A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from indiana. A senator is there a quorum call . I ask it be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. A senator i rise do to prevent americans from losing their jobs and shipped to other countries. I always fought to protect american works and ensure we have federal policies that benefit our workers in indiana and across the country. Mr. Donnelly in my home state of indiana, our workers are being hit particularly hard by jobs being lost and shipped out of america. Recently more than 300 workers at the carrier plant in indianapolis were laid off and hundreds more are slated to lose their jobs just days before christmas. Theyre not alone. Over 2,000 hoosier jobs have been or are scheduled to be eliminated and outsourced at nine different companies. These are more than just statistics. These are moms and dads, sisters and brothers, husbands and wiv wives. Our friends, our neighbors, folks we go to church with, men and wome
Mr. President , i yield the floor and suggest thank you very much, mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, im going to talk first about the devastating fires that are pounding my state and then im going to talk about the new legislation introduced earlier by our colleague senator graham, senator cassidy and senator heller. With respect to the fires, i spent much of last weekend essentially going from one base camp to another visiting six counties, to get updates at fire camps and Emergency Operations are . In these travels, i saw major fires burning in oregon from our northern border with Washington State to our southern border with california. Two of these fires were so large they cover more than one county by i believe it was important to visit both their eastern and their western fronts. Doing so in each case took almost two hours driving from just one side of the fire to the other. Of the 1. 5 million acres burning in the west last weekend almost 500,000 were burning in my home state alone. No
The way the oregon settlement took place in the willamette 43lley after the trains in 18 and 1844, settlement was north to south. He freefree land t land was given out to the north. Eugene is at the end of the Willamette Valley. Those that wanted more population wanted a shortcut from this main oregon trail that ended up to the north. It is kind of a mixed bag story, because it is a difficult passage. It winds up bringing more people to lane county, so we were at the very end of the Willamette Valley. The museums collection begins in 1951 at the end of the oregon trail, when one of the principal founders of the oregon trail project basically donated his collection, which became the Museums Foundation collection. You are standing in front of the oldest covered wagon in the state of oregon. The wagon came across the south shoulder of note in 1850. Hood in 1850. Mt. It came with a doctors family. Doctors family that was six kids. Mama was pregnant, and she gave birth on the south shoulder
The Lane County Historical Museum exhibit, lost towns, which is a social history of the logging industry. It took its inspiration from the idea of ghost towns. Here in this part of oregon we dont of the classic old west ghost towns. We have counted were abandoned for various reasons. This section discusses what life. S like for the loggers wendling was started getting used in the 1880s and was run by private companies, which is typical for early logging in this part of the country. Small companies would take over a site and usually over capitalize by investing in machinery or manpower. In the site the transfer hands. Changedame wendling hands about every year between 1880 and 1896. It was purchased by a few men 1896. Corporated in they ran it as an organized logging camp. It really was rough living. They did fieldwork or accommodations. They built a bunkhouse. The bunkhouse got to be a bit of a joke among the men. They did not have the best access to sanitation, so the bunkhouse often
The way the oregon settlement took place in the willamette 43lley after the trains in 18 and 1844, settlement was north to south. He freefree land t land was given out to the north. Eugene is at the end of the Willamette Valley. Those that wanted more population wanted a shortcut from this main oregon trail that ended up to the north. It is kind of a mixed bag story, because it is a difficult passage. It winds up bringing more people to lane county, so we were at the very end of the Willamette Valley. The museums collection begins in 1951 at the end of the oregon trail, when one of the principal founders of the oregon trail project basically donated his collection, which became the Museums Foundation collection. You are standing in front of the oldest covered wagon in the state of oregon. The wagon came across the south shoulder of note in 1850. Hood in 1850. Mt. It came with a doctors family. Doctors family that was six kids. Mama was pregnant, and she gave birth on the south shoulder