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Of the radar. Into aiken county northeast at 35 miles an hour. The areas south of interstate 20 will see rain through a good part of the evening hours. As far as rain until 5 00 we received. 72inch of rain at the airporor for the month over 6 inches of rain at the airport. Right now we have light rain falling. Temperature 68 degrees. Winds west, southwest at 3 miles an hour. For the remainder of tonight chance of rain. The thunderstorms are winding down. 64 for a low. Tomorrow well see showers d...

What a speaker ought to be able to accomplish. Not to say that whatever the speaker accomplishes or has accomplished during his term is a oneman show. It most certainly is not and in this room today are people who shared with me the agonies of trying to figure out what on earth can we do in this situation and one of them is david bern. One of them is tom foley and one of them is dan rostenkowski. The speakership under rayburn was something that i guess entered my consciousness as the model of ho...

Recriminations if you sign the discharge petition. There be 218 signatures. If the speaker allowed a vote on the bill, it would pass. Certainly with a good deal more than 218 votes. We might not win over the paul ryans. They can vote no or present. Let the other republicans vote their conscience and this bill will pass. It was reported that senior aides are considering just such a strategy to give them a soft landing in the tax debate. They live to fight another day on spending cuts. We agree th...

Case, it was constitutional for them to establish id they did not say all of that was subsequently they talked about indiana. You misrepresented what i said. The Supreme Court is the law of the land. When i hear these accusations that black people voter i. D. Loss disproportionately affect minorities implies to me that somehow we have something missing in our brain. As if white americans can get id to vote and go through all the processes to follow the laws, what are you telling black people . T...

Has seen Discretionary Spending drop three years in a row. Never before in my lifetime have we seen such a thing. I credit this body with being a driving force in that because we were elected by the American People who want to see their fiscal bucks put back in order, but we succeeded on the discretionary side. Discretionary turns out to be the easier nut to crack because that money doesnt go out the door unless this u. S. House of representatives acts. That distinguishes it, mr. Speaker, from m...

Technical change, a small technical change in the resolution that was passed by the house. This is where the u. S. Needs to stand firm. Its how we can stand firm for freedom. I encourage the passage of this resolution, and i encourage that we as a body will continue to stand for a free and open internet. And with that i yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. The question is will the house suspend the rules and agree to Senat...

We have got to do something about the spending. And obsessions to raise taxes is not going to solve the problem. What will solve the problem is, doing something about the entitlements, taking on the wasteful spending in washington. We cant just keep borrowing money and raising taxes and expecting the problem to go away. That is our point to the president. And as the speaker said, we want to sit down with the president and want to talk specifics. We put an offer on the table now. He has out of ha...

Important that is for a young person to not only have dreams and believe those dreams are possible. If i worry about anything, i spoke about this last night, Young Americans arent dreaming or arent believing the dreams are accessible to them. You mentioned mitt romney who until three weeks ago was the leader of the party. Mitt romney going to disappear or does he have a continuing role . I hope he doesnt disappear and hope he has a continuing role. First of all, very few people have done what he...

And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the nations Third Largest bank, citigroup, announced big job cuts as it continues to scale back in the wake of the financial crisis. The 11,000 employees to be laid off worldwide, make up about 4 of the companys workforce. More than 6,000 of those jobs are in consumer ba...

Kept billions upon billions of dollars in cargo from getting to warehouses nationwide. Crucial merchandise in these days before christmas. They estimated it was about 1 billion a day that this strike was going on. Its over now. Thats the good news out of l. A. This morning. Now, we turn to the battle over how to keep the nation from going over that socalled fiscal cliff. The clock is ticking now. 27 days to go. And president obama and Congressional Republicans are making plenty of sound bytes ab...