she wrote about nebraska from all of those playses but she really did not write about nebraska in nebraskaif she had stayed there, i'm not sure she would have written the fiction that she did. host: and professor holmes mentioned she was from nebraska. would you write about nebraska? guest: no, i'm not a fiction writer. for cavitier, i think, really she needed that distance in order to write about it. not to be immersed in it. even in "my antonia," the fact that jim burton, he travels back to the west. in fact, the introduction, he's on a train talking to the stand-in figure for cather, who is the introduction they rater but he w a new york railroad lawyer so he, in fact, supposedly writes his narrative of "my antonia" in his apartment in new york and brings it to willa and presents it and says this is what i wrote. says you didn't write this thing, this is my thing. this is "my antonia." so i think that distance is important. host: you have another selection to read for you. guest: yes, i do. this is from earlier in the novel. earlier i was reading about otto, the cowboy. this is the prai

truly, there is no place like nebraska. nebraska is what america is supposed to be.nd finally, thank you to the senior senator from nebraska for introducing this resolution. i am proud to join you in recognizing this great achievement. mr. president, i yield back. a senator: i would like to thank my colleague senator rickets for his great comments in recognizing the women's volleyball team, the state of nebraska and the great people that we have. mrs. fischer: and with that, mr. president, i would ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 428 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 428, a resolution recognizing women's collegiate athletics and the record-setting volleyball day in nebraska event on august 30, 2023. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mrs. fischer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with

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it started with don bacon from nebraska, the second district of nebraska. bacon is one of 18 republicans who represent districts that voted for joe biden in 2020. so these were thought to be the republicans who were maybe going to to be the most squeamish of voting for jim jordan, whose potential democratic opponents were eager to use this vote against him. in the end, most of the 18 did end up voting for jim jordan. i can show you a few others here, though who didn't. don bacon voting for mccarthy. lori chavez-deremer for mccarthy. anthony deesposito for zeldin. you saw a number here who did vote against jim jordan. the majority of republicans from districts that voted for biden actually did go with jordan on this. surprise one, tom kane from new jersey, included in that list as well. potentially vulnerable republican. you look at some of the other votes against jim jordan, john james from michigan. this is a trump district that he represents, but it was a very small margin for donald trump in that district. less than five points. that was a potentially di

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don bacon from nebraska, from the congressional district in nebraska -- nebraska, they do the electorales in the presidential election by congressional district. bacon's from the district in nebraska that voted for joe biden, voted for joe biden by seven points. bacon has been saying, he is a no. he will be a no on jim jordan. right away, you could have a vote against jordan very early on the republican side. you have ken buck from colorado who has been talking about jordan's refusal to fully accept the 2020 election results would make him a no potentially. you have -- right here, chavez-deremer, a republican in a district that voted for joe biden. mario diaz-balart -- this is almost five dozen deep, within the first set of names here, you could see jordan losing more than four votes. that's all he can afford to lose, four votes. he can't win on this first ballot. the question that might raise if that number gets across four very early, does that set up some kind of a snowball affect? there are other members later on in this list who were unsure, like meeks from iowa, won by six points

fischer: there is no place like nebraska. thank you, madam chair. >> i need to run and vote and following you is senator moran. mr. moran: only after i put in a plug for colorado. thank you, madam chair. it's great to see such a crowd here. i feel like we're sunday night football with taylor swift and travis kelce, i haven't seen as many people in this room in quite a while. but dr. panchanathan, i know you attract a crowd and have devoted yourself to these issues. mr. chicken blooper: and i know mr. hickenlooper: i know you didn't have more of a bipartisan support in looking for the best outcome and we stole her ideas and she stole our ideas and how it works. mr. panchanathan, as a former governer, i see how ideas thrive when you have an active seat at the table and we've been listening to our need and colorado is a leader in startup creation and supporting entrepreneurs and generating a work force in a range of technology fields with manufacturing, clean energy, quantum. so i don't have to go on, i think the other senator h

let's bring in jodie green at the end of us, the of nebraska sees the urban entomologist. i mean, she's studies insights that live in close proximity to humans. dr. greene, before we talk signs, may i be so bold and ask you have a, have you ever had the dubious pleasure of sharing, you know, seeping for it is with bed bugs? i actually i have hotels, 3 different times, 3 different states while traveling and it had, it was pretty traumatic. i woke up one night and had bed bugs um, biting me on my face. can you just tell us briefly the bed bugs just annoying and causing these these rashes? oh, are there any more serious health issues? maybe well, there can be everybody react differently. we all have our own immune system. they have not been shown to cause diseases at this time, but there are definitely some public health impacts including psychological and lots of sleep and stand reactions. and yeah, it's pretty dramatic in there. there are a lot of issues whether or not that there are diseases. now a bed bugs are no longer confined to the bedroom and part of is that being fo

