bonnie, janney and leon. any of you three people here? come on up to the podium if i called those names. each of you has two minutes. >> no, i just want to ask why my niece is being sent to a school that is far away from where she lives. she lives on the northwest area and she was sent to the southeast and she has been refusing to go to school. so she miss a whole week of school that weekend when i visit her she cried to me in the restaurant and told me that she feels depressed and she has been crying and from that i found out the reason why. so i don't know what is going on. you know, when this program started and what the reasons are. and whether these programs are experimental or evident to show that the way are you doing are going to improve my niece's education. and also i would like to ask if you would share with me whether you have any cure of going to elementary school, middle school, high school, where you live, and where your children are going. maybe other city workers are here to -- that's all. vice president yee: thank you. >

my name's janney and i'm currently a student at lincoln high school. and i was just going to talk about how i've been harrised and discriminated against -- harassed and discriminated against. a teacher at lincoln high school, a name, i've been chastised, discriminated against and antagonized in order to get -- vice president yee: excuse me. when you talk about your situation for our meetings, it's bestst that you do not nam any particular person. >> i'm sorry. yo vice president yee: no, that's ok. so go ahead and continue and we're going to have somebody talk to you afterwards. >> ok. and how i've been antagonized in order for her to get me out of the program. but thanks to mrs. janice cho i wasn't kicked out of the program. oh, i did it again, huh? i'm sorry. [laughter] oh, man. but -- i don't even want to go anymore. she decided to film me without any reason in order to get me to drop the program and this is a program that i really like and i wanted to stay in but i can't go through me having someone in class and her having put me through this during

that would be bonnie, janney and leon. any of you three people here? come on up to the podium if i called those names. each of you has two minutes. >> no, i just want to ask why my niece is being sent to a school that is far away from where she lives. she lives on the northwest area and she was sent to the southeast and she has been refusing to go to school. so she miss a whole week of school that weekend when i visit her she cried to me in the restaurant and told me that she feels depressed and she has been crying and from that i found out the reason why.

next, -- do we have janney in rockford, illinois? go ahead.aller: i just want to say that i totally agree with obama's plan. i think it is a great plan. i do wish that it would have been done a few years ago, but it is being done now. i just wanted to say that it does not matter what plan. he has given the republicans every single thing that they could possibly want on a silver platter. it got some of the democrats upset because this problem is the fact that he is a people pleaser. he is a great president and a very genuine, honest, good person, but he needs to take more of the approach of, you know, "this is the way it is going to be." kind of the way bush did. e -- nobody else had a say so. he was kind of a bully. he got what he wanted. i think obama should have done the same thing and did this all a few years ago, but like i said, he is a nice guy and wants everybody happy. in the end, none of the republicans -- it does not matter what he gives, what he does. he bends over backwards to try to meet in the middle, and it all comes down to his

her very special nieces and nephews, johnny lloyd iii, alicia hardy, jarvis lloyd, and ebb any, and janney, and mary williams, and young lady named gabrielle williams. they all comprise the wonderful familiar of cassandra lloyd. i ask my colleagues today to join were me in honoring the life and work of this great american, can sand a lloyd ward. thank you, mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. frank, for five minutes. mr. frank: thank you, mr. speaker. today is a very important today in our fight to achieve full equality for all americans in the face of prejudices of various sorts. and to commemorate i want to read an extraordinary document. it is head lined don't-ask, don't-tell repeal. it's an official communication. today marks the end of don't-ask, don't-tell. the law is repealed. from this day forward gay and lesbian soldiers may serve in the army with the dignity and respect they deserve. our rules, regulations, and policies reflect the re