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From NBC's Wendy JonesUnder the calm gaze of the Statue of Freedom (actually a replica of the statue which graces the dome of the Capitol), leaders of Congress presided over the dedication -- finally -- of the Capitol Visitors Center. 





</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>Committee of the Hole</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/02/1695338.aspx#1695353</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:06:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1695353</guid><dc:creator>Owen Daniels, Oregon</dc:creator><description>How about replacing Senator Clinton with a male or female person of color... African, Native, Asian, or Hispanic? &lt;br&gt;Diana Owens, Tacoma, Washington (Sent Monday, December 01, 2008 5:34 PM)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;----------&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How about a one-eyed Frenchman with a lisp?&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Committee of the Hole</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/02/1695338.aspx#1695358</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:08:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1695358</guid><dc:creator>Dante Busher, MO</dc:creator><description>The Capitol Visitors Center was also built by slaves. Except now in days we call them taxpayers.</description></item><item><title>Committee of the Hole</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/02/1695338.aspx#1695363</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:12:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1695363</guid><dc:creator>MSierra, SF</dc:creator><description>Come ON, NANCY !!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Get SF our Chinatown subway&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It's time to fund the infrastructure and save energy with mass transit&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It'll money well spent&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Why not look into a Geary Blvd subway, while you're at it ?</description></item><item><title>Committee of the Hole</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/02/1695338.aspx#1695372</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:15:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1695372</guid><dc:creator>marty,columbia,s.c.</dc:creator><description> Sounds like a lovley ceremony, thank you for the news.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;marty</description></item><item><title>Committee of the Hole</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/02/1695338.aspx#1695387</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:24:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1695387</guid><dc:creator>MSierra, SF</dc:creator><description>According to a Huffington article, Al Franken may be withing 73 votes of Norm Coleman&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;An insider says it could be 1/3rd closer.....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;50 votes ??&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;They claim coleman is making frivolous challenges to ballots to make the margin seem biger than it really is.....</description></item><item><title>Committee of the Hole</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/02/1695338.aspx#1695388</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:24:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1695388</guid><dc:creator>jerry/corpus christi texas</dc:creator><description>Pelosi is one waste of woman. &amp;nbsp;The WORST house speaker in American History. &amp;nbsp;Imagine, shutting down the house for five weeks so she could go out on her book tour (which is a cure for insomnia). &amp;nbsp;That woman really needs to be removed as House speaker. &amp;nbsp;Maybe more and better things would be done if she was put back into the kitchen and get the dishes cleaned.</description></item><item><title>Committee of the Hole</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/02/1695338.aspx#1695424</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:46:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1695424</guid><dc:creator>Mark,Seattle</dc:creator><description>Let's put some of Kenn's &amp;quot;thoughts&amp;quot; together and see what we get.......&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;HAHAHAHAHAHAH OBAMAlosers you thought he would actually change things and look you got HILLIARY anyway hahahahahahahahahahah you see GATES hows that make your change feel and you know the best is that the obammawannabes still spin for him ohh how grand where is seirra now,hate hilliary,HA,shes your mouth to the world enjoy, HE WILL BE JUST LIKE BUSH with all his supporters yapping about the great job he did and before you know it eight years are gone and we can all look back and see the worst president in the world GWB,here is hoping I love hilliary and I like how Iraq is going with the surge and maybe things will work. Too bad LEFTIES your time came and went. You wouold have voted for hilliary but she was as the rev put it A WHITE WOMAN,but they found a token place for her cant wait till she resigns like cyrus vance because the plan is wrong baby and not sit idely by and watch as the president BUSH runs the country into a war that you POWELL wont support except to the UN and everyone who heard his voice only to come back later and try and sidestep responsiblity well he did endorse OBAMMA Jerry, ARNOLD replaced the liberal and now its hasta la vista baby for caleeforneeea. republicans suck as much as demorats and dont forget it give it 4 to 8 years and the voice of AMERICA will sing a new song called &amp;quot;dont blame me&amp;quot; like the BUSHIES are now you would never know half the country voted for him and have as much fault as he does.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Does anybody understand a word of what this guy is rambling on about in mis-spelled run on sentences? Here's my take on it......