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The speaker the house will be in order. Pursuant to the order of the house of january 4, 2021, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. With time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Quigley, for five minutes. Mr. Quigley thank you, madam speaker. And now mr. Speaker. By rejoining the Paris Agreement, President Biden has promised the world the u. S. Will retake its position in the fight against Climate Change and be true to its word to meet our commitments to reduce Greenhouse Ga ....
President s budget request is just that. It is a request. It does start the annual budget process and gives us here in congress the opportunity to learn about the administrations priorities and how it carry them out. But ultimately its up to us to determine what kinds of programs to fund and what levels. This years budget request is far from perfect i agree the priority must be on Fire Management and improving the health of our forced. Im encouraged the administration is proposing to invest significantly and hazardous fuel reduction and other active Forest Management activities. We know such investments pays dividends hopefully well see this important work plan and carry it carried out without any disruptions. Thanks to our work on the consolidated preparations after 2018 which provided new Budget Authority to figh ....
Kudos to Technical Service division who successfully completed the code update. This was a huge undertaking involving coordination and tight deadlines. Thanks to all the dbi staff. And finally, id like to recognize a great employee of our city for many years and who is just retired from the department of dbi, like to recognize bill strong. Is bill here . I owe him a big lunch because i was away when he retired. During his time, he impressed us very much with his knowledge and professionalism and attention to detail. I know i speak for my colleagues as well when i say we will miss him. He was a great anchor for the department and his history goes back to senator feinstein and i was talking to john about it earlier, he took a little time off in the middle and then back to dbi for, i believe, 13 years was the time . I dont know how many times i tried to upset bill and i could not. [laughter] and i made genuine efforts to do it. He ....
Alexandertut here. Clinch here. Jacobo here. Lee here. Moss here. Tam here. We have a quorum. And our next item is item 2, president s announcements. President mccarthy good morning and welcome to the bic meeting of january, 2020, first of the year. And welcome, everybody. Kudos to Technical Service division who successfully completed the code update. This was a huge undertaking involving coordination and tight deadlines. Thanks to all the dbi staff. And finally, id like to recognize a great employee of our city for many years and who is just retired from the department of dbi, like to recognize bill strong. Is bill here . I owe him a big lunch because i was away when he retired. During his time, he impressed us very much with his knowledge and professionalism and attention to detail. I know i speak for my colleagues as well when i say we will miss him. He was a great anchor for the department and his history goes back to senat ....