Ms. Heitcamp mr. President , i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Heitcamp mr. President today i rise to speak about and honor our nations Vietnam Veterans particularly north dakotas Vietnam Veterans. Since i took office, ive made it a priority to travel throughout north dakota to meet with my states veterans. So many wonderful men and women who continue to serve not only their country but also our state and their communities. All these veterans deserve a place of honor in our society. We are in the midst of a 50th anniversary of the vietnam war. On may 25, 2012, president obama issued this proclamation calling on the nation to honor Vietnam Veterans and to honor particularly those brave Service Members who gave their lives in service to their country. This special period of honoring our Vietnam Veterans runs through 2025, and today i follow up on a commitment i made last year. I want to focus on north dakota soldiers who lost their lives
Butt. We did not have a winter last year. It is revenge time. Here in maryland, folks are stocking up on bags of salt and struggling to deal with the winter remakes of snow, sleet, and rain that slowed traffic and caused flight delays before and after christmas. It is so windy today. And we may not be out of the woods just get. Wind gusts up to 50 m. P. H. Are expected throughout central maryland through the night. Utilities are prepared for possible Power Outages which could pose a challenge for cruise. The maybe times when it is unsafe to use pocket there may be times when it is unsafe to use bucket trucks. But be sure that we will be out there. It is likely we will have one more weather event to contend with this week. Ava marie has been monitoring a system for saturday. This will allow colder air to spill into the state. That could bring the rain further south into maryland, maybe delaware as well. Places that did not get the snow on the Christmas Holiday may very well see it on sa
The direction alone doesnt tell us much about what his objective is here but poncho pass does tell us something. This is the view that pike would have from his Christmas Day camp and for several days before and after. Poncho pass is a low spot in the mountains a little bit to the southwest of the city of saliva and if pike looked south he would have found it very inviting place to cross the mountains. His mission is to get to santa fe. This is as good a place as any to try and do it. If he stands in the same spot and looks to the left he is going to see the high peaks of the northern end of the Crystal Mountains and he will realize if i want to cross its never going to get any better than this so he doesnt. He continues downstream which is exactly the behavior somebody who believed he was on the red river and intending to head home. Decides to cross this andres there would be two men behind on the arkansas. The horses are shot in the plan is to leave a couple of men behind but the hors
Risking their lives instead of staying at home on the ohio river and risking their lives a little bit less. So pike makes the same request of congress. He forged letters from jefferson and dearborn and secretary of state James Madison and things like that in congress, the committee reviewing the request votes in favor of granting him this but by this point the expedition is inextricable from the politics dividing congress over jefferson and burr and wilkinson in general and Congress Never votes. My guess, there is no record of why they dont vote. No one made the decision not to vote but the last evidence we have in the congressional record as of the Committee Voting to bring it to a vote on the floor and then it just disappears until the 1840s when we have a comments by his widow clara who is requesting that the reward be paid to her. By this point she is destitute. Then she dies before they do anything. My guess about whats going on is twofold. One is burr is acquitted and he has a lo
But let me just bring it back to one thing. However i agree with he and the brotherhood that undemocratic things go for it all of this is true. The point is their exclusion we are seeing one face after another but i caused euros on politics. Lack of consensus building. The brotherhood did it when they were in power and the military backed government is doing that now. Instead of bargaining with their political opponents do you try to completely ask is that, eliminate them and force through your own decisions. I think its really leaving egypt in a very troubling and potentially unstable situation that will go on and on. These countries that went through transitions had a praising. People knew in tunisia, egypt, et cetera, they knew what they did and why. You remember in egypt read, freedom, social is, dignity. These are brought concepts, they need to translate that into an actual plan. These roundtables and so forced and they came up with they came up with a plan of where they wanted to