I will be your moderator for todays debate against senator ben sasse and democrat chris janicek. Follow on social media. Find us on facebook and twitter. And at the nesen. We welcome those watching nationwide on cspan tonight. The next hour, the candidates will face questions from nebraska journalists. The rules are fairly simple. Each candidate will have three minutes to respond to the question with 32nd rebuttals if needed. Onwill begin with questions domestic policy and transition to Foreign Policy. Before the debate, we held simple coin tosses to determine the order of different parts of the debate. As a result, the first candidate to present an opening candidate is mr. Janicek. Ready to go. I am going to start off with a personal story. Me, andry personal to it is the reason i am in this race. My father died of a heart attack when he was 54 years old. His father, my grandfather, died of a heart attack when he was 58 years old. My greatgrandfather dropped dead at age 60. When i tur
I will be your moderator for todays debate against senator ben sasse and democrat chris janicek. Follow on social media. Find us on facebook and twitter. And at the nesen. We welcome those watching nationwide on cspan tonight. The next hour, the candidates will face questions from nebraska journalists. The rules are fairly simple. Each candidate will have three minutes to respond to the question with 32nd rebuttals if needed. Onwill begin with questions domestic policy and transition to Foreign Policy. Before the debate, we held simple coin tosses to determine the order of different parts of the debate. As a result, the first candidate to present an opening candidate is mr. Janicek. Ready to go. I am going to start off with a personal story. Me, andry personal to it is the reason i am in this race. My father died of a heart attack when he was 54 years old. His father, my grandfather, died of a heart attack when he was 58 years old. My greatgrandfather dropped dead at age 60. When i tur
We welcome those watching nationwide on cspan tonight. The next hour, the candidates will face questions from nebraska journalists. The rules are fairly simple. Each candidate will have three minutes to respond to the question with 30second rebuttals if needed. We will begin with questions on domestic policy and then we will transition to Foreign Policy. Before the debate, we held simple coin tosses with the campaigns to determine the order of different parts of the debate. As a result, the first candidate to present an opening candidate is mr. Janicek. Mr. Janicek ready to go. I will start off with a personal story. It is very personal to me, and that is the reason i am in this race. My father died of a heart attack when he was 54 years old. His father, my grandfather, died of a heart attack when he was 58 years old. My greatgrandfather dropped dead at age 60. When i turned 50, guess what . I had a massive heart attack. I had been to the doctor just a week before because i was afraid
Lives they force us to close schools, shut down restaurants, shut down major events and temporarily shutter businesses across our country. Ne the sacrifices have been necessary for the sake of public health, to help flatten the curve so our medical facilities dont become overwhelmed. Theyve also been disruptive, frustrating, and in some cases scary. Despite the emotional and economic toll this crisis has taken, we have seen countless acts of compassion, generosity, and selflessness all across theam country. Americans has stepped up to help each other despite the new threat. I want to make sure the americany people know that since the very beginning of this crisis, nebraskans have been on the front lines. 113 americans were evacuated from a cruise ship in japan in late february, they were taken to the National Quarantine unit at the university of Nebraska Medical Center in omaha as nations only federal quarantine unit they were also trusted to care for the americans recovering from a eb
Funds cost 7 billion every month, and thats just for the army. Mr. President , we have an opportunity to correct this or we have an opportunity to waste another 20 by a yearlong c. R. I am urging the American Public to make it known to those of us at veterans day programs this weekend and next week. Im urging my colleagues to stress this when they talk to the public. There are there are appropriation bills that are not yet worked out but for heavens sake, lets at least do the bill that pays the troops that sends a signal to the rest of the world in these trying times that we are at least going to fund our Defense Department and our future veterans who are on active duty and who have taken the oath today that we will do them in a modern and timely fashion. Were five weeks late. Lets dont make it another five weeks after this and another five months after that. Pass a fullfunding appropriation bill for our troops, for the department of defense, and give them the type of representation an