Leaders are not allowing lengthy debate. Later this week theyll take up a bill funding defense related programs, also for energy, water, legislative branch, v. A. , military construction. Votes later. Live coverage now here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Lord our god, thank you for giving us another day. As they are returning to the capitol, please be with the members of this peoples house and all their undertakings today. You know them through and through. You know how they relate with one another and know them as the American People do as the 115th congress of the United States. Lord, help them to know you. As ultimate truth, send your spirit upon them that you might find a dwelling place among them so that all your people can place trust in them as leaders as well as their representatives. May all that is done this day be amen. Ur greater glory the speaker pro tempo
Security. This will be the first public address of its kind that kelly will give since his swearingin. We are honored that he chose us for the venue for this speech. We are currently ranked as the most politically engaged student body in the nation. That means our students are actively involved in the events of the day all across the spectrum. We talk about giving students a front row seat to the theater of history, and this is a good example of what that means. We are also glad that we have been supporting veterans actively in the Yellow Ribbon program for a number of years. Currently, we have 1800 veterans and their dependents being educated here. Specifically on the topic of todays conversation, i want to talk about longterm involvement in Homeland Security issues. First of all, all four of secretary kellys press secretaries have visited our campus. I think they highlight the work we do in this field. The faculty at George Washington the faculty at George Washington has been working
Kelly to our campus. We are looking forward to hearing his Strategic Vision for the department of Homeland Security. This will be the first public address of its kind that secretary kelly will have given since his swearingin on january 20. We are honored that he chose George Washington as the venue for this major speech. We are frequently ranked as the most politically engaged student body in the nation. That means our students are actively involved in dialogue, all across the political spectrum, and i am delighted a number of our students are able to be here today. We talk about giving our students a front row seat in the theater of history and this is a , good example of what that means. We are glad to be supporting veterans actively in the Yellow Ribbon program for a number of years now. Currently we have 1800 veterans and their dependents being educated here. But specifically on the topic of todays conversation, i want to talk about our longterm involvement in Homeland Security iss
A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. A senator are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are in a quorum call. Mr. Pryor i would ask that it be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Pryor mr. President , i rise to talk about the business on the floor, which is the omnibus appropriation bill. Let me start by thanking chairwoman mikulski for her leadership. She has put long hours in this over the christmas and new years break where most people were home with families and doing things in their home state and on vacation, she never stopped working, and her team, her staff on the Appropriations Committee never stopped working, and the staff as always is kind of the unsung hero around here. They did so many great things to put this together, both democrats, republicans, house and senate. Everybody had to Work Together to get this done. Im proud that they did. Im also proud to be the one of the appropriations subCommittee C
And hes that guy. So i dont i mean i just think that america, like everyone else believes or most people belief, is at a crossroads right now. If you go to other countries, especially asia and other stuff, importing all their students to get educated here and exporting all the brain power out right after that, i think its a real problem, you know . But theres nhing i can do about that except try to make great music and great headphones. Next question, please . I really enjoy the conversation you all were having about the Entertainment Industry an the how it relates to the Technology Industry because i come from an industry thats sort of a marriage of both, the video Game Industry. Of. I study at the school of cinematic arts but my specialty is video games. My question, inhe spirit of all that great informati sharing you all obviously do between the music and film stry, where do you think we are . What are the big challenges in trying to work more together than the current state of affa