Jeff Fortenberry: “on Thursday, July 20, 2006, I was unavoidably detained and thus I missed rollcall votes Nos. 389, 390, and 391. Had I…”

Thank you again for holding the hearing. I thought it was a very thorough, good discussion.

Today, I would like to speak about a great Nebraskan and a great American. His name is Dwight L. Clements. He died last week at 102 years old. Dwight Clements was born in Elmwood, Nebraska, and he went on to study at the University of…

to promote diversity and inclusion, and actually to expand...other types of diversity, regional diversity, rural Americans

First, let me acknowledge the leadership of our committee, the chair, Rosa DeLauro, and our Ranking Member Kay Granger particularly, in this sense, for their attempt to navigate this contentious process in which there really are areas of…