butcher is also from nebraska. this is a fantastic opportunity for the committee firsthand what people on the front lines of small business and businesses are hearing and seeing. your testimony tells a troubling story. the construction and commercial real estate sectors have been some of the hardest hit between the shutdowns the end of the inflation that is followed. you were talking about supply chain issues and about heating, ventilation, air conditioning units. something a lot of americans don't think about every day but in construction when those delays happen, that's very real. can you just walk us through what is behind the extreme delay giving these units and affecting the end of a construction project? >> i believe it is a combination of multiple things again construction volume has high levels right now so it's down due to the demand of the products. it's typically custom-made for the project and may have different components for humidity control as well as energy efficiencies, so basically they are built

butcher is also from nebraska. this is a fantastic opportunity for the committee to hear firsthand what people on the front lines and small business and businesses are hearing, what they're saying. your testimony mr. lockard tells a troublinges story. they construction commercial leal estate sectors have been some of the hardest hit between the shutdowns of covid-19 and the inflation that has followed. you were talking specifically about supply chain issues andlo you're talking about heating, ventilation, air conditioning units. something a lot of americans don't think about every c day bt in construction when those delays happen, that's very real. can you really walk us through what is behind the extreme delay in getting d these units and affecting the end of a construction project? >> sure. i believe it's combination ofn multiple things again. one, construction volume has to the high levels right now. so the availability of product is down just due to the demand of these products. rooftop units are typically cust

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. >> twenty is now representative john bacon republican of nebraska never of the arms services when youor your time today smith thank you in a loving as he spent a good morning to all of your viewers been a it would you like to see the final budget package sir. >> well with gotta get this past and spinning bill appropriations bill good this really the top two priorities right now before you go into first christmas break right we have china that is going as a military threat and russia connecting this barbaric invasion of ukraine with the belief is supported that we get this bill passive that we can keep building in evolver's and bms and we can continue to do a training military has the latest tools and so that's really the priority right now. >> you probably heard kevin mccarthy say that maybe wait tuntil like human republicans have more leverage in this debate and think about that argument we willgu have more leverage next year but i thank you so important to get a defense bill now in the past what a good bill, overwhelmingly bipartisan the huge majority and a do agree that kevin mccar

for what purpose does the gentleman from nebraska seek recognition? >> request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise to recognize the hard work, resilience, and achievements of nebraska distance running standout, madison side of the aisler, as a high school freshman running for my alma mater, she was a top four finisher in class b at the nebraska state cross-country meet and member of the state class b girls state championship team. the following year she won her first individual state championship as a sophomore. prior to her junior season, mahdi suffered a serious ankle injury which required surgery. despite missing the entire summer training period and all but one competition leading up to the district and state championship races, she began running just 45 days after surgery and overcame improbable odds to repeat as individual state champion in 2021. it was an extraordinary

for what purpose does the gentleman from nebraska seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. bacon of nebraska, i inform the house that mr. bacon will vote yea on s. 33 o8. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from wisconsin seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. bentz of oregon two, ms. mcclean of michigan10, mr. grothman of wisconsin 6 and mr. tiffany of wisconsin 7, will vote yes on senate 3308. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? as the member designated by mrs. miller-meeks of iowa, i inform the house that ms. miler -- mill meeks will vote aye on s. 3308. sprowrp does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition is. >> as the member designated by mr. wenstrup of ohio, i inform the house that mr. wenstrup will vote yea on s. 3308. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. malliota

in nebraska, and the nebraska guard will lose 50% of their people. this will have a profound impact on recruitment and retention and for what? i took the vaccine, i got the booster. i recommend it. but you can still get covid, you can still pass it on. the payoff for getting it is not worth the cost of losing on these people. i don't think it's a wise policy. i think it's a lawful order but i think it's a foolish policy and is hurting our national security. host: some democrats want to see an increase in social programs if the pentagon gets that funding, could you meet them on that point? guest: it shouldn't be dollar for dollar. we should spend on defense what we need for defense. not a dollar more, not a dollar less. we should spend on social spending what is netted. but just arbitrarily tying a dollar for dollar increase doesn't make sense. holding the defense, hostage to their priorities, don't agree with it. we do have a physical problem in our country. we have a military that still deals with terrorists in the world. when it comes to percentage

