mr. cruz is student centered humanizing anti-racist, team unifying and community experiencive and always learning for over 21 years he's been a phenomenal educators within sfusd. peer resources program working along middle school and high school students to grow their critical lenses and expand academic skills towards equity and he teaches from deep love and [inaudible] for of the under reached students and works with each student with equity first. whether he is speaking about the youth he demonstrates a profound ability to see the whole student and teach each one. he recognizes the brilliance of every student. mr. cruz is committed to naming and re[inaudible] anti-blackness and centering of black students and english learners and students with [inaudible]. mr. cruz has also shown commitment to create systems to support each student's academic work and single mr. cruz facilitates rigorous research projects to take action within the community which lead him to create and facilitate workshops i

mrs. de la cruz is recognized. >> thank you for holding this joint hearing today. it is important for all of us to talk about what happened, what oversight needs to be done moving forward. what led up to these banks failing and how the responders, how the regulators responded. with that said i would like to thank the witnesses for coming today. i want to tell you a little about my district. i'm from south texas. it's largely a hispanic district. one of the most hispanic district in the nation. that being said, we have a large rural community that really depends on regional and small banks and so as i call the banks in my area when this is happening, they were worried about bearing the consequences of your bank failures and what that may mean for them in the future and so with that being said to come our friends on the other side of the aisle have called for higher capital requirements and increased regulation due to your bank's failures. what i would like to know from each of you is do you think increased regulation and/or increased capital would have prevented thi

mr. speaker. i thank the bill's son cor, ms. de la cruz, and the gentlelady from ohio have both arctic pated -- articulated the need for this bill. i urge support for it. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 1076 as amended. o'o'. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 being in the affirmative -- the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. >> mr. speaker, i request a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having risen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri seek recognition? mr. luetkemeyer: mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and pass the bill h.

mr. chairman. the gentlewoman from texas, ms. dela cruz is recognized. synergy home thank you, chairman barr for holding in joint hearing today. it is important for owl of us to talk about what happened, what kind of oversight needs to be done moving forward so what led up to thehe banks failing and hw the responders, how the regulators responded. with that said, i'd like to thank the witnesses for coming and not toward the end and i want to tell you a bit about my district. i'm from south texas and it's largely a hispanic one and it'll be the hispanic district and we have a large rural community that really depends on regional and small banks. as i call the banks in my area when this was happening, they were worried about bearing the consequences and that mainly will be in the future and with that said on the other side of the aisle have pulled for higher capital requirements and increased regulations due to your bank failures. what i'd like to know from each of youw is do you think that increased regulation and/or capital would have prevented this cris

de la cruz for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman for holding this important hearing today and thank you, assistant administrator maurstad, for taking the time to appear before congress. as the chairman mentioned, this is the first time that a fema official has appeared before this committee in over six years. it is time for congress to assert its role in reforming the national flood insurance program know order to assure its long-term solvency after years of extension and minimal oversight from this body. as the vice chairwoman of this subcommittee i look forward to working with chairman davidson, along with nfib for the taxpayers and sustainable for the long-term. with that in mind, what steps has fema taken to improve its efficiency and effectiveness of the nfip's administration and how can the program be reformed to better serve its policy holders and taxpayers? >> so i would say that the answer to that is in the 17 recommendations that we've provided. there were nearly 100 subject matter experts that worked on the recom

who last saw him are who last saw our victim, mr waterfall, um, and reviewing surveillance footage, uh, they were able to make that connection. santa cruzounty sheriff's detectives are spearheading this case and say ornelas was arrested last wednesday at her job on the stanford university campus. she worked is a preschool teacher at the children's center of the stanford community, in an email statement to the community at the time, the university saying the arrest happened at naptime outside the perimeter of the ccs c campus. children were not present when this occurred and it did not disrupt operations. stanford says ornelas is no longer employed there. the event that led to the arrest did not have a connection to the campus community. investigators say. both ornelas and novoa murdered oliver waterfall, the body of the 27 year old was found in a remote area of highway nine near cathedral woods in between felton and santa cruz. in santa cruz county. his body was found off of the side of the road kind of down a hillside, but it is a very wooded kind of remote area of highway nine. investigators say. novoa was arrested after questioning a

cruz mountains near felton. >> after the interviews with people who had last seen the victim mr. waterfall and conducting, you know, surveillance and through the investigation process, they were able to make those arrests of those two people. >> reporter: also charged in the fatal shooting is 27-year-old dennis novoa. the trio knew each other. >> the exact motive is still under investigation, but it appears that it was targeted and it was of a personal nature that the victim was targeted by these suspects. >> reporter: in a statement, stanford said it does not tolerate violence or threats of violence on campus or in connection with the university sponsored events. the center said that the arrest was made at naptime at the perimeter of the center, and no children were in view, and the parents were shocked to hear the news. >> yes, that is shocking. >> reporter: the child care center was shocked and distressed about the arrest of one of its teachers. danny trujillo. >>> day one of california officers to patrol tenderloin as part of the pledge to crackdown on the fentanyl crisis. pe

