A heavy rain fall here wooded golf course in jeans mill resort and spa, the house republican this week is hidden a significant slyness retreat. Media allowed construction meeting, let reporters anxiously waiting for a puddle filling parking lot, separation of the restaurant.
Club room a TV card c-span, retired Wyoming senator Conrad provides a PowerPoint presentation files of the federal budget, wear glasses before the senate budget committee chairman hum of bellow, his former colleagues not to take any action to reduce debt. A chart and main points of the long list. This is 9, it's too early to excited.
A boring reporter to go, grab the TV remote control.
"I can't take it anymore," he said. "I'm sorry."
He changed the channel on CNN, this is a story about Notre Dame DE Paris football star man Thai T 'eo and "virtual girlfriend mystery". No one in the room protests.
An assistant came in, everyone allowance up. Perhaps, he brought a congress meeting some information?
"How the white-collar prison?" He asked. Have the person and he. Everyone is looking forward to in their computer back.
In its opposite, work behind closed doors way to use their own advantages in the house majority status, and at the same time bolstering the party's image, disappointing after the 2012 election, by a small forces surrounded by armed guards, republican conspiracy.
America's founding fathers - imitation brought from the nearby colonial Williamsburg - the existing members of the night before. Wear the most fashionable in the late eighteenth century, actors dressed in Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson's republican senator speeches, perhaps to remind them that they should strive for. Virginia's governor Bob MacDonald also stopped, as well as the erik Weihenmayer, the first man ever to climb the mountain. Mount Qomolangma. According to the people, the room was fascinated. He talked about "adversity" is an advantage, resonance of the 113th congress house republican message. Said: "we see this vision, he even can't see, a participants' introduction, fear.
But motivation is only part of the plan. During the meeting policy meeting is so sensitive, even some staff shall not enter. Just (Thursday) at 11, the speaker suggested all assistant "relevant" conversation, please forgive yourself. In the room talk, focused on the party's path, in the next three years, for "intense".
Information is so nervous, and even appeared an internal debate whether should let the reporter sees the agenda. In the end, assistant into the a notice information hunger, teachers of the law. Scan files, reporter noticed that the republicans will held on Friday the group discussion, titled "successful communication and discussion, minorities and women" in the "set off plantation" room resort, it is named after the slave owners in Virginia. And then, of course, immediately gave a exciting "incurable diseases" pictures and sing.
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5 hours of waiting, arrived the first congress meeting with the press. This is important: the house budget committee chairman, former vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan even someone.
Ryan is wearing a pair of recreational khakis and open collar, provide a detailed discussion. Republican leaders work hard, he says, to ensure that the whole party on the same page, they will be how to deal with the upcoming legislation and democratic battle. The party's more tea party, facing the members need to understand, not to make any progress will be proposed and if they continue to refuse to compromise, Ryan said, he has been assured them, school leaders will work hard to reach an agreement, in order to reduce the country's soaring debt problem.
Soon, Greg walden, Oregon republican and the national republican congressional committee's new President, a club of recruiting new candidates run for office trip. He mentioned, the republicans bring more women and minorities party positive attention.
"Obviously, we must solve this problem. We have 50000 a young Hispanic voters reaching the age of monthly," he said. "We need better communication... we may not know how, we say someone else is explained, we want to sensitive and understanding."
Not long after, the reporter put forward the meeting agenda, has been leak out a few hours ago.
"In bad communication vein, the reporter began," I don't know you know but in the discussion room tomorrow successful communication and ethnic minorities and women were held in a room named after the former slave holding plantation. Well, have the person think? "
Walden countries answered and said, he is not responsible for the schedule, the Democrats met together before at the same hotel, they must be in the same room. But it did not let him off the hook.
"Why panel of three white guy?" According to another reporter asked.
Walden sighed. "This is above panel of three white guy," walden said, correct. "I mean, come on."
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