Banking within the igs fic im shocked Inspector General would go from waste, fraud, and abuse and inefficiency to promoting a specific agenda and im disappointed. Notwithstanding that, post office has every right to propose innovative activity including postal money orders and other items, some of which are historic within postal systems here and around the world. However, i would hope in the future that you would be much more of an advocate conclude like when people like mr. Lance find everything that reduces costs and allows the post office to break even and be more efficient for its customers which, as stated earlier, are the shippers. Mr. Lynch is not here. He proudly said i talk about after he left. Mitchell lynch will never be my partner in anything that reforms the post office and makes a more efficient because that will reduce labor. Im sorry to say but i think its a lost cause. Mr. Clay and others are not. Lets go through the numbers quickly. Anyone can when but mr. Williams,
[inaudible] and barbara were always very welcoming to me. They always said whens your next book . Youre on. [laughter] and it was lovely. And as david said, brad and lissa have carried on the wondrous tradition, the ingenuity and made it keep going, and the fact that all of you have come tonight is a testimony to the job they do and the reverence for books that we all share. Richard nixons a hard man to let go of. [laughter] i first i remember as a child on black and white fuzzy television seeing this odd man. He was on the ticket with general eisenhower, and there was some problem of his taking money from a secret fund. He was talking about his daughters dog, and i thought, hmm, hes interesting. Well, he never stopped being interesting. Richard nixon was never boring. And as david mentioned, he was probably as interesting in his after presidency as he was during his presidency. I chronicle in the book the beginning with spiro agnew, remember him being in some trouble. And i had said t
Things in this panel. First, were going pose the question, did, in fact, the Clean Air Act in practice over the last 25 years fulfill the promise and intent of its creators . We often, in public policy, end up making claims about what will happen if we do x or y. Its instructive, among other things, to go back and look and see if the promises that were being made by its proponents actually occurred. Were, second think, going the way in which the Clean Air Act was fashioned within the executive branch and the proposal that was developed before president bush sent it to congress. And third, were going to look at how the legislation actually got passed, and in particular, well focus on the action in the senate, which was decisive with respect to securing the legislation. So, first, let us turn to bob grady, who was chief speech writer for president bush during his 1988 campaign. Bob was the one who came up with the wonderful line the time for study has ended. The time for action has arriv
The law that is in the legislative language that is in this supplemental. Because i agree with our distinguished whip, mr. Hoyer, and others who have said there are two things happening here. One is we need to address the challenge, the humanitarian challenge. We need resources to do that for particular purposes, and we should do that in the supplemental. Another is to change the law which we shouldnt do in a supplemental. It is legislative legislating on an appropriations bill in a manner in which all kind of statements can be made which may be anecdotally significant but not significant in terms of the difference that they make a difference enough to change the law. And so when people talk about witnesses in one context or another, just saying something on the floor of the house, its interesting. But there should be hearings, if were going to change the law, there should be hearings where testimony can come forth, challenged, confirmed, whatever it may be. But a serious discussion wo
The warning about the al qaeda build up one was the photograph of an al qaeda rally. 300 activists waving their guns in the air and calling for the death of the u. S. Ambassador. At the very same time the state department is denying the security for that environment. They also knew that the private life of the ms or stevens was known and used as a targeting device by al qaeda through some of his friends and associates. His schedule was posted on the Al Qaeda Facebook page before the attacks utterly ignored and then we had the account of the attacks and the value that they had been saving for Diplomatic Security personnel. So i dont think that they did. Its in the first half hour of the attack it was separated in a small building which was they were suffocated in the insurgency attackers in the diesel fuel was hit on the grounds of the diplomatic outpost ground and basic the the building on fire when they decided. But the other two die diabetes s later and this was the rolling attack. H