By the house for a conference and authorize the presiding officer to appoint conferees. Mr. Cornyn ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not the ayes are 54 and the nays are 43. The motion is agreed to. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. Mr. Boozman i ask for unanimous consent to speak for up to 15 minutes. The presiding officer without objection. A senator today we honor the 150th anniversary of abraham lincolns death. Mr. Cotton on the evening of april 14, 1865, the fouryear anniversary of the beginning of the civil war and just days after its end in appomattox, president lincoln was shot while attending the theater. The next morning his last labored breathing ceased. His fanatically unreconciled assassin was enraged by lin
But they didnt say exactly where. What happened was, the individual, the commissary sergeant, or whoever was in charge of the supplies in richmond, then sent a message back to the turnbull house, to lees headquarters, asking for more specific instructions. But what had happened as tracy again mentioned, these Union Sixth Army corps that morning had broken through the confederate lines,j basically were pamplin park is if youre familiar with that area, they broke through the union lines and lee was then forced to abandon his headquarters, so when that second message came for where do we send them, nobody was there to receive them. And thats to me and that comes out of the four volume seat of r. E. Lee, its an appendensy in the back of volume number 4. I think knowing that area quite n well, i think thats probably is what happened. Anyone else have a question . Ron has a question. He is making his way to the microphone. I will throw something out for chris here. Its a large campaign. Seve
This forum on u. S. Customs and Border Protection. And this event is being broadcast live by cspan. And as many of you may know customs and Border Protection is the largest federal Law Enforcement agency and also it provides the second largest revenue collecting source for the federal government. On a typical day, cbp seizes over 10,000 pounds of drugs, 650,000 dollars in undeclared or illicit currency, and 3. 4 million of products with intellectual property right violations. So needless to say this agency is working very hard to safeguard americas borders while also enhancing legitimate trade and commerce. Our feature speaker today is commissioner gil kerlikowske. Hes going to discuss his insights from his first year of leading this agency. Hes also going to look at some of the highlights in terms of his vision for moving forward. The agency has put out a new vision and strategy 2020 document that lays out what the agency would like to do in the future. The commissioner was nominated
He spoke at the brookings institution. I would like to welcome you to the forum on u. S. Customs and bOrder Protection. The event is live. We would like to welcome our national viewing audience. Many of you know that customs and Order Protection is the Largest Law Enforcement Agency and provides the second largest revenue. They cease drugs undeclared or illicit currency, and products with intellectual Property Rights violations. The agency works hard to safeguard the borders and enhance legitimate trade and commerce. Our speaker is gil. He will speak on his insights from leading the agency and look at the highlights, in terms of his vision for moving forward. The agency put out a new document that lays out what the agency would like to do. The commissioner was nominated by obama and sworn in the last year. He oversees a mission of protecting National Security objectives. He brings four decades of Law Enforcement and drug policy to this. He served as the director of the White House Offi
Midtier firms and or services to people in the Services Business . We are going to take take a look at this next year. For the pilot we literally went down our largest suppliers by dollar value to come up with a feasible approach here. But in doing that what doing that what does breakout is a lot of different size so you have the heavyweight against a lightweight and while we normalize all this through the system we would need to be careful that what we are not doing is excluding superior suppliers that are below that cutline that we establish so we will take a hard look at that. Sam with usni news. It seems like there arent organizations in alphabetical order here. What about the other 79 . Are there separate tiers that they are going to be informed of or theres going to be further disclosure on who the others are they wont be. As such but that information will be made available. In the blue shirt. Sometimes it seems like youre the only person with the ability to use pbls as to how yo