that is to place like nebraska. thank you. thank you, madam chair. >> senator hickenlooper i'm going to ask you to chair while i run and vote and then following you will be senator moran. >> senator fischer output in a plug for nebraska as well but will have to put in a flight for colorado. thank you, madam chair. it's great to such a crowd here. i feel aa bit like we are at sunday night football with taylor swift and travis kelsey. i have seen this many people in this room and quite a while, but dr. panch, i know that you attract a crowd and you really devote yourself to these issues and secretary raimondo, just for your other cinders you should know we overlap as governors and don't think there's another governor that had a strong bipartisan support as she made decisions not from a political perspective but what is the best outcome. she stole our best ideas, we still her best ideas. that's way governors worker we will start with you, secretary raimondo. as a former governor, appreciate the recognition your department that in

>> i was speaker of the nebraska legislature, which is officially nonpartisan. followed me to washington d.c. no, i think i need more than 15 months to do that job. >> neil: you might have disparaged cats. thanks, congressman. thanks for taking the time. following the latest from jerusalem. they're looking at this ground invasion that could be imminent. there's no way of knowing for sure. trace gallagher is there. our fox news at night anchor with more. trace? >> neil, if you look in it where around the middle east, that is the big topic, when is the ground invasion. while the israeli forces are prepping for this ground invasion, they had their hands full because tie they had to defend israel from four different fronts. you had rockets coming from hamas and from lebanon from hezbollah. you had rockets from syria coming to israel that didn't hit anybody in open territory. also there was a dive team, a hamas dive team that had to be stopped from reportedly landing on a beach in southern israel. that beach area is still on lockdown tonight in response, israel went

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they give their electoral votes by congressional district in nebraska.strict, a moderate profile it makes sense for him to take a stand against jordan. someone like ken buck, safely red district, very conservative voting record, very different in terms of motivations there, you've mentioned there are a number of members of the appropriations committee here, chairs of the subcommittee, appropriations subcommittees, who took a stand here, kay granger, the chair against jordan in this vote. you have those moderates from new york from pro biden districts in new york who ali was talking about. one thing i think to keep an eye on in this vote is, again, we're talking about it, how many -- how many of these no votes, if any, was jordan successful in peeling off versus how many new no votes for jordan are there? there is one group, we're going to be tracking them as this vote goes on, you'll see each one of these names and who they vote for fill in. you'll be able to lock along. when you see, if you see five who continue to vote against jordan, jordan will mathe

you know, i never think of omaha, the big town in nebraska. not anymore. they made the piece of beach in normandy with we were getting some artillery, mortar, machine gun fire like rain without even an umbrella for protection. retail came close to being rained out. all right. but when colonel petrova yelled, get the hell off the beach, we got the help and ran smack in the hedgerow country where a set up a field like fort using the head road for world. like a chinese lot to help clean up one field only to find out the next was loaded with gear. and to keep it all the time. but covered 88 already. the guys didn't during a week time. we just shot the crowd our way to come. when we waited for the other outfit to come up on our flanks. the friends with thick already, the women getting led by plain american dopey who were a human being who we got a chance to clean up back home. how we would do it. it had to be a short not so in a big blow up with my mind your life on it. but when i came both of them had got in our big passed around. and the infantry. pulled it o

host: missouri, kansas, nebraska, iowa, north, south dakota.ontana, all of the states are impacted by the missouri river. the longest river in the united states. at the library of congress is a curator talking about in original lewis and clark map they brought with them. >> we are here in the library of congress in the geography and map division and vault my name is amelia and i am a reference librarian in the geography and map division. this map here was prepared in 18 for the lewis and clark expedition, and they had gathered as much information as they could about the area west of the mississippi where the expedition would be traveling. a number of different sources were pulled together for this map, and a lot of information from french fur traders and british heads of state company and other companies. in the mississippian great lakes area. you had spanish exploration on the pacific coast and british exploration as well and what is now british colombia. and then this whole area in the middle, just dass marks conjectural. the missouri river w

getting some artillery, mortar, machine gun fire like >> i never think of omaha as a big town in nebraska, not anymore. it was a piece of beach in normandy where men got killed. eight days close to being rained out. they yelled get off the beach. we got the off and ran into hedge growth where they set up using the hedge growth. like a chinese, we found out the next was loaded. we had to digging all the time for cover. if you didn't. in a weeks time we plowed our way to , where we waited for the other outfit to come up on our flanks. the french were tickled to see them getting licked by plane americans. we got a chance to clean up. it had to be short. it came on july 25th missing the whole air got in on it. threw. patton running all >> the fourth and ninth divisions opened up. patents tanks went running all over. it was the boys who did the cleaning up. combat engineers took up minds like cabbages. they cleared away roadblocks. in all that time the infantry kept coming along for the final kill. they were slugging and slogging, shooting march, grab and eat why you height, see rations and a

