members of the legislature, chairman, distinguished guests, fellow nebraskaens, and of course, our first lady, hope she s on this side. suzanne. [applause] she always gets better applause than i do. before begin, i want to recognize your newest member, senator theresa thibedeau from omaha, a small business owner and involved in early childhood education and her background and experience will make a great contribution to this body. welcome, i look forward to working with you. [applause] to all of our senators congratulations on the commencement of the 105th nebraska legislature. working together is in our dna and the hallmark of nebraska s nonpartisan unicalmeral legislature. working together is what helped build this great state. we know this from our history. this year marks the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i. during world war i nebraskans came together to raise private dollars to form a field hospital to take care of wounded soldiers returning from the front.
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i chose to become a democrat primarily because of social issues that i have been engaged in for many years gay-rights issues that have worked on immigration issues. issues that i felt the democratic party had a more po sitive policy response to. i didn t change parties with an idea of running again or anything, i just felt workable ending what i thought would be my career in that regard. finish the sentence the state of congress today is what? representative ashford: sad. i am very sad about it. i came from a nonpartisan place by constitution. it is surprising to see all of the dysfunction built around partisan politics. maybe i expected that. but the inability to do with the great issues of our time. in nebraska, we dealt with immigration. we did the best we could. we ve dealt with some of the social issues, health care issues, and other things that can be a cost here. i am just sad about it. i work here as a young person in the late 1960 s, early 1970 s. i was a much
china is a partner with us. we exchange students, exchange faculty come all for the betterment of scholarship and for research. not directly involved in those sordid discussions but it bears, we may be able to play along the way we might think about how we can be helpful to someone. i will add one more point because it s important. they re making a lot of judicial changes. they established a special is ip core to your ip cases. this is a national court, not local. it s a national court, very much looking through it as an experience or judicial reform, greater amount of transparency into the recordation of their opinions, allowance of our discovery and maybe even greater damages or towards along the lines for ip rights. those are positive changes we re looking forward to. i think they re working very hard on. i think it is a positive step. out of are basing office we ve been working with the ip court in the last six months they been established. doing training for the judg
numbers it is still something that is at a young age and something i would like to point out if it is great for the fight to have their resources create faculty and faith-based undocumented youth but it s also important to note a lot of higher education comes from high school and it starts from there. that is very important to point out. send the mouse ever mentioning about faith-based. i actually had the opportunity to talk to my counselor when she actually encouraged me. unfortunately that is not the case for undocumented ear through their first encounter as a guidance counselor, teacher considered being encouraged are actually being discouraged to even think about possibilities because that is due to the lack of knowledge. something else we wanted to point out that we fundamentally believe the greater impact for undocumented people when undocumented people are part of the process. after all who better to understand the need for undocumented people than the undocumented peo