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I want to recognize all of the milestones the api has made in the state of california and in the entire country. The caucus has a record of 42 members in the asian caucus in congress. One of their very first things we want to say is it was a young man who was the first member we want to make note of that. The reestablishment of the White House Initiative by president obama was another accomplishment. President obamas cabinets has dr. Steven chu. The very first asianamerican as ambassador to the republic of china. We have a lot of accomplishments. It was not that accident, my friends. Everyone ...

Celebration. 11 years later, president george bush extended the weeklong celebration to an entire month. You know and i know that our mothers say that every day is Asian Pacific american day. I want to recognize all of the milestones the api has made in the state of california and in the entire country. The caucus has a record of 42 members in the asian caucus in congress. One of their very first things we want to say is it was a young man who was the first member we want to make note of that. The reestablishment of the White House Initiative by president obama was another accomplishment. Pres...

I will say thank you on behalf of our city. From sacramento, los angeles, from all the communities in between, thank you for coming to our fantastic city to celebrate our asianpacific heritage month. It is my pleasure to also provide you with a warm welcome and thank you for somebody who worked on this idea to bring everybody here to San Francisco, my very good friend. Thank you. Where are you . When we first talked about this, we said there had to be the place where everybody felt comfortable. There had to be a place where we could feel the excitement of all very different Asian American grou...

the postservice life course of this nation's veterans, there's a there's a window of opportunity with the current, um, post-911 gi bill. but, we haven't done a great job implementing that, and i'm talking about both government and institutions of higher education. you know, right now, for example, um, 8 of the top 10 recipients is institutions of gi bill money last year, were um, on line for profit universities that have a dropout rate of higher than 65 percent. and they are not held accountable. we need to hold them accountable. very good. i want to remind our audience that septembe...

accountable to the public -- and to make the state's finances more transparent and accountable to the public. [applause] >> i will spare you what the distinguished council president requested me to do, which is to sing for all of you. we used to go out for karaoke, but he would sing and i would leave. this is a magnificent evening. we gather tonight in celebration of asian-pacific heritage month. we take a moment to reflect upon our past, to understand the heroic struggles, obstacles, hardships that so many people, including this evening's tremendous honor read, had to overcome. this...