the peace corps is really important. peace corps issues is really important. the agency is undoubtedly a better agency because of the efforts of the people that i just mentioned. so i strongly support this measure and i urge my colleagues to do the same. and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. poe: i ask unanimous consent to have the remainder of my time at this time. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. poe: thank you, mr. speaker. when i travel overseas in foreign countries, i, like many of the members of the foreign affairs committee, try to meet with our peace corps volunteers. most of those volunteers are in

he loves the marine corps. his son was listed in the marine corps and he aims his assistant secretary of the navy in world war i. and he basically was the marine corps commandant. that was his job. when truman took over the presidency, you know, this is like a navy and we're going to get rid of those guys. so here's macarthur's comments in 1932 that were different. so think about summer '44, that's when the relief happens right in the middle of this. so the crisis increases. and after the war, the marine corps commandant has a statement to the naval affairs committee. he follows up and says wait a minute, this is taking the marine corps away. we will no longer have a marine corps. this is after iwo jima, all the specific battles. but truman basically calls all the service chiefs in, except for the marine corps as part of the navy, and he reorganized the marshal plan. he said, this is what we're going to do. we're going to continue with the march with this and the marine corps will be gone. and eisenhower again

he loves the marine corps. his son enlisted. he basically was the marine corps commandant. one of his jobs was to take care of the marine corps. this caused a truman to say, when he took over the presidency, this is like the navy. we'll get rid of those guys. comment aboutur's the 1932 plan. summer of 1944 is when the release happens. increase after the war. the marine commandant has a statement for the senate naval affairs committee. following this up this is taking , the marine corps away. we will no longer have the marine corps. this is after iwo jima. all the pacific islands. truman called the service chiefs in, except the marine corps, part of the navy, and reorganized the marshall plan. he said this is what we are going to do. we're going to continue to work with this. eisenhower said they should function like the landing craft, taking all the guys assure. so, back to the cartoon. remember that. this is barnaby. this is madly. there was a small, secret so in in quantico,l virginia, and basically it started with two guys. two of the most brilliant minds of the marine c

instead of one nurse corps. historian pointed out need for nurses and i quote outweighed by unfair and more professional prejudice against male nurses fierce and need for national unity really only went so far. in 19509 nursing in military service remain tightly bound to judicial gender identities and roles. for their own economic securities, female nurses is this problem, they helped perpetuate continuation of gender misunderstandings in other words these were women who fought hard to get a place in the military. and they were very protective of their position and so they were willing to -- focus on that position and nursing as a historically gendered role women's role -- in order to maintain that position. ultimately it would be 1955 between -- the four male nurses were allowed into the army nurse corps. as reservists and then it would be 1966 another ten years later before they gain access to the army nurse corps. as regular members of the organization. so i want to kind of in the last few minutes here -- con

but due to the army corps, a bid protest that was done to the army corps which they overcome debris will not be removed until the end of december. if no extension that long, the government of the virgin islands will be hit with a 10% local cost share. so my question is, mr. byard, will fema support 100% federal share extension since the delay is not in control of the government of the virgin islands? mr. byard: man, that's a good question. as you know, debris has been a difficult task in the virgin islands. i was down i was down probably a month or so back and you're right. there's still a lot of work to do there. what we will do is definitely work with the governor. you know, once -- and if we received a request, i don't want to sound ignorant to that, it will be working itself up. if we don't receive a request i will look to that. i spoke to bill vogel today and also mike byrne who will be -- ms. plaskett: so you'll work with the governor and try to do that if it's necessary because it's outside our control? any cost share for us is really a great burden. mr. byard: yes, ma'am. ms. pla

corps reform act. this is named after two former peace corps volunteers and thank representative kennedy from massachusetts who is also a peace corps volunteer several years ago for his co-sponsorship of this legislation to protect our peace corps volunteers. i call them our angels abroad. recently, i heard too many stories of young volunteers who give away years of their lives to help other people in foreign countries, countries that many americans never even heard of. but sometimes they are let down by the organization that gave so much to. jennifer was hit by a drunk driver while serving in uganda at a bus stop with another volunteer who was killed by the drunk driver. jennifer had both of her legs broken. when she returned home still bed ridden she faced an uphill battle to get medical treatment and endless bureaucracy from our own government. she was finally approved for the medical treatment. but that case has continuously been reopened. others tell of the struggle to receive quality medical care

