And in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, r. Thompson, for five minutes. Mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to speak about the strengthening career and Technical Education act for the 21st century, which well consider on the floor this champion. I proudly champion on the floor this afternoon. Im proudly championing this bill. America is ready for wain. First, id like to thank the house education Work Force Committee chairwoman Virginia Foxx and Ranking Member bobby scott for their support in bringing this bill to the floor. Want to thank the democratic lead, representative raja krystal griner, and my colleague and c. T. Caucus cochair jim langevin. Mcmorris hank cathy rodgers, leader mccarthy and steve scalise, who remains in awful our prayers for a full recovery. This legislation ai
Im recently elected president of the ewan aitken United Nations Association National capital area chapter and im just pleased and tickled frankly to see on an august day maybe because its a cool august 8 what a fantastic turnout on capitol hill on an august 8. And naturally due to the extruder line up of people who are going to be presenting a talking to you today im sure and that brings you here. Five years ago maybe even before five years ago United Nations with the cooperation and certainly of the United States and with many countries around the world began to plan for the future of world Global Development that would apply not only to the least developed countries duchesses will equally and universally to the critical states of affairs for human rights and for development in the best equipped countries including the United States. Out of that conversation came this extraordinary set of Sustainable Development goals to help lead the way for all countries voluntarily, and portly volu
Hill on an august day. That is due to the extraordinary lineup. Five years ago, maybe even before five years ago, United Nations, with the cooperation of the United States and with many countries around the world, began to plan for the future of world Global Development that would apply not only to the least developed countries but just as well, equally and universally, to the critical rightsf affairs of human bestr development in the equipped countries. Including the United States. Out of that conversation came this extraordinary set of Sustainable Development goals to help lead the way for all voluntarily, importantly voluntarily, to collaborate on how we will achieve the outcomes of those goals as set forth for the years of 2013 and 2030. So already it has been in progress to talk about. The millennium Development Goals that were really quite extraordinarily successful. By focusing across the world the attention of development agencies. But now focusing the attention of almost all l
Schools abruptly closed. We will watch the lobby at trump tower in new york city for the next several minutes. [background sounds] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] again, we are looking like a trump tower in newark city. Authorities engaging with a couple of young protesters there today. President trump is in the belly. He is expected to leave at two p. M. Eastern. He will be visiting wall street today, and later on had back to the golf resort in new jersey. The president will sign a bill that will end a 15 year limit for veterans to use their education benefits, the bill also restoring benefits to veterans whose schools abruptly closed. Cspan where history unfolds a daily. In 1979 cspan was created as a Public Service by americas cabletelevision companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Now to remark some
An august day maybe because its a cool august day what a fantastic turnout on capitol hill and that is due to the extraordinary lineup of people who will be presenting and talking and that brings you here. Five years ago maybe before five years ago the United Nations with the corporations of the United States and many countries around the world began to plan for the future of world Global Developments and it would apply not only to the least developed countries but equally university to the critical space and affairs and human rights for development in the best equipped countries including the United States. Out of that conversation became this extraordinary set of Sustainable Development goals to lead the way for all countries voluntarily to collaborate and how we will achieve the outcomes of those goals as set forth for the years 20152030. We are two years into this and already theres significant progress to talk about the build on the progress of the millennium the following goals t