Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. As we begin our final day of consideration of the fy21 spending bills, id like to thank you all for your kind words and well wishes and ask you, please, to indulge me in just a few more reflections. I came to congress in 1989, one of just 31 women in the house and senate and to this committee in 1993 alongside only six other women under the 64member panel. This body is better for the 100 women serving in the 116th congress and for the many women in the room today. Its my honor to address the full committee for my final time as the first woman chair. You know, its ironic [applaus [applause] thank you. Its ironic that back in 1993 i had to choose between serving on appropriations or ways and means. I was fortunate to be given that choice. And today, we markup my final appropriation bills in the ways and Means Committee room. I chose appropriations because i believed it was the best place to give more people a better chance at a better l
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Red line being shut down to single tracking. Now were tom the service has been restored. We are told the service of been restored. That is once again the problem, and it was a very trying morning for many folks, especially at stations like this one where we are live, gallery place, chinatown. Crowding busyople sidewalks. Buses were requested to get people around the closure and around the mass, but these buses arrive few and far between. Smoke reported just after 7 30 this morning between Farragut North and metro center. Commuters left stranded for over an hour, many deciding to walk two other stations. There is nobody out here from metro telling us what to do. We are just standing here. Where the buses . We have been waiting 45 minutes. Where are the buses . This stretch of the bread line here in downtown d. C. Reopened at around 9 00 this morning but then closed again for about half an hour so the repairs can be made. Metro, the Emergency Response team working with d. C. Fire investi
And temperatures in the 30s for washington, philadelphia and new york city and 20s up in binghamton and as we look back throughout the year this will indeed be the cold eflt air we have seen in philadelphia friday through sunday since february 18th. Its been 10 months since we had highs only in the 30s. Definitely want to bundle up. Well talk about the bone chilling numbers coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Thanks. You can get the latest forecast any time at 6abc. Com weather and track any rain coming into the area with stormtracker 6 live double scan radar. And interact with the Action News Weather Team on facebook and twitter. We are following breaking news out of investigator asnounced that two juveniles are charged in connection with the deadly wild fires in gatlinburg, 14 people have died and 2,000 buildings have been damaged or destroyed in these wild fires. The two unidentified juveniles are charged with aggravate the arson. Just in from Philadelphia Police this is the
This is the best of this institution of how it performs. It has been embodied in the Public Service of carl levin for 36 years here. What you have heard is the testimonies on both sides of the aisle that because of how he has conducted himself as an individual and how he has conducted himself as a Public Servant and how he has conducted himself as a leader in this senate is exactly how this institution is supposed to function. Isnt it rather symbolic that on the last couple of days of the session the bill that will be passed is the bill that he has ushered and he never broke tradition. He made sure the Defense Authorization bill was going to be passed by hammering out the differences with the house and shepherding it through the parliament process. And its happened every year because of extraordinary leadership. I will close simply by saying that because he is all of the things that youve heard, the consummate gentleman, the humble Public Servant, the razor sharp mind, the best lawyer,