yeah, so here in the states, what my job is, is i answer calls from the public and i'm in nebraska which isn't a huge state. we've got urban and rural communities here. and i talked about bed bugs at least once a day. and we've been finding them are being reported in hospitals and schools, library, hospice houses, retirement communities, public transit. so that is not news to me. it's just it's just kind of hitting the media now. so i guess where you are. so it, what's in the, the city of power has been to, to do rate. it's probably in spaces of the past. and if it doesn't minus to do so before the olympics is the risk that international travelers will bring the past home to other countries or yeah, well, so there's always a risk bed bugs are everywhere. so it is a global insect past of humans and they go wherever we go. so humans, actually we're taking them places. so we are pretty much, you know, i have assisting these hitchhiking in fact that feed on blood in our luggage and on our outer clothing. sometimes and so it's really a problem in communities in an, a social issue which there

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that was congressman don bacon, republican of nebraska, not voting present, voting for kevin mccarthyths

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. >> or nebraska. >> or nebraska. and so when you are thinking, my constituents aren't going to be focusing so much on the presidential because my state is a really red state, but my district is purple and i need to make sure that i don't get a campaign ad run against me in a moderate district where i voted for someone like jim jordan who is the founder of the freedom caucus, is an election denier, and is always on fox news pushing maga talking points. >> i just want to add that mike simpson just voted for scalise, which is a bit of a surprise. >> the number keeps climbing and, so i think interestingly, by the way, when we did this with mccarthy, they had to go on and keep doing it because the constitution requires it. in this case, there is no requirement they stay here and do this over and over again. i'm actually really sort of fascinated now if you're jordan, is the strategic move for you here to go for another one and see if anybody peels off or to go to a meeting? on your point about the presiden

with we were getting some you know, i never think of omaha as a big town in nebraska, not even more. to me, it's a beach in normandy. we were getting mortar and machine gun fire like rain, without an umbrella. we came close to being rained out, all right. someone yelled, get the hell off the beach. we got the hell off. gear. and to keep it all the time. it's like a chinese puzzle out of hell. we cleanout one field, only to find out the next is loaded with terrorists. we had to keep digging all the time for 88s and mortars. still, in a weeks time, we dug our way to [ inaudible ], where we waited for the other outfit to come up on our flanks. not sa big blow up we got a chance to clean up and tell the folks back home how we were doing. it had to be a short note, though. a big blowup was brewing. it came on july 25th, and it was the whole air corps. then, the infantry pulled the tackle west of town, it opened up a nice big hole, and the first sharks through. cleared awy roadblocks. and all the time the infantry kept coming along for the final combat engineers dug up mines like bad habit

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university of nebraska press published finding a new midwestern history. and this is definitely one of the foundation books of the revived field. so also one quick comment on literacy and the northwest territory. i don't think we can exaggerate this at all. by the end of the 19th century in the midwest, you have literacy. of 95%. in minnesota and iowa and kansas and, nebraska, etc. that's an amazing number. and you compare that to the literacy rates in the to the monarchies of europe, etc., where, you know, they deliberate early, tried to keep people uneducated and illiterate so they couldn't organize and and threaten their governments places in the united states like the midwest, the the red schoolhouse was, you know, five miles out in the country and this was a sign of of progress. and democratic development. and it was very much something they took pride in. and the other thing about the literacy rates is they're one of the chapters in my book is about race. and there are certain things in early midwestern history need to be understood and tackled and t

university of nebraska press published finding a new midwestern history. and this is definitely one of the foundation books of the revived field. so also one quick comment on literacy and the northwest territory. i don't think we can exaggerate this at all. by the end of the 19th century in the midwest, you have literacy. of 95%. in minnesota and iowa and kansas and, nebraska, etc. that's an amazing number. and you compare that to the literacy rates in the to the monarchies of europe, etc., where, you know, they deliberate early, tried to keep people uneducated and illiterate so they couldn't organize and and threaten their governments places in the united states like the midwest, the the red schoolhouse was, you know, five miles out in the country and this was a sign of of progress. and democratic development. and it was very much something they took pride in. and the other thing about the literacy rates is they're one of the chapters in my book is about race. and there are certain things in early midwestern history need to be understood and tackled and t