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Cheers and applause stephen welcome back, everybody. Now for your yuletide enjoyment the new host from live at Lincoln Center and broadway star Audra Mcdonald. Hit it, andy. I really cant stay baby, its cold outside ive got to go away baby its cold outside this evening has been so very nice ill squeeze your hands, theyre just like ice my mother will start to veryry and father will be pacing the floor listen to fir place roar so really i gotta scurry well, maybe just a half a drink more put the some records on while a pour the neighbors might think baby, its bad out there say, whats in this dri...

Mr. Cardin mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from maryland. Mr. Cardin i would ask consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cardin i ask unanimous consent the floor privileges be granted to elise medical mellinger for the dwraition of Senate Consideration of h. R. 3304, the National Defense authorization act. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cardin let me first comment about the National Defense authorization act. It is an important bill for us to pass and i thank senator levin and senator inhofe for the manner on ...

However, these hardworking federal employees should not be asked to carry even more of this burden. I thank the gentleman for yielding, and i yield back the balance of my time. Thank you. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields. The gentleman from california. Mr. Issa mr. Speaker, i know my friend from virginia means well, but once again he talks about a lack of accomplishment. Apparently he has not looked at the work that the clerks did. He hasnt done the work that the Congressional Budget Office or the Government Accountability office. Those are all funded and yet we had an 11 reduction...

Stopped the landing, because a lot of this was due to reckless lending. And of course, not only do you have banks sitting on the sidelines, but of course any company that has cash sitting on the sidelines, it is a turbulent economy, and it would be reckless to do anything because you do not know what is going to happen, and the same applies for the lack of clarity on taxes for the next year. It is the wise thing to do, to sit on cash and conserve it because you do not know what your tax bill is going to be, you do not know how much longer your economy is going to be in disastrous shape. Host t...

But somebody needs to carve it out. And he died short shortly there after and oxford turned to me and said, how would you like to be the guy to carve it out. Thats how i got involve in this project. How much did you have to write yourself . About 20 of the book. He had 250,000 words. My job, all they wanted was 150,000. I boiled it down to 120,000 of his words and added 30,000 of my own words as well as, what, 1400 footnotes and extensive bibliography and, you know, i knew what i was getting into for three years down the road. And, indeed, its been every bit as challenging as i thought it woul...