Syrian war, and we aided the moderate syrian rebels. It turns out they were jihadists often. They hated israel. The only people they hated as bad as israel was us many we gave antitank weapons to one group and the leader of the group said we wanted them to fight isis, they said we want to attack assad and when we attack assad, we want to attack israel. We poured hundreds of tons of weapons with of with gatar, running through the united air emirates. Poured it in there. A lot wound up in the wrong hands. We spent 250 million training ten of them. We trained ten fighters for 250 million. We sent them into battle and they were captured in the first 30 minutes. Guess what happened recently . And i will give President Trump some credit for this. They decided to ally with whoever was fighting the best over there and turned out the kurds were, both the syrian current and the current that live in iraq. And they did fight. Now the question is, oh, no, turkey is unhappy with that so well throw t
This you have a 700 page bill and nobody looks at it how are you find this . If we did an appropriation bill that included it would still be 500 pages long and you have to hunt long and hard. We dont look at the conditions. Nobody reads them. We dont to individual bills. People come in and say out for legal aid and i think people should have a lawyer and poor people should get help. The senate has been in resource for over an hour at approximately 1 00 a. M. Senators will hold a vote on moving forward with new government funding the to your budget agreement. A final vote could come read 2 00 a. M. Live coverage, now on cspan2. No one is like you. Your way is perfect. Your promises prove true. You rescue those who look to you for protection. Great and mighty are your works. Give wisdom to our lawmakers. Remind them how brief their time on earth will be. Help them to see that we are moving shadows who bring nothing into this world and will take nothing from it. Remind us all that time is
In other states it was a matter of building treatment facilities. 1 million of this or so was used in columbus, ohio, for a very Innovative Program where there is now a new emergency room that is dedicated to people who overdose, which is better for the individual who overdoses and better for the taxpayer rather than taking him to an emergency room that has the capability to handle the gunshot wounds and trauma and so on, this is dedicated just to overdoses. Most significantly in the statement facility with the overdoses go, you have a 50bed Treatment Center. People are treated for the overdose maybe in a detox unit, but then theres no Treatment Center there. There is no treatment bed available. That person goes back to the community, back to the old neighborhood, and during that waiting period, even though theyre ready for treatment coming out of the overdose because often theyve got theyve seen their life flash before their eyes, theres not the availability and sure enough that perso
2 3 could be reelected at least. We are at the Wisconsin Historical Society Headquarters in madison, deep in the archives stacks where the public never gets to go. Mrs. Is what the inside of archives look like, silk with boxes of unpublished paper filled with boxes of unpublished taper. This was donated by the family of proxmire. He is best for membered for the Golden Fleece award. He was a senator from wisconsin who took the seat of joe mccarthy when mccarthy left office in 1957. Won inone in 1958 1978 1958. One of the most remarkable dedicated towas clean government. He thought the Campaign Financing was one of the major sources of corruption. He spent as little as possible. Two elections, refuse to spend any money at all. He managed to get elected because his constituents loved him. ,e mustve had iron hands because he was standing on sidewalks everywhere, shaking hands or giving speeches to local groups. Thousands of government voters felt like they had a personal relationship with
I this hearing is an hour. I want to thank everybody for getting here sort of in a rush. Were going to have to vote a little after 3 00. I think theres like six votes and there may not be a rezmption of the hearing. So were going to get to it and have a good discussion. Today were going to look at the federal governments role in funding research. Im concerned that government system of supporting research have inefficient and often incents haves the wrong thing which leads to wasted taxpayer dollars. Weve posted examples like this National Science Foundation Study which had money being spent on ugandan gambling habits and we do it year after year. Senator langford found investigating if kids dont like food that has been sneezed on. Are you more or less likely to eat the food in the buffet line if someone sneezes on it. And who could forget the shrimp found on the treadmill. I remember as a kid in the 1970s seeing senator william describe wastes such as this as he gave his Golden Fleece