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 that is certainly near and dear to my heart. Ive always believed that job creations are job one. To me thats the engine th
Begin the next segment. Come get your seats in the main ballroom. F the panel on addiction in just a second i will read it wrote it. Jane whats new and newsworthy . Get some of the latest information about Addiction Recovery research. Trying toi kept convince dr. Clark that the best way to have any kind of research is to put a chip in the ear and track people. Was then director of and used to say my attitude was a bit of republican conservatism and not very american. However, today, as years have passed, i have a thing on my wrist called a fitbit that keeps track of every step i take. I look get people at this convention and i see lots of piercing, and other things, ears, everywhere else. It seems to me we need to become a tracking mechanism for folks who do research so that people will know exactly what happens if you move into an oxford house. Get involved in the democracy of the house. When the kind of selfreliance and selfrespect that comes from oxford house. You will probably stay
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Natividad, president of the guahan coalition for peace and justice and a member of the Guam Commission on decolonization. Well also speak with david vine, author of base nation how u. S. Military bases abroad harm america and the world. Then, sphere of influence how american libertarians called the Atlas Network are remaking latin american politics. While politicians operate within the confines of what they consider possible, atlas and our Global Partners think it is more costeffective to change what is considered politically possible. Venezuela as well as those that ousted the president , we will speak to the intercept Investigative Reporter lee fong, who just published a , major expose on the group. Then we talked to a yemeni student who among thousands, one a visa from the diversity lottery. Well also talk with a veteran state Department Official who says taking visas away from lottery winners is the cruelest possible thing this administration could do. All that and more coming up.
And 42nd street. Leave yourself extra time if youre coming in from the east side a live look outside, the Alexander Hamilton bridge. Things moving along nicely. Work on the cross bronx expressway, some minor delays there. More weather and traffic ahead on the fours. New this morning, we have new Surveillance Video of a man police say preyed on a jogger in Prospect Park. She was running early yesterday morning when the suspect attacked her and threatened to rape her. Jen maxfield is live with what police would like you to see today. Reporter thats right. Its an incredibly frightening situation. The woman is 23 years old. It was around this time yesterday morning when she was out for that Early Morning jog when she was attacked on the west side of Prospect Park near garfield place. She was able to get away from the man who throat eatened to rape her but no before he slashed her police are releasing a new sketch that they hope makes a break in the case. He has light facial hair, stands ab