And in both chambers of congress and the nation was formed. Like most americans on my life journey i have overcome adversity. By the grace of god, where is 12yearold my dad died of a heart attack. I learned at an early age, each day of this life begins. My brother martin passed away. This type of debrief of losing a family member. Every moment, every chapter of our lives is a gift. As it has been for most chapters of my life i didnt come here in the traditional or easy way. I think governor doug doocy for the blessing to serve the great state of arizona especially during these times of unprecedented challenges. Accepting the governors appointment by the most prestigious, and governing body, like most missions in my life, high risk, high purpose and ever, becoming a us senator is the alternate expression of this, do things afraid. In my fight for the grand canyon state. I gave my maiden speech on this floor, gave my approach through 26 years in uniform. The best of your calling, dont wa
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Rollcall joins us for that. Whitehouse, chief correspondent, thank you for joining us. Thank you. Tell us about the efforts coming from speaker pelosi. The Speaker Nancy Pelosi is strenewing the call for removina number of statutes and the collection that on people who either fought for the confederacy homeowner otherwise involved with the confederacy, the most notable name most of people are actually honored in the capital was a statute from the collection of statutes for each state would probably be Jefferson David who was the confederate president during the war. So each state gets to defend the statues. Speakable estate wants to basically for them to be removed by what is called the joint committee on the library which is actually a Standing Committee that is basically the leadership of the Administration Committee and the senate and the house Administration Committee in the house prayed and they want to remove the statute anyway. And what we have heard, from republicans at least,
[background sounds] its my distinct pleasure at this time to introduce senator first from iowa. If you would please join me in welcoming the senator. [applause] good afternoon everyone. Hows the day going for you. Very good good. Thank you. I am joni ernst and in the junior senator from the great state of iowa another great honor of surfing my constituents in an area of course that many of us are very concerned about. Thats exactly why you are here today but again thank you katarina very much for the warm introduction and it is a privilege to help kickstart this commission. And i look forward to keeping up with all of the great work that you will be doing. It is truly incredible that such a Promising Technology like ai can touch who many sectors of our society. From government to academia and many other areas in between. And as a member of the senate on services committee, i viewed much of the development of ai through the lens of national security. Ai and Machine Learning art rapidly