from 20 -- 2013 22,016, he let the marine corps centennial project. he is the curator of personal papers for the marine corps museum, let's welcome michael miller. >> can you hear me? >> we want to do a little slideshow. maybe i am moving it the wrong way. yeah, if you had a hammer, i could fix it. all is well. last but not least, we are the last to fight today. i am going to do the best i can with that. marine harry truman. when i first agreed to come down and talk, i thought are you sure you are sure what you're getting into. they said yes, come down and say your piece. so, i would like to begin with this slide, how many people are familiar with this cartoon, the barney serious? how many people are familiar with crockett johnson? you know, the moon. this is a world war ii era cartoon, and it has everything to do with what i'm about to say. i would love to be able to get a reference like this in, because it is kind of cool. part of the barney serious, barney baxter, he had an imaginary friends like we all do, and his name was mr. o'malley who always

so we asked the corps to step up. >> i'm not interested in the corps. i want to get back to the whitefish arrangement. >> sure. ma'am, as far as the whitefish, that's a prpa question. we would reimburse eligible applicants across the nation for eligible work done. >> do you not think fema should have in place greater checks on contracts that are issued before you just pay out this kind of money to the company that you -- even i and i'm certainly not an expert in this area, would have some reservations about contracting with for such a major job and over time it's shown that they weren't up to the job? >> right. >> you don't think that's your responsibility? >> no, ma'am, i don't. i think the responsibility is always best if it's locally executed, states managed and federally supported. as you heard the esteemed colleagues on the panel, all disasters begin and end locally. what are we asking fema to do? do we support the locals on one hand and then manage, oversee and dictate how they contract on the other. >> i'm not asking you to dictate. i'm asking yo

i am not interested in the corps.ant to get back to the whitefish. >> as far as whitefish, that is a prepa question. eligibleo is reimburse applicants for eligible work done. >> do not think fema ought to put greater checks on the work before you just pay out this kind of money? even i would have reservations about such a major job and over time it was shown there were not up to the job. don't you think that is your responsibility? >> the responsibility is always pass to the locally executed state-supported. all disasters begin and end locally. do we support the locals in one and dictate how the contract and the other? >> i'm asking you to provide some oversight for $30 million of taxpayer money. >> i believe the total bill was over $300 million. i feel certain we have strict oversight on what the taxpayer dollars are going to. there are oversight measures in place with white fish and other contractors. >> is that part of your after disaster report to have greater oversight? >> i never said i did not think it should b

it's a very busy weekend here at the marine corps memorial.and: humbling for sure not only in scope and size, but what it represents. you brought up that point. so important that in afghanistan and in iraq, syria and dozens of other places around the world, there are marines in harms way this july 4th is we're a country that has been at work now for longer than it ever has in 17 years. >> absolutely. much more ahead on the memorial. coming up on a special fourth of july, "america's news hq," we will hear more patriotic songs for the president's marine corps band. stay with us. let your inner light loose with one a day women's. a complete multivitamin specially formulated with key nutrients plus vitamin d for bone health support. your one a day is showing. look for new one a day women's with nature's medley. trusyou and lantus. you go together, so stay together. ♪ stay together with a $0 copay, you've got zero reasons to leave, and every reason to stay. lantus is used to control high blood sugar in people with diabetes. do not use lantus to tre

is the incredible story story of the 49th company of the marine corps. the helmet to me is the 49th -- not the 49th. secondhe 205, the battalion, fifth marines. their story really begins at bella would which happened 100 years ago to this day. i mentioned the epic charge on june 6 where the men -- this was world war i d-day that no one has heard about unless you are in the marine corps or a world war i buff. this is where the marine corps advance over several fields under heavy machine-gun fire. what happened before that was extraordinary. at the end of may, early june, the germans had launched a major offensive geared at rome -- sorry, paris. they were breaking through the french lines. literally the french army was melting away. how ithives talk about was like water on a hot iron. it was evaporating. the french army was evaporating. men from the 49th company and 25, the second division were all being trucked as quickly as possible along with the third division of the u.s. army into the vortex of battle to hold the line at all costs. these were the only

how is this related then to the army nrs corps.? well the experiences of african-american female nurses exemplifies the contradictions between military policy, as we see both in 0002 under roosevelt administration and 9981, under the truman administration and individual social belief and attitudes concerning race are relations in the post or war period. captain margaret bailey remembered her integration challenge, experiences as a challenge to president truman's decree. three year after the passage of executive order 9981 in 1951, bailey and two other nrses arrived at the 98th general hospital in munich, germany. they were the first black officers stationed at the hospital in the first black female officers in the area. but they had every expectation of living with the other nursing staff. to both their dismay and disappointment, bailey as well as the other two nurses did not life with the other nurses. at the hospital but instead were given separate houses away from the hospital. this was and i, quote, in bailey's conversations a s

