Happy pride, jason, i love you so much, and i would love for you to have the opportunity to say a few words. I do want to say a few things thank you so much for this recognition. It truly is a very special night i want to thank all of the people who before me stood up and fought for equal equal rights. Many gave their lives to a cause that paved the road so i could stand here today. I never imagined growing up in an Italian Catholic family and an environment where i did not feel comfortable being myself. One i wasnt sure of my path and that one day i would be recognized for my work, especially during pride month. San francisco is my home and will always be my home. I am excited to see where it goes. It is such an honor and a pillage to call this place our home and i look forward to the future. Happy pride. [applause] okay. Next up will be supervisor more mar. Thank you so much for this opportunity to acknowledge begin work for pride month acknowledge meghan work. While San Francisco ha
Month. I thank you for your service and your advocacy and i would like now to turn the floor over to an officer and the pride alliance. [applause] on behalf of the pride alliance, i would like to thank you for this recognition. It means the world to us. A little history on the pride alliance, it was created in 2001 when a group of courageous San Francisco Police Officers who identified as lgbtq establish an organization because they felt the department needed to change and that the relationships between the lgbtq officers and the department needed to be flourishing and needed to change for the better. I dont think those officers would have thought we would have had a rainbow s. U. V. Rolling around the streets of San Francisco or that Police Officers from the department, lgbtq, straight, allied, members of the command staff and the chief himself will be Walking Around the month of june wearing pride patches, which we would like to thank the commission and the command staff for allowing
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With great internet. Wow supports cspan as a Public Service along with these other Television Providers giving you a frontrow seat to democracy. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudibleh conversations] the hearing will come to order. I welcome you all to todays hearing [inaudible] servicemembers put their lives on the line [inaudible] make sure the nations [inaudible] okay. That could be trouble. All right. Can we get the other brokerages like a started here . Servicemembers put their lives and their health on the line when they put on their uniforms here and in return we have a profound responsibility to make sure that the nation is doing all that he can to keep them safe, to prevent battlefields and training casualties, and to provide the best possible care for those who are injured. We are holding this hearing over there . Good. We are holding this hearing because dod is not beating its responsibilities when it comes to traumatic brain injuries and other injuri
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. March 5, 2024. I hereby appointhe honorable Claudia Tenney to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, mike johnson, speaker of the house of representatives. Po pursuant to the order of the house of january 9, 2024, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority lea the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with time equally allocated between the parties and each member other t majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyd 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the the gentleman from pennsylvania, mrm speaker. Madam speaker, i rise today to honor and thank and express my sincere gratitude for an Incredible Group of students at penn state university. This group of students has spent the last year