{"id":15742,"date":"2020-02-04T10:43:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T15:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=15742"},"modified":"2020-02-05T15:29:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T20:29:45","slug":"t-c-williams-student-selected-as-senator-tim-kaines-guest-for-state-of-the-union-presidential-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=15742","title":{"rendered":"T.C. Williams Student Selected as Senator Tim Kaine\u2019s Guest for State of the Union Presidential Address"},"content":{"rendered":"
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JROTC Cadet Nicole Rosario-Flores, a student at T.C. Williams High School, was U.S. Senator Tim Kaine\u2019s guest at the Presidential State of the Union Address on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Rosario-Flores was handpicked by the Virginian lawmaker, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, after meeting her during his visit to the school last month.<\/p>\n

Last Tuesday, the junior was his guest as President Donald Trump delivered the annual message at a joint session of Congress in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

“I am thrilled and honored to be Senator Tim Kaine’s guest at the State of the Union Address,\u201d she said prior to the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am equally grateful for the JROTC program at T.C. Williams High School, which is truly one of a kind, has opened doors for me and given me the opportunity to attend such an important event as this one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving the opportunity to witness the way our government functions first hand will definitely be something that I will always remember,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

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Senator Kaine spent an afternoon with Junior ROTC cadets at T.C. Williams on January 10 to hear their thoughts about the recent conflict with Iran. He also talked about his years-long efforts to reclaim Congress\u2019s constitutional duty to weigh in on whether or not the nation goes to war.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the year, the former vice presidential candidate introduced a war powers resolution to prevent further escalation of hostilities with Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited Cadet Rosario-Flores will join me as my State of the Union guest on Tuesday,\u201d he said. \u201cI was so impressed with her and all the T.C. Williams High School JROTC cadets I recently met with to discuss my bipartisan war powers resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe legislation is about ensuring we don\u2019t send our troops into harm\u2019s way unless there\u2019s a carefully reached consensus in Congress that war is in the national interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAny time we\u2019re in the middle of a discussion about matters of war and peace in Congress, it\u2019s important to hear from young people who have a large stake in this debate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JROTC Cadet Nicole Rosario-Flores met with the senator when he visited TC last month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acps","category-achs","category-announcements"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 11:00:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15742"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15759,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15742\/revisions\/15759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}