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It is 10 00 and good morning, everyone. The hearing will come to order. Welcome to the committee on the budgets hearing on oversight of the Congressional Budget Office. This hearing will focus on Cbos Organizational and operational structure. It is the first of five hearings that the Committee Plans to hold regarding oversight of the congressional budget. The goal of todays hearing is to learn more about cbo, which was created as part of the congressional budget and impoundment act of 1974. For decades, this agencys primary function and duty has been to assist congress in the federal budget ma...

Civil war, but the most private lives of his soldiers as well. As our first speaker amusingly calls it, the remarkable nightlife of civil war americans. What he is describing in that subtitle is their dreams. Not there conscious hopes, but their subconscious imaginings. And what they wrote home to describe in remembering what occurred during the precious hours during which the troops aged to catch the rest their rest in tents or in the field, drifting into dreams that expressed longing for home, their parents, their sweethearts, siblings, children and others, as you will hear. It is like our s...

Here they bought tickets for a thousand places in america. Here they traded their drachmas, their liras, and their rubles, for dollars. Here they sang their First American songs, experienced their First American christmas, and hanukkah. Here they waited to be given permission to pass over to the new land. Tens of millions of us have relatives who came this way, sat in this room, part of the largest human migration in history. Of the many who came, some were turned away. But even they would leave part of themselves in america, to remind us why they had come so far, why they had made the journey...

Sharing. Thetor ron johnson chairs committee. This is one hour 45 minutes. Sen. Johnson morning to this roundtable. We will come to order. I want to welcome our participants. We have the honorable elaine , the honorabledy george scott, and the honorable john kelly from the dhs. Discussndtable is to the attempt to reauthorize dhs. The house has passed their bill. They had a memorandum of understanding to consolidate that process under the department, the community of the Homeland Security in the house. It is more messy here in the senate which is not unusual. The committee has taken up in past ...

Collison whitehead, today live from noon to 3 00 p. M. Eastern n book tv on cspan 2. Next, katherine westmoreland, wife of william westmoreland, who commanded u. S. Forces in vietnam talks about her life as a military daughter, sister and spouse. She recounts her time living in vietnam and serving as a red cross nurses aide during the war. And she recalls hosting president s and first ladies as well as her friendship with bob and delores hope. This interview is from the west point center for oral history and is a little over an hour. Good evening, maam. Today is october 1, 2016, and were in th...