Into the navy in world war ii. With the start of the war, our nation needed the strength and talent of everyone, and the navy started the Program Women accepted for waives, women accepted for voluntary service or the w. A. V. E. S. She had a degree in business and was one of the first women to take courses at harvard. As the war moved on women took on greater and groater roles to parachute riggers to gunnery instructors. For my navy women were not allowed to serviceallow ed to serve overseas until the end of the war in 1944. When we decided that hawaii was once again safe enough, it was a base of Planning Operations and we would send w. A. V. E. S. To help continue fight the war. Lieutenant winifred wick wasquick was selected with two of her friends to go and set the stage to bring in over 5,000 w. A. V. E. S. To support the war effort. She was pretty excited. Then she told me this remarkable thing happened. And i was astounded at the story because im from colorado and nothing like thi
Will to fund frontline forces as constituents asked me to ask Prime Minister . I think my honorable friend is right. Because we made the pledge in our manifesto that there be no further reductions in Armed Services numbers, and i think thats right. With a visit to present him with the extra commitment we are making throughout this parliament we can now have a strategic defense and security review that looks at options for how to make this country even safer. The way the chancellor of the defense secretary have set it up is to make sure we include in this looking at options for counterterrorism, for intelligence and security as well as defense assets to make sure we do everything we can at this time of heightened security to keep a britain is safe. A combination of changes made to the state pension in 1995 and 2011 will mean that many women born in the 1950s will not have the kind of retirement that they hoped for. Given a senior Civil Servants and the judges and even members of Parliam
Of individuals like the clintons, who worked hard for the middle class throughout their entire lives. [applause] hillarys here today to talk about economic growth. She is here to talk and take your questions regarding our economy. We had this promise here in america. That promise is if we all work hard and we play by the rules we can get ahead. You folks who dont know me, i have run a business here for 40 years. Im in the boat business in dover. I can tell you that they are saying a rising tide floats all boats. I can tell you that the greatest expansion in peacetime since world war ii is during a time that the clintons from arkansas occupy the white house. [applause] and i dont know about you but we are still here in dover we are still members of the working class, middleclass families, and we need an ally. We need an ally in the white house. That will not forget where they came from. I can tell you and you have my word that the clintons never forgot where they came from. Ever. [appla
I am asking a question to the chair if you would agree with my observation. One reason i think statements have been made over there is they never believed we will get past a six year highway reauthorization bill over here. I am going to make it a deal so we can have the vote to take place and get on with the last and final vote so we would have that ready while the house is still in session. Whether individuals are facing themselves in the corner or that is not going to happen i dont know. Isnt it worth a try . That is my question. Let me respond to my colleague from oklahoma and thank him for his bipartisan leadership. You and senator boxer set a standard of bipartisanship when it comes to this issue. You have produced a sixyear authorization bill. Though i may not agree with the particulars thank you for that leadership on your bipartisan bases side. As far as the effort to speed up the senate so we can catch the house colleagues before they leave, i would support it completely but y
It is nothing more than an advertisement for the realtors to sell the mountains off to people that live a broad and are ruining it for the locals. There are lobbyists pushing down in raleigh to get funds for projects to help develop which is actually destroying our state because we dont have any jobs anymore because they were all off short to china. Offshored to china. Guest obviously you have a disagreement with the way that your tax dollars are being spent. That is why we have elections, to elect people that are responsive to the people that they serve. Host scott in maine. An independent caller. Caller back when the stimulus thing was going to rebuild bridges and highways. For this fella that is on right now, wanting to raise taxes another quarter on gas. Gas is cheap right now because of all the fracking and whatnot. People are catching on to fracking. So gas aint going to be cheap forever. That quarter you are talking about is just going to add to the burden of people who already