House Proceeding 03-20-10 on Mar 20th, 2010 :: 0:20:55 to 0:23:50
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Donna M. Christensen: part of this vast and in fairous conspiracy that's going on. -- and in a foreous -- in fairous could be spircy that's going on. with that i recognize dr. christensen for three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for three minutes. mrs. christensen: thank you, chairman grijalva, although i

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Speech By: Donna M. Christensen

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Donna M. Christensen: could be at home this weekend since i don't get to vote as a physician, a family doctor, and a person who has worked all my life, all my adult life to ensure that people had access to health care, especially minority, people of color, those in our rural areas and territories, who have often been left behind, i am pleased to be here this weekend for

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Donna M. Christensen: is historic vote. chairman grijalva, i want to thank you for introducing this legislation and thank you for your leadership as chairman of the subcommittee on parks, recreation, and public lands and your leadership in preserving some of our nation's most important treasures. madam speaker, i am pleased to join my colleagues on the floor this morning in strong support

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Donna M. Christensen: of h.r. 1612, the public lands seice corps act. i'm se my park students are very much in support of this bill. in fact, superintendent hargrove and i have tried to set up exactly what this bill would do in st. thomas and st. john for several years.

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Donna M. Christensen: h.r. 1612 in expanding and reinvigorating an existing program addresses two important needs. first it creates jobs. jobs that are so badly needed in our nation today. jobs in an age group that has the highest and most chronic unemployment. in the absence of decent job opportunities, they are lured into drugs and criminal activity that's threatening to destroy the fabric of many communities, communities such

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Donna M. Christensen: as mine. and then it helps to clear up a long-standing maintenance backlog in our nation's parks and public lands, but it also begins to re-establish a relationship between the people in the involved communities and the public lands in their area. if i can just speak aout st. john for a moment, 2/3 of that island is national park.

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Donna M. Christensen: and while it is the anchor of tourism there, for the most part the native population are not major stakeholders in that important mainstay of our economy. and those are small communities, too many of our young people on st. john are in need of jobs and job training, especially those that don't require that they travel by boats to st. thomas every day.

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Donna M. Christensen: more than that, with the virgin islands national park occupying so much of the island, it is critical that we make more st. johns an integral part of what happens there and begin to regain a sense of belonging and ownership with the rest of our nation that has been lost over the years. the same is true for south river and the other park lands

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Donna M. Christensen: in st. croix and historic castle island in st. thomas where those young men and women