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2015. I hereby appoint the honorable Randy Hultgren to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. We give you thanks, o god, for giving us another day. As you make available to your people the grace and knowledge to meet the needs of the day, we pray that your spirit will be upon the members of this peoples house, giving th...

There are stacks outside if anybody gets hungry here. Are you ready . High, everybody. Im daniel yergin, director of new america and im pleased to welcome you to this discussion today on the electric car. And also very happy to welcome the viewers on cspan2 our discussion. We are going to be talking about a terrific book today called the great race by levi tillemann. Its a very timely book. This is really the fourth time that the electric car has appeared on the scene and the first time was when...

Ambulance response times in the district. D. C. Bureau chief sam ford has been following this story. He joins us live in southeast d. C. With this big announcement from mayor Muriel Bowser today. Sam . Sam yes, alison. Well, the mayor said that she is going to be putting more ambulances on d. C. Streets and its not that people dont get care. These Engine Companies go quickly to the scene. Problem is the holdup is getting transport there quickly enough. And to transport the patients. In a breakfa...

What does that mean . It means that racism reproduces the felt even in the absence of intentional discrimination area and so the book is about feedback loops, which is what the cover shows you. And that includes processes that we take for granted every day. And so i discuss for different types of beds feedback loops and you will recognize them all. And social networks, well who you know ends up mattering a lot. Neighborhood networks am aware you grow up determines where you go to school which de...

Site. Your thoughts are important to us so please take a couple of minutes to fill one out and submit it to the festival committee. Mr. Mccutcheon and mr. Mark will be signing books immediately after this presentation, copies are also available at the politics and prose tent at the festival here. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event and we want to keep it that way it does help the book festival if you buy a book here. The more books we sell for our events the more pu...

Has been and is going to continue to be iran. I think the administration frankly has lagged far behind the house. We have been far ahead in pressuring iran. A lot of that is because of reuel. We have been united in the house in our effort to do that. I think that congressional pressure frankly is building, building quickly in light of recent events. I am looking forward of course to the conference report that we are going to see now from the National Authorization act where we are going to have ...

I guess i dont like it a whole lot. What would we find i sound just like my dad. There are great people out there, i know it. And i dont mean to condemn it but i think its passed me by a little bit. I still have a wonderful career and a beautiful audience that i really love but the spotlight is elsewhere now and im a known quantity now. And thats fine with me to play out this hand. But i dont pay a whole lot of attention to i never did listen much to the roofment when i was a kid i did. I dont l...

The issue is important and there is a general agreement on the solution around high skilled immigration. The problem is is the politics and the economy and jobs have been prumped by the politics of immigration. I think there are four paths. One could be the pass the senate not be taken up in the senate. There is a lottery that would flult raising the overall level of immigration. If there was an agreement to include that that bill could be passed. A second option which is what the president has ...

Investments we need to make to train our future work force and to create an environment in which we can care for the elderly. The think americans will remain optimistic but this did of the economy . If we have not tackle the things we have just talked about like the cost of education, the Housing Market . We are figuring out some philosophical issues about taxing and funding . I think the economy has been growing slowly and steadily all in the absence of any movement, which we have seen over the...

Around the world. President obama and congress return to work today with little progress seen on a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff as the government starts taking steps to buy more time before the u. S. Hits the debt ceiling. The yen hits a twoyear low against the dollar as the new japanese government battles to weaken currency. Exports are rising, pushing the nikkei to its strongest gain in 20 years. Shares of toyota are heading higher after the u. S. Settled a Class Action Lawsuit. The 1 billio...