Is live with more. As you just heard, in their own words, police are hoping that pieces of this bizarre jigsaw puzzle come together soon. But there is one piece they have no doubt about and without it, the story could have had a very different ending. These are the photos of 2yearold lyndon albers. They didnt even know it was a girl. They thought it was a boy because the head was shaved. Lyndon was found in raleigh, some eight miles from her home in hamilton. She was cold, shibbering. They brought her in the car and wrapped her up and immediately called the cops. Lucky for lindn, the lyndon, the couple had spotted something odd oned side of road this morning. First they thought it was a doll. They drove by, then they stopped the car because everyone has been looking for right over the raleigh town line, a rural stretch of road. Apparently they found her up the road from us, naked, like someone left her there. Theyd been following this on the news. Before they left to go to work. So had
Vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 68, the nays are 23. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, the judiciary. Julie e. Carnes of georgia to be United States circuit judge for the 11th circuit. The presiding officer under the previous order, the clerk will report calendar number 709. The Clerk Department of defense, david b. Shear of new york to be an assistant secretary. The presiding officer if ness no further debate, the question is on the nomination. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed, nay. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The n. O. M. Nominatio nomination. Under the previous order, the clerk will report calendar number 834. The clerk executive office of the president , David Arthur Mader of virginia to be controller, office of federal financial management, office of mapght and budget. Management and budget. The presiding
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House that is doing all that we can to ensure that our veterans get timely care and the best care that we can provide them. This is cynical and its shameful and i believe, i believe that the American People can see straight through it. So i hope again, madam chair, that the president will reconsider this position. Because there is no place, no place here in this bill for political gamesmanship when it comes to our military families and our veterans. Thank you. I yield back. The chair the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. At this time i yield three minutes to the gentlewoman from california, ms. Lee, a member of the subcommittee on military construction and Veterans Affairs. The chair the gentlelady from california is recognized for three minutes. Ms. Lee thank you very much, madam chairman. Let me thank the Ranking Member for yielding, for his unwavering leadership for our veterans on this committee and for your friendship. Thank you very m
The first, i think, and most conspicuous reason is that the president ial election in afghanistan will occur on the 5th of april, and it will be the election which will facilitate the transition of authority and power from the karzai government in whatever form that has taken over the many years that they have been, he has been in power to what will come next. And were now beginning to get clarity on who those candidates will be. Some of them we expected, some of them we didnt. I think weve got some pretty strong candidates, actually. That elections going to be very important. Its going to be very important not just in the technical outcome, it is a democratic process that we hope will render an outcome that is credible, internationally recognizable as a credible democratic outcome. It will produce an administration with whom we hope we can work over the long term. Theres no reason to believe that it wouldnt given the slate of candidates were beginning to see merge. See emerge. But wha