farragut reported the incident to wells with what he confessed was deep mort fication. he was determined to destroy the arkansas whatever it took. that evening he led his own fleet down river past vicksburg again hoping to blow the crippled arkansas out of the water but couldn't spot her in the gathering darkness. this failure only whetted farragut's wrath. he intended, he said, to try to destroy her until my squadron is destroyed or she is. there's no rest of the wicked until she is destroyed. farragut persuaded a reluctant captain davis to send one of his iron-clads and especially designed timber-clad under the vicksburg guns to ram the arkansas while farragut's fleet would bombard the vicksburg battery toss keep down their fire. this union attack occurred on july 22nd. the two northern vessels hit the arkansas glancing blows which at first appeared not to have done significant damage. but they evidently cracked the engine's connecting rods, potentially deranging the arkansas's weak and unreliable engines. two weeks later when the arkansas steamed down river to suppor

it's a simply fication. it doesn't work. it doesn't work. now, as a former member of the transportation and infrastructure committee, i believe that fund for roads, bridges, buses, trains, is an investment in the economy. i have never seen an economist say otherwise. they are right once in a while. according to the american society of civil engineers, our structure is graded as "d" minus. that's no surprise to anybody around the table if president's budget includes $50 billion in up front investments and a $460 billion six-year reauthorization which is 80% increase. this is in contrast with the budget of the transportation committee that's coming up, not today or tomorrow, in the future. headline news. on that topic, we learned yesterday that the congressional budget office found that this legislation leads the highway trust fund $78 billion more in the hole. but i got to take exception to one thing in in budget. i have an exception on many. i am supportive of the budget transportation budget in the president's proposal. i got a major proble