[applause] the god of the jewish people, the god of israel also had a plan. he had two leaders, queen esther and mordecai, her garden. both were horrified when they heard about this plan. but while esther rye shiastan great agony and anguish, king mordecai fasted and prayed, and as he fasted and prayed, god gave him a vision of what to do. god made it clear to him that he was in charge. that mordecai didn't have to fear but he did have to act. now, as you enter queen esther and mordecai into the equation, both jews fortified by the supreme leaders decision to edna late jewish people we see in esther chapter for how this plays out. chapter 41st number-one, when mordecai were all that had been done he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes and went into the midst of the city and wailed loudly and bitterly. first three, he joined the great morning of the jews who were fasting and weeping and wailing to reverse for, times b5 maidens came and told her and she arrived in great anguish. it doesn't say that she prayed or fasted. that is what mordecai must doing

this is the god we have, this is the god we serve. this is the god of the bible and my question is if god wants to change the life of a radical muslim what you think he wants to do in your life? if god wants to give hope, peace and joy to a muslim what you think he wants to do in your life? if god is willing to forgive completely the sense of a radical muslim terrorists, a sniper, don't you think he is willing to forgive your sins? win labavitch what is happening in the world, all the things that jesus said would be evidence of the last days, and we look at what is happening in our newspapers and our world today, i have a message. i want to close with a message from believers and a message to unbelievers. if you are a follower of jesus christ and you are here in this arena or are watching or listening to my voice and you see these signs and you see how they are corresponding to events that are really happening, if you are planning any major sins in your life right now, could i encourage you to postpone those where maybe just cancel th

god bless this hallowed body. god bless our troops who stand in defense of this great land. god bless the united states of america. the presiding officer: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington d.c., june 25, 2009. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable kirsten gillibrand, a senator from the state of new york, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: robert c. byrd, presidet pro tempore. mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: madam president, with the senate chaplain, admiral black, standing by, we all listened to the prayer of one of our jewish brethren from las vegas, rabbi harlig. the chaplain, i'm sure, was pleased with the prayer. those of us here

we know god by our mind. so when i was 5 years, i understood god as justice, a symbol of justice. that's all. he's not a book. he's not a koran and so i went and wrote the letter. i told him, god, you are supposed to be justice as my grandmother said, but you are not just because you prefer my brother though i am more intelligent than my brother. [laughter] >> and so the point is, i told him, if you are not just i'm not really to believe new. [applause] >> and i tell you this is the mind of all children. all children are born creative. girls and boys, poor, rich, black and white we are all born created. creativity is not something for some genius writers up there, no. everybody -- every child born creative but we lose our creaticreat creaticreat creatititicreat creatity -- creative, through sociallation, inhibition and all that. so every child is sensitive and understand that there is a problem that god is not just but -- and when i wrote, of course, the word if you are not just and not ready to believe in you, i was trembling, i was afraid because he would take me to hell, you kn

no government bureau carat has the right to take from you the rights that god gave you. and rationing under healthcare is inevitably limiting your life at the whim of a bureau carat and at the manipulation of a politician. [applause] >> the greatest believer of this was the president who presided over the civil war to end slavery. it was not an act of happiness, it was a fundamental and stunningly painful expression of our willingness to live and die for the beliefs that make men free. [applause] >> it's looking at lincoln because he is speaking only four years after the founding of the republican party. and by the way, if you want absolute proof you cannot teach american history honestly and accurately without reference to god, go to the lincoln memorial, read the second inaugural, march 1865. 703 words, 14 references to god, two quotes from the bible, and explain to me how you would teach lincoln accurately and honestly without explaining his attitude. [applause] >> i'm going to quote from lincoln for a few minutes. it's a little longer than good speechmaking toll rate