. >> twenty is no representative and the publican of nebraska member of the armed service committee. >> living on c-span good morning to all of your viewers. >> what would you like to see the final back budget package. >> club defense bill passing i get a spending bill that appropriations bill done that is really the top two priorities right now before we go into person under christmas break but we have china and that is going his military threat and russia connecting barbaric invasions of ukraine we have threats the middle east, so i thank you so very important that we get a defense bill so that we can keep fielding the new bombers and we can continue to do attorney for military has latest tools thatt is really the priority out to have you probably heard kevin hart they say that maybe wait until next year when republicans will have more leverage in this debate of what you think about that argument. >> we will have more leverage next year but i thank you so imparted to get a defense bill now i think we passed i get bill and overwhelmingly bipartisan with huge majority and i do agree

bacon of nebraska, i inform the house that he will vote nay. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from utah rise? >> as the member designated by rogers, gonzalez, stewart, curtis, owens, these members will vote iowa. >> as the member designated by mr. brooks of alabama and mrs. greene of georgia, these members will vote no, and mr. crawford of arkansas will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 374, the nays are 44, 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. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the vote on the the gentlewoman from alaska to suspend the rules and pass s.989 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk: senate 989 an act to establish a native american language resource center on the policies set forth in the native american languages act. the speaker pro tempore: will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. members will record their votes by electro

so nebraska, during this movement. with £1,350,000 or pounds of corn, and on march 15th, the steamer missouri, full of grain and corn, left new york for the port of lebeau. in present day latvia. missouri became the second ship of the famine fleet, as it was called by americans. the first one, indiana, left philadelphia on february 22nd, 1892. it was sent by the committee founded in pennsylvania by the governor, edwin stewart, with the active participants of a quaker businessman and future mayor of philadelphia, rudolph blank, and work on the committee published a provocative pamphlet shall russian peasants die of starvation? a question for prosperous america. cynthia massachusetts to relief committee contributed $10,000 to this initiative live. and on april 20th, 31 more sheep filled with relief cargo from this organization zirconium. all left this dates for russia and here you see they represent a device of this mission from left to right use u.s. consul general and u.s. born holt then stand in captain of the carniva

in alaska with the top four and nebraska. i don't think there's a single model that is preferable to others. i think the process of the citizenry getting together saying let's look at our options, how can we improve this that's the most important thing here. i want to have something on the table for the other panelists. what i get out of that is the runoff and jungle primary which the parties could endorse candidates but that would be whether there would be the right choice voting and the individual states and municipalities. i want to get some reactions and i'm going to just jump around. as the democratic party activist. the reason independence never gets any places what is it, nobody knows. for the voters understanding democracy, so if you call yourself republican it means you like low taxes and don't think the government should be in business and as we spoke before may be multiparty systems work but you have to have parties because otherwise democracy doesn't mean anything and otherwise you don't know what you're voting fo

king, visiting "das haus," an lgbtq bar in lincoln, nebraska, is bittersweet.e ago, king, who uses the pronoun "they" and is non-binary-meaning their gender identity is not strictly male or female, was a partner in a nightclub at this location. >> we we one of, i would say maybe three or four black business owners that actually had a nightclub. however, that was a period in my life when things were about to about to spiral drasticay out of control. i was in the throes of my addiction. cat: in 2016, king pleaded guilty to possession of ecstasy and two counts of theft by deception, leading to a just over four year prison term. king had served time for other drug and fraud charges over the years, but this time, they vowed to make a change once they were released. t.j.: this time, i'm like, "look, t.j. you're going to be 50. you're going to be 50. you don't you don't have you don't have a lot more chances." cat: king feared that a traditional reentry housing service, like a halfway house or temporary emergency shelter, would leave them vulnerable to harassment. t.j

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nebraska has a unique position just with our water resources that we have. the possibility there with innovation. i think the research would be extremely important. for food in our water resource. thank you. our community colleges also play an important and increasingly growing role in agriculture education workforce training. for example, northeast community college nor fork, they have an associates degree in precision agriculture to train students on how to use, interpret, and utilize precision agricultural technology to improve production. northeast is also part of a multi state coalition of community colleges that provide education, training, and demonstrations to future foreign producers. as part of this group of community colleges, northeast also has and mla you with usda's natural resource conservation service to provide training and education on conservation. can you discuss the ways that usda could better partner with community colleges, specifically do you see a role for community colleges like northeast to help translate research into technical tr

