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Today, we still do not know all. I think we will eventually learn about the man who killed all the people in orlando. There are all kinds of crazy theories floating around now but it does seem pretty clear that some of the people who were in ,ouch with him before hand perhaps even in his own family, new he was going to do something whether they knew this or not. We got to get better at that. Our fellow citizens need to help us. Because you have to take it seriously. It is also true in other areas. A lot of people miss clear signs in suicide, and this is something that sort of you can go down t...

I know how deeply personally affected he has been. And i guess i tell you why i am doing this as a means of telling you why senator blumenthal and i are doing this, and i tell it through a prism of a story that just awful, awful series of days following the shootings in sandy hook. Senator blumenthal and i went through the first of what were umpteen wakes and funerals, and we were standing in line at the first wake about to talk to the first set of parents who had lost in this case their young daughter, and i remember being so uncertain about what we were supposed to say to these parents, not ...

Your peace guards our hearts. Lord, today keep the eyes of our lawmakers focused on you. May they look to you in their going out and coming in and in their rising up and lying down. May they see you in their labor and leisure and in their pleasure and sorrow. Guide them in lifes morning and evening, for the kingdom, power and the glory belong to you. Give them the wisdom to seize this day, working creatively to keep america strong. We pray in your majestic 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 t...

[applause] [chanting] mr. Gore thank you. Thank you very much. You very much. [applause] mr. Gore thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I speak tonight of gratitude, achievement, and high hopes for our country. Tonight, i think first of those who helped me get here, starting with the people of tennessee. Then those who braved the first snows of iowa and new hampshire, and all of you here from all over this country who have come with me to the warm sunlight of this great city. While i cant thank each of you individually in words, i do so in my heart. And i know you wont mind if i single o...

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome my husband, our next president of the United States, al gore. [applause] [cheers] [applause] [chanting] al e want al, we want mr. Gore thank you. Thank you very much. [cheers] mr. Gore thank you very much. [applause] al wantal, we ant al. Mr. Gore thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I speak tonight of gratitude, achievement, and high hopes for our country. Tonight, i think first of those who helped me get here, starting with the people of tennessee. [cheers] then those who , braved the first snows of iowa and new hampshire, and all of you here from all over th...