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Ohio, he was a guy who would give you great advice and would work to get you an answer for the problem. So whether it was the Appropriations Committee or quite frankly the Transportation Committee where he served much of his career, was an area where he knew more about transportation and transportation issues, quite frankly than anybody in this town. He was a walking book on transportation issues. Pretty hard for a buckeye to talk about a university of michigan graduate this way, mr. Speaker, bu...

The colonists were sending ships ever where to get muskets and cant after the british had sent more troops to boston after the Boston Tea Party and the so called coercive acts and it is clear that the colonists were pulling together ammunition. Maybe they did not intend to use it but that was a big debate. The king prohibited british ships from taking ammunition and everything to the colonies are less it was officially sanctioned. They were very alert to this. As soon as the colonys found out ab...

Businesses and the middle class struggling to pay for Health Insurance, what does this mean . When we implement the exchange, we are going to pick up 400 million in federal subsidies to help poor and middleclass families get reimbursements from the fact youre not getting before. That is a big win for the state of vermont. If we all make it work and then let the states be laboratories for change, once you do not go below those basic threshold, we all know we need health care. This bill allows us ...

Of our country. We have known that for years. When are we ever going to make those kind of decisions . We will have another opportunity later, when the debt ceiling issue arrives. When are we going to make this decision . That is our question. This whole discussion and admittedly, the president has some advantages, being one messenger. You would think this whole discussion was about nothing other than raising the top two has tax rates. Two tax rates. That has literally nothing to do with solving...

Your focused items . Sure. What is the last part of the question . Some of your what you would like to see in the next congress . On policy issues. So on the first of all, lets remember the fiscal cliff is defined the issue right before us, right . The fiscal cliff contains 5 trillion in revenue. You know, just an aside here, if the fiscal cliff were allowed to happen, and we want to make sure it doesnt, we would over a 10year period overachieve on the Simpson Bowles reduction. We would overshoo...

The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. As this chamber lies silent and members disperse to celebrate the holy days with their families, we ask your blessing upon them and upon us all. Ask that pressures hang over them and our nation during these days of quiet, send an abun das of an abundance of your gifts of knowledge, understanding and goodlogical, ...

That numbers of republicans want to do this in a bipartisan way, we can do what weve already agreed on that is that the middle class should not have a tax increase but that the rich every people in this clint, thats what the country was founded on, should be paying their fair share. And theres simply no reason for this delay. Once those tax cuts are passed andy can move on to countless other issues ive already mentioned that demand our attention. We can extend unemployment insurance. Its set to ...

It is fundamentally cyclical, fundamentally the lack of demand that is still in our economy as we recover from the Great Recession. That said, that awareness, that recognition that ben bernanke and former cea sheriff lazar cea chair lazear should not undermine that we face temporary or futures skills gaps but there is three reasons we should be focused on this. Number one, even the unemployment today that is fundamentally about cyclical demand can easily become the next structural skills problem...

To get it voted on. So deadline meeting more than 48 hours, not the three weeks you hear, i am neil cavuto, that is what is at stake, markio rubio knows well what is at stake. With me later. Looking at how middle class stands to lose if we push this to the brink, despite what t president said yesterday in michigan, talking up a deal that targets the rich to pay more, marco rube grow said, do you rubio said do you that you kill the middle class. He is coming up with me right now and richard shelb...

President ial candidate, how to deal with the stop light, how to spotlight, how to deal with the national politics. She may be the smartest politician ever and she may be able to come out of alaska to handle all of this. But i will give her three weeks. Three weeks, well know if this is real. Three weeks to the day, she did her interview with katie couric, which effectively ended it for her. I thought they might make [laughter] i thought that they might make a conservative choice, someone who ha...