Four. I am neither the first or the last. The point that i wanted to reflect was that this is a tradition in the history of. Ociety people have to put themselves on the line. People have to take risks. Citizens have not just an , notest but nomination just believing in idea but standing for it in challenging the government when it goes to backfire. If we see our constitution being a violated on a massive scale by we have been demanded our officials to smirnov that they will protect becomes diffusion against all enemies not just foreign but domestic as well, we have a duty to stand up and do something about it. I tried my best to do that. I will hope that others will do the same in the future. I hope that will have no need for something as dramatic as we have seen in the last year. The last one, i have lost track of. Sorry. Are you working on a tool to protect journalists . That is still an area of active focus. I am doing a lot with the freedom of press foundation and doing other thing
And saved many lives and thanks for your considerable effort there. The dedicated u. S. Team that joined the response effort deserves our gratitude and as you already mentioned mr. Chairman and Ranking Member mentioned, six of our marines paid the ultimate price to help the nepal ease people and they will be forever missed. And as soon as i heard, i remember this, the ambassador voicing his concern to us as we drove through there about the stone buildings and brick buildings and vull vull vulnerability. You but longterm maybe preventing more people from losing their lives down the road and how we can assist. Thank you for what you have done and i yield back. The chair ms. Meng would you like to make an opening statement. Ms. Meng new york city is home to thousands of citizens from nepal and we have districts throughout the burrough of queens. I want to thank all of your departments for the Immediate Response to the crisis and your ongoing efforts. A tragedy like this one every minute a
And i do know that its up nearly 90 so far in the First Quarter of this year. Around 54 officers killed in the line of duty. The exact total i dont have. Judge poe i have more questions and i will submit them in writing. Thank you. Chairman the gentlelady from texas has a unanimous consent motion. Representative jackson lee may i just say one or two points, mr. Chairman . First of all, let me ask to have unanimous consent to enter into the record the following documents and statement from the aclu, statement of the National Urban league, executive order 136 88 which provides federal standards for acquisition of military equipment, a letter from mr. Scott and colin requesting a hearing for myself, im sorry. For mr. Scott and mr. Cohen. And an article entitled, Law Enforcement warrior problem to be added into the record. Chairman without objection. Rep. Jackson lee and if i might make one simple comment. That is i want to express to all of you, the significance of your testimony. That th
Their website, www. Cspan. Org a emeicanhistory. You can get the schedule. To mark for being with us and enjoy your weekend. Thank you for being with us and enjoy your weekend. Vice President Joe Biden is speaking this week at the u. S. Naval Academy Commencement exercises. He will also be handing out diplomas to the newly commissioned men and women at the academy in annapolis maryland. We had hoped to bring you like coverage of the remarks by the Vice President in the commissioning but we are having problems with our live signal from annapolis. We are recording the event and we will show it to you later in our program schedule. This tweet from New York Times julie davis this morning, a line around the corner here at the dos israel that rivals any high holidays crowd to hear obama speak this a. M. Referring to remarks by the president at the adas israel conversation at washington, d. C. We will have that live at 11 00 a. M. Eastern time today on cspan. Here are some of our featured tok
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