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At the inventions that have the greatest impact of todays economy. It is author carl hiassen on his writing career. [inaudible conversations] we welcome carl hiassen. [applause] [inaudible conversations] high. I have two microphones. Can you hear any of them . Good. We will wait a second for everyone to put away the flag and have a seat. I am from florida. I will tell you a little about myself, if you care. I was born in fort lauderdale, florida. My background is newspaper journalism. I still write a column for the miami herald. I have never lived anywhere but florida and that is my excuse for my novels. I dont know anything. The weirdness of florida is my daily reality. Everybody is moving to florida which is a lot more material for me. Our newest e and, former resident of manhattan apparently. Now he is down there golfing. The material is priceless. One the first book i ever wrote with just my name on it was a book called tourist season. I wrote another novel that was ripped out a re ....
A good way. But to make sure that we have adequate time for everyone. So when you get to five minutes left, i have a fiveminute card and i will lay it up so you can see it and then three minutes and one minute so you can see where you are. So we have time for everyone. Im going to introduce each panelist as they come forward, because i found if you introduce them all at once people forget who they are. So i will begin with our first panelist who is john f. Polk. He received his ph. D. In mathematics from the the university of delaware in 1979. He served three years in the army, including a tour in vietnam. He is retired from a 45year career as a scientist and Senior Adviser of International Research collaboration at the u. S. Army research laboratory, aberdeen proving ground, maryland. He is currently the clan historian for clan pollock international and publishes sho ....
And also to the lover of one of the daughters, says that he made a mistake, and if he had not given these daughters a fortune, but left him with him, then his daughters would love him and come to his deathbed, this is his feeling for his daughters, it is generally normal, it looks touching, perhaps not, it looks different depending on the angle, this story people mostly read about father goriot inattentively, where it begins, it begins with a description of the boarding house where he lives and its inhabitants, that is, we have life before us, these are not the lower classes, these are not clochards under the bridge, yes, these are not completely degenerate people, but in general its already kind of like the penultimate step, that is, in this who live in the boarding house, widows of officials, that is, generally quite respectable ladies, some students, yes, that is, this is not some kind of marginalization, yes, this is, these are just people, there is no money, but at the same time t ....
Personnel of the United States. The speaker pro tempore the question is, will the house suspend the rules and agree to the resolution as amended. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 411 and the nays are zero. The bill is passed. Without objection, the title is amended. For what purpose does the gentleman from mississippi seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the committee on House Administration be discha ....