Thank you. Thank you. Speaker cards for the regular agenda and foreclosed session are necessary if you wish to address the board of education. Members of the public are reminded that an individual can complete a speaker card prior to the item being called. You can present it to the executive assistant at my right, to your left. Members of the public have two minutes to address the board and or the time as set by the Vice President. Importantly, according to board rules and procedures, speaker cards will not be accepted for an item already before the board deputy superintendent . Thank you, Vice President sanchez. Good evening, everybody. Good evening, commissioners. I am standing here for dr. Matthews tonight whose youngest son, anthony, is in a commencement ceremony, he is graduating at San Francisco State University, so we extend our congratulations to matthews family. [applause] with that, i will mention a few items. This past thursday, students in the John Oconnell high school help
Quite logical to me, of course, it is somewhat classicistic, it is more classical, but consider that we do not have such infrastructure, its very good all kinds of innovative things, because now we actually have to build what youre talking about, and its a classic for the nation, but in general the world trends that were coming to a new culture of memories, so we have to complete this gestalt of the old classic and not to prevent the creation of new memorials, for example, a memorial was recently opened. The heroes of the gcc were actually trained in vyshgorod, this is an example of such a modern memorial. And i have already said about slavy park, which is located in the center of the city, in the center kyiv, yes, by the way, not far from the lavra, not far from the museum, the future museum of the holodomor, ah, not far from this stele that is now there, ah, and this place itself, ah. In fact, this glory park was built back in 1957, and some soviet soldiers are buried there, some ukr
Step out of partisan boxes and work with me to find Real Solutions to real problems. Weve done it time and time again. This time it didnt work. Nearly four months later, im still deeply disappointed that we didnt solve the border crisis for my state and for our country. But to use this failure as a political punching bag only punishes those who were courageous enough to do the hard work of finding compromise in the first place. So, who will be courageous next time . Who will stand up and do the hard work . Who will take the risks . Who will say yes, ill help solve this big challenge our country faces . Why would anyone . We dont leave today with a political victory. No one wins. No one gets the higher ground. Instead, were saying to each other, dont step out, dont try to solve big problems, stay in your partisan corner, yell some more, blame the other side. Today, yet again, the senate has chosen politics. But my state is still suffering, and as i said on the floor back on february 7,
Journal comes your way tomorrow at 7 00. We take you to the house of representatives. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by guest chaplain pastor Mark Westerfield, Central Baptist Church, round rock, in round rock, texas. The chaplain let us pray. Our father in heaven, i am humbled to stand before you in these honored and distinguished men and women today. To stand in the gap and offer this prayer. Today we gratefully recognize the gift of life, liberty, and responsibility you have given us to lead this great country. On behalf of these men and women, i ask for wisdom, discernment, and unity as they carry the weight of caring for the close to 350 million citi
Rise up to meet you, as the day rises to meet the sun. Humble our lawmakers in your presence that they may delight in the power you provide. Help them to remember that before honor comes humility. Give them also the wisdom to know that their sufficiency comes from you. Teach them your wisdom, as you infuse them with the spirit of reverence for you. May they make the commitment to faithfully serve you and country with their whole hearts. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. Morning business is closed. Under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the branstad nomination which the clerk will report.