Particularly on the Government Affairs portion. We have a Mission Statement that we developed last congress with my former Ranking Member senator carper and then my new Ranking Member had a very good addition to it. The original one was to enhance the economic and National Security of america and the senator suggested we add for efficient and effective Accountable Government and thats what the gao and Inspector Generals do. We certainly appreciate your work. I dont know how many times ive said it, youre our favorite folks in government. You give us the information that really can make government more efficient and effective and accountable. Todays hearing is really on the gaos high risk series. Their list. This is something thats been prepared by gao since the early 90s. The facts speak for themselves. Just the last ten years, a gao report that 240 million over a tenyear period by enacting their recommendations to make government more efficient and effective. Thats 24 billion per year.
Our team court or jury range starts here with erin como. We had a quiet vacation during the five and new whoa have problems on the road and rails. Metro single tracking through east falls impacting silver and orpth line. Safe track surge ten ended yesterday and red line back to nrmle and unscheduled track work causing delays to largo and new carl tonight. Good news metro bus on time if you head forar at airport reagan dulles or bwi. A crash in northing with the. Southbound side s street northwest. If you head inbound from chef ci chase, wisdom martin, massachusetts that acan save you time this morning. Canal road because of big crash on inbound side the road is shut down near fox hall road. Avoid canal inbound. Keep to reservoir to wisdom martin and things looking dealing with disabled route allentown to branch avenue avenue and fox5 Melanie Alnwick is cruise around on the roads as well. How are things shaping up in maryland for you . So far, erin, things seem ton pretty quiet and good
It has been a very moving experience, and im sure that will continue with our panel right now, which is a Panel Focused on the radicalization of reconstruction. , will introduce our speakers as others have done all at the beginning here, and then they will come up and give you some more wonderful food for thought. Julie saville is associate professor of history at the university of chicago. She is a specialist in African American and caribbean histories and the author and editor of numerous books, including the work of reconstruction from in southwage labor carolina and she is currently working on a study of popular politics and resistance to reenslavement in the caribbean after the haitian and french revolution. Blackcus will be on mobilization in the aftermath of american emancipation. Carol amberson is associate professor of history at the university of buffalo. Her research focuses on the role of violence and shaping our social, political, and cultural world. She published beyond r
Veteran. And that even ties boo what i will into what i will talk about in a moment about washingtons views of peace and how essential peace is. As a combat veteran, washington understands a number of things about the nature of war and what war does and what its impact is not only on those who are at the front lines, but on those who are at home who are also affected and in their own ways participants in war. What war does to a country and to a people. He also learns, i think, here too the extreme importance of fundamentals, of basics. This is one element of washingtons character that i saw early on and that ive, its taken a while to understand. If you look at this gentlemans fixation on detail, hes often dismissed as a micromanager, but theres a real purpose to that focus on detail which is that detail matters. If youre in the service and particularly if youre in a position of command, you ignore at your peril the basic fact that the men who serve with you must eat, they must have she
Who invented the birthcontrol pill or how we got it and i became curious. It struck me as odd that anybody would have on their agenda in the 1950s a pill for the sexual liberation of women something that would free women to control their fertility. Who did that so thats where the idea came from. When i looked into it i found this incredible story of these outsiders these underdogs who had no enfranchisement no Government Support no university support in setting out to do something that everyone told them was impossible. Host can you sketch out what life was like before the pill . I think people today certainly i took it for granted and many people took it for granted before the 1960s when the pill became commonly used contraception was very limited. Abstinence was your best bet in the absence was harder. You had and some options available for women who went to their doctors that women have to go through men to get access to those and a effective and accessible forms of contraception. T