but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. chair now recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. shimkus, for five minutes. shimkus: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, another group that to pause and thank is my campaign team and supporters. how diverse this group is. they are young and old, they are live in poor, they towns, villages, and isolated country roads. ideology, rvative in they identify as republicans, libertarians, and even independents. these are the people who walked parades. they helped pass out balloons, political signs. hey took down signs of all sizes. they organized fundraisers both big and small. manned booths at county fairs. what causes people to give up talent, and heir their possessions to a candidate, party, or cause? t is at the heart of a representative democracy, our constitutional republic. going to cast a vote for you, shouldn t you know their beliefs? about an l strongly issue, wouldn t you want to help a kind red spirit? started
deviance tour ann arbor addition it s my honor to be here this evening with some wonderful cohost before we began and get into official introductions i would be remiss if i did not acknowledge the pain our nations feeling amidst the lost of black lives at the hands of enforcement there may be black folks watching and your life matters. to my predominately white fans, we must do better. i have posted a link in our crowd cast of scription for those looking to make a difference. in the meantime, please join me in a moment of silence to honor the lives of breonna taylor, george floyd, ahmaud are buried, and too many others. thank you. and now i m excited to introduce joe by saint gregory okay joe from ann arbor pride. i think i know it, you can talk a little bit about the great work they do. thank you eric i really appreciate it hi everyone i am the director of an over pride also sit on the board of the community center in ann arbor. we are so thrilled to be cosponsoring this a
year. the prince actually hadn t attended the state opening i don t think since 1996 before last year, though he had attended several before then. so this is the second time that they ve attended as a couple, and they are now arriving at the sovereign s entrance under the victoria tower, and what we ll see a little later on is charles and camilla seated at the queen s side just on the right-hand side of the main throne in the ceremonial chairs, the chairs of state which are being brought in for them. so this is a relatively new development that we re seeing. a real sense as well, nick, last time, although these obviously are things that we deal with sensitively, that is by the way the duke of norfolk, he is in charge of the really big events of state, including coronations, state funerals, really significant events. he is here today because really he s the organizing mastermind of the state opening. i just mentioned the sensitivity around the understandable process of looking
hawk. this year s proposal just reversed it and wants to retire the u-2 and keep the global hawk. when you flip-flop completely within one year it doesn t give you a lot of confidence these poem proposals have been thought out. if you talk to commanders in korea they want to keep them both with the volatile young leader now in charge in the north. but the other reason i m not willing to accept many of the administration s proposals is that i m not willing that we have to accept that we have to have a smaller military or a smaller role in the world. most republicans and many democrats are not willing to throw up our hands in retreat and resign ourselves to a smaller military and smaller role. because we know as the united states retreats others will fill that void and those others will not move the world towards greater freedom and greater prosperity. the united states is exceptional and it is exceptional in a way that no other country in the world is. president also accuses r
u.s. student loan debt. later, discussions about cyber security and business. now a senate hearing on training firefighters who respond to firefighters. mark begich questioned officials representing the forest service and firefighters about the resources needed with increasing firefighters in populated areas. this hearing is an hour. thank you so much for being here. it s a pleasure to have folks here. this is the subcommittee on emergency management intergovernment relations in the district of columbia. i apologize. i have a cold so i m suffering through a cold. so i appreciate you being here. i want to thank the witnesses to be here especially on short notice to lend their expertise to our discussion. we are here to look at the problems that are serious and concerns to many states for a while now, and that s wildfires. this is a challenge that confronts communities of all towns, villages, cities, states and the federal government. as a form