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Up and wondering who these people are. We would play directors jeopardy. I have not done this before. It may fall flat. Or i may spend the rest of the night doing that. Lets start with this. Longestserving director of Central Intelligence. And you can shout out the name. Allen dulles, correct. And there is right there. Conversely, im the shortest serving director. Pompeo was in for the better part of the year. So was george bush. Schlesinger, almost. He was in for about a year and a half. We have to go way back. The first one. He was a crony of harry truman. He made it very clear when he took the job that he only wanted to serve a few months. He was not experienced. Truman wanted a figurehead who could get the Intelligence Group up and running. I am the only convicted felon richard hounds. Regrettably. He was caught in a pretty nasty gotcha episode. He was testifying before the Senate Foreign relations during his hearings before he went out to iran and was asked by senator stewart and
Pursuant to House Resolution 445 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the further onsideration of h. R. 3055. Will the gentlewoman from the district of columbia kindly take the chair. The chair the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for further consideration of h. R. 3055 which the clerk will report by title. The clerk a bill making appropriations for the departments of commerce and justice, science and related agencies for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2020, and for other purposes. The chair when the committee of the whole rose earlier today, en were amendments en bloc offered by the gentlewoman from minnesota, ms. Mccollum, have ow been disposed of. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, proceedings will resume on those amendments printed in part b of house report 116119 on which further proceedings were postponed in the following order. Amendment 3 by mr. Rutherford of florida