, go to the lincoln memorial, read the second inaugural, march 1865. 703 words, 14 references to god, two quotes from the bible, and explain to me how you would teach lincoln accurately and honestly without explaining his attitude. [applause] >> i'm going to quote from lincoln for a few minutes. it's a little longer than good speechmaking toll rates. but i'm doing it quite deliberately. i want to reset in you the passion, the sinister, the authenticity, -- the sincerity, the authenticity of the declaration of independence in making us an unique country. in his debates with douglas, only four years after the founding of our party, lincoln said the following: pros parity might look up again to the declaration of independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began so that truth and justice and mercy and all the humane and christian virtues might not be extinguished from the land so. that no man would here after limit and circumdescribe the great principles on which the temple of -- the temple of liberty was being built. now, my countrymen, if you have been taught

uniform, i ask god to bless the families of our men and women in uniform and i ask god in his loving arms to hold the families who have given a child dying for freedom in afghanistan and iraq, and, madam speaker, i ask three times, god, please, god, please, god, please continue to bless america and with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: ms. kaptur of ohio. mr. burton of indiana. mr. burton: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for five minutes, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. burton: madam speaker, this last weekend i met with several auto dealers in my district and it was very interesting to find out really what all of them are going through right now. the chrysler and general motors companies are closing hundreds and hundreds of automobile dealerships across the country and after talking to these dealers, i can't figure out why. it isn't costing the automobile companies anything. they sell the cars to the dealer and the dealer sells those to the consumer. and the dealers pay for those cars. in ad

god. come on. yes. thank you. >> i'm not asking you to be judgmental, but i'm just curious what these attachment children turn out to be like. >> yeah. she's curious what the attachment children turn out to be like. >> well, you know, i don't know yet. i'm sure some of them are wonderful people, but then you sort of wonder what a child who's been raised on the altar of his mother's ambition, how he feels about himself and his place in the world. and i think that we may be creating these outsized egos. there was all that talk a year or so ago about young people entering the workplace and how they need constant positive reinformts like awesome, dude, you tried so hard, you know? and how they're used to getting this kind of stroking, stroking, stroking, and there are all these seminars for managers on how to stroke your -- you know, because they need this constant positive reinforcement. i'm like, oh, my god, whatever. just do your damn job. okay, prize. [laughter] cheese whiz. >> it's getting dangerous. >

[applause] >> the god of the jewish people and the god of israel also had a plan. he had two leaders. queen esther and queen mordecai her guardian. they were horrified when they heard about this plan. but while esther rised in great agony and anguish, mordecai fasted and prayed, god gave him vision of what to do. god made it clear to him that he was this charge. that mordecai did not have to fear but he did have to act. now, as you enter queen esther and mordecai into the equation, both jews with the plan to annihilate the jewish people we see in esther chapter 4 how this plays out. chapter 4 verse 1, when mordecai had learned what had been done he tore his closes and went out to the city and whaled bitterly. he joined with the great warning of the jews who were fasting, weeping and wailingyesterday? >> reporter: nothing that we've heard this morning. basically this morning we saw there was talk yesterday. the report came out in fox sports that manny could be out within a couple of days. we haven't heard anything here. you can see it's weighing out a little bit in

it was the elections, adams ran on god or jefferson, or no god. jefferson did believe -- she was not a materialist, he was equally -- it was observed, the virgin birth, give me a break already. he denied any possible rationale. religion is a complicated process in the united states. above all, religion has been instrumental in the african-american community. both from the noble period of the antebellum slave churches through the right movement. you can't possibly think of the civil-rights movement having been affected without preaching and teaching around the corner. barack obama's involvement with the church, more generally, it wasn't surprising to me although it may have been unpalatable to my little friends to find that barack obama wants to continue george bush's policy of faith based initiatives, is in keeping with his sense, that is not necessarily a reactionary move. to cut a long story short, the desperation parts, trying to write a book that would explore stories with you, with the american public, but also try to educate out of these sim

speaker, i ask god to please bless america, i ask god to please bless america and again i ask god to please bless this great nation known as america. thank you and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. ms. berkley of nevada. for what purpose does the gentlelady rise? ms. berkley: i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. i'm not sure out of order, though. the gentlelady is recognized for five minutes. ms. berkley: thank you, mr. speaker. before i yield to my colleague, mr. engel, to continue our discussion, i want to mention a few things that are very much on my mind. we can talk for hours about the threat of a nuclear iran to israel, but what i'd like to do in the minute or two that i have before i yield to congressman engel is i want to mention the sacrifices that israel has made in the name of peace. when there was an opportunity to make peace with egypt, something that had never been done before, the israelis gave the cyanide to the egyptian

