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 introction they rater but he was 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

bena, nebraska, we all of senator fischer. she's bragging about nebraska all the time [ laughter ] small- town values. you heard some your colleagues talk about the dog being poisoned, that letter you wrote. are you having those kinds of challenges in nebraska as well? >> we are not. >> good. >> we are not, in 2020, many of our poll workers wanted to stay home because the uncertainty. a step up campaign which allowed to say give your parents and grandparents a break and serve in this election. what we saw from that was that not only after 2020 did their parents and grandparents come back, the kids and grandkids wanted to serve along with them. we have a great bench of people who want to be poll workers, not to say that people will leave elections and what have you. for our election officials that have left him retired, a great number of them come back two and a replacement. between that and the video of the secretary of state's office, we are very lucky to have the county election officials and a backbench of poll workers to s

bena talked talt what is> done in nebraska. talk about how you're going to handle that going for the pencil in. >> with the turnover it necessary and did administration of resources behind it to build a team of the trainers so we can help train new election administrators in each county in pennsylvania to produce training materials for them to rely on. i know when i became an election commission in philadelphia, i was elected in 2011-20 topic the presidential is my first election. it is a very difficult lift any election let alone being brand-new and facing a presidential election and in our case one of the biggest cities in one of the biggest swing states in america. so having those materials, pennsylvania has one uniform electiona code that counties he flexibility at the county level to administer elections so we have to make sure there is county flexibility built into it but to provide them with all the resources they needed and also to facilitate communication between election administrators. some of them in some camps have

nebraska state. mikayla kavanaugh. you guys going down? oklahoma state rep repetitive mari turner has really. colorado state referees in it give brianna to home and aaron state representative austin you wanna give it up hrc. hi everybody thank you so much i am so honored be honored alongside so many wonderful folks doing the hard across the country. so all us know and all of the folks in the newsroom know. i'm not going to dwell on it, but we have seen such an incredible amount of attacks on our community. over 500 pieces of legislation, many of which targeting the trans community. bills targeting art forms, our books targeting our government documents in we saw a right to bully trans kids in school. bill and ultimately bills attempting to ban our health care. but just as important as what kind of policy they were trying to pass, it's important to acknowledge what they were willing to throw away to achieve that policy goal. we saw, for example, in florida legislators throwing away common decency, calling trans people imps and demons. we sa

today we tailers across nebraska are selling t.h.c.-laced products aimed at kids. for example, a retail for the madison county has allegedly been selling gummis containing 200 times the level of t.h.c. needed to send kid to the hospital. delta-8 products are made to look like common types of candy or snacks to appeal to children. i'm glad nebraska is cracking down on delta-8 which are illegal even in state that was legalized recreational marijuana. attorney general mike hill has filed complaints in 10 counties across nebraska as he works to confront this challenge. i commend him and others across the country who are taking action to stop the threat of delta-8 that's hurting our children. i encourage everyone watching to visit ago.nebraska.gov to learn more. thank you and i yield back. mr. speaker, i rise today to salute the service of newly appointed nebraska state treasurer tom breezy for almost seven year he is honorably served the people of district 41 in the unicameral. i sat next to him on our state's revenue committee. during those years he fought hard to ref

previously, she worked with both the great plains tribal leaders health board and the nebraska indianalition board. according to a 2020 report with the nebraska state patrol, a majority of missing native americans in the state are males under the age of 17 years old. the position is funded by the nebraska state legislature. >> moving to new mexico, there has been a new development in the state's approach to m.m.i.p. the missing and murdered indigenous women and relatives task force was ended by governor michelle lujan grisham's administration in a quiet fashion. the task force has not met since may. this comes after multiple members publicly opposed the nomination of former san ildefonso pueblo governor james mountain to be the head of the indian affairs department, which the task force is a part of. mountain was accused of rape in 2007. he was indicted the following year on charges of kidnapping and aggravated battery. the case was dismissed in 2010 after prosecutors said they did not have sufficient evidence for him to stand trial. the governor's press secretary, caroline sweeney, d

the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from nebraska, mr. smith, for five minutes. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to honor a great nebraskan and patriot, john "gene" slattery. affectionately known as the boy who sold his shirt because of his extraordinary efforts as a young boy to raise funds for north plat, nebraska's world ward ii canteen. he recently passed away at the age of 90. the canteen was one of the largest volunteer efforts during the war providing millions of american soldiers who passed through north plat by rail with meals, baked goods, and other items. gene was the last surviving major figure of the beloved canteen, but his work and legacy and the work and legacy of the entire canteen won't ever be forgotten. upon learning of the canteen as a 9-year-old, gene began donating for auction anything he could find. toys, scrap metal, even the shirt off his back. by the end of the war, gene had raised more than $2,000 for the canteen. his contributions and fundraising gained national recognition, and were noticed by

