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We are leaving this program to take you live to a briefing with greg abbott. We had an extended briefing. During the briefing, i received a telephone call from the fema administrator as well as the secretary of Homeland Security. Talked, in the phone call, about more ways in which the state of texas will be collaborating with fema and with the federal government. That will be part of the material i cover today. We had a long briefing that i will like to break out in a lot of detail because, as you know, there is a lot going on. I will be discussing what is going on in houston, but also covering the ongoing challenges we are dealing with in other parts of the state. Let me start with the weather. You all probably know at have seen a letter briefings about the weather. One thing we are dealing with is basically a triangle of ongoing rain. This stretches 12 but which would be the corporate mysterious up to Travis County over to Chambers County and then back to Corpus Christi. Parts of tho
In addition, career investigators at the department of justice also looked into these claims. They also found, and i quote again, no evidence that any official involved in the handling of the tax exempt applications or irs leadership attempted to obstruct justice, into quotation. Its no wonder then that we have read reports of speaker ryan doing his best to make certain this measure never reaches the floor of the house, as Speaker Boehner did before him. Its also not a surprise that many in the republican conference have been critical of the tactics that forced this hearing. Chairman boost the need for the subcommittee on tax policy has argued that this hearing is a waste of time and and potentially damaging to our priorities. He told reporters last week, if we do this is going to further delay the investigation. I think its time to move on, into quotation. Senator orrin hatch, the chairman of the Senate Finance committee, has said that there simply no interest in impeachment activity
Home page for everyones future reference. We are also pleased today to be cohosting this program with our colleagues and allies at the Texas Public Policy Foundation of which kathleen is a fellow. Introducing our program and hosting our guests today is becky norton dunlop, the Ronald Reagan distinguished fellow at the heritage foundation. As a conservative movement leader, she serves as chairman of the conservative action project, leads heritages restore america project, advocates for american conservative ethic conservation ethic and advances energy and Natural Resources policy in general. She also serves on numerous, as a board member for numerous Public Policy organizations and associations. Prior to this she was heritages executive Vice President for external relations. Prior to joining us at heritage, she served in the cabinet of governor george allen as secretary of Natural Resources. She has also held significant roles in the Reagan Administration as Deputy Assistant to the pres