and he announced in 1991 that he was the son of god. and this had never happened before, so it became a... c-span: where -- where did he announce this? >> guest: oh, on the terry wogan chat show on the bbc. c-span: just one day said, "i am the son of god." >> guest: yeah. and in britain, this was a big splash. it's kind of like geraldo suddenly announcing he's the son of god. it would become a big deal. c-span: do you know anything we don't know? is it -- is that an announcement coming? (laughter) >> guest: i'm not sure! but david icke said, "not only am i the son of god, but the world is about to be destroyed by cataclysmic earthquakes and tidal waves and floods." and what i thought was interesting back in the '90s is that, ok, we were amazed and laughing. but a little bit of us thought, "maybe he is the son of god. maybe he's right." so he went on this chat show, and the whole nation watched and -- and he made these predictions and said that he was the son of god. and the audience was laughing nervously. and i think the nation kind of

god bless you. god bless the united states of america. [applause] [applause] >> thank you, mr. president. thank you for being here with us tonight. now, it is time to enjoy the expertise of the most expert, john hodgman. he is that daily show's relative expert with a vast range of knowledge -- from hermit crab racing, to secret world governments, and president of the united states. john is the author of the best- selling book, "more information than you require." please welcome him. [applause] >> much better. good evening. my name is john hodgman. i am a very famous television personality. thank you very much for having me here this evening. thank you very much, mr. president, for warming them up. [laughter] it is entirely appropriate for me to be following the president of the united states. he cannot allow me for i am the most dynamic public speaker of our generation. you can feel the energy at this very moment. part of the reason i am the most dynamic public speaker, i have a compelling personal story. i was born of two worlds. my father was from massachusetts. my mother, fr

jackson: if there is a god, and i believe there is, and that god distributes grace and mercy and talent to all of his children, on august 29, 1958, he visited gary, indiana, and touched a young man with an abundance of his blessings. with that gift that young man, michael jackson would touch and change the world. his heart couldn't get any bigger. and yesterday, it arrested. i come to the floor today on behalf of a generation too -- generation to thank god for letting all of us live in his generation and his era. with that, we ask members to please stand for a moment of silent. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, five-minute voting will continue. the unfinished business is the vote on ordering the previous question, house resolution 587, oen which the yeas and nays were ordered. the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house calendar 182, house resolution 587, provide for creating clean energy jobs, creating energy independence, and transition to a clean energy economy. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on ordering the previous question. members will

there is only one god. that god is jesus christ. he is trying to gather people -- he is trying to make people come together so we can try to make peace with each other. he has accepted him. let god do his part. we will do our part. guest: i think she is saying correctly that the president is trying to transcend these rifts. the problem is in the middle east, in the name of god, there has been terrorism, violent extremism. th has been part of the problem. what the president was trying to invoke was the idea that the killing of innocent people is never justified. i think it was a message of uplift. it was a message of trying to use religion for peaceful purposes. host: is democracy viable for the middle east? guest: every country moves at its own pace. i think the president's approach by focusing on institution- building is the long-term approach. if we only define democracy as an election tomorrow morning, we will encounter surprises. the only people who are organized in many places in the middle east are extremists. i think laying t

was a member of president carter's cabinet and ferociously cabinet god as well. so there is this sense of america and the title of the book is slightly over queued. the american future, a history was born out of the conviction there are certain moments even though it is thought to be in some anno note to project from the present moment as from the past because of the way obama was and it historical stories he liked to tell and because of the first pri history in american public culture i must say the first time that i realized this is when i was young also in cambridge i was having to teach. i remember a tuesday morning and 1967i taught in the morning and at least even some in the afternoon. [laughter] halted by what they would have made of each other. i don't think that laws would have gone for adamle unfortunately, not the way that she worked for him but i remember leaning out the window and these old ladies came through the gateway of the christ college cambridge and one said to the other mabel, don't you just love history. it's so old. [laughter] my point of