is the incredible story story of the 49th company of the marine corps. the helmet next to me is not the secondt also 25, battalion fifth marines. beginstory really exactly 100 years ago to this day. onentioned the epic charge june 6, this was in a world war has everhat nobody heard about practically unless you are in the marine corps or you are a world war i buff. this is where the marine corps advanced across several fields under heavy machine-gun fire. what happened before that was quite extraordinary. the germans launched a major paris and they were breaking through the french lines, literally the french army , the archivesay talk about how it was like water on a hot iron, it was evaporating. the french army was evaporating. company and 49th the marines from the fifth and sixth regiment as well of the second division were all being trucked as quickly as possible along with a third division of the u.s. army into the vortex of battle to hold the line at all costs. these were some of the only reserve units of the time and they were, in many cases, super

they called the army corps and the army corps paused the discharges that were scheduled for monday. so on monday -- sunday night, early monday morning, people woke to the positive news that this -- these releases were not going to start on monday. by the way, if you go over to the release points where the water is let out, it's all backed up with this algae. all you have to do is stand there and see it and know as soon as they open, all that stuff is coming out and it's coming at you. they gave us this three or four-day reprieve, however long it takes, to allow water managers to conduct a full assessment of the system's conditions and to look for other available options for moving the water. while this was a positive response, it is not a long-term answer to this problem. at some point over the next few days, this is going to have to be released. it's going to happen. it's just a matter of time. and the result is that 2018 is shaping up to be another lost summer along caloosahatchee and indian river estuaries, just like it was in 2013 and just like it was in 2016. and i want to be f

i've talked to fema officials and army corps ficials. and the army corps has kind of fairly ben reticent about communicating how they're going to change but in talking to fema, they said basicalllike, we have learned a lot of lessons and you're going to see those an these cos come in to recompete for new contracts, new disaster clean-up contracts. you'll see those lessons reflected in the bidding process. >> all right. suki louis, wonderful work here. thank u for being with us. kqed criminal justice reporter, suki louis. we turn nowo the fires that are currently burning. this year's fire season in california ost to the w start in a decade. and climate change may be playing a dry hot conditions with warmer nights making it harder to fight deadly blazes and the multistage rout and they can spark fires burning quickly and out of control. and joining me now to discuss all of this is kqed scienceai editor miller. good to see you. cal fire responded to hundreds of fires this year. why has the start of this fire season characterized as one of t

that is his royal flying corps had. cap my grandfather was wearing when he posed with fellow pilots for the only photo we have from his short flying career. we have now got all this extraordinary step, which when you look at it is incredible. it is. about 100 years old. what did you think we need down all of this?” was astonished. first i was astonished by the weight of the case. and also, these things here. the cap is obvious. that he wore that. and the cats, we knew somehow that. and the cats, we knew somehow that he had that for good luck.” love this. i find that extraordinary. that is absolutely beautiful. it's100 years old, is that the? yes. do we know, did he carry it in the aircraft with him? yes. did he? he flew with the cat for luck. and he was lucky because he was one of the pilots who did come back alive. he did. how much does grandpa tell you about what he did in world war i? very little indeed. he never really spoke about it at all. i'm immensely proud of him, even though he was very secretive about what he

he's the corps officer. he's getting all this experience of how to run different facets of the army. so when he goes to hin as chief staff, he's well trained. his commanders all say this guy is tops. because the main thing about macarthur is he has this expert ability to pick people for the right position. you're good at counting beans? great, you're going to be counting beans all day long. you can pitch buttons into a jar? that's your job. so he puts this staff together. they all do their different facets. people said, macarthur has this great staff, let's take that guy from it. and they bring him into their organization and he was totally worthless to them. they didn't know he was the bean counter. so macarthur trains this staff to work the way they do so that he can be going on all these raids, he can be in all these actions. his belief was that i have to know what the front looks like. i got to know if artillery has obliterated this hill. he feels he has to be at the front. now, many actions we know abou

