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A senator are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer no, we are not. A senator thank you, madam president. I rise today because its my honor to introduce my colleague who actually needs no introduction but still for this speech today. Mr. Hoeven i have the pleasure to introduce kevin cramer who will be thriferring his delivering his official maiden speech to the senate. Ive known kevin for many years. Hes always been incredibly diligent worker for the people of north dakota. And he served our state in many different capacities. He served as tourism director and did a tremendous job promoting our state, promoting tourism, and really promoting the beauty and the history of our state in a way that brought a lot of National Attention and really made a difference in terms of tourism for our state. He also served our state as Economic Development director, something ....
I support airstrikes to take out the isis safe haven. The solution has to come through diplomacy not just a Global Solution but workout to get them the engaged. We dont need another ground war. I am against that but i am for targeted air strikes using every diplomatic option that we have that we have to stop the threat. We have family that is over there is very concerned. This is for a candidate eggman why start your political career with a run for Congress Might not a city council or local elected position . Look at the do Nothing Congress and career politicians. That is now with the founders had in mind when they came up with the representative for web democracy. Two infrastructure or education im interested in improving my community not just to have been tighter political gains for the last four years. I a understa ....
She has local and state level experience, serving senior roles in two denver mayoral administrations as well as extensive experience here in washington, serving as the chief of staff to former u. S. Secretary of transportation Federico Pena in the 1990s and more recently to hilda solis. Between her years of Public Service here in denver and also in washington, katherine consulted with charities, nonprofits, cities and regional governments and businesses to help them pursue Workplace Development and Crisis Management strategies. If you rook for a common thread, mr. President , throughout katherines career, its her capacity, her talent to work with individuals and organizations, identify priorities and then notably to create the conditions for successful impl ....
Week i hope this body can come together and reverse this provision which unfairly changes the terms of retirement for our veterans. Our veterans have stood up for us as a nation when theyre overseas and we must stand up for them here at home. The second, madam president , i want to express hope in the bipartisan spirit that just led to an agreement to debate the bill regarding restoring emergency unemployment. Ive had eight town halls over the weekend and i can tell you that it strikes people as fundamentally unfair that in states with high unemployment like the home state of oregon that these weeks of emergency unemployment which were a deal hammered out in a bipartisan fashion under a republican president , president bush, that this deal should be sent asunder. Indeed on december 28, 18,000 oregons families fought a lump of coal in their stocking. And in the course of this coming year another 58,000 oregon families will be thrown out in the cold, if you will, due to this action of fa ....
With each one of you to try to craft a longterm piece of legislation to guide our nations farmers and ranchers and give them the certitude they need. My home state is the home of over 48,000 farms, and we have over 1 billion in farm exports a year. So this is a pretty big deal to us. Im honored they gave me an opportunity to be here and work on it. We strongly prefer to keep the usda food safety and Inspection Service catfish inspection program. In addition, the setting of target prices, which are vital to many alabama farmers. I also support giving the livestock industry relief from the troublesome mandatory country of origin labeling mandates. The negotiations we face will be tough, and i am certain that not any conferee is going to go home with everything they want. But its important that we be responsible stewards of the taxpayers dollars by maintaining the programs that are working and reforming those that dont. I believe ....