he went to the hermitage, actually and worked for jackson's, the federalist working for andrew jackson, the crazy populist democrat, but he'll do that, you know. he'll go that far and eventually he'll go to france and have a biography of napoleon and there he died but his wife became a very pitiful figure, pretty dependent upon drugs and things and died a pauper, but lee and his other brother charles carter, carter lee spent a lot of times trying to figure out what they