Will continue to do that, and to make sure that in the second incident that were using their input. Well, i think its absolutely crucial. Mr. Chairman, i would like to really thank you also for having the ig at the table, when i chaired the committee, it was my habit or really my administrative procedure that all of my subcommittees either had an ig come in what was the hotspots for agencies or at least submit written testimony, the fact that youre utilizing that is really crucial. Well have a lot to talk about this afternoon. Thank you so much for your service. We so value the work of our Inspector Generals theyve been enormously helpful to me, both as chair and now vice chair of the committee to really get value for our dollar. To identify management hotspots, and we really want to thank you for the identification not only of the problem but the recommendation for solutions. So thank you very much and all the igs. Youre very welcome, senator. Thank you, senator. Senator langford. Tha
With the folks in town. One area of moderate to heavy rain is moving through the metro area now. Another batch is coming in later tonight. Severe thunderstorm watch over kentucky and parts of west virginia. It might just work out that we get the little bit of a break. If it doesnt end totally, it might diminish enough to get the fireworks in fine. Here is where we are at the moment. Heavy downpours across the district. Just over the city in the north, heavy downpours. Lets zoom in closer now and take you right down to nearly street level where we have rain falling on the mall. We have heavy rain at that. The areas in orange are moving east. We do think we will have a break. Here is how it will go. Mild and muggy. About 70 to the low 70s. Isolated showers later tonight and maybe thunderstorms with the next batch. But the in between time, 8 30, 9 30 to 10 00 we still have a chance of having a break from the rain. I just saw sam sweeney on the mall a minute ago. Im looking at that hood an
assistance to the government of south vietnam. congress doesn t support that. do you recall what was going on at the time? i actually don t recall those votes or that debate, but i don t know that it s not any surprise to me that the house decided not to do that. i mean, we had the troops were out. we wanted the war over. the policy of vietnamization that richard nixon claimed was going to work hadn t worked. it was a civil war. and we didn t think the u.s. should be playing a role in it anymore. what i do remember vividly was at the very end there were some efforts to give president ford additional powers to war-making powers to help in the evacuation. and there was a big debate in the house about that. i participated in that. the reason i remember it so vividly is it must have taken place between one and two or 1:00 and 3:00 in the morning so, that stuck in my mind. and those efforts to get him additional war-making powers were rejected given the experience of gulf of