i used to pray every night, dear god, god bless my children, my mom, my dad and would you please have ronald cotton killed in prison today? that was my prayer. i hated him. he was a monster. he destroyed my life. and then in 1995, this thing called d.n.a. rolls around. and the assistant district attorney and the investigating officer, who is now captain of the police came to my house and said jennifer, we've got this little thing called d.n.a. ronald cotton would like a d.n.a. test run. now you don't have to agree to it, but the court might order it and your blood sample has disintegrated and we're going to need another blood sample. i have said listen, i'm a mother now, i had 5-year-old tripletts, i was busy. i didn't want to go back to court. couldn't go back to court. how dare he invade my life again. run that d.n.a. test, because i know what it's going to show. it's going to show what i've all known all along, it was ronald cotton. run it. they ran it. three months later they stood in my house, in my kitchen and they said jennifer, it's not ronald's d.n.a. it's bobby pool. and peo

i wrote a play called "god resigns of the summit meeting." [laughter] >> and i spent ten years of my life comparing the koran to the old testament, to the new testament. i studied them firm. i went even to england and studied there because i wanted to understand the word of god. what's that? what god says and then i discovered that those holy books are full of contradictions, racism, hostility toward women, hostility to the other, the stranger, the infidel, morality, morality for men, morality for women. i didn't find real morality in religions or in religions. i didn't find freedom to think or to criticize. i felt a lot of hostility with the other. you ought to kill the infidel in all religions. so i started to write. i started to express because knowledge is irreversible. i cannot go back and abolish my knowledge. the problem i would like to say, what i noticed -- and this is a big problem now, political problem. that nobody criticizes judaism or christianity. they criticize only islam. and i wrote about muslim women in the market, how wome

may god's peace be upon you. thank you very much. thank you. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >>> we spoke with the reporter that watched the president's speech from a cairo neighborhood. >> let's find out what some of the local reaction is, howard schneider is online, foreign correspondent for "the washington post" and i & mr. schneider is about 2 p.m. in cairo and you are at a coffeehouse in cairo, is that correct? >> that is right, we are in the neighborhood that is a very, you know, fun and festive downtown neighborhood and we've been sitting here at the coffee shop watch and people gather. >> and what are you seeing? >> well, you know, it was interesting because people sort of filter and and the core group that were interested in this gathered two or three hours ahead of time watching the feed on the state broadcaster and i tell you, the state rahm television and stop the imagery. you've got the egyptian american flag and wonderful montage of obama and pyramids and things like that, so they took this messag

when the holy land is the place of peace that god intended it to be. when jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for jews and muslims, and a place for all the children of abraham to mingle peacefully together. as in the story of islam. [applause] as in the story when moses, jesus and mohammed, peace be upon them. joined in prayer. the third source of tension is our shared interest in the rights and responsibilities of nations on nuclear weapons. this issue has been a source of tension between the united states and the islamic republic of iran. for many years iran has defined itself in part by opposition to my country. and there is a tumultous history between us. in the middle of the cold car, -- war, the united states played in a democratically let elected government and this history is well known. rather remained trap in the past, i made it clear to iran's leaders and people, that my country is prepared to move forward. the question now is not what iran is against, but rather what future it wants to build. i recognize it will be hard to overcome decad

my god, the military fincher is a. the belief that you can export democracy to four corners of the globe. that you can send our troops everywhere. and again, president bush's words, and journey across the globe. that is not a conservative concept. that is a radical concept the type of spending that occurred over the past eight years. nonconservative. radical. entitlement spending. medicare and medicaid are going to go bankrupt. they are going to collapse. they are going to destroy its economy if we don't do something about it. george w. bush's solution, but at a $7 trillion medicare drug benefit plan to this already crippled system. not a conservative idea. a radical idea. and finally, the type of hyper partisanship that republicans have engaged in for too long. as i write the book, that i was guilty of from time to time myself. we conservatives need to look in the mirror. and understand that if we believe like edmund burke and russell kirk, that conservatives are supposed to maintain social order. that we can't run ar

and god bless all. thank you. >> thank you, father. i am now very pleased to call to the podium, dr. lee, president and founder of initiatives for china, a former political prisoner in china and a veteran of the tiananmen square movement. dr. lee. >> ladies and gentlemen, [speaking foreign language] ladies and gentlemen we gather today after the passage of 20 years, there are those today who wish to have legacy of tiananmen by saying that democracy has many faces. and western style democracy is not for china. some even say that the chinese people do not want democracy. some say that for the sake of liberty china needs a strong, single party government. any logic of this reasoning quickly reveals as self-serving rhetoric designed to rationalize the legitimacy of absolute power. if one accepts this logic, then one must also accept the concept of slavery. that some people actually divide to be slaves. that one human being actually has the right to tell another human being how to think, how to pray. the absurdity is quite evident. freedom

