Prayer. Almighty god, our father in heaven, grace this capitol centerpiece of our nation, as we bestow the congressional gold medal upon the great hero, Raoul Wallenberg. Forgetesolved, never to 6 million of our sacred brothers and sisters, over one million children, killed in the senseless slaughter during the holocaust by the not see butchers. As we pray for the survivors who need your support in the twilight of their days, let us resolve never to forget Raoul Wallenberg, a great light in the darkness. You, almighty god, command us to cherish and preserve all live. Raoul wallenberg did this at the risk of his own, and 100,000 people, those he saved, and their descendents, live and breathe, and work to make your hisd better as result of ultimate sacrifice. Words of those, those engraved on the metal, he lived on through all those he saved. Through this special and historic space, and the presence of our leaders, on the half of my fellow americans, we beseech , until when . Senselessor
Hungary, which was an allie of nazy germany. His assignment was a result of a recruitment of oss to save the remaining hungarian jews from the holocaust. In this effort, mr. Raoul wallenberg exceeded beyond all reasonable expectations. He provided swedish passports to thousands of jews. Literally made the difference between life and death. Mr. Raoul wallenberg raised the swedish flag and protected by diplomatic immunity. Within these buildings, he housed, protected, and saved almost 100,000 precious lives. Mr. Raoul wallenbergs bravery and will to act as an example to all of us. Raoul wallenberg once climbed onto the roof of a train with jews departing for auschwitz, handing protective passports through the doors amidst threats from guards. He got dozens of those is a in a diplomatic convoy. As Adolf Eichmann moved to kill all the remaining jews in budapest, Raoul Wallenberg had a plan to threaten hungarian leaders with the promise of hanging for war crimes. Raoul wallenberg was taken
Thank you. Thatet me remind you also in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. [applause] senator goldwaters acceptance speech at the 1964 Republican National convention, this weekend on american reel america. Sunday on cspan3. House gaveled the out on thursday, steny hoyer talked about the upcoming legislative agenda with the incoming majority leader, kevin mccarthy. Role taken up usually by the current majority leader, who is set to stay step down from his current position at the end of the month. This is from the house floor and is about 15 minutes. I suppose the majority leaderelect. A few weeks from now. But well be doing the colloquies and i appreciate his stance. We had the opportunity to have lunch. Im hopeful we can have a very productive rich as im sure this house and relationship as im sure the house and the country hopes. Im pleased to yield to the majority lead hrn elect. Mr. Mccarthy i thank the gentleman for yielding. I look forward to a very strong working relationship wi
Pauses in the projects. If you could just respond to that question. Sure. One of the reasons that we have had the pauses that weve had on the project is in being mindful of the budget. We have a large Technical Team on the consultants side and the city team. When the city team isnt clear, we use up the budget and the product at the end of the day may not be what we need. Thats in part why weve had these pauses. Were fairly close to the end of phase one. We put forward the options of the corridor and the next piece is to put them in to concept. In terms of planning, im sorry, i think that was your question. Did you want to speak to the land use issues . Thank you. So, the project manager at planning did begin work just this week, and we have had an initial discussion about the need to get together and frame or develop how these two efforts are going to go forward simultaneously. That was created in order to develop kind of missing piece when redevelopment went away. We really need to lo
Caltrans is securing a new vendor and bikes are just stacked up. Theres a longer term study to see other fixes. Maybe expanding the footprint of the station. Second street, i dont need to mention since we just had a presentation. If youre interested, plans and programs on sfgtv. We have it listed as a bike project with input from the mta and the community. The treatment of the bike facility, covering market, sorry, Second Street between market and king. I will flag as the executive director mentioned. Applications for 1 bay area grant funds are due at the end of the month. D. P. W. Will submit this for obag funding. Another one i want to mention because its starting to kick off is prop k funded several years ago, an annallocation. That grant was received and done really before the m. T. A. And city realized they needed a complete streets bond. I believe a couple weeks ago, the m. T. A. Kicked off community comprehensive planning and walking tours and all sorts of efforts to try to coor