nominated to be assistant secretary of defense for asia so hes leaving vietnam. We had a hearing today on the next ambassador to vietnam, a wellqualified career diplomat. The question is, are we going to have the orderly change of command in vietnam, a country critically important to u. S. Interests
House, there was a meeting of the rules committee that night, democrats were in charge, i presented myself to that meeting with 18 amendments to senate bill h. R. 3590. House bill 3590 that had been passed by the senate. Every one of those was summarily rejected. The problem the democrats had that day was should we change a single word in h. R. 3590 as passed by the senate that the bill would have to go back to the senate and concur with the house amendment to 3590 . The majority leader in the senate having lost his 60th vote in a special election in massachusetts that year, felt he could not pass anything. He could not achieve cloture with only 59 democrats to vote in favor of that motion for cloture. Thats the reason why not one word was changed between Christmas Eve 2009 and the time this bill was actually passed. But if h. R. 3590, after it came back from the senate, came to the rules committee, did it come to the house under an open rule . No, it did no. It was a closed rule. We w
I want to also introduce my wife who is a professor at George Washington medical center, and i say as a real job looking for cures for cancer. Also, i want to thank the National Press zero, and also rebecca, if you will raise your hand. That way the media will be able to also get the advantages of questions from the audience to another that is important to cspan also. I wanted thank the National Press Club Executive directors and staff liaisons. The photographer who does such a spectacular job and won the outstanding career award, and our audio people. We will need first with the senate, said rob portman. Thank you. Bob is right. We worked together in the past. It is good to be with him. He has worked with republicans and democrats on the drug issue and has been an advocate for not the current approach to drug abuse and the date to addiction but rather one that focuses on education, treatment, and recovery. This is one of the issues of that although we will not talk about directly is a
College graduates in the u. S. Strongly agree to all three . 14 . 14 . By the way, about half of the room here raise your hand. You got lucky. You take advantage of your education, perhaps in different ways than others. We also found three other items about learning and experts initial experiences. These tell your odds of being engaged in work, a slight relationship with wellbeing, not nearly as powerful as emotional support, but that you work on a longterm project that took a semester or more to complete. This sounds similar to the findings i just share with you, that you had a job or or you applaud what you were learning, and that you were extremely involved in extracurricular activities. How many say strongly agree to all three of these . Raise your hand. About 30 percent of the audience. Guess what percent of College Graduates in the u. S. . 6 . We have to be doing a better job. When we do this right, it has a profound effect on our life and career trajectory, but it is happening f