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2014. I hereby appoint the honorable luke messer to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. We lain conroy loving god, give you thanks for giving us another year. We give you thanks, also, for e first session of the 113th congress and your sustaining us with your presence, wisdom, patience and love. We ask that the efforts of the first session might prove fruitful and the benefits redowneding to our nation and its people. We ask as well your forgi...

And we kind of stay there for some time. Why did it wane . Look at drug patterns. They remain there about 15 or 16 years and a run in 20year cycles. The crack cocaine cycle is no more. There are still people who use crack cocaine. It is nowhere near where it used to be. In the absence of that driving the violence, and then we are down in the 200 range and we got stuck there for a long time. Even when i took over in 2007, in 2006. 69 one hundred 81 in 2007. We are persistent with yang violence. And violence was born accelerated during the crack cocaine. Even when the crack cocaine one away, the...

We must keep the government functioning and address the out ofcontrol debt and the many challenges presented by the health care law, obamacare. For many months, and particularly the last two weeks i have worked tirelessly with , colleagues to find an agreement. I particularly want to thank are presented to ron kind, senators Susan Collins and joe manchin, and the many other members who participated in many discussions. This lays down a foundation to reach an agreement on issues that need to be addressed. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this legislation and to join with those of us who...

Next, a discussion about National Political party nominations, scandal, and comebacks, as well as rules changes for the 2016 election. This is part of the state of the parties conference. It runs just under two hours. We have four papers to be presented. We hope you will have great interest in what they present. More than anything else, we hope you will have Great Questions because this group of individuals have not only studied what has been, but are giving us perspective of what is to come. I think youll find their perspectives very interesting. About party a paper power and the causal effec...

And these type of government crises are likely to occur in the near future as long as these high rates of negativity toward the opposite party persist. Thank you very much. Should i take the handheld mic . I am going to launch the questions one of my own. I do not want to hog the microphone. You have this conference every four years, right after the election. I am going to guess that new jersey and virginia get a lot of analysis every four years. I hope this is not too far off topic. As a political reporter, i am very interested in your take on what happened two days ago. In new jersey, you ha...