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Greenlight Strategies, LLC. Life needs more greenlights
Washington, DCJoined February 2009

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Born on this day in 1882 (141 years ago): A. A. Milne, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1956) Creator of the beloved Disney character, Chinese President Xi
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On this day in 1967 (56 years ago): The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love. Smelly Hippies
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Born on this day in 1381, Saint Colette of Corbie (d. 1447) Due to a number of miraculous events claimed during her life, she is venerated as a patron saint of women seeking to conceive, expectant mothers, and sick children.
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On this day in 1984 (39 years ago): US and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress's discriminatory 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy.
Born on this day in 1735 (288 years ago): Archbishop John Carroll, founder of Georgetown University (d. 1815) (Little known fact, it was once a Catholic university)
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On this day in 1929 (94 years ago): Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
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Yet still, I woke up this morning, kissed my wife, walked my dog, started my car, and went to work. Perhaps, thought this Grinch, maybe life doesn't come from Congress. Maybe life … perhaps … means a little bit more!
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House Dems will continue to put people over politics. Republicans are putting politics over the people. And so America lacks a fully formed Congress for the first time in 100 years.
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The current debate in Congress is not about a single person who should or shouldn't be Speaker, it is about those who are ok with status quo in Washington DC and those who are not. Out of control spending, tax funded abortions, anti-parents - that is the current status quo.
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Chaos? Not knowing how a vote will turn out isn’t chaos. Nor is it chaos when things take time to happen. It may be inconvenient, inefficient, and scary to not know what will happen. But it isn’t chaos.
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Om this day in 1953 (70 years ago): Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress. This was first time in the recorded history of Congress that a Congressman ate all his vegetables during his term
On this day in 1962 (61 years ago): Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
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I hereby announce my candidacy for Speaker of the House. I will bring to the Chamber the order and decency it deserves.
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On this day in 1170 (852 years ago): Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church.
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Today in cultural events Part III: In 1963, The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" are released in the US, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.
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Today in cultural events Part II: In 1919, Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino
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Today in cultural events Part I: In 1799, Henry Lee III's eulogy to George Washington declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen".
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