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Whistleblowers, an extension of nonmedical employee probationary periods and requirement that gao conduct a study of the a time space, and resources devoted to labor union activities. I encourage those of you today if you have not already research this legislation, please do so. We would welcome your support of these crucial pieces of legislation. I look forward to hearing from each of you today, and the groups that you represent. I now yield five minutes to the senator from georgia, my good fri...

The entire globe of the world. Well, first of all, the domino theory was nonsense when it was articulated in it turned out to be nonsense in fact. No other countries fell to communist rule is because vietnam fell. Our theory about why we were going into the war reflected a disastrous lack of understanding about the anticolonial attitudes of the vietnamese people. They had thought the french for decades and then the japanese. They wanted selfrule. Fdr opposed supported french imperialists. The fa...

Constructing and make sure we learn from the bad mistakes made in aurora. Colonel norton, i want to talk about alexis for a second. Served in the coast guard, correct . Injured in 1999 is that correct . Thats correct, senator. She was injured before 9 11 2001, there are no care benefits given to her . Correct. If she was injured after 9 11 2001, what would her care of benefits be . She and her husband would be eligible for the special benefits and services in support, that includes training, res...

Good. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is dede, and my colleague right here her name is thao. Like professor said were not related. Its a common last name. We are both with moving voices. Moving voices we have its our mission to bring more attention to the South Vietnamese perspective. We want people to know that South Vietnam fought bravery and risked everything for freedom. Unfortunately, its often a perspective that is overlooked in our public discussion about vietnam war. So we are so thrilled ...

The states, learn from one another, and learn a more dynamic approach to policymaking. Do i know anything about insurance of iowa . I do not. I know congressman young. [laughter] im sure im going to get along briefing on it. Thank you all very much. [applause] congressman young i want to point out one more special guest. Tom waite. Thank you, everybody. You would see what i used to call a stickball set. Washington was a large man. Very robust. Terrific athlete. And madison is a skinny, little gu...

The maryland live casino. Young is being held without bond right now and were talking with police about the shootings and well have new details about the newly linked incidents coming your way here at 4 30. Alison . Some relief is on the way for drivers dodging potholes in Prince Georges County. The department of public works will kick off a countywide pothole blitz tomorrow. Potholes continue to cause problems for drivers all across the d. C. Region. As Jeanette Reyes shows us potholes flatten ...

Public about street cleaning it can fail to inform its public officers. She says shell do research and get back to me. Stephen tschida, abc 7 news. My original tire blew. We found a scenic overlook and changed it to the spare tire and the spare tire blew too because of the potholes. Shes not alone. Shes more than one of two dozen drivers that blew out their tires this morning. The problem potholes enough that u. S. Park police had to close down the road for a while for some emergency repairs. Pr...

Challenge all forms of injustice. Amy memorial day, we look back at the vietnam war. Fifty years ago, on march 7, 1965, 40 years after it ended. Vietnam the power of protest. That was the number of a Conference Held in washington d. C. We will hear from ron dellums Pat Schroeder, tom hayden and wayne smith who served as a combat medic during vietnam. We wanted to get home. We just wanted to survive. And yet there is an enormous guilt that stays with me and many my brothers and sisters today that...

Veterans Affairs Secretary testified on capitol hill tuesday on the 2016 Veterans Affairs budget request. The proposed budget is 168. 8 billion, including funding to expand v. A. Care to veterans and transform the v. A. Into a customer centric department. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Tom fuller was a vietnam veteran and the marines and presented himself to the heinz the a with chest pains and went to see the head of cardiology. He did not want to be at a whim loss record, referred him ...

Here are a few of the book festivals that we will be covering this spring on cspan2 book tv. In may, we will be at gaithersburg book festival with tom davis and martin frost and david axelrod. We will close out may at book expo america in new york city with the Publishing Industry showcases your upcoming books. Then on the first week of june we are alive from the Chicago Tribune for his robe lit fest including our threehour live in Death Program with lawrence wright. That is the spring on cspan2...