William fitzhugh it was headquarters during the civil war and a Field Hospital during the battle of fredericksburg where clara barton and walt whitman tended to the wounded. It is part of Fredericksburg National military park. You want a guided tour of the house . At least of the downstairs area . Like to welcome you to chatham. My name is don. Im the staff historian here. Youve never been here before . No. Ive been to chatham, new jersey. New jersey. Its a town, though. But they are named after the same person. Theyre both named after yeah, named after william pitt who was the earl of chatham who was a very popular figure because he was a member of parliament and one of the few who supported americas right to representation. And so he was a very popular man here in the colonies. And William Fitzhugh obviously liked him because hed name his house after him. Speaking of, thats him right there. Hes the man who built chatham. The house was constructed here between 1768 and 1771. It was no
The speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yeas are 399, the nays are two. 2 3 of the votes in the affirmative, the rules are awe spended, the resolution is agreed to, without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. Ursuant im pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal which the chair will put de novo. The question is on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The journal stands approved. For what purpose does the gentleman from california rise . Mr. Speaker, i send to the desk a joint resolution and ask unanimous consent for its immediate consideration. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the joint resolution. The clerk house joint resolution 76, joint resolution appointing the day for the convening of the second sthofingse 114th congress. The speaker pro tempore is there objectio
We are dealing with wintery weather this morning. We have a Winter Weather advisory in effect until lunchtime for today. The areas shaded in the blue. Cecil county, towards the west, as we look through the eastern shore, rain across the area. The Winter Weather, we have advisory. Lets take you on a little tour. See the mixing, where you are seeing the blues, you are dealing with snow across the yeah. We are getting mix now around baltimore, elk ridge, around jessup. It depends on where you are, depends on the temperatures this morning as well. We can see the wintery mix now, sleet, freezing rain, and also snow across the area. We can see along i70, all blue, maybe wet snow flakes moving in. Wood lawn, and thats where mike masco is this morning. Lets go over to him, what are you seeing right now . Reporter good morning. We are seeing a very light flurry action right now, its not a big deal, its about the temperatures right now. We are waiting for the precipitation to fall. The crews, li
Pretty good. Once we got off 695, thats where things started to change. This is what is grounds is like, you have the crusty kinds of the snow, now combined with sleet out there, that is going to make for really well interesting travels across the area, until we get the full changeover to rain, this is the type of commute you will have, cold surfaces, grassy, not the grassy surfaces but the driveways , the walkways, this in here, this is below freezing, thats going to trip you up during the course of the morning. The primary roads now, kudos to our crews, a fantastic job, we were talking to them earlier, they were on stands by, they couldnt lay the pretreatment, things warmed up, they were allowed to use the standard Old Fashioned salt to put down on the roads. Its working on the primary roads, the secondary roads are a problem. Thats the problem through the course of this morning and you notice on the bottom half of the screen, we have the delays, and all across the area for good reas