openly hostile environment for black and lgbtq americans and that desantis is making aggressive attempts to erase black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in florida schools. the group s leader was doubling down on all of this earlier. the governor has perfected to gain c campaign contribution. we should not use race or othering as a tool to weaponize against people. unfortunately for a large percentage of floridians, that s what he has done. therefore we are advising african americans and others that if you travel to florida, beware that your life is not valued. that we have a political landscape that could cause harm. dana: team desantis responded to the travel advisory calling the whole thing a stunt. byron mcdonald is slamming the move. it s silly, dumb, political. makes no sense. we should be focusing on making sure people have the opportunity to achieve which florida is actually doing in thriving and way better than other states.
A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from washington. Mrs. Murray i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. Mrs. Murray i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mrs. Murray thank you, mr. President. Mr. President , i come to the floor today to talk about an issue that is critical to patients and families in my home state of washington and across the country. Today parents are wondering if they will be able to get the health care that their kids need, and communities are wondering if theyll be able to provide it. Thats unacceptable. Congress has to swiftly and fully restore the Childrens Health insurance program, or chip, and funding for other Services Families need, Like Community Health Centers, which have been waiting now more than 100 days for a longterm solution. And they should do so without making deep cuts to successful prevention programs in the ce
3f developmental. We press on with testing and it will be critical that the program rapidly correct these deficiencies while mitigating the impact. The programs commitment is to mitigate these risks Going Forward and to do so within the bounds of the budget while delivering the full capability. Meanwhile, the programs focus is shifting to operations and support of inservice aircraft. The program has accumulated 50,000 flight hours and with 152 aircraft operating at eight bases across the country, the feedback on the aircraft and support systems is beginning to shape the programs priorities. The marines have two full squadrons in operation today and will stand up their third this june. They are Building Momentum as the service in the f35 effort gains capability and confidence and employing it tactically every day. They have demonstrated operations in 29 palms. They are training british pilots as well as marine corps pilots in beaufort, north carolina. Marine pilots love this plane. The
Fraction of a second. As the seat comes out and hits the wind blast, it begins to decelerate. If you wait just a fraction of a second before you put that main chute out, the seat has decelerated enough so when the force of the parachute comes out isnt as severe. To get to that solution, we are putting a switch on the side of the ejection seat, so when the pilot climbs up into the cockpit, can set that at heavyweight or lightweight. There are a number of ways we could have solved that problem. We could have put an automatic sensing system into the seat, much like when you sit in your car on the passengers side and the seat knows youre there and the air bag gets energized. We also could have put a switch on the seat that would have had the maintainers put it in the heavier or lightweight position. We went back to the war fighters and said, what solution do you want . We can solve this problem in a number of ways. They said we want the pilot to be responsible for moving that switch. We wa
No, it did not. I mean, were always were always assessing our posture and where we can put our assets. Not something we normally get into much detail on but we always want to make sure weve got our assets positioned properly. As we see where, you know, the focus of our strikes are based on the fluidity of our battlefield maybe we need to reposition our assets to make sure where were spending more time in the air weve got an asset closer to respond if needed. Hi, colonel. As a followup to this question, given the different tactical capabilities of the f16s and a10s is this deployment indicating tactical change in the mission as well or will they do exactly the same thing that f16 did . And the secondly, you mentioned about syrian iraq coalition. What is your understanding about the Syrian Forces . Patrick asked this question last weekend and he said he would look at it. What is your understanding about this new form and is this indicating the same thing or Different Group or can i get y