Storm and has more from accuweather. Hurricane harvey is maximum sustained 130 Miles Per Hour. Its slowed its Forward Motion moving at eight Miles Per Hour at last report. Rockford Emergency Management texas with people trapped inside. This storm will sit there for days. I want to show you wind gusts from the center. Galveston reporting 40 Miles Per Hour. Cant report from the station because the power has been shutdown but we have storm trackers reporting maximum wind gusts 140 Miles Per Hour making landful near rockford right now. This is the first to hit texas since karla in 1961. Once it moves inland, it will stall along the coast. What that means, the storm surge of six to 12 feet continues for days. We are looking at epic amounts of rain falling from the sky, some areas 30inches of rain, a years worth of rain in a matter of days. Well talk about this storm system for a long time because it will likely effect the area well into next week. We have the local forecast later on. Jim .
Storm and has more from accuweather. Hurricane harvey is maximum sustained 130 Miles Per Hour. Its slowed its Forward Motion moving at eight Miles Per Hour at last report. Rockford Emergency Management texas with people trapped inside. This storm will sit there for days. I want to show you wind gusts from the center. Galveston reporting 40 Miles Per Hour. Cant report from the station because the power has been shutdown but we have storm trackers reporting maximum wind gusts 140 Miles Per Hour making landful near rockford right now. This is the first to hit texas since karla in 1961. Once it moves inland, it will stall along the coast. What that means, the storm surge of six to 12 feet continues for days. We are looking at epic amounts of rain falling from the sky, some areas 30inches of rain, a years worth of rain in a matter of days. Well talk about this storm system for a long time because it will likely effect the area well into next week. We have the local forecast later on. Jim .
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the newly refurbished, excuse me, well, i want to call it the oversight Investigation Committee room which is sometimes used by energy and commerce, and what a but beautiful room. It is more conducive to the good hearing. This is the the first one of the 115th congress and welcome here, and welcome in the Witnesses Today. This is the and welcome back to my friend and colleague Ranking Member from colorado. This is our Medicaid Oversight Committee on existing problems and ways to strengthen the program. We are convened to examine a critical component of the Affordable Care act, medicaid and medicare expansion. It covers over 70 million americans and accounts for more than 15 of the Health Care Spending in the United States. In 2015 alone, the federal taxpayers spent over 350 billion on medicaid and the costs continue to rise each year according to the congressional budget office, and the shares are expected to rise significantly in the coming the decad
A senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator from West Virginia. Mr. Manchin are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer the senate is not in a quorum call. Mr. Manchin id like to vitiate. The presiding officer were not in a quorum call. Mr. Manchin i ask to speak concerning we have a colloquy, speak on the protection act. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Manchin madam president , as you know very well, weve been asking for immediate passage of the miners protection act not just for our state of West Virginia but for all the miners across america and basically the retired miners who have done everything thats been asked of them. We have some of our colleagues today and im going to go, at this time, if i can, and my other colleagues will allow me, i would defer right now to senator brown from ohio, since he has other commitments. Hell be coming back and forth, if he could go ahead and get started at this time. And ill come back and go to our other senato
Letters at the university of texas library. They are quite something. We have to say Douglas Macarthur in the end be also to his first wife they were cool way in the 20s become not only was Douglas Macarthur great military commander and a great statesman, and any the master of erotic pros. Cspan and then somebody else got involved there was enormous conflicts of how much money was to be appropriated for the rv over questions which branch should get the support necessary. Macarthur was certain and it is a good lesson there was the question of mechanize welfare there was a question to put money into that. Cspan that he knew about the affair and he would leap dash and it would be published. How does this end up . Washington has changed. [laughter] no stories like that anymore cspan one last clip what macarthurs says after the republican convention. Our people are desperate that we will revive pope as we have the oppressive burden sec astronomically rising public debt and the wellbeing of