sadly, rose's story and that of merrimon, nebraska, it is not just nebraska.ery state which has a significant rural portion of territory is experiencing much the same thing. i don't think any state gets to say we've got this figured out. there are places all over the united states, where response could be in excess of 25 minutes trying to get care there. it's a big problem. it is rooted in long-term problems and it is super complex and we need to start having serious conversations about this now or hear the story repeated over and over again. >> carley: absolutely, and andy, do you have a quick message for rose, being the last eamerica s worker in her town? >> hang in there, rose, i understand it and other folks are trying to help get the story about merrimonand other places out. thank you for doing what you do. >> carley: absolutely, yes, rose and andy, thank you, it is an important topic not getting enough attention. we're happy to shed light on it. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> carley: todd, over to you. >> todd: david depape foun

. >> joining us from capitol hill republican nebraska serves on the armed service committee. sir, appreciate your time. let's begin with this deadline. this continuing resolution, this current one expires. tell us what you would like your new leadership,pe speaker johnsn not to do. >> i know what he will deal. he will submit a plan today probably largely straight continued resolution may be a debt commission will be put in there. we williv see. basically submit a plan today give us the re- four days to read it and debated. what i do not want to see is something veryy complicated. talking about multiple cr. a laddered cr process. i think it is just too complicated. we want to make this as bipartisan as possible. while we are working on the appropriations goals, for an extra spending. so, i want something simple. i would like to be more bipartisan so we can work on an agreement with the senate on next year's budget. >> you want it to be more bipartisan. what do your more conservative colleagues want to see and could you agree to that? >> well, some of them are not worried about

they'd been moved to a reservation in northeastern nebraska.lers pushed the frontier farther and farther west, her father saw assimilation as the key to survival. many omaha rejected that, but his children took it to heart. embracing her heritage, susan ventured into the world of white america, confronting prejudice along the way. she graduated second in the class of 1886 at what is now hampton university, a historically black school in virginia. and, at a time when women were considered ill-suited to be physicians, she enrolled at woman's medical college of pennsylvania, the nation's first medical school for women. she completed the three-year program in just two, graduating at the top of her class. she was now a doctor, though as a woman she could not vote, and as a native american, u.s. law did not consider her a citizen. then4 years old, she chose to return to the omaha reservation, becoming the sole doctor for 1200 people across more than 400 square miles including the winnebago reservation. armed with her formal medical training, she push

republican of nebraska. we appreciate your time. democrat of ohio member of the appropriations committee and cochair and founder of the ukraine caucus joining us. congresswoman, let's begin with aid to ukraine. we heard from a couple viewers this morning. something you probably heard from constituents. we have people in this country that cannot afford healthcare. they cannot afford certain aspects of their life and they want to see money that is being spent on what they say other scountries wars brought back to the united states to help them. >> will let me just say in our country liberty is the most precious gift. it is a glass bubble that surrounds each of us. my first job was to defend the flag and protect our constitution against all enemies the budget is a very large one. that is for sure. the billionaire class should be contributing their fair share and they i are not. one of the ways we find the money to pay for all of the programs and all the needs of the american people is to make sure everybody is in the boat. they are pus

that's bidenomics in nebraska.g and sustaining a family business is already a massive undertaking. that work, combined with the burden of oppressive inflation becomes too heavy for some families to carry. and the coming months may add even more to that heavy load. as we close in on the winter season, days are getting colder, days are getting darker, and that means that many family owned shops, well, they're going to lose significant business. fewer customers are going to venture out to shop at small businesses, and they'll do it for fewer hours during the day. and that's going to cut down on the amount of profit that these businesses make, but not only that, while profit decreases costs will go up. because it's colder, small businesses will spend more of their money on energy bills to heat the buildings. winter in nebraska, well, it can pose challenges for family owned businesses every year, and this year that is especially the case. since president biden took office, energy prices have risen by 44%. the burden of

we had a 20 week ban in nebraska. the legislature and governor changed to 12 weeks. that is where most people are at in our district. i'm pro-life. i believe life is precious. but i realize that there are realities to how far we can go on this. i think we should be advocates for life, but you have to reflect where your citizens are at and what you represent. and i believe we are doing so in omaha. the republicans should make clear, when you look at the democrats, particularly the leadership, they support abortion on demand until birth. they wanted zero restrictions per but we want to find where most americans are at. it should be state-by-state. at the federal level, you need 60 votes to pass pro-life legislation or pro-choice legislation come and you really cannot do so. i do not think we will beat but to do much of the federal level. nikki haley said a great last night. there's not let you can do on the abortion side at the federal level. host:thank you so much for your. host: michael in georgia. we are going to go back up to capitol hill this morning. congresswoma