end of that believers relationship to god. it works really well for the republican right larger projects >> guest: people have talked about this so much, had to get, on the one hand, as consolation of values about religious conservatism among iran issues of social control frankly. if you think of homosexuality and abortion as a the two hot button issues, how that particular set of concerns became so closely intertwined with a particular economic vision when there is not on the service of that unnecessary connection there and historically there hasn't always been a connection there is of a question for many people in productive work thinking about this is how did those get together and what i found some revelatory was just how necessary that connection was on the level of we are living in a moment where there are not so many state services as there were a generation ago, were two go for care and where do go for delivery of services, you go to families and the rise of imprints and the families parallels the diminution of public

in uniform and i ask three time, god please, god please, god please continue to bless america. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio rise? ms. kaptur: madam speaker, by direction of my home committee, the appropriations committee, i prnt a privilege red port for filing under the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title. the clerk: report to accompany h.r. 2997 a bill making appropriations for agriculture, rural dworget food and drug administration and related agencies programs for fiscal year ending september 30, 2010, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: referred to union calendar and ordered printed, pursuant to clause 1 of rule 21, points of order are reserved. the chair would like to recognize george miller of california. mr. mill -- >> i ask unanimous consent to claim the gentleman's time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from kansas. >> thank you very much. from its beginning in the house energy and commerce committee, h.r. 2454 has been for

god bless the snow family and may god bless you all. calling out the name i cherish god bless this no family, and may god bless you all. >> from nbc news, this is "meet the press" with tim russert. >> today, a subject that concerns each and everyone of us. your pocketbook. >> i never knew anyone who enjoyed news, who was more curious or had more enthusiasm about news than candid. that was his great secret. great reporters had this curiosity about them. the greatest curiosity i have ever known. the guy that came closest to>> every sunday, we invite the american people to share their views with the american public. mr. secretary, you say that people were sent to the convention center. there was no water, no food, no beds, no authorities there. there was no planning. it is fair to say you're thinking about running for president in 2008? >> is fair, yes. >> i felt like i was hitting a home run off the best pitcher in the league. home run off the best pitcher in the league. >> i have not had so much since my last interrogation. [laughter] [a

please, god please, god please continue to bless america and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: ms. kaptur of ohio. mr. burton of indiana. mr. moran of kansas. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentleman from virginia, mr. wolf, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. wolf: thank you, madam speaker. i rise today to speak about an issue of great importance to our country. shortly after i returned from a trip to algeria in 1998 where thousands had been killed by terror attacks and in the wake of two u.s. embassy bombings in africa where 267 people were killed, including one of my constituents from mclien, virginia, serving at -- mclean, virginia, serving at nigh robo, i offered a commission. it provided evidence of a growing threat of terrorism. a congressional research service report described the main finding of the commission this way -- it calls on the u.s. government to prepare more actively to prevent the future mass casualty catastrophic terrorist attack. regrettably the commission's recomm

chaplain coughlin: lord god, you hold all in good order. yet you give us the freedom of choice in the realm of good conscience. it seems you achieve your own good purposes in and through your people whether or not they know your guidance or wait to learn from their own mistakes. be with all your people today in the decisions they make as a free people. provide them with insight and how to use their many blessings. even though you guide them by your spirit, hold them accountable for their deeds. before your divine tribunal and in the realm of public opinion. by personal integrity and right judgment, help all americans to establish credence before other nations so that seeing our good deeds may they glorify you, our god, as our protector and guide now and forever. amen. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house her approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. >> madam speaker, i ask that the question be put on agreeing to the speaker's approval of

may god bless you and god bless the memory of all those to rest here. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, for the normandy veterans that are with us here today will be awarded the legion of honor in recognition of their efforts in bravery. the legion of honor is france's highest declaration. it was greeted by napoleon bonaparte in 18 02. today's recipients will be awarded its. -- awarded it. [speaking french] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the presentation of the legion of honor to zane schlemmer, jack woods, joseph donroach, and military personnel, gather to orders. [speaking french] [applause] [speaking french] [applause] [speaking french] [applause] [speaking french] [applause]

