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just think of that. 12 democrats, 11 republicans, something like that. today we have over 60 house democratic women. [applause] not enough. we want more. but all of us who were there, that dozen of us for the time, we took responsibility to try to put more women in congress across the country. i am proud that in california our delegation of democrats is a majority of women, not even counting our two senators. women are empowered in california. i also want to acknowledge that although our members are great here, two of our colleagues have gone on to the senate. senator elect tammy baldwin [applause] senator elect mazie hirono. only the second woman of color to serve in the senate. that is very exciting. unfortunately we do not have kathy hochul this next congress, but the future is soon coming upon we know they will be making a great public contribution. so here we are. we are still finishing up some of our campaigns. we are very proud of the success as you see here ....
nowadays the vice president does not do that unless his vote is needed to break a tie. truman never learned anything from zero fdr or his staff. it was a transition zero knowledge that this not happen anymore. got a phone call from the white house. it to the phone right away. i pick up the phone. at the other and they said to the white house as soon as you can. he grabbed his hat. he-out. - he dashed out. they had a car for him. he went to the white house. he was taken to the second floor, which was the family f loor. he looked up and said harry, the president is dead. he was in total shock. he said what can i do for you? she said harry, what can we do for you? you are in trouble now. from his early life through his presidency aida donald looks at the light of harry truman s sunday night at 8. president obama spoke with reporters today. this is his first news conference since early this year. good afternoon, everybody. please have a seat. i hear you have s ....
tolbert of kaiser family foundation it. a message from the senate. the secretary: the senate has passed section 3113, limitation of laboratory certification. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. pursuant to the order of the house of january 17, 2012, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. this morning. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. jones, for five minutes. mr. jones: mr. speaker, thank you very much. this afternoon a group of members from both parties are going to meet together to discuss possible legislative options to start the process of bringing our troops home from afghanistan in 2013. yesterda ....
your muslim pal. we ll be having a lot of great guests, talking about mitt romney s ultimate screw you which he gifted us with yesterday and general petraeus, the c.i.a. had no idea when he said i wanted to tap that, he meant something completely different. let s go to lisa ferguson for a current news update. hey john. always good to have you on the show. good morning everyone. the president is dealing with the aftermath of hurricane sandy today. he heads to new york this morning to look at the damage and to thank first responders who risked their lives last month. later this evening president obama will host the cast and crew of the movie lincoln for a screening at the white house. he is coming off a very important news conference yesterday. not only was this the first since his re-election, it was also the first he s held in eight months. several reporters did want to talk about the general petraeus scandal, of course but the president fortunately did get to spend ....
chemical weapons eliminated. in autumn the skies over china are usually a clear blue. but this year, a cloud of pollution is obscuring the view. the operators of fukushima daiichi nuclear plant have resumed the operation of a system used to filter radioactive materials from water. it says human error caused the suspension last week. workers at tepco resumed their test run of the advanced liquid processing system, or alps, designed to eliminate radioactive materials from the water that is accumulating at the plant. they suspended operations on friday. they had just resumed it for the first time in a month and a half. the workers detected a reduction in the flow of contaminated water in a pipe that sends water to a storage tank. tepco officials said a loose rubber mat clogged the drain. they said workers forgot to remove it after inspecting the inside of the tank. they had used the mat under a ladder during the inspection. the plant s officials have been plagued with ....