Her partner please give a warm savanna welcome to jacquira diaz. Thank you so much. I am so happy to be here and its wonderful to see all of you book lovers here. And thank you savanna for your southern hospitality. I also want to thank the savanna book festival and everyone who made this event possible lets give it up to the indie booksellers in the room. I love you all. Thank you for all that you do for loving books and championing writers. Because of you im here. Thank you. I want to open with a just the just a little piece that opens the book it functions like we were the girls who strolled onto the blacktop. Going towards the boards letting the world spin. The wind in our hair. We were the loud moms and the troublemakers. We were at the party girls. Hitting the clubs in height top jordans. We where the wild girls who loved music and dancing. Girls who were black and brown and poor and queer girls who love each other. I had been those girls on a greyhound bus. Homeless and on the r
Washington, d. C. March 21, 2024. I hereby appoint the honorable mary e. Miller to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, mike johnson, speaker of the use of the speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 9, 2024, the chair will now from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recoition between the parties with time equally allocated between the parties, and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from arkansas, mr. Westerman, for five minutes. Mr. Westerman thank you, madam speaker. I rise tote a significant milestone. The 50th anniversary of western energy alliance. Oil and natu and reliable sourcs of energy that drive progress, power industries, and fuel innovation. The alliance is a leader among the oil and gasdk■ ons in understanding th
Of his administration. Also, celebrities meeting with kanye west this morning. The president will be in wisconsin and we will bring you live coverage of his thank you to her. This morning, the president elect officially announced the nomination of exxon mobil ceo Rex Tillersons secretary of state. He says mr. Tillerson has spent jobsareer protecting the of his employees. Mr. Tillerson knows how to manage a Global Organization and successfully manage the complex architecture among world leaders. His understanding of geopolitics for him an excellent choice secretary of state. And heres mr. Tillerson himself from three years ago, talking about dealing with russia, where he has several businesses. They referred to success in russia, one of the members theyd like to comment on the future of the russian oil and gas industry. Well, russia continues, you know, the nation continues to evolve its own economic structures, certainly, its own legal structures. Weve been there a very long time. Weve
Change. There is a difference between being out of the seat and in the seat. Take care. [inaudible] like i said, we are about to see a collapse in syria, iraq is falling apart. That is where we need to focus our intelligence efforts. [inaudible] groundskeeper, i think, at the white house. Carson . What are you meeting about today . Hello, how are you . I am well. We had a very productive meeting. He has really cool stuff in his office. All of these athletes who have given him this memorabilia. I guess it takes a champion to know what champion. We got down to more Serious Business and we spent time talking about china. A rising adversary. We talked about hacking. We talked about the opportunity the president elect has to literally reset things, to reset the trajectory of this economy, to reset the role of government, to reset americas role in the world and how we are perceived in the world and i think it is why he is getting such fantastic people in his administration. The high quality
Change. There is a difference between being out of the seat and in the seat. Take care. [inaudible] like i said, we are about to see a collapse in syria, iraq is falling apart. That is where we need to focus our intelligence efforts. [inaudible] groundskeeper, i think, at the white house. Carson . What are you meeting about today . Hello, how are you . I am well. We had a very productive meeting. He has really cool stuff in his office. All of these athletes who have given him this memorabilia. I guess it takes a champion to know what champion. We got down to more Serious Business and we spent time talking about china. A rising adversary. We talked about hacking. We talked about the opportunity the president elect has to literally reset things, to reset the trajectory of this economy, to reset the role of government, to reset americas role in the world and how we are perceived in the world and i think it is why he is getting such fantastic people in his administration. The high quality