Couple storms and theyre like knocked off 1020 feet in 11 week end yeah and so theres been marginals i have to do journalism students and where are they kids right now journals about their worries about the floods i dont think are as a catch on fire but a fire house flooded as the very next thing they all wrote on their own was that our us flooded we would grab and they got some of it like the box of pictures by the door and. So. They saved up your sleeve and stressing about it my mum and. Dad was hard. What are you. Ive heard the letter. Was. My 1st year here which was 15 years ago. I thought. You see these commercials you know about helping another country. And im thinking look at this place. And why isnt there a commercial to help the people here like theres not Running Water in the houses and and theres you know the so they still have this honey look at system they have to haul their water like this is not america anymore you know not the america i grew up in this is like wow. Newt
Newtok is a very rural. Community with their language and their culture and their subsistence its really strong here still and thats a good thing but worst Case Scenario my fear is that a couple of houses are lost families or are displaced and have to move to other communities or bethel with other family members and that yeah this that that new village doesnt get built quick enough for new talk to move there and then it the Community Ends up repairing out. What they see the river the truck. Well. For folks who believe that sense of belonging is taken away so then you have to try to reestablish that feeling of belonging. You not thank you every day that i got a whole lot of money here you get those conveniences but what you lose is the access to food and the access to community and when youre part of the tribe its very difficult to leave and not kill a sense of loss. To see this gas station or. Someone going to some guy was shot here last summer got killed right there the gas station a
School or even getting out of new top because theyre worried about that kind of stuff and just these last 2 storms have taken so much away you know he went measure the last couple storms and theyre like knocked off 1020 feet in 11 weekday yeah and so theres been marginals i have to do during the students they were out they kids right in their journals about their worries about the floods i dont think are as a catch on fire but a fire house flooded as the very next thing they all wrote on their own was are as flooded we would grab and theyve got some of the box of pictures by the door and. So. Theyve obviously been stressing about it oh my beautiful. Things hard. Paying for it are you. Ive heard no i do not know how. My 1st year here which was 50. Years ago. I thought. You see these commercials you know about helping other countries and im thinking look at this place. And why isnt there a commercial to help the people here like theres not Running Water in the houses and and theres you k
Quorum call the presiding officer the senator for mississippi. Without objection. Under the previous order, all postcloture time has expired. The question is on the nomination. A senator i ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second. There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any other senators wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 556789 the nays are 42. The nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator follow alaska. Mr. Sullivan mr. President , i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to legislative session for a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Sullivan mr. President , i
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