we know that that is god's fate. now that must be our work here on earth. and may god peace be upon you. thank you. [applause] host: what are you seeing? guest: it was interesting because people filtered in and the core group who were interested said here for many hours. about 2:00 p.m. cairo time in your in a coffee house. guest: that is right, i'm in a downtown, fun and festive neighborhood in a coffee shop, watching people gather. host: what are you seeing? guest: it was interesting because people filtered in and the core group who were interested said here for many hours. the state-run television really am up the imagery here of the egyptian-american flag, things like that. they took this message of the mutual respect really to heart. host: we heard applause in the chamber for the speech was delivered. what was the reaction with the locals as they listened? guest: very quiet and attentive. there was more head-knotting than clapping. people were turned into the quotations from the koran. people like the reference to issa, the local word for it chooses, a

this is god's will. that history is unpredictable or to put it at a level, as a french moralists they want, things are never as good or as bad as they seem. they seem pretty bad now. [laughter] >> we know that. but no return is possible, especially again i have the handicap. i hope i am mostly talking to catholics, you know. jack told me that catholic education, catholic belief. you see, i lived in this country when the church was very prosperous. late 1940s, 1950s, all the way into the 1960s. yes, some things were better and some things were worse. and this is of course particularly difficult for any catholic who honestly thinks he's a catholic because, you know, this brings up another problem. there's always a different between what people think and what they say and act. as it is, of course, the element of hypocrisy. but something deeper and even more dangerous is going along now. when there is a difference between what people think they believe and what they really believe. we must look into the ment

first of all, i would like to thank god for this award. to my great team in san jose, because without them, it would not be possible for me to be here. and to my family for putting up with a mother who has to spend her evenings and nights in the streets. and my husband who is around here somewhere who has taken on the financial burden of allowing me to do this. [laughter] where are you, thomas? [applause] there are many lives behind these awards. but today, i want to leave you with this thought to think about the victims -- all of the victims have died without a voice to speak for them. thank you very much to all of you, and may god bless you. [laughter] -- [applause] >> thank you so much, and thanks to your husband as well. a good partnership. thanks to all of you for joining us. this is a wonderful event every year. it reminds us of how much work we have ahead of us. this morning, i sent a cable communicating to the staff of the state department here and around the world how critical this issue is to the foreign policy priorities of the

they will have the rewards from god almighty. they all fought on the battlefront of its establishment. they belong to the establishment. this might even be considered as worship for some of these people, depending on their intention. 40 million people have voted for the revolution. not the 24 million only that went to the president. 40 million votes were counted in favor of the revolution. people trust. they have their trust, but some supporters or some candidates should also -- people should be sure that the islamic establishment will never manipulate people's votes or mistreat them. [crowd chanting] >> ithe legal structure does not allow any vote rigging. everyone it was in charge of election process. they approved of this fact. 11 million votes difference, sometimes there's a margin of 100,000 or to a hundred thousand. or 1 million maximum. then maybe there would be a vote rigging in that case. there's a difference of only 11 million votes. how can vote rigging happen? >> [crowd chants] >> at the same time, the guardian counci

i ask them to take that way, and i hope god almighty will help us choose that way. everyone owns the progress of the country. the celebration, the 40 million voters celebration should be appreciated. the enemy should not be allowed to ruin this celebration as it wants to do. of course, if some people want to choose another way, then i will have to talk to people, but this time i will speak to them more frankly. people announced their readiness to take the people's orders retake their leaders' orders. the third group of want to address, i want to address the leaders of western media and arrogant powers. in the past two or three weeks, i have witnessed the words and deeds of the statesman in the united states and officials of certain european countries. i have followed all these in the weeks leading to the election, and on the election day and night after the election, and also the past couple of days after the election was held. there was a changing process. before the election you could see that the bias and the words was that they wanted to cast doubt about the ele

