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Have the cspan History Channel program filming tonight. Jeff shaara will be happy to take questions at the end of the program. We have microphones so cspan can capture your questions. If you will raise your hands we will just wait, if you could, to hold off on asking your questions until you have that microphone in your hand. It is a pleasure to welcome our speaker jeff shaara to the smithsonian. Jeff was last here with us in 2013 when he presented an Outstanding Program on the battle of vicksbu...

Good evening everyone. Can everyone hear me well . Good. Im mary mclachlan. Id like to welcome all of you tonight to what promises to be a very stimulating program on the Union General william t. Sherman. Before i begin and i introduce our speaker, id like to remind everyone to check their cell phones and make sure that they are turned off. And also remind everyone that photos are prohibited during Smithsonian Association programs. And lastly, we are delighted to have the cspan History Channel p...

Mr. Speaker, im sure the members across the house and those affected by Hurricane Irma and i would like to to the hospital. Board secretary has traveled here to the territories to see the recovery work firsthand and assess what is needed. As i told the house last week, we had a navy ship predispositions in the region and humanitarian experts on the ground coordinating uk response. We met regularly to create the governments response bringing together military, aid and effort and announcing 25 mil...

Months. Including the iba, mill ken institute, several coauthors writing jointly for the urban institute, and many others. The committee is considering all of these proposals as well as other ideas about what the future system should look like. In the meantime, f hrks a serve as regulator of the enterprises and as regulator of the federal home loan banks. As conservator of the gse easy, theyre obligated to preserve and conserve the as 70s franny and freddie mac. They have undertaken a number of ...

Months. Including the iba, mill ken institute, several coauthors writing jointly for the urban institute, and many others. The committee is considering all of these proposals as well as other ideas about what the future system should look like. In the meantime, f hrks a serve as regulator of the enterprises and as regulator of the federal home loan banks. As conservator of the gse easy, theyre obligated to preserve and conserve the as 70s franny and freddie mac. They have undertaken a number of ...

System. Fannie mae and freddie mac have been in conservatorship for close to nine years. In september 2008, then treasury secretary hank paulson famously described the conservatorships as a timeout. Today, fannie and freddie along with fha continue to dominate the Mortgage Market. Approximately 70 of the mortgages are backed by the federal government. While fannie and freddie are currently earning profits, if the Housing Market experiences a downturn, taxpayers could again be on the hook for bil...

Program devoted to providing local communities with resources to counter extremism in the homeland. In the last days of the obama 10nistration,dhs announced million of grants to reflect this preference. With the Trump Administration the reevaluation of these grants have taken place. Dhs is now trying to recalibrate cve toward Law Enforcement. A range of Police Department have had their cve budgets increased. Projects seem to have been sidelined. That is one of the topics we but thereuss today, i...

Of rain to get through, but take a look across the delaware valley. Well kind of zoom in and show you where the heaviest of the rain is occurring right now. Especially in parts of chester county, delaware county, where you see that yellow, were kind of zoom in little closer here. Moving toward the phoenixville area right now, just outside of west goshen, media getting some of that moderate to heavy rain, moving toward chester then eventually moving back toward the philadelphia area. Down the sho...

But take look at what the rain has already done. We have flood advisories philadelphia points north and west for that rin off of the water around the creeks and also the streams so watching that carefully over the next several hours. But as we look at ultimate doppler the good news is the heaviest of the rainfall has now moved out to sea. But we have some wrap around moisture that will continue to kind of move through over night tonight. Right now those pocks of drizzle overnight left over showe...

But take look at what the rain has already done. We have flood advisories philadelphia points north and west for that rin off of the water around the creeks and also the streams so watching that carefully over the next several hours. But as we look at ultimate doppler the good news is the heaviest of the rainfall has now moved out to sea. But we have some wrap around moisture that will continue to kind of move through over night tonight. Right now those pocks of drizzle overnight left over showe...