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Contributions. Heres a look at what dick durbin had to say on thursday from the senate floor. Mr. President , i would like to speak for a moment about the veterans day, which is just two days away. On saturday, the 11th of november, americans will honor the courage and sacrifice of veterans. More than 40 million have served our nation in uniform, from bunker hill, baghdad and beyond. Ive been thinking about the words of one of those brave patriots, the son and grandson of military leaders. When his time came, he too went to war, and he suffered horrific deprivation and excruciating injuries. Y...

To war, and he suffered horrific deprivation and excruciating injuries. Years later, he said few veterans chair a romantic remembrance of war. He said, a million tragedies ensue when wars are fought. War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud can sentimentalize its cruel reality. Those are words of a friend and colleague, john mccain. We owe him and all of our nations veterans and families our profound gratitude and respect. Senator mccain endured more than 5 1 2 years, 5 1 2 years of torture as a prisoner of war during the vietnam conflict. When he final hi came home, john...

Review of the republicans tax plan freom earlier today. Well leave it here. You see it at cspan. Org. Committee members returning from a break to continue their work. Live coverage here on cspan3. Were going to continue with another round of questions about the modification. We will then conclude this portion of the markup at the completion of that round. And i hope everybody zpt havedo have to ask questions. At that point the modified mark will be open for amendments. Before we continue for the next round, i think its open for amendments now, but well do it for sure then. Before we continue w...

To learn firsthand how it is changing lives at the most basic level. I learned about the tremendous support vida usa has from the bay area to peru because of its mission and its beloved cofounder. [ speaking spanish ] it was a spectacular 25thanniversary gala, with 900 donors and the consul general of peru in San Francisco, candy chavez. Haydee rodriguezpastor is the cofounder of vida usa and vida peru. This mother of six lives in the bay area and was born in peru. She inspires people because of the work being done by the nonprofit she started in the east bay with her late husband, carlos. He ...

Bronx, all that and a bag of chips. Hinojosa so a lot of people, when they think of the south bronx, 1960s, 70s, when you were growing up. Right, right, right. Hinojosa . Their image is of a place that was entirely desolate, that was, you know, in destruction. Right, right. Hinojosa but for you, it was a totally different reality. Well, there was that element to it. But i always say that i was very fortunate to have grown up in that time period, because the culture, as far as latino and African American culture, particularly afro puerto rican, afro cuban culture, and obviously African American...