i along with nebraska congressional delegation recently sent you a letter underscoring the delegation support for the national center, and our strong commitment to secure federal funding for this essential ars research facility. can you provide the committee with an update and thoughts on how the new national center will serve as a critical regional hub for collaboration and to identify and address relevant scientific and research gaps across the u.s. landscape, please? >> so what's been very excited is as we have really emphasized the need for investments in infrastructure. an investment, congressman very generous to us. we have received over a billion dollars investment for ars facilities. the beauty of that is we've been able to address seven facilities, co-located facilities as land-grant university campuses. we are in the early conversations come nasa early come with the university of nebraska and we have plans what we would do when properly resourced. i support that co-location. by my scientists are excited at it. ronnieer green who is an alumnif agriculture research services is

in nebraska, and the nebraska guard will lose 50% of their people.his will have a profound impact on recruitment and retention and for what? i took the vaccine, i got the booster. i recommend it. but you can still get covid, you can still pass it on. the payoff for getting it is not worth the cost of losing on these people. i don't think it's a wise policy. i think it's a lawful order but i think it's a foolish policy and is hurting our national security. host: some democrats want to see an increase in social programs if the pentagon gets that funding, could you meet them on that point? guest: it shouldn't be dollar for dollar. we should spend on defense what we need for defense. not a dollar more, not a dollar less. we should spend on social spending what is netted. but just arbitrarily tying a dollar for dollar increase doesn't make sense. holding the defense, hostage to their priorities, don't agree with it. we do have a physical problem in our country. we have a military that still deals with terrorists in the world. when it comes to percentage o

manager on the o construction of pinnacle bank arena, the basque ball arena for the university of nebraska cornhuskers. since then hee has progressed quickly through the ranks within the company he works. he currently occupies the position of president of construction. mr. latta card expense and construction gives an unique insight into some of the economic headwinds facing small businesses across the country. he can also speak with authority about the challenges of wrestling with inflation, suppll chain issues and labor shortages. his perspective will be valuable to the members of this committee picked mr. lockard i look for to testimony. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> thank you mr. flood and with the collective recognize as michael and for five minutes for your opening statement. >> hello and thank you so much. my name is mo manklang. represent your federation of worker cooperatives thank you for the subcommittee especially the committee chairman for creating space to address this important issue. as policy director i have a graying a review of the challenges successes or employee on bus

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is every bit as real greater than what is happened to the farms in ohio and alabama and indiana nebraska and michigan and and arkansas so i think that we all know that they appreciate what you said about innovation or the discussion back and forth and there is anything about innovation and agriculture you think henry wallace and researchers that the land-grant researchers have made the farmers the most productive in the world and roughly and you know these numbers, doctor and doctor jacobs and that every dollar investment research has a 20-dollar return food security national security and agricultural research is foundational to the internet understands this, and they quintupled the public investment in the research and investing roughly double for the u.s. does the u.s., as you know research and investment an ag research is remained by the trump administration showed no real interest in doing the kind of research that we should be doing so a couple of questions about that andre i assume you're concerned about the u.s. lagging behind china now as well brazil only comes to public investme

bacon of nebraska and mr. hern of oklahoma, i inform the house that mr. bacon of nebraska and mr. hern of oklahoma will both vote nay on the rule. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. evans: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. neal of massachusetts, mr. lawson of florida, mrs. demings of florida, mr. doyle of pennsylvania, ms. dean of pennsylvania, ms. scranton of pennsylvania, ms. houlahan of pennsylvania,. mr. davis of -- m mr. -- mr. davis, mr. kildee and mrs. fletcher, they all vote yes. >> as the member designated by ms. stefanik and mr. jacobs of new york, i inform the house that both members will vote nay on the rule. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by representative sanchez, i inform the house that representative sanchez will vote yes on h.res. 1531. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. turner o

the north side of the snow, a lot of snow happening, parts of the high plains here, nebraska, 16 inches of snowflakes wood, south dakota, a foot of snow, and really a slow moving storm. two days of snow to fall, along with that, really windy because of that wind and the snow we have blizzard warnings in effect, anywhere you see this orange color there. so be very careful here, very dangerous situation going on, especially across parts of nebraska and parts of south dakota. additional snow to fall through friday, some spots 8 to 12 more inches across the dakotas, but eventually we see a little more of this to get part of minnesota and wisconsin. and sandra, i have not had a chance to get there. all the storm moves toward the east. parts of the mid atlantic, interior snow. >> sandra: and getting close to being able to forecast christmas day for many across the country. ok, rick, thank you. and for continuing coverage, you can tune into fox weather by downloading the app for free at fox weather, and use your phone to scan that qr code on the screen. extremely helpful to have. >> coding, co

