Have your back in terms of all people in our country, including people of color. This spending bill, it does just the opposite. I hope the members will understand the message that were sending to communities of color in this bill and rectify some of the problems. You have a chance to reject further institutionization of any quality and injustice and recognize how painful these cuts will be to people of color and women. Im going to give you my examples and my amendment shows what im talking about. The jackson Lee Butterfield amendment, this would increase funding by 16 million for the office of job corps. This amendment is fully offset with the department of Labor Administration funds. I offered a similar amendment in committee, and while that amendment failed, i believe that this amendment before us is not subject to point of order. Its critically important. You know that many minority youths and disadvantaged youth who have benefitted significantly from job corps will be locked out of
Chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. Than the than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from arkansas, mr. Ill, for five minutes. Mr. Hill i thank the speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise today in honor of the bravery and courage of so many men who sacrificed everything on dday. At 5 52 in the morning on june 6, 1944, in a position about 4,000 yards from omaha beach, one of the oldest ships in the u. S. Navy, a wrorled war i world war i battleship, the u. S. S. Arkansas, opened fire on german positions on omaha beach in support of more than 30,000 american soldiers tasked with securing the beachhead. The heroes that stormed the beaches of normandy on that fateful day
There say vote going on. This is the way i handle the meeting. Im going to call on senator durbin because he has another important meeting he has to go to and so i want him to make his statement. Then ill make my statement. And then ill introduce the first panel and then we wont do anything until mrs. Feinstein gets here. So proceed, senator durbin. Mr. Chairman, thank you for doing this, this is out of order and for those that are new, i appreciate the courtesy extended to me by my friend from iowa. I have a Ranking Member of the defense appropriations subcommittee, we have a closed door hearing in a few minutes. But i wanted to be here today because this is the committees first immigration hearing and i made a conscious choice. I did that for several reasons. First, i am the son of an immigrant. My mother came to this country at the age of 2. Im honored to be a first generation american. And if youll come to my capitol hill office, youll see proudly on my crew denzia my mothers natur
I really appreciate it. Coming up on cspan3, a Senate Hearing on k1 visa fraud. The british house of commons and after that a look at the medicare independent payment advisory board. And later, legal scholars consider the record of Supreme Court nominee, judge neil gorsuch. K1 visas allow a foreigner who is engaged to usa resident to become a u. S. Resident and green cardholder. The Senate Judiciary committee holds a hearing on fraud. This is an hour and 50 minutes. Normally, i dont start a meeting until the ranking democrat gets here, but theres a vote going on, so this is the way im going to handle the meeting. I will call on senator durbin because he has another important meeting he has to go too. I want him to make his statement and ill make my statement and introduce the first panel and then we wont do anything until miss feinstein gets here. Thank you, senator durbin. Thank you. This is kind of out of order and for those new i appreciate the courtesy extended to me by my friend f
I really appreciate it. Coming up on cspan3, a Senate Hearing on k1 visa fraud. The british house of commons and after that a look at the medicare independent payment advisory board. And later, legal scholars consider the record of Supreme Court nominee, judge neil gorsuch. K1 visas allow a foreigner who is engaged to usa resident to become a u. S. Resident and green cardholder. The Senate Judiciary committee holds a hearing on fraud. This is an hour and 50 minutes. Normally, i dont start a meeting until the ranking democrat gets here, but theres a vote going on, so this is the way im going to handle the meeting. I will call on senator durbin because he has another important meeting he has to go too. I want him to make his statement and ill make my statement and introduce the first panel and then we wont do anything until miss feinstein gets here. Thank you, senator durbin. Thank you. This is kind of out of order and for those new i appreciate the courtesy extended to me by my friend f