mr. chairman. >> thank you. senator cruz? >> in 1991 justice clarence thomas appeared before this committee in one of the most disgraceful performances in our history. justice thomas describe the treatment he got from chairman joe biden and senate democrats as a high-tech lynching. it is sad to see 30 years later this committee is again engaged in the same despicable tactics. senate democrats and the media are engaged in a twofold political campaign. number one, to delegitimize the supreme court of the united states because they are angry that there are a bunch of authoritarian constitutionalists on the court. but very directly, this is a political campaign designed to smear justice clarence thomas. i'm the reason is simple, the left despises clarence thomas. they do not despise him because he is a conservative, the left despises him because he is a conservative african-american. here is what clarence thomas said at the confirmation hearing. he said if you are a freethinking african-american quote you will be killed, destroye

who last saw him are who last saw our victim, mr waterfall, um, and reviewing surveillance footage, uh, they were able to make that connection. santa cruziff's detectives are spearheading this case and say ornelas was arrested last wednesday at her job on the stanford university campus. she worked is a preschool teacher at the children's center of the stanford community, in an email statement to the community at the time, the university saying the arrest happened at naptime outside the perimeter of the ccs c campus. children were not present when this occurred and it did not disrupt operations. stanford says ornelas is no longer employed there. the event that led to the arrest did not have a connection to the campus community. investigators say. both ornelas and novoa murdered oliver waterfall, the body of the 27 year old was found in a remote area of highway nine near cathedral woods in between felton and santa cruz. in santa cruz county. his body was found off of the side of the road kind of down a hillside, but it is a very wooded kind of remote area of highway nine. investigators say. novoa was arrested after questioning at the sant

mr. waterfall um, and reviewing surveillance footage, uh, they were able to make that connection. santa cruz county sheriff's detectives are spearheading this case and say ornelas was arrested last wednesday at her job on the stanford university campus. she worked is a preschool teacher at the children's center of the stanford community, in an email statement to the community at the time, the university saying the arrest happened at naptime outside the perimeter of the ccs c campus. children were not present when this occurred and it did not disrupt operations. stanford says ornelas is no longer employed there. the event that led to the arrest did not have a connection to the campus community. investigators say. both ornelas and novoa murdered oliver waterfall, the body of the 27 year old was found in a remote area of highway nine near cathedral woods in between felton and santa cruz. in santa cruz county. his body was found off of the side of the road kind of down a hillside, but it is a very wooded kind of remote area of highway nine. investigators say. novoa was arrested after questioning

who last saw him are who last saw our victim, mr waterfall, um, and reviewing surveillance footage, uh, they were able to make that connection. santa cruzounty sheriff's detectives are spearheading this case and say ornelas was arrested last wednesday at her job on the stanford university campus. she worked is a preschool teacher at the children's center of the stanford community, in an email statement to the community at the time, the university saying the arrest happened at naptime outside the perimeter of the ccs c campus. children were not present when this occurred and it did not disrupt operations. stanford says ornelas is no longer employed there. the event that led to the arrest did not have a connection to the campus community. investigators say. both ornelas and novoa murdered oliver waterfall, the body of the 27 year old was found in a remote area of highway nine near cathedral woods in between felton and santa cruz. in santa cruz county. his body was found off of the side of the road. kind of down a hillside. um, but it is a very wooded kind of remote area of highway nine. investigators say novoa was arrested after questioni

mr. anderson, we are do you land on this? >> -- not necessarily attacking physically, but were verbally attacking members of congress and restaurants, and calls to action to go and tweets out saying, hey, go, ted cruz happens to be at this restaurant, and nancy pelosi is over at this restaurant, and can go over and demonstrate. it's a -- i was in d. c. for 30 years. and i remember when i first moved to d. c. there was someone two blocks off the capitol that has been -- i think it was senator richard shelby staffer that had been killed at the time. and so it's not necessarily something new in that regard. there's crime everywhere. but when it is targeting members of congress, elected officials or non-elected officials, judges, et cetera, i think it's pretty bad. >> i think maybe you can pull it back even further than that. i remember covering 2020. and one of the things that came up was during the protest, protest are showing up at the homes of elected officials like a district attorney. and what ended up happening was that the husband of the district attorney was very, very scared, and came out with a weapon. >> right. >> and so when you start thinking about the political violence in the temperatur

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mr. cruz: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cruz: madam president, a few months ago i spoke from this floor about mark swidan, who has been unjusticely imprisoned by the chinese communist partyu for over a decade. mark is from a small city in my home state of texas. his mother, his katherine swidan, still lives there. for the last 11 years, mark has endured a living hell trapped in a chinese president of the united states on. he's exposed to extreme heat and extreme cold. he's deprived of sleep. he's subjected to physical abuse. mark has also been denied access to his family and to american diplomats. and in 2019, a chinese court sentenced mark to death. mark is being unjusticely held by the chinese communist party as a hostage. the ccp tells us that china is is a great power, but this is how third world thugs and dictators act. i called for mark's immediate release and called on the biden administration to use any and every available means to secure mark's fr