with house speaker john aynor and tim scott. begins on c-span 3. >> the courtship of beth wallace and harry truman began here at her home in independence, missouri. >> when my grandfather visited independence, this is in 1910, he often stayed across the street at the nolan house which is where his aunt and his two cousins lived. one afternoon he was over there with his cousins and the family and his aunt brought in a cake plate that my great-grandmother madge gates wallace had given her a cake and mrs. non-had cleaned the cake plate and asked if anyone would take it back. moved at ther speed of light, grabbed a plate and came over here and rang the bell in the hope that my grandmother would answer the door and she did. she invited him in and that is the beginning of their courtship in 1910. >> beth truman as we continue .ur series on first ladies the remarks from former secretary of state hillary clinton. she spoke recently at a center for american progress conference. [applause] birthday.appy it is exciting for me to come at th

. -- i assume ite is a parliamentary thing -- but if the hastert rule was not used to give aynor -- john boehner cover where he needs the majority of republicans to vote on the bill, we could get work done, because that is not really a constitutional rule. secondly, republicans did not have the will to do the plan. it took 18 months to negotiate almost in bad faith, like the people saying the iranians would , after having 18 months of his presidency wasted, decided to go with a democratic majority in the house and senate. lastly, he won twice. where is the opposition to the law when he won twice on the law? , i thinkastert rule you all have given him a pass, boehner, because that is the real holdup on the passing of the continuing resolution and several other things. host: we got the point, randall. mr. ponnuru? to the question of republicans not negotiating for the first 18 months of his presidency. well, you know, look, they come , actually january of 2009, the republicans are pretty nervous about opposing president obama. he has just won, his popularity is really through the roof. rep