Phan, house leaders peterson and fernandez fernandez, Senate Leaders gray and bradley, chief justice, members of the legislature and judiciary, my fellow arizonans, thank you so much for the warm welcome. Its great to be back. applause allow me to start with a question. Show of hands. Who here today in this chamber was born somewhere other than the state of arizona . As you can see, theres a lot of us. Ill always be a kid from toledo, and we have folks here from all over the country and all over the world. Its uniquely arizona. We choose to move here, live here, make this home, and were not alone. As we stand here today, more than 70 of our adult citizens were born somewhere else. So were some of our greatest state icons. Leaders like secretary of the air force, barbara barrett. Trail blazers like raul castro. Legends like jerry colangelo. Quiet saints like bill bidwell. Giants like sandra day oconnor. And heroes like john mccain and pat tillman. And the new comers keep coming. Last ye
Washington, d. C. March 21, 2024. I hereby appoint the honorable mary e. Miller to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, mike johnson, speaker of the use of the speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 9, 2024, the chair will now from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recoition between the parties with time equally allocated between the parties, and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from arkansas, mr. Westerman, for five minutes. Mr. Westerman thank you, madam speaker. I rise tote a significant milestone. The 50th anniversary of western energy alliance. Oil and natu and reliable sourcs of energy that drive progress, power industries, and fuel innovation. The alliance is a leader among the oil and gasdkâ– ons in understanding th
Here before. You all know the history of the historic home of d. C. s most successful brewer. We are not going to be talking about him today. This is a special story for us about Myrtilla Miner. Myrtilla miner opened a school. Ere 1853 Myrtilla Miner who was a white woman from new york moved down here and built the first africanamerican Teaching School for free africanamericans in washington, d. C. This is before the civil war. It was also called the minor school for colored girls the miner school for colored girls. She established the school in 1851 with 100 in her pocket. Most people thought it cannot be you bere and worse that arrested or killed when she told them what she wanted to do. Although she rallied support of abolitionists and others that sympathized with her cause, when she came here it was her own independent project. She mightght that have been some kind of tool of the abolition movement, really she came on her own at the start. Schoolst established the by the force of h
Historic home of d. C. s most successful brewer. We are not going to be talking about him today. This is a special story for us about Myrtilla Miner. Myrtilla miner opened a school here. In 1853, Myrtilla Miner who was a white woman from new york moved down here and built the first africanamerican Teaching School for free africanamericans in washington, d. C. This is before the civil war. It was also called the miner school for colored girls. She established the school in 1851 with 100 in her pocket. Most people thought it cannot be done here and worse that she could be arrested or killed when she told them what she wanted to do. Although she rallied support of abolitionists and others that sympathized with her cause, when she came here it was her own independent project. I had thought that she might have been some kind of tool of the abolition movement, really she came on her own at the start. She first established the school by the force of her own will, something which is unimaginab
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