Mr. Cotton madam president. The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. Mr. Cotton in the next few days Senate Democrats will move to discharge a war powers resolution to tie the president s hands in defending this nation against iran and terrorist masterminds like Qasam Soleimani. Lets think about how we got here and the implications of this reckless action. Qasam soleimani has the blood of thousands of americans on his hands and hundreds of thousands of innocent souls across the middle east. For more than 20 years he was the Supreme Leaders most trusted lieutenant, irans terror mastermind, the man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of american soldiers in iraq and afghanistan by supplying the most deadly kind of roadside bombs soldiers ever faced. He and his proxies and iranian leaders like him are responsible for bombings of our embassies in places like lebanon and kuwait. Theyre in no small part responsible for the ongoing horror of the Syrian Civil War or the civil war in
Plan. We managed and run special interpretive programs here and was anyone here . Some have experienced your own british okay bigs or perhaps liberation . This is something that is our what year in a row doing a is called flag ship living history event. On to streets philadelphia and. Magine what life like one agenda is presenting the fall of 1777 in a complicated for many of the people who remained in the city occupation but maybe a liberation for many of the perspectives. Being ote about it liberated from a congress, people come to museums to learn to ll different ways encounter the real things of human , to have a experience to connect to it. H first person programming like some of you may our program and spoilers at the end of his life but he maybe doesnt know that yet. We do larger events and very to say, its a pleasure to ers oduce this set of speak because i have benefited from a strain of scholarships that reexamine whats life is like this occupied cities in new york last work
Special programs here, was anyone here for occupy philadelphia in the Opening Weekend we just went through . So some of you have just experienced your own British Occupation, or perhaps liberation and the perspective of many people, this is something, it is our third year in a row doing what we call a flagship living history event, we placed about 70 costume interpreters out on the street of old city philadelphia, and imagine what life was like under british rule. One of the big agendas of this event is to present the fall of 1777 in a complicated way. To show that for many of the people who remain in the city that winter, this was an occupation, but maybe it was a liberation from many in their perspective. They read about in the period being liberated from the tyrannical usurpation of an arbitrary congress, which is maybe something we could all aspire to. laughs so we do this with Living History Program in part because people come to museums to learn in all different ways, to encounte
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