we're talking about the navy and marine corps. we're going to talk about the air force and the army next week. i think we should talk about all of them at the same time because it's all equally important. but to get there we need to have a strategy that is actually sustainable instead of one that is based on hope. and to my mind, that is the worst thing that we can do to the men and women who serve in the military. is say, we want you to do all of this and we don't really have the funds to do it. so you're going to have to figure it out as you go. it would be far, far better to say, look, here's realistically where our budget is at. here's realistically what we can do. give them that task and then they will be trained and equipped to do it. instead of being asked to do more than we are willing to provide money for. it's one thing if this was one year. it's one thing if we had a surplus. but we don't. we have the budget environment that we have. so if we're going to get to the point where we adequately address readiness and address

thermy corps of engineers used and some of them actually have prior records of legations of waste and fraud. what did you find? >> so yes, i found going back to katrina that the government accountability office has taken this industr to task for ove overcharging taxpayers and load mixing, which is basically mixingcr in cte heavy metal things into tlheir loadsto, again, get the weight and result in overcharging and price gouging, things l the number of companies are under investigation by the florida district attorney or the florida attorney general, i'm sorry for price gouging related to hurricane irma clean-up. >> how is it responding and do you anticipate they'll change the contracti methods in the future response to future disasters? >> i think there's a lot of high level conversations going on about that right no i've talked to fema officials and army corps officials and the army corps has kind of fairly been reticent about communicating how they're goin to change but in talking to fema, they said basically, like, we have learned a lot of lessons and you're going to see those as n

the marine corps on the less than 200,000. that's the pecking order in terms of size.the coast guard is 40,000-ish. i space force would be similar in size to a coast guard more than to any of the militant service to is that a fair agreement we will have across-the-board? >> i think a build itself is roughly 40,000 which includes military as well as contractor and coast guard is also rent ten or $11 billion budget which is where the air force budget, at least done classified budget. so it's on the same order of magnitude. >> thanks very much, michael. it's great to be here today. let me start by saying i'm undecided with regards to whether the idea of a space force is a good idea or not. i don't discount the possibility that trump was watching star wars, saw the death star and said i need to get me one of those. but in reality, this is a very serious issue. it is primarily driven by the development of anti-satellite capabilities by russia, china, and others. this is something that president obama himself was very focus on the last two years of the administration. so it'

that's what his whole business becomes, saving the officer corps. he believes in meck an zags, they put money into trying to get the different new prop pents of what they're going to need, they're looking into air power, but he gets rid of the mechanized force, this group that they had put together to supplant the foot soldier. basically they were all working with obsolete world war i tanks that couldn't run. as well you didn't have that whole fleet of people in the background servicing those tanks. this was all a lot of money that was going to be crude up by the small funds that they're getting, as well as air power. and macarthur's whole thing is why are you going to build these things now and build a ton of them when in ten years they will be obsolete maybe when the war starts. let's keep it on the line that we have this stuff we can use, b-17, m-1, 150 millimeter howitzer all created during this time period. but macarthur has also got these cuts. roosevelt comes in 1932 tells macarthur we're going to slash the budget, you're going to lose 2,000

the project that the army corps just approved today. i have spoken to nat on numerous, numerous times about this important project and about our shared goal of restoring the everglades. mr. president, we have lost a real environmental champion, and he was bipartisan in his approach. i mentioned that he served seven governors. it didn't make any difference if the governor was republican or democrat. nat was all about restoring as much of mother nature back to its functioning self. and so, mr. president, i want to ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a column written by nat in 2012 that lays out the history of the everglades' environmental problems and how we can fix them. he recommended focusing on projects like bridging the tamiami trail which is u.s. 41, virtually a dike across the southern peninsula of florida. it's now being bridged first with a mile-long bridge and now under construction a two and a half mile bridge so the water can flow under the road into the water-starved everglades national park. thank you, mr. preside

all of the men in the tank corps were volunteers. so they naturally exhibited a high level of morale and enthusiasm. they were perfect fit for eisenhower's temperament and his football-based training philosophy. no tanks existed, however. they were so new to the battlefield that in the united states tanks were largely an imaginative concept. but that did not deter eisenhower in any way. slotted to command this battalion overseas, he trained the soldiers in basic skills, building teams and driving them to believe that once they arrived in europe and with a bit of practice, they would be the ones to break the stalemate on the western front and bring about decisive victory. just as the unit received orders for deployment, eisenhower himself received new orders. he was crushed to learn that he would not take the 301st into combat but he would instead report to gettysburg, pennsylvania, in a place called camp colt. where he would now take charge of the newly-established tank corps training center. his ambition to lead real fighting men as

