Challenging time, fulfilling your purposes through them. Be exalted, o god, above the highest heaven, as you demonstrate your power to make the crooked places straight. Have mercy upon us and protect us for your unfailing love and faithfulness sustain us. Shine your glory over all the earth as we learn to trust you at all times. And, lord, we thank you that senator grassley has had another wonderful birthday. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president. The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley may i speak for one minute in morning business . The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley since the day i was born, ive celebrated constitution day. Thats because the 39 delegates signe
Mr. Thompson if that freshwater doesnt run through and to the ocean the saltwater runs back in. I have two major cities in my district that relies on that for the source of water. If this bill passes, their water supply is in jeopardy. You cant drink salts water. It just doesnt work. California is in the middle of an extreme drought. Its not due to a lack of pumping. Its not because our states water regulations and its not because were putting fish ahead of farms and people. Its because theres no rain and theres no snow. No bill can make it rain but this bill makes a bad situation even worse. Its wrong for california. It wont stop the drought. It wont make it rain but it will kill jobs and it will ruin Drinking Water for millions of californians. The state of california wont support this bill because it ignores 20 years of established science and undermines our extensive efforts to implement equal measures to address longstanding water shortages. Weve been down this road before in cali
Switchblade you can drop it on a sniper position. Or you can create a bigger version and have a drop on a tank. Be, do not be, do not judge a drone based on the small ones that come out, or the large ones, there is really every kind you can imagine. They are lighter than air, unmanned, that can Service Communication or surveillance platforms. So if you can think it, it is unmanned at this point. One step further a lot of demand alot of the manned aircraft will have the options of flying empty. It is in the way that people understand the technology and we may have to start rewriting the terms to encompass what the Weapons Systems actually do. Host we have jeff on the line for independents. Caller good morning. About 12 years ago i was in arizona, and a friend of mine was a Service Technician for microwave towers and systems. When he was up on a tower he noticed, he thought it was a dragonfly buzzing around him and that it fell. It was a drone and you took it to an engineer and they look
Chairman shelby the committee will come to the order. Mr. Deputy attorney general, welcome to the congresss Appropriations Committee, which we will hear in the fiscal year 2018 budget request. I am pleased to welcome you here to your first hearing before this subcommittee. I am grateful that you and the attorney general brought the new leadership to the doj. Your input is helpful and necessary as we reviewed the priorities for the Justice Department to ensure that National Security and Law Enforcement is funded appropriately and sufficiently. This is a challenging budget climate as you know. Violent crime has risen and terrorists have escalated fiscal constraints. The president proposes to decrease funding at the department of justice by 630 million in 2018 for the new total of 28. 3 billion. Since the start of the new administration, in the early days of your tenure as Deputy Attorney general, im pleased the department is refocusing on the core mission of enforcing a constitution and
Where for many years she raised thouroghbred horses and where she and her husband remain active in civic causes. You heard something of luci baines johnson, of her sensitivity and her sense of history. Unlike peggy, luci was a young woman when she entered the white house in november, 1963. She wanted nothing more than to be a normal teenager. Life in the white house is many things but normal it is not. Lucis mother said as much when she gave her daughter the following advice, dont ever do anything you do not want printed on the front page of the paper. This would strike terror in the hearts of most teenage girls but luci rose to the occasion, no more impressively than at the time of her wedding. According to one newswoman nobody was invited except the immediate country. And notwithstanding, a press controversy over a nonunion bridal gown, the day went off gloriously. Soon after, luci left the white house for texas in what she has described as a normalcy that never quite materialized fo