Houston area projects could compete, more than 82 million more than provided in the fiscal year 2016 act. Additionally the Committee Report directs the corps to consider the severity of risk of flood thoring frequency with which an area has experienced flooding when deciding how to allocate the funding provided. Because the amendment does not actually change funding levels and so does not upset the balance of priorities in this bill i will not oppose this amendment. I yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman yields back. The chair recognizes the gentlelady from texas. Ms. Jackson lee i thank mr. Simpson and ms. Kaptur, mr. Simpsn for recounting that information, and ms. Kaptur for the leadership shes given and the understanding of the plight were in. Flood control is critical to dams and harbors and most critical of all as infrastructure. That is what the Construction Funding will do. We understand that this now will give us the opportunity for long overdue projects t
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Um, i think all the different stages matter. From my knowledge of children, you make one impact before they are six or ten or whatever and then when they are adolescent they seem to forget everything. And later on, you are surprised as they seem to remember some. But i think they did the best they could as parents. I think they were strong parents. Some of them turned out and some didnt. So much had to do with luck and the era. [ applause ] thank you so much for coming. Wednesday night, booktv features books about exploring america. First is astoria and then all america and then citizen explorer the namesake of colorados pikes peapeak on the next washington journal, a conversation on prison reform. General mills announced they were reversing plans to make consumers to forfeit their right to suing the company. Later as part of the spotlight on magazine series, brian miller talks about his article on trends in the gambling industry. And an update on the Supreme Court and take your calls.
Trusting that everyone will realize, particularly because of the letters she wrote home to her sisters, that they were enbroiled in this and they were. When abigail wrote a letter it was known it was actually written for the whole neighborhood. And mary would get the pleasure of having everyone important in the neighborhood come over and she would read allowed abigails letter. And then there were chapters when mary is trying find a minister for the first church of quincy and she is the most important person. And even john adams think she is the most important person in quincy. And one day, abigail catches him opening a letter that mary has written to him. And she is furious. She said how can you open a letter and he said it isnt just any letter it is from mary and there is no one that knows more than mary that i am interested in. And then there is a lot on elizabeth. She is the sister who endures the most. She is the prettiest and i say the most beautiful. There is a wonderful picture
He claimed that lincoln had never loved mary todd lincoln. The love of his life had been a young woman named ann rutledge to die when lincoln was off in springfield or actually the old state capital for his first term in the legislature and that he never got over the loss. He claimed that lincoln had syphilis. It was not clear why this was helpful or helping to set, you know he tried to make him a very earthy figure. The family was absolutely furious. They elected these interviews and thought, there is no possible way that people could remember with any precision somebody whom they had no expectation whatever rise that far. One of his informants said something really telling. Look, you know, im sorry. I wish i could remember more. When i knew him it was just for a year in her early 20s, and i had no idea you would be president , so i did not think term member. So they relied instead on a vast body of lincolns papers and any kind of primary sources they could get there hands on. They sc