President and ceo of the National Council of the nations largest hispanic civil rights and Advocacy Group on the state of hispanics in america. Immigration reform and her compelling personal story. The great privilege of experiencing the American Dream in this country born in kansas my parents actually came to this country in the very early 50s, very early 50s, my parents came from mexico with very little education. My dad had a fifth grade education, and they believed in the promise of this country and they were seeking better opportunities for their children. They worked really hard and sacrificed and so many latinos and hispanics in this country because they wanted that better teacher for their children and believed in the promise of this country so they taught important values that have been our guide for our allies, my six brothers and sisters but they taught us the importance of family, faith, Community Hard work sacrifice, honesty, integrity. All of those were important values t
7488002. Guantanamo bay prison, what should be done with it . Withary miami herald the story. Sixdeal that dropped detainees in uruguay is seen as the vanguard of future south american settlements in attempts to close guantanamo. Rogers, who is currently the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee was on cnn cost state of the union yesterday. [video clip] them are not from uruguay. There from all over the rest of the world. Some of the services that do these agreements cant do it. We pay money. To these countries who take these prisoners that is not their culture or they are from. The services are supposed to monitor these people. What we have found in the past is that it does not work very well. I do not think that surprises anybody. Maybe we ought to rethink what we are doing here. Some past released prisoners are reengaged in the terrorist fight. Those of us who try to do the review of this were so concerned because they were so interested in getting them out, they forgot due d
First got elected was the issue of the National Guard came up and i was on armed services. A lot of those guard folks were being deployed multiple times. And it was very, very difficult for their families. And a number of us recognized that what we needed to do is build facilities, upgrade facilities, get rid of those old facilities and replace them with Readiness Centers to train and equip our troops in the event that we had to send them overseas on a mission, which we id many, many times. But we needed to construct those facilities also for their families, for their spouses and for their children. On the Appropriations Committee what tom latham did was make sure we had the funding, to make sure we built those facilities as well. So we were able to work on that issue together. And then when the great flood of 2008 hit across iowa, but mainly across the eastern half of iowa, it included a lot of tom lathams district and a lot of it included my district, about half of the damage was in
Each entrusted to cooperate the making of just laws. Would promote the flourishing of human freedom. Let your light break forth among these our Public Servants. Give us faith that as each new day is bright with promise so, too, is your spirits power to transform blame and bitterness into concord and unity for the sake of the common good. To you therefore generous spirit of god we commend our work this day that we might walk freely in your light. One people, whose future is filled with hope. Amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last daycein a aoues to the hseisppva tof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance today will be led by the gentleman from kansas, mr. Pompeo. Mr. Pompeo i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic r ittas,neatn underodinvibl wh bey d ste r l. The speaker the chair will receive a message. The messenger mr. Speaker, a message from the president of the Unite
Impressive. 5. 6 inches of rain, up in st. Helena. Santa rosa over five inches of rain. Two and a half inches at napa. Nearly two and a third inches in oakland. Nearly 2. 2 inches in San Francisco. Three inches in redwood city. Total at livermore coming up to nearly an inch it will be w area wide. Large massive rain beginning to push east and in the wee hours of the morning rainfall breaking up into showers. But that still means we have lots of active weather coming our way. Because of the storm, in jose, a roof partially collapsed this afternoon. Chris nguyen is live with the story. Chris . Dozens of firefighters still remain on the scene here in east san jose. Police officers have secured a parking lot area, making sure that no one comes in. That no one comes in. If you take a look behind you can see the personnel. This is a partial roof collapse before 4 00 p. M here and crews believe all have been accounted for. Were told one Person Injured their leg, but firefighters are relieved,