House Proceeding 07-14-09 on Jul 14th, 2009 :: 0:01:15 to 0:03:55
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Madeleine Z. Bordallo: the national park system and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from guam, ms. bordallo and the hastings, each will control 20 minutes. the gentlewoman from guam. ms. boffer doll low: i ask unanimous con -- ms. bordallo: i ask unanimous

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Speech By: Madeleine Z. Bordallo

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Madeleine Z. Bordallo: consent that all members have five legislativeays to revise and extend their remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentlelady will suspend. could we have people remov their conversations from the floor so we may proceed. ms. bordallo: h.r. 1044

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Madeleine Z. Bordallo: provides that the port ch naval magazine national memorial be managed as a unit of the national park system. currently, the area is managed as an affiliated site by the parks service. on july 17, 1944, 320 men were killed in an explosion at the port chicago navy loading base

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Madeleine Z. Bordallo: in the san francisco bay area. this was the largest homeland disaster in world war ii osm the de, 202 were african-american enlisted men assigned to moving ammunition a highly dangerous job, for which they had not received adequate training. fearful of another explosion,

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Madeleine Z. Bordallo: 258 of their surving fellow sailors refused to work without more traing. in response, the navy charged 50 men with mutiny and all were convic public outrage over the unjust convictions was a key factor in the navy race based assignments and president truman's 1948 order

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Madeleine Z. Bordallo: to integrate all of the armed forces. in 19 -- >> the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. the house is not in order. we respectfully request that members remove conversations from the chamber so the gentlelady may be heard. the gentlelady may proceed.

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Madeleine Z. Bordallo: ms. bordallo: in 1992, congress designated the port chicago naval magazine memorial. this further provides that the port chicago naval magazine nation memorial be managed as a unit of the nional park system a change that acknowledges the actual role the n.p.s. is playing on the ground in maintaining and interpreting the memorial.

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Madeleine Z. Bordallo: the sponsor of this measure, education and labor committee chair george miller, has worked tirelessly with the army and navy as well as the nationa park service to move this legislation forward.