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The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. November 14, 2022. I hereby appoint the honorable mr. Can hey lay to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben would you pray with me. Holy and eternal god, praise be to your name forever and ever. All wisdom and power are yours. When measured against your authority and dominion over the whole of creation, any advantage we boast, any victory we claim falls short. Humble us we would acknowledge all we have is yours and any influence we wield is held accountable to your design. Immutable lord, you change times and seasons. Depose rulers and raise up those who would replace them. Shape our sense of success into an awareness of and commitment to our responsibility to live into your
As you provide them with your wisdom to meet the challenges they face. May they trust you completely, whether in the sunshine or storm. Help them to remember the many times you have helped them when they had no solutions for their problems. Lord, lead them to be such true stewards of our National Trust that they will transmit this nation to our decendants far greater than it is today. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , july 9, 2014. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable edward j. Markey, a senator from the commonwealth of massachusetts, to p
That we do live in the world the year 2013 that no airport has been named after someone who can say that they are openly gay, that they are open member of the gay lesbian community. No city in the world is done that. To the extent that San Francisco can be proud of so many things, one of the things that i am very proud of when i think of San Francisco is the fact that we have always been at the forefront of civil rights and at the forefront of lgbt rights. And there is a place in this world where i hope the city would be open to recognizing the contributions of an openly ldbt person. I would hope that that place would be San Francisco. One of the things that struck me about this conversation is something that we learn about harvey milk. When he was first elected, he understood the significance of his election. I would like to share with you a part of what he said. It goes, the hope speech often talk about. This is what he said to use his own words two days after i was elected i got a p
And so to the question of why harvey milk, why not someone else . That is a legitimate question. I can tell you as an openly gay man that i do think that there is something disturbing about the fact that we do live in the world the year 2013 that no airport has been named after someone who can say that they are openly gay, that they are open member of the gay lesbian community. No city in the world is done that. To the extent that San Francisco can be proud of so many things, one of the things that i am very proud of when i think of San Francisco is the fact that we have always been at the forefront of civil rights and at the forefront of lgbt rights. And there is a place in this world where i hope the city would be open to recognizing the contributions of an openly ldbt person. I would hope that that place would be San Francisco. One of the things that struck me about this conversation is something that we learn about harvey milk. When he was first elected, he understood the significa