PAGE A6 National IN SIDING WITH BOEHNER, FRESHMAN FINDS HER VOICE Representative Renee Ellmers, Republican of North Carolina, was elected to Congress in 2010 with zero political experience.
Sadly, a new rising voice, Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, was robbed of the chance to make more of an impact when she was critically wounded in a mass shooting outside Tucson in January.
"We want enemies and the whole world and all of our citizens to know that America speaks tonight with one voice," Representative Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri, the House minority leader, said.
A fifth segment, "Children Waiting," presents a collage of faces and voices representative of the nearly half-million children, many of them older, who get lost in the cogs of a foster-care system that sometimes fails to provide their most basic needs.
House Republicans held control, but as many as 16 incumbents lost, including some of the party's most uncompromising voices, like Representatives Joe Walsh of Illinois and Allen B. West of Florida, who refuses to concede his seat despite his continuing deficit in the vote count.
From October 1988 to September 1994 the voices of representatives from Sinn Féin and several Irish republican and Loyalist paramilitary groups were banned by the British government from being broadcast on television and radio in the United Kingdom.
But several representatives voiced fears of trade tensions.
The change has the oil industry raising an alarm — and energy state representatives voicing 11th hour concerns.
He recalled how "the voices of patriotic representatives boasting of freedom and equality," in the nearby Capitol almost commingled with "the rattling of the poor slave's chains".
He went on uninterrupted for seven minutes, and when the fusillade was over, one of the representatives voiced a small objection from an industry lobbyist that Montana wheat would make for low-grade ethanol.