so just briefly on standing, the only way to understand standing in biden versus nebraska is it is the -- alana kagan is half right when she criticizes the majority opinion roberts for not having a concrete are more imminent harm. if you read scalia's opinion and the more recent decisions in trans union, it is impossible to square the text of the roberts opinion withstanding doctrine as it is standing now. the only way to understand it is a revival of massachusetts versus epa and i'm disappointed in all of the justices, maybe most disappointed in the liberals for not being consistent. they were not on the massachusetts supreme court. i should pause and say what massachusetts versus epa was about on the standing question, on climate change and greenhouse gases, did massachusetts and other states have standing to bring the claim and it was as much a speculative, not imminent question but the court recognized special solicitude for states as a sovereign and i'm not sure what quasi-sovereign is. what is dual sovereignty? states are sovereign, that's part of the doctrine but roberts dissent

nebraska is no different. >> that was just last night. you see the echo of ohio going into this week, and potentially future elections. it's just a fact if we're following what voters and different people have said in different places, in every election since the supreme court overturned roe when the composition changed with trump justice, the efforts to secure he rights are all undefeated in states red, blue or purple. voters have backed these issues over and over. this is where you see things are sometimes changing. we hear sometimes in politics things repeat so much, you thill they'll never change. but we have noticed something that hasn't yet changed the world, but is changing the rhetoric. some folks are rethinking what they've been doing. >> what an epic failure. >> on the issue of abortion, in ohio tonight, we continue the losing stream. >> republicans can't keep tumbling and bumbling on abortion. we will lose again and again and again. >> now, those were just random clips or voices. they are now that is only part of it. a, it's rh

first just briefly on standing , the only way to understand standing in biden versus nebraska is that it is the new state standing. elena kagan is half right. when she criticizes the majority opinion and roberts for not having a concrete harm or an imminent harm. if you read scalia's opinion in lujan, and in the most recent decisions in trans union and spoke ale, it is impossible to square the text of the roberts opinion with standing doctrine as it is standing now. the only way to understand it is a revival of massachusetts versus epa, and i am disappointed in all of the justices, maybe most ld disappointed in the liberals, for not being consistent. now, they were not on the massachusetts versus epa court. i should pause and say what massachusetts versus epa was about a misunderstanding question was on climate change and greenhouse gases, to massachusetts and other states have standing to bring the claim, and it was as much a speculative, not imminent kind of question, but the court recognized, quote, the special solicitude for states as a sovereign, as a cause i sovereign, i'm not s

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 li on it. but when i came both of them had got in our big passed around. and the infantry. pulled it off

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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

more than 100 accidents across that region and in nebraska, at least two people died. that storm system now impacting travel along the i-95 corridor. morgan norwood has the latest. >> reporter: tonight, a massive winter storm creating deadly and dangerous conditions during the post-thanksgiving holiday travel crush. in nebraska, emergency crews responding to at least 30 crashes, 2 people were killed. this suv flipped on its side due to the icy conditions. no one seriously injured. in wyoming, slick roads causing this massive pile up on i-80 involving semi trucks. several jackknifed. statewide, police responding to at least 125 weather related crashes. that same storm system wreaked havoc in the great plains now moving east. today, there were 10 million people in 11 states from texas to new york under winter weather alerts on what's expected to be the busiest travel day of the year. >> i travel from california to new york back and forth all the time. i've never had this much of a wait. i don't know why. >> reporter: in chicago, growing crowds and delays. >> it just look

able to get a plug in for nebraska. the good things that we see, i do have a question on how do you define what a region is, and then, also, if you could say nice things about my state. >> look it up. >> yes. we have it ready to go. >> for the tech hubs, we have to have several awardees within each of the regions. the development agency has several regions around the country and we have some tech hubs in each region. first of all, this investment made of chips and science, nsf got $200 million for five years. the science portion is still an authorization, not an appropriation. hoping for the investments to become appropriations. energizing the innovation, as you heard. the $200 million is being used in order to help 300,000 semi conductor researchers and workers that inwe need. it's about the fact that it is i beyond 230, so there were towards that. and in partnership with a consortium of companies. to the state of nebraska since you asked. competitiveness in the area of quantum science and technologies as one example a

just briefly on standing, the only way to understand standing in biden versus nebraska.anta kagan is half right, when she criticizes the majority opinion that roberts for not having a concrete harm or imminent harm if you read her opinion and in the more recent decisions and trans union and spoke out, it is impossible to square the text of the opinion with standing doctrine as it is standing now. the only way to understand it is a revival of massachusetts versus epa. i'm disappointed in all the justices, maybe most disappointed in the liberals for not being consistent. they were not on the massachusetts versus epa court, i should pause and say what massachusetts versus epa was about at least on the standing question was on climate change. did massachusetts and other states get the claim? it was as much a speculative non-imminent kind of question but the court recognized quote this special is for states as it was ice auburn, i'm not sure what that is. states are like what is dual sovereignty? that's just part of the doctrine. roberts dissented on the question. just to con

