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clyburn: mr. speaker, i rise this morning to stand with my fellow members of the congressional black caucus to pay tribute to the outstanding leadership of our outgoing chair, marcia fudge of ohio. chair fudge has done much more than occupy a position in the time as c.b.c. chair. she has truly led this caucus at a time like few others. active leadership. it is often said that chair fudge's work ethic, problem solving approach, and coalition building has earned her the reputation as an insightful leader. over the past year that leadership has been on display to an impressive degree. legislative priorities including job creation, protecting voting rights, health and nutrition, protecting medicare, and social security, education, and housing. chair fudge's simple philosophy is reflected in her daily pledge, and i quote, to do the people's work. and that dedicated approach has enabled her to be an extraordinary chair for the congressional black caucus and keeping faith with this historic road. to some

the clyburn's live a comfortable life. in addition to his medical practice, joseph was a contract surgeon for the british barracks. one of the things i think we often forget is patrick cleburne grew to adulthood in ireland. he spent the vast majority of his life in ireland. his experience in the culture of his -- in the country of his birth shaped him. termirst of what we might the defining moment came 18 months into it when his mother died. his father remarried quickly, isabella stewart in 1830. this is who you would refer to as mama for the rest of his life. that was all in the future. after joseph claver and -- after , the doctor was an upwardly mobile man and he tried his hand as a farm owner. he moved his family to a manor house, one of the few buildings that is smaller than it was then. 206 acres. things went well for them. there seem to be a chance they were set on the road to prosperity. what occurred next was one of the major factors in determining their immigration. of november 1843 dr. joseph cleburne died. he c

democrat coalition had which is a more business friendly and moderate group led by stenyíd;Ñ hoyer by clyburn lot of the congressional black caucus members who voted for the bill. progressive members who voted against it, particularly because of not only the dodd frank weakening but also because of the political party money spending that went in. so there is a lot of issues going on here as to what the future is going to look like for the next two years in congress. >> it's very interesting. president obama i don't remember him being being so active on the telephone. sit back and let leader pelosi take over. obviously a different position than she does. the senate over toion has the republican side and the house has been republican. we now see a president who engagement we see is almost a declaration of war when he is fighting with the democratic leader of the house. >> i don't know if that's a as it is interesting to see him finally getting engaged with the house and finally recognizing this is what would have been helpful for a lot of initiatives in the last four years. there there is certa

democrats in the house is the assistant leader jim clyburn voting yes. aaron blake from "the washington post" says so 10 nonvoters? with a holding out or not in town? like the d funding of obamacare and i don't like the d funding ofthe obamacare and i don't like the funding. i do like what they've been doing for the last six or seven years, it is political deadlock and it makes no sense to me. financially, if you put the numbers down there is no reason why this had to be done this way. if they would've just continued it and then when we got a new congress in -- a new senate in than the republicans could have done what they wanted to do and democrats could've voted against it -- to me it would have been more fair. the american people spoke and now this is pushed through and i think john boehner should go, i think nancy pelosi should go. i'm from california and nancy pelosi -- she is a nightmare of my dreams. i don't like her and i don't like feinstein, but i think this was a bad deal. >> thank you for the call. david in washington dc, you say you support

and his explanation to me was well, clyburn, you have to understand a southerner. well, i did not believe that being a southerner meant that you had a license to be insulting and to say things that were unbecoming of a public servant, in my opinion. and so later that day i said to my colleague i said you know, when this experience is over i'm going to sit down and i'm going to write a book and i'm going to in title that book i, too, am a southerner. i said not only am i a southerner, you are a southerner southerner. and he just happened to be white. i said to him you don't say things like that. and i hope you don't think that way. and i think that we need to really have a discussion of what it means to be a southerner. so that's the way i started. when i got about halfway through the book i hit a wall and i just couldn't get it done. i retreated to a secluded spot in my home where i often go went unchallenged and can't seem to get things done. i call upon aristotle the ones said, a life without contemplation is not worth living. and that's where i go to contemplate