andre williams, when i showed up as the principal at thurgood marshall -- this is my third year -- i showed up, and you get to kind of take a little bit of stock of who's there and who does what. and it became very apparent ho our community in our school. so i'm very, very honored because i've learned a ton from him as a principal, and that is invaluable to me and everybody else. our p.t.o. president, we call her jam affectionately, miss magnone, brought this award to the table, and everybody said absolutely. this is something we knew he'd be honored for. so andre williams, congratulations. thank you very much. [applause] >> i don't have a long speech. i just want to say thank you for the recognition. to see all these people out here, it's really warming. we do it for the kids. the people that are here, they know why we do this, so for me to stand here and just talk a lot, we do it for our babies. if you ain't doing it for them, then why you doing it? so thank you. [applause] >> president cook: let's congratulate again our rave award winners. [applause] >> so i'm going to make a brie

we need to constantly be reminded of of that point we should all be treat - - treated that way so thurgoodarshall is another hero of mine and other howard graduate. and for all of those reasons i wanted to go to howard and i did and thankfully i did. [applause] >> george washington is also a great school. [laughter] [applause] >> more to the point of howard because you do right was such reverence for the university and that you would, as you were and leave as the person you aspired to be there were no false choices you weren't just told me had the capacity to be great but challenge to live up to the potential. >>. >> during that election cycle and early supporter of president obama do you remember that conversation if he was black enough. and this is what i would say. when you ask that question to explain your lack of exposure to who is a black person and what a black person can be and is. [applause] so i would explain what it means to stand in the yard it is covered in grass in the middle of campus and where we would go on friday afternoons everybody dressed in their best and promenade an

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thurgood marshall once said none of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. we got here because somebody bent down and helped us pick up those boots. i grew up in a kentucky where my family, teachers, mentors, and friends all bent down and helped me pick up my boots, and i have seen first hand what lifting up the boots of even one generation can do for every generation that comes after. see, i'm the proud grandson of a baptist preacher named orlando rustle beshear from kentucky. he and my grandmother worked every day of their lives to make sure that my dad and his brothers and sisters could become the first generation to attend college in the beshear family. my grandparents and the teachers at dawson springs independent public schools helped pick up those boots. my dad, steve beshear, is here with us tonight along with my mom, jane beshear. i am so proud of them and their service to this commonwealth.yoe change in just one generation is -- changes everything for generation to come. i see it in my kids. they now have more opportunity because a community picke

andre williams, when i showed up as the principal at thurgood marshall -- this is my third year -- i showed up, and you get to kind of take a little bit of stock of who's there and who does what. and it became very apparent ho our community in our school. so i'm very, very honored because i've learned a ton from him as a principal, and that is invaluable to me and everybody else. our p.t.o. president, we call her jam affectionately, miss magnone, brought this award to the table, and everybody said absolutely. this is something we knew he'd be honored for. so andre williams, congratulations. thank you very much. [applause] >> i don't have a long speech. i just want to say thank you for the recognition. to see all these people out here, it's really warming. we do it for the kids. the people that are here, they know why we do this, so for me to stand here and just talk a lot, we do it for our babies. if you ain't doing it for them, then why you doing it? so thank you. [applause] >> president cook: let's congratulate again our rave award winners. [applause] >> so i'm going to make a brie

so one of my heroes was thurgood marshall another example of a howard graduate. so i jumped it going to howard i wanted to and i did and thankfully i did. [applause] and gw is also a great school. [laughter] >> but you do right with such reverence and you write at howard, as you were in the event is the person you aspire to be there are no false choices that we don't have the capacity to be great we were challenged to live up to that potential. >> that's right. it's how word it's interesting because we read run into each other around 2008 election cycle i was an early supporter of president obama when he first ran remember the conversation is he black enough? i was a surrogate so i remember doing a few interviews and in response and i would say when you ask that question are displaying your lack of exposure to who is a black person and what a black person can be and is. [applause] so i would explain what it means to stand on the yard at howard university in area that is covered in grass in the middle of stanford is where i would go on friday afternoon but this is