&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1. You all suck&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2. You are all doomed&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;3. I am safe to laugh at all of you because I never present any solutions. I only condemn other people's opinions with insightful witticisms like &amp;quot;HAHAHAHAHAHA&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;screw you for supporting a candidate&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;4. I need to go back to 3rd grade english class</description></item><item><title>Committee of the Hole</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/02/1695338.aspx#1695462</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:05:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1695462</guid><dc:creator>Dan St. Louis, MO</dc:creator><description>The Capitol Visitors Center was also built by slaves. Except now in days we call them taxpayers. &lt;br&gt;Dante Busher, MO (Sent Tuesday, December 02, 2008 1:08 PM)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you are referring to who paid for it, yes, taxpayers did pay some. &amp;nbsp;But the majority of the money raised to build the center was from private funding.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Jerry - Please tell us WHEN Pelosi supposedly shut down the house. &amp;nbsp;I have yet to see it, and yet you continue to mention it due to your hatred of Pelosi. &amp;nbsp;I'm not a big fan of Pelosi either, but be a man and make your argument based on fact, not on your dislike of a person. &amp;nbsp;Your comment about putting Pelosi back in the kitchen is a sexist remark.</description></item><item><title>Committee of the Hole</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/02/1695338.aspx#1695467</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:10:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1695467</guid><dc:creator>Dan St. Louis, MO</dc:creator><description>Mark, I too found kenn's statements to be nothing more than rambling rhetoric. &amp;nbsp;Did you notice that his first sentence goes on for 9 lines? &amp;nbsp;Kenn needs a lesson on posting coherently.</description></item><item><title>Committee of the Hole</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/02/1695338.aspx#1695476</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:15:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1695476</guid><dc:creator>Beverly in Chicago</dc:creator><description>Education and history are vital aspects of a nation’s being. This &amp;nbsp;is why so many people supported President Elect Obama’s vision. We are many one for all and all for one as we demonstrated after 9/11. &amp;nbsp;The diversity is what makes our melting pot so delicious. It gives me tremendous joy to have ancestors and one of a non-slave ancestor, but of the same mixture to continue part 2 of the vision of Lincoln’s endeavor. “A house divided cannot stand”! &lt;br&gt;It’s this type of Educational history which will enrich America’s understanding that building America’s future will require more engineers, doctors, technological agents, Indian Chiefs, butchers, bakers, and candle stick makers, to keep our house undivided.&lt;br&gt;Republican Sen. Mel Martinez articulated very well despite the atrocities imposed on his Cuban existence, anything can be accomplished in the American dream as well.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Let's get started before the next levy breaks.&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Committee of the Hole</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/02/1695338.aspx#1695495</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:22:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1695495</guid><dc:creator>Diane from Illinois</dc:creator><description>I see jerry/corpus christi texas hasn't gotten over the Mcain/Palin loss yet. Give him 4 or 8 years! HA!</description></item><item><title>Committee of the Hole</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/02/1695338.aspx#1695500</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:24:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1695500</guid><dc:creator>Pel Osinance</dc:creator><description>The Capitol Visitors Center was also built by slaves. Except now in days we call them taxpayers. &lt;br&gt;Dante Busher, MO (Sent Tuesday, December 02, 2008 1:08 PM) &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you are referring to who paid for it, yes, taxpayers did pay some. &amp;nbsp;But the majority of the money raised to build the center was from private funding. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Dan, St Louis MO&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;---------&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Maybe we can get some 'private funding' for all these bailouts congress is dishing out?</description></item><item><title>Committee of the Hole</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/02/1695338.aspx#1695526</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:41:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1695526</guid><dc:creator>Ron Indiana</dc:creator><description>Jerry: I bet you do not know Nancy Pelosi and have never met her. &amp;nbsp;Actually she has had a remarkable career and is now the most powerful woman in Washington--Third in line to be POTUS. &amp;nbsp;Please base you comments on facts. &amp;nbsp;Opinions are like a$$ holes, everyone has one. &amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>Committee of the Hole</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/02/1695338.aspx#1695548</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:55:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1695548</guid><dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator><description>Ron Indiana&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Bush is not in line to be president, he IS president.&lt;br&gt;Cheney is first in line, Nancy P. is second in the line of succession. Facts indeed.</description></item><item><title>Committee of the Hole</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/12/02/1695338.aspx#1695565</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:01:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1695565</guid><dc:creator>Dan St. Louis, MO</dc:creator><description>Maybe we can get some 'private funding' for all these bailouts congress is dishing out? &lt;br&gt;Pel Osinance (Sent Tuesday, December 02, 2008 2:24 PM)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;That would be nice Pel, but I wouldn't count on it. &amp;nbsp;Most companies are more interested in their own self interests like profits and market shares than they are helping the country when it's down. &amp;nbsp;And if not for this country and the principles it was founded upon, many of these companies would not exist.</description></item></channel></rss>