Continue to take control of our destinies. Teach them to count their blessings, cultivating an attitude of gratitude. Give us the wisdom to shut out yesterdays disappointments and tomorrows fears. Show us how to live in daytight compartments with total dependence on your mercy and grace. Help us to cherish the freedom of this land as you continue to emancipate us from sins slavery. We pray in your sacred name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell in the last national election, the American People elected a Republican Senate. Since then weve accomplished a lot of important things for our country. Landmark education reform, permanent tax relief for families, and small bus
And new models of care delivery, supporting practitioners with data that gives them legitimate information to better manage care, i think today is a totally different day than what history suggests in terms of what the old story looked like versus what it looks like today and what it will look like going forward. I think competition is robust but more importantly our alignment with providers is value added to the new markets that weve come upon relative to whether its smallgroup, large group, aca related, its all connected in terms of the value to the market. Im sorry my time has expired expired. Id like to have that communicated back to my office if anyone has a response on the. Thank you very much ive had a chance to review much of your testimony so i will be fairly brief given that a vote has just been called and this has already been a very long hearing from many of you. If i might, to mr. Swedish, your testimony outlines the importance and someone who has been intimately aware of
He had been facing a floor vote of whether he should stay on as speaker. He discusses reasons for resigning at a news conference. My oh, myehner what a wonderful day i used to sing that on my way to work in the morning. Less costly, more accountable government. Over the last five years, our majority has advanced conservative reforms that will help our children and their children. Were now on track to cut Government Spending by 2. 1 trillion over the next 10 years. We made the first real entitlement reform in nearly two decades. And we protected 99 of the American People from an increase in our taxes. Weve done all this with a democrat in the white house. So im proud of what weve accomplished. But more than anything, my first job is as speaker is to protect the institution. A lot of you know now know that my plan was to step down at the end of last year. I decided in november of 2010 that when i was elected speaker that serving two terms would have been plenty. And but in june of last y
Extraordinary and believed in him and that he was going to be a great man from the beginning. He has gotten some bad press. In the biography she doesnt show up well you dont want her to your motherinlaw for sure. A very difficult. Ultimately people are unfathomable but i do think that hes in a wonderful relationship with his father that was much older than his mother and became something of an invalid himself when franklin was still a kid and was his mother that was the driving force. Was a terrific family. His uncle, one of sarahs brothers was a terrific guy that played in the business of finding fdr was somebody who became a kind of father figure after his own father died. So there were lots of good people around fdr but ultimately where do these figures come from, lincoln and washington. She asked where my interest in fdr came from. Its partly the talks that my grandmother had with me. In the books im always kind of reaching back into my childhood for things fascinated me. I wrote a
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