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And her family as they begin this chapter of service to our nation. Thank you. We came to the floor and spoke about the forest fires in colorado, luckily weve had a great deal of snow on some of the most problematic concentrations and its slowed the fires down tremendously and given us a chance to fight back and make some containment progress so the news on the fire front generally a good news story today with more challenges to come down the road. Come to the floor to talk about the nomination judge Amy Coney Barrett will be placed on the United States Supreme Court. That will behi the Third Supreme Court justice that ive had the honor and p privilege of votingn in this congress and previous dicongress including neil gorsu, colorados own you gorsuch. Weve heard discussions about the federalist papers and Founding Fathers and intent and senate, the language of the constitution that points out the President Shall nominate and with the advice and consent of theen senate place justices th
Im congressman mark takano. I represent californias 41st Congressional District and serve as chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. On behalf of the House Democrats, i would like to start by wishing all of our veterans a happy veterans day. We cannot thank you enough for your service and sacrifice. I also want to thank nancy pelosi for her partnership and abiding commitment to advocate for our nations veterans. Throat 2020, our committee has worked diligently to advocate for veterans and ensure with the department of Veterans Affairs is equipped to carry out its first mission. Serving our veterans, even as we confront the covid19 pandemic. We also have opportunities for student veterans, to provide timely updates and information on its coronavirus response. Continue to prioritize Veterans Mental Health and continue to exercise our legislative and oversight functions. House democrats, also ensured a balloon water and Navy Veterans who were exposed to agent orange finally g
Makes this collaboration so important to me. My book is a snapshot of a. Ingular moment in history almost exactly 100 years ago. As the world finally began exiting from the devastation of the First World War and was able to begin the dreaming and planning for the peace and the new world that would come afterwards. Mythis moment, i show in book that women from farreaching and incredibly diverse parts of the world began stepping onto the global stage and asserting inserting an agenda of womens rights and gender equality that at the core demanded the rights for women to help shape this new world order and transform it into something that was fundamentally different that then what had given way to world war i. Ibook is a story of women from north america, europe, asia, and the middle east. It is a story of white, wealthy women and also sometimes desperately poor, workingclass women. It is a story of women that were married to tremendously supportive husbands and also women that engaged in
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