we worked hard to make policy that keeps premiums affordable and nebraska and some other states have seen higher premiums at least in part because of the restrictions they have put on pricing. mr. gordon, can you speak to the challenges that can be associated with states that you have preapproval filing systems for insurance? how does that affect things for property-casualty insurers in that state? >> sometimes it is very and you get a good or bad states in either case but and you have the preapprovals, it can often create delays so for example in california, the state went for over 30 months without approving a single private passenger auto rate increase in over 30 months in a time of record inflation and you can imagine the kind of devastating losses that causes in the marketplace and you also have particularly in california a very antiquated broken 35-year- old system that the governor and commissioner are now trying to address and every state allows a forward-looking catastrophe accept california and every state allows reinsurance costs to be included in rate filings accept calif

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

that's about equal to a second mortgage for homeowners in nebraska. we also have a humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border. i was just down there for the fourth time. what i saw was a humanitarian disgrace. record numbers of illegal immigrants are crossing the border, children are being trafficked, people are dying, cartels are profiting. the biden administration is directly responsible for this humanitarian crisis. they should be ashamed of themselves. the biden administration's policies are also creating a major security crisis. a record number of encounters with individuals on the terrorist watch list has gone on, where that number used to be single digits, just in the past few years. washington has an important role in dealing with these challenges. the ideal time to address them is through the appropriations process. as we all know, congress must pass 12 appropriations bill every year, and this would avoid a government shutdown. this year, for the first time in five years, the senate appropriations committee passed out all 12 of t

the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mrs. fischer: thank you, mr. president.cross the country, over 1.2 million americans live in nursing homes. many of our own parents, grandparents, and other loved ones are among them. nursing facilities provide specialized, attentive care to seniors in critical need of their services. long-term care facilities are especially indispensable in small towns and rural areas, like much of my home state of nebraska. in those areas, a larger percentage of the population is over 65. unfortunately, the biden administration has released a rule this fall that could force many nursing facilities around the country to close their doors. the new rule, introduced in september by the centers for medicare and medicaid services, mandates new minimum staffing standards for long-term -- for long-term care facilities. it requires each facility to staff a registered nurse onsite 24/7, and would require staff to pro provide each resident with at least three hours of direct care per day. the administration believes this, rule would improve the qual

you also see snow building across parts of nebraska. a slow mover. today and tomorrow. all kinds of winter storm warnings, winter advisories in effect. across western nebraska and central kansas, winter storm warnings in effect. maybe six to eight inches of snow by the time this is done. further east, we'll see snowfall totals be just a little less. three to four inches, but these peak areas back here in the mountains, some spots maybe 12-18 inches. because of storms some big delays in the airports. albuquerque toward kansas city. airports we're watching. the same goes for denver. this is saturday, bit way, coastal areas on the west. much of the eastern seaboard looking great. toward sunday, maybe some delays around chicago. that same storm moves into that direction. a little bit of snow falling in chicago as well. notice this, we desperately need rain down across parts of the south and our pattern is setting up. we'll start to get more shots of rain coming through. louisiana, maybe a few delays in your airports for sunday but you want to get this mo

she moved with her children to omaha, nebraska. new town, new job.he needed to get away from michael. i mean, he still was harassing her all the time. >> he's not past tense? >> he's still making it, life hard from her. >> the other one mother in the story, dustin's mother, was also long gone from early, iowa. and she taken dustin's sisters to live in minneapolis, after her husband, their father, took his own life in the cemetery where dustin was buried. >> he was there, and he put a bullet in his heart. and left a note said, i cried every day since december 13th. >> but what a stark world you are looking at on your husband 's death. >> i was very -- horrible. >> how did you put yourself together? >> i buried stuff. i hid it. put up walls, closed doors. try to tell myself, it's a horrible nightmare. and that i'm going to wake up. >> the worst part of the nightmare, that she felt so alone. mona was consumed with questions that she felt no one else cared about. instead of wondering about the idea of the mysterious, second intruder. or who masterminded

thatoe't sound at all to me like -- you wrap yourself around nebraska versus stewart such as what is make sure that language from the supreme court which of course is controllingn us, what you're talking about is the predicate for theisict court showing of any to impose some so of restriction. >> i believe the decision goes on to s - >> the terms of the specifi restriction, but this is do we need to do something? court breaks it up into separate thinks, right? goes onoay there were other aspects of that vy, very broad order. there were problems but the need to do something in the district courts ement to do something that is going to the effect speech can b based on the nebraska. that's your positionse you've embraced that case, correct? >> i don't believe that opinion means the justice speculates th you need a showing on part one. >> i told you what desperate i'm that you can readhe whole paragraph ensure your reddit meantime becau y rely on this case extensively. do you agree, or a you asking us to disagree with that what the sprinkls it was a sufficient predicate for some action,