. >> oh, god, a creature of the universe upon universe. we're here this evening to honor, to ease bank, and to recognize a friend, a patriot, a leader, a lover of our country. in this moment, dear god, as we should in all moments, we recognize your presence and the work of our hands, your lights and the clarity we attain, your spirit and the wisdom with chief, at your inspiration and the good that we seek to do. we ask for your continued guidance and blessing, even as we know that we all -- we often merit than not. we thank you for our many deaths. this evening, we thank you for al and ginger from who have shared some much of themselves with all of us and many more across the nation in the globe or not here this evening. our tradition teaches at five years old, the person should study scripture. at 13, the commandments. at 20, one is ready for one's life pursuits. at 40, one achieves discernment. at 50, one is ready to give counsel. at 60, one becomes an elder, even with year grace the stage. the rabbi would ask, which is the proper course

that is god talking to what or somebody. [laughter] when god speaks i do listen. and for a guy who is a is in druid that is a strange thing to do. [laughter] that was setting up what i wanted to say. three points i would like to make about this new book. this is wonderful, because they think this point early in the books history if you of not read the book, had the chance to defend it. the hard thing for a richard this point in a book's history is that these reviews are coming out in most all of them are done quickly. the need to be and they are done quickly so that the ricky were at best will give you the reader an idea of what the book is about. many of them spend way too much time on their opinions. they can make up their own minds. unfortunately they do read fast, and they almost never, speaking of ricky where they almost never understand the book is about. for example it took two years for any reviewer or subsequent critic to realize that "blue highways" was about a "blue highways," a highway of trying to live on this planet. my publisher is a great publisher

>> in the name of god, the passionate and the merciful, initially i thank god almighty to gave me the opportunity to serve the great nation of iran for one term and i also appreciate the nation for all their support and their backing for me. and i hope that the iranians nation will always keep its dignity. we remember the late leader of the islamic revolution and the martyrs' and to whom we owe all we have nowadays. elections i guess is a making a pair iraq. it isn't only picking one single person, it also means people getting energized for taking leaps towards conquering peaks of success and development. the atmosphere, the vote should be one of fervent zeal and excitement. it should be replete with logic friendship and convergence and brotherhood. at the beginning, i would like to make some complaints about some unfair, let's call it cruel attitude and approach is in great why -- lies and sat atolls and against the government. in the previous revolution we never had this to be it in the term of one's symbol government or the course of an election, we never saw heavy attack with crit

and country, you know, god and country. every country tells its soldiers they're dying for god and country. and and you see the loved ones there. you see the faces. and you see a mother sitting on the tomb of her boy as she has every week since the 1980s. i don't care who he was fighting for, which is tragic. this is really heartbreaking. these mothers are sitting of on tombs of unknown soldiers. lots to put in our script and it was a fun process for me. for more information on all this stuff, if you go to my website, it's mostly promoting all my europe work, obviously, but i've got a whole section on iran. it's been such a joy and a challenge as a travel writer to bring this sort of unwelcomed insight into our consciousness and then people appreciate it when they are introduced to it thoughtfully but i got this slide show and trailers for our documentary. a lot of articles and so on. if you're curious about that, there's a lot more details at ricksteves.com. our last stop was here. i figured it was the greatest ancient sit

someday, god willing, will be free. thank you very much. >> [man shouting in the crowd at the congressman] >> i would like to address the gentlemen in the back screaming. we hear you. i'm asking you to extend some courtesy to the people that are giving their time to speak to us as well. thank you. [applause] i am pleased to turn the podium over to mr. michael horowitz, senior fellow at the hudson institute and a gentleman i have had the pleasure of knowing for the past few months. there's nobody that knows more about truth than michael horowitz. >> thank you. [applause] it is so much my pleasure to be here among heroes and to speak out for democracy in china. but i must tell you a confession. i do so for very selfish reasons. i am the grandfather of six beautiful children. and my certain view is that the hope they have and that the hope i have for them of a good life in the 21st century will wrest more than on any other single factor, on freedom and democracy in china. we talk, as we should in washington, about a muslim