. >> is seven months for power restoration the best that the corps can do?>> ith the challenges we had, i think it was the best the corps could do. >> narrator: "ackout in puerto rico". >> frontline is made possiblby contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major suort is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur fountion, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide, at fordfoundaon.org. additional support is provided by the abrams foundation:mm ted to excellence in journalism. the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the john and helen gr family trust. supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. and by the frontline journalism m nd, with major support f jon and jo ann hagler. (rain pouring, thunder rumbling) (man speaking spanish): (woman speaking spanish): (man

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and macarthur uses this plan to mobilize the sipping conservation corps. does it overnight. clomid -- he gets , gibson said. roosevelt's like, you are my guy now. he was the most dangerous man in america, but he also has a lot of talent. and then in 1935, at the end of macarthur's tenure, finally, the money comes through. they give him anything he wants to build the army and the officers. be bold, press on. he pretty much angers everybody in washington. and then, we learn about the bonus march. 1932, all world war i veterans marched on washington. macarthur would never admit they were veterans. they were all communist. no veteran of the united states whatever do that. you know? that is how disconnected he is. and runwhen they go in of the camps, and macarthur ignores orders not to cross the bridge, he believes he is going in to stop a revolution. stay away from the press. and there is macarthur, get out of my way. they are all communist. there goes his total reputation, and that's why he leaves in 1935 to go to the philippines to build their defense force. he does not ever p

he advanced during the war the to cavalry corps, the infantry corps, and finally the army command.he was known for having a single emotion -- rage. now there is a touching story about him in that every night, before he went to bed, one of his staff officers who had the responsibility to monitor the wounded, or the casualty list, that staff officer was to report to allenby every night on the status of his son, who was a field artillery officer at the front, and it was only after receiving a positive report that he would go to bed each night. now unfortunately, this seemingly softer side of allenby has a tragic end. that after being posted to egypt, allenby received a telegram from his wife, informing the general of his son's death, and he publicly wept, the only time his staff ever saw this display of emotion. when allenby took over command of the expeditionary force, it was 27th june, 1917. he immediately reorganized the forces under his command into two infantry corps and one cavalry corps. he visited the front regularly, and he was a present leader. so this is a picture of allenb

pool corp. has taken a dip since reporting.throwing the baby out with the bath water? then it is time to search for a tech sector for buying opportunities? after the recent drop in the nasdaq, but of course after apple tonight, i think we ought to sit down with the ceo of cyprus semi to see if it could be a prime time buy. and all the calls and rapid-fire in tonight's edition of the "lightning round"! so stick with cramer >>> what are we supposed to make of the action in the stock of pool corporation that's america's leading wholesale purveyor of pool parts, supplies and maintenance equipment. here is a stock that has given you a remarkable long-term run as pool corp. has acquired competitor after competitor. a lot of mom and pops too. it's up over 40% the past year, and the darn thing has nearly tripled over the past five years. i think these guys are one of the few clear winners with global warming too nothing makes you want to swim like unbearerbly hot weather but pool corp.'s shares have pulled back nearly $9, or nearly 6%

the director of research corp corp a development institute and joins us now from the opening in capital tirana one of the biggest challenges for these countries to get their economies into shape. hello believing. in portland things regarding the economy development is the attraction of foreign direct investments in our country. this issue has been dealt with mostly through during the last years at least mostly through the building process and through this connectivity agenda investments mainly from e.u. funds but also from international financial institutions they're put to good use you know region to build the roads to build electricity grids to build to modernize the connectivity infrastructure so these will be completed this as it was mentioned in the report by reinforcing the rule of law the independence of judiciary eroding the corruption and especially and i will close with this is the fact that. these conditions like the rule of law justice vetting. and the anti corruption fight has been underlined that the european council of june as a preconditions for a way now but also for th

the marine corps band entertaining mayor.ouse of representatives is in the hospital. steny hoyer has pneumonia. he's expected to recover. we will take you to new york city where protester apparently has climbed the pedestal of the statue of liberty. you can see there agents trying to get her down. that's the woman on the right-hand side of the base of the statue right beneath the heel of the statue's foot. there were other protesters who hung a banner on the statue that said "abolish i.c.e.." we assume that this woman is part of that protest group but that has not been absolutely determined at this point. she climbed the base of the statue which is quite illegal, as you can imagine. and she is just sitting there as authorities are trying to talk her down or bring her down. you can imagine they have evacuated liberty island as a result of that. a number of people who've been waiting for months, perhaps the years to have their chance to see this statue up close and personal and have their vacation plans destroyed as a result of