going see snowfall 1 to 2 feet in areas of the plains, travel almost impossible in some areas of nebraskal tuesday with severe weather in the southeast. that will push into areas through alabama and mississippi, even heavy rain through tennessee. finally, by the time we get to friday, that's when the storm will plague news the northeast inland areas a better chance of snow, especially higher elevations be ah lot of the cities will be dealing with rainy weather a busy week to say the least. wt mess ththanks >>> still ahead,d, a texexas p teacacher ininspires studentntsy fulfilliling his drereams this y 'u just lefeft the dentntist. oral-b-b. brush lilike a pro. ♪♪♪ (police radio call) (sirens) (news report) (sirens) (news report) skin youour face wilill env? withth olay hyalaluronic bobody lotionn 95% % of women had visiblbly-smootherer sk. withth olay hyalaluronic bobody lotionn be feaearless with olay y hyaluronicic boy lotionon and body y wash. >>> in today's top story, orlando airport is rung low on fuel severe weather disrupted fuel deliveries to the busiest hub in florida. airport au

in history from the university of nebraska-lincoln. welcome, todd oh, thanks for having me. glad to be here. i'm really excited to talk about james garfield. you don't always get an opportunity to talk about james garfield. and we're so lucky to have you as one of the nation's leading leading experts on garfield. but to start out, tell us, everybody knows a lot about james garfield. he was only president for what, about four months. so tell us, who exactly was james garfield and tell us a little bit about his unique background. well, thanks, colin. and thanks to the white house historical association for having me tonight. i guess i should say everything i'll talk about tonight, of course, is my own view on things, not the national park service's. i just have to throw that disclaimer in there. but i am happy to be both a national park service employee in a historian, james garfield. you know, when people think about james garfield, what they generally think is the few things that they know about him, which is he was president, he had a beard and he got shot. and those things

it emerges in to colorado and wyoming and nebraska. that's where the blizzard conditions will be. maybe 2-feet of snow potentially in places like rapid city. in the southern part of the city, that's where the threat of tornadoes is going to be, especially across the northern half of shreveport. tuesday and wednesday both dangerous days in the deep south. commutes here will be dicey as well. linsey. >> that weather map really lit up. rob, thank you. >>> a major breakthrough in to the bombing of pan am flight 103. the man accused of making the explosive device is now in u.s. custody. all people on board died when the plane went down in 1988. an additional 11 people on the ground were killed. nbc senior executive reporter aaron katersky spoke to the brother of one of the victims. >> reporter: almost 34 years later, the libyan intelligence who expected of making the bomb is in u.s. custody. >> at long last, this man responsible for killing americans and many others will be subject to justice for his crimes. >> reporter: then attorney general bill barr announcing charges against abu ag

here's nebraska in the middle of the screen. anywhere you see orange there will be wind gusts 25 to 30 miles per hour with the storm. even in parts of chicago, we'll see wind from the south. detroit, you'll see windy conditions, too. most of the bad weather is back here. let me take you to 6:00 tonight. we're starting to see a few scattered showers pop up here in the danger zone where the weather will get violent overnight, in the dark, when people are asleep. there's your snow in the colorado rockies right now. moving ahead a little bit to after midnight, there you see that line of weather lighting up. wind is blog in colorado and nebraska. snow is coming down hard. moving ahead to tomorrow, all of a sudden, weather in texas and arkansas and even louisiana. still snowing, ice in between to the north. one day after another. then we work our way into wednesday, we're talking about alabama and florida, even parts of southern georgia. and i'll take you one more step because we'll look at thursday, not on the map, but saturday and s

madame chair, the university of nebraska lincoln vice chancellor for the institute of agriculture and resources and delivered testimony and was part of usda's nifa listening session with priorities and i ask that vice chancellor mike banes' it'll be given consideration and be included as part of the official hearing record.. >> upgrading our witness.. >> i know but he was echoing what you were just saying so yes, without objection. >> thank you so much. >> madame secretary a priority we've previously discussed as my support for usda collocated and national senator for resilience and re-general at a timive precision agriculture and national center at nebraska lincoln and the congressional delegation and sent you a letter underscoring the delegation support for the national center and our strong commitment to secure federal spending for the research facility and can you provide the committee with an update and thoughts on how the as a critical regional hub for collaboration and to identify and address relevant scientific and research gaps across the usdaal era landscape, please. >> we'v