we don't know we're not here to judge what is the relationship to god. we do not know what a person is to himself but we can only judge him how he acts with other human beings whether babies or old people never mind other human beings in this for us has the belief that we are unique in the universe, we are not knowing that the son of god came as a human being. no matter what science and technology says we're both in space and time in the very center of the universe which is our universe. and you see perhaps almost surely pretentious preaching to you we live in a different world because the words are being corrupted. the very phrase is being corrupted but as they told you the intelligent design thing gives me the creeps. these are good willing people or people who say equal sex marriage and so forth i do not want to go into this but you see, you see it emerson was a great wine and said the corruption of society leads to the corruption of language. i am convinced the opposite is true the corruption of language leads to the corruption of society. and i can

may god bless america and ronald wilson reagan. thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome mrs. ronald reagan. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you so much. i have so many people to thank, but i really particularly want to thank nancy pelosi for all that she did to organize this, bring it together, make it happen. i am very grateful to her. and to everybody else, too. but especially to nancy. the statue is a wonderful likeness of ronnie. and he would be so proud. you know the last time that i was in this room was for ronnie 's service. so it is nice to be back under happier circumstances. i want to thank everybody for being here and for your support your thoughts and your kind wishes and everything that's been said here today and the lovely, lovely singing. so beautiful. thank you so much. that's it. [applause] [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain seated for the unveiling of the statue. ladies and gentlemen, the statue of president ronald reagan. [applause] [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the rever

to god. now these folks, unless they get themselves turned around and live the way they're posed to liff, they'll never be able to see the kingdom of heaven. in addition to that, then they want to bring children into all this mess. and this is not fair for children to be able to see this kind of stuff, it's not normal. and then we have all these aids. sometimes gay and sometimes they're both ways and they're spreading aids. and then we need all this money to try to do something about the aids situation. host: do you think that all of this should preclude them from serving in the military if they want to serve their country? caller: you know, i know we need people in the military. but is it fair to the men and women that are in the military that are good upstanding citizens living the way they're supposed to live? so i guess maybe what we need to do is a poll and ask these folks, you know, how do you feel about serving beside gay or less bns? because i have never been in the military lds lots

i am an atheist, i don't believe in god and everyone in my child is asked to stand up, face the flag, put her hand over her heart and say that her father is wrong. it was the most personal the motive, invested, emotional thing i had seen and the reason i chose to do my chapter on that is it wasn't a train wreck. it was not only one of the most fascinating but persuasive, interesting moral arguments i ever saw in the court in 10 years. i chose it, even though i laid out in my chapter the commandments about what thou shalt not do in the oral arguments, right out of the gate he was ignoring all my commandments, emoting and scolding the justices and acting smarter than them and talking back and doing all the things you would never see the harlem globetrotters do. he was really good. so i wrote my chapter about how good he was and how persuasive he was, how much i thought he brought to justice into his story, they became very invested in the custodial relationship with his daughter, they became interested in her feelings, the sort of thing that went in the face of everything we think we kn

you and god bless the memory of all those to rest here. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, four of the normandy veterans story with us today will be awarded the legion of honor in recognition of their efforts and bravery. the legion of honor is france's highest decoration. it was created by napoleon bonaparte in 18 02. today's recipients will be awarded the order of officer of the legion of honor. >> [speaking french] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the presentation of the leader of honor zane of the united states, jack woods of the united kingdom. military personnel, attention to orders. [speaking foreign language] [applause] [speaking foreign language] [applause] [speaking foreign language] [applause] [speaking foreign language] [applause] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. ladies and gentlemen, president obama, his royal highness, the prince of wales, prime minister brown, prime minister harper and president sarkozy will now lay a wreath at the memorial in honor of those who served and those who made the suprem

god is in control of all things and allows each of us to have a measure of power and wisdom. we acknowledge your gifts to us and give you thanks. we thank you for the blessings you have point of order out upon our country, its people and each of us in this house. o god, in these times of great challenge, we confess that in a rush to get things done, we sometimes forget to seek your guidance and wisdom. forgive us, we pray. we need your wisdom, guidance and direction today and ask you to grant it to each of us bountifully. o god, lead each of us to a common goal of doing our best, doing the best for our fellow americans and doing the best we can to promote love for all mankind, peace for all mankind, and justice for all mankind. we humbly ask all of this in the name of jesus christ. amen. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the house will stand >> so i thought out a whole lot of things but i think it was an important hearing and i was talking -- i was waiting for senator sessions. i yield to senator sessions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and i appreciate