Be out and about having conversations with all of you. This is my 1228th town meeting as a member of congress and its great to be back. We tried to be do one in every county on an ongoing basis. I have a couple things i want to say and then will go to questions. This is my first visit to great bend since the death of bob. She was my longtime friend. Bob and polly were great friends and great supporters. We spent our honeymoon with bob and polly at the Republican National convention in 1984. They are great friends of my wife. We now live in manhattan and we drove to great bend for the h Birthday Party only to arrive with three cars in the parking lot and i walked in and said what happened, am i in the wrong place and they said dont you know, bob died yesterday. He missed his Birthday Party by one day. Secondly, on a topic of interes interest. Im not a veteran but i grew up with vietnam in the back of my life and solve what happened to many who served in our military as they returned hom
I just buried our youngest in back and youre not going to have anything left. You need to come home. Will examine the vietnam war of the 1960s have experiences of Charlie Company discussing the battlefield of vietnam and we soldiers have to fight upon return to the United States. Veterans have been just as political footballs. They been used as part of a morality play. They been just as many things but hardly anybody had gotten to tell their story who they were as young men before they went, the trauma of war that they went through both as great victories, its funny times, its horrible times and then what happened to the generation since they had been home. The 1966 length of civil rights activist advanced of the ku klux klan. For what reason did anybody want to come and kill my dad . They came as result of the orders from the head of the klan who said go annihilate. And they came to kill the whole family. And learn about the Freedom Summer School programs during the summer of 1964 whe
I call this thes hearing of the Senate Committee on agriculture attrition and forestry to order. Thank you all for coming. Todays hearing will examine the overall climate of credit in Rural America, the health of ag lending from the commercial bank in the farm Credit System perspectives and what the impact of current credit environment having our nations farms. We will also examine whether the Farm Credit Administration is exercising appropriate oversight in the farm Credit System. Farmers and ranchers across the country are experiencing difficult Economic Conditions as the farm sector profitability is forecast to decline for the Third Straight year. Over the past three years alone, debt debt farm income is expected to decline by 56 . As our nations farmers and Rural Communities continue to deal with low Commodity Prices and always elevated input costs, access to Affordable Credit in Rural America is absolutely crucial. The spring 2016 agriculture Lenders Survey released by kansas stat
Types of synthetic substances. The challenge is to preserve researchers needs while stemming the flow danger synthetic chemicals and a proper response to consider three points. First allowing research of potential therapeutic uses, second legislation should be guided by rigorous science entered the impact on mass incarceration especially in cases where substances have not been fully vetted by the scientific community. Few investigators will pursue research with schedule one drugs various researchers discourage engagement obtaining a schedule one licenses not a trivial matter and researcher must be motivated to obtain one even if the investigator requires small truck amounts that do not represent a potential for diversion in most cases researchers are funded for example by nida to study only the deleterious properties of a specific drug of abuse but is also important to have funding available for Research Identified Beneficial Properties of schedule one substance is as with recent medic
To focus more on her work inside the white house as an assistant to her father. If you thought jared and ivanka were going home, youre wrong. We begin today with a tape that appears to show the president discussing hush money payments with his lawyer just weeks before voters headed to the polls in 2016. I have a great team here to break all of it down. Its a lot. First, i want to play the tape for you. To set the stage, the recording was made secretly in september of 2016. Thats two months before the president ial election. It was one month after the National Enquirers Publishing Company bought the rights to Karen Mcdougals story about an extramarital affair she claims to have had with the president. It was bought for 150 grand, a number that comes up in the conversation with trump and cohen. What you will hear is donald trump talking to his attorney, Michael Cohen, but i want you to listen closely. There is some dispute over what is being said. We will not put words on the screen. I w