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Into your hands, father of mercys, we commend our brother mario. In the sure and certain hope that together with all who have died in christ he will rise with him on the last day. Merciful lord, turn toward us and listen to our prayers. Open the gates of paradise to your servant and help us who remain to comfort one another with assurances of faith until we all meet in christ and are with you and with our brother mario forever. We ask this through christ our lord. Amen. In peace let us take our brother to his place of rest. Thanks be to god. Our closing hymn is 611. Joyful, joyful, we adore th...

Does it out of worchester massachusetts. 58 new law makers for the house, 13 in senate, will remake landscape. We will start with the wall street journal. Talking about some of the new issues for the new congress. Republicans in charge of the chambers have a challenging path pushing through bills on some of the most contentious issues health, energy, and spending without inflaming tensions on the left and the right. The senate notes that Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell, like many new leaders before them, is planning to restore regular order, and members get to shape and debate rather th...

And so one of the things at the very basic level we need to do is just get more people participating. Its hard to run a good democracy with less than one in five people participating. And what that tends to do is bring out the people who are the most focused and organized and generally the most ideological. And its going to take a while to shift that around. The political scientists will tell you thing that is dont make sense to me but theyre pretty consistent on it that moving to more early voting doesnt actually show an increase in turnout. Which again i thought it would. But do you know why...

Can transcend that. That these trends are not permanent. If we listen to another to one another, we can govern even in this polarized environment. We put together a 29 member commission. We had former interior secretary , senator bennett was one of our members. We had a really Knockout Group of people. Former members of congress governors, cabinet officials. Civic leaders, Business Leader people from all walks of american life. We went through an 18 month process and went all over the country california, ohio, philadelphia. We had meetings and engaged the American Public. Then, they had some d...

Notwithstanding the fact that i have a point of view, those are the facts, and nobody can dispute that, i take that and i do not just do a defense of the law, but i argue why it is making difference politically for people, and if reconciliation is used to repeal parts of the law than what i would do is try to have made my case on all these points so that when reconciliation is vetoed, people will understand why it is important. What role do you think in the final two years of Vice President biden in dealing with congress and how would that role differ from the role he has played in the first s...