Bipartisan inhofemikulski amendment to the National Defense authorization act. What does our amendment do . It stops the privatization of commissaries which are an earned, earned benefit for our military and their families. Every year when the Senate Debates this bill, we talk about how we love our troops and how we always want to support our military families, but if we really love our troops, we need to make sure that our troops have the support that they need. One of the earned benefits that does that is the commissaries, and if we love our troops, why would we want to proceed in the direction that we are . Our troops dont view commissaries as a subsidy. They view it as do i as an earned benefit. Im fighting here to preserve this piece of the earned benefit compensation package. Now, what are the commissaries . Since 1826, military families have been able to shop at a network of stores that provide modestly priced groceries. The commissary system is simple. If youre active duty in y
And nearly everyone was thinking about just how bad 2008 was. You can see the love for this place, everybody started pulling their trucks up and taking stuff out, called my wife and said id be home a little later and give six hours. Were trying to be down here and be proactive and help with the effort, everybodys been willing to do anything and everything. One of the biggest controversies of the 2016 flood was how one block with a few businesses were left out of the flood. Flood. Was tom slaughter at tornados grub and pub. When the flood protection went up he was left on the outside and had to scramble to create his own makeshift flood protection to keep the water out. He was in the middle of that when we caught up with him. To see the city exclude me and these other busiensse, blatently, to exclude us, they;ve put us in the river from 16th avenue, there really isnta good location to provide flood control. Control. The hesco barrier work best when theyre on solid footing, sidewalk or a
First we are going to look outside with ava and i could barely see this morning. It is so foggy out there, especially in lowlying spots where you really have to watch this morning. I already saw a minor accident on the road on my way to work. Just take it easy because theres light drizzle across the area and people dont expect the roads to be slick but it takes a little bit of rain to get the roads slippery. If you plan to travel, there will be dense areas of fog to worry about. Temperatures hovering around 50 degrees, 49 at b. W. I. Marshall. The dew point at 49, as well, so a relative humidity at 100 , spelling trouble for fog, and even some drizzle. A chance of showers throughout the day as a cold front is in and around the area. This is the warm front ahead of that. Temperatures wont move much, staying in the upper 40s to low 50s through the gay day. A big game down towards d. C. And details coming up in a few minutes. Hour big story this morning, the Dallas Cowboys dealing with a