library, side by side with the papers of frederick douglass, abraham lincoln, mary church durel and thurgood marshall. rosa parks lived a life dedicated to equal rights and social justice and she helped change the country with the example she set. as a statue of rosa parks stands with pride in the capitol rotunda, in this exhibition, you will see her standing tall, quite literally, as her photos, images of her papers and videos tower more than 12 feet above you. none of this would have been possible without the generosity of the howard g. buffett foundation who made the rosa parks collection a gift to the library and to the nation. it all started when jesse holland, a journalist at the time, learned that the collection was stored away in boxes in a warehouse. he wrote a story about it, and his story was read and seen by mr. howard buffett, who bought the papers and gave them to the library so that they could be preserved, scanned and seen by everyone. jesse is now a scholar in residence in the library of congress' john w. kluge center. so that deserves a hand. [ applause ] the collection com

library, side-by-side with the papers of frederick douglass, abraham lincoln, mary church terrel and thurgoodarshall. rosa parks lived a life dedicated to equal rights and social justice and help change the country with the examples she set. standse of rosa parks with pride in the capital of rotunda, and in this exhibition you will see her standing tall quite literally, as her photos, papers and videos tower more than 12 feet above you. none of this would have been possible without the generosity of the howard g buford the rosan, who made parks collection a gift to the nation and the library. it all started when jensen collins, journalist, learned the collection was stored away in boxes in a warehouse. about and itory was read by mr. howard buffett, who bought the papers and gave them to the library so that they could be preserved and seen by everyone. jensen is now a scholar at the library of congress. [applause] the collection comprises 10,000 both missn from parks' private life entered decades of work for civil rights. it is photos and correspondence, handwritten reflections, private notes

andre williams, when i showed up as the principal at thurgood marshall -- this is my third year -- i showed up, and you get to kind of take a little bit of stock of who's there and who does what. and it became very apparent ho our community in our school. so i'm very, very honored because i've learned a ton from him as a principal, and that is invaluable to me and everybody else. our p.t.o. president, we call her jam affectionately, miss magnone, brought this award to the table, and everybody said absolutely. this is something we knew he'd be honored for. so andre williams, congratulations. thank you very much. [applause] >> i don't have a long speech. i just want to say thank you for the recognition. to see all these people out here, it's really warming. we do it for the kids. the people that are here, they know why we do this, so for me to stand here and just talk a lot, we do it for our babies. if you ain't doing it for them, then why you doing it? so thank you. [applause] >> president cook: let's congratulate again our rave award winners. [applause] >> so i'm going to make a brie

the first school that we did was thurgood marshall high school. and we've done all the elementary schools in the bayview. we've done also m.l. king. i'm going to not get all of them, but we've done -- >> all the -- >> we've pretty much done all the pitch schools. there might be one or two exceptions but they are online if they are not done. we have done lincoln high school. so there's a bunch of schools in the mission that we've done. i'll send you a list of all the schools we have done. i'll send you the list of all the schools that are on deck and i'll send you some before and after pictures so you can see what they look like. >> marina. >> marina, brown, they all reflect the design principles of student-centered dining spaces. >> a video. >> yep. >> roosevelt >> roosevelt was one of the first ones we did. that was the prototype. so what happened was there was bond work happening at roosevelt, so we used that, we leveraged that opportunity to create the kind of student-centered dining space we were trying to do. and we had a grand opening for it

having worked with thurgood marshall on the civil rights movement, having served as eneral counsel for the naacp, he not only improved lives of people in cincinnati, he helped people across the country and the globe. while cincinnati will sorely iss commissioner portune and judge jones, their accomplishments will be felt by our community and across our for generations to come. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman texas seek recognition? mr. olson: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the ouse for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. olson: madam speaker, i question. what does oscar the grouch from street" have in common the oligarch? common?they have in answer. they are both puppets who trash their own home. putin's puppet has attacked foreign investment in basic human rushed rights. from texas, resources have been drilling in georgia and years and years. they've created great jobs in america, great jobs in georgia. they've created fr

of the thurgood marshall college fund and having served as a trustee for the university of miami, drake university, and the cooper union. it is with this lens and current lens as president and c.e.o. of the society for human resource management. chair of the president's board of advisors on hbcu's, and member of the white house american work force policy advisory board that i feel compelled to provide perspective on the department of education's updated rule governing borrower defense to repayment. i'm of the opinion that the department's new borrower defense rules protect individual borrowers from fraud, ensuring accountability across institutions of higher education, and protects taxpayers. the new rules provide flexibility for schools to make changes to their course official and graduation requirements based on cost, student interest, and employer needs without being characterized as fraudulent. now that nearly all the major concerns raised by the hbcu community were addressed by the secretary, it is time to pass the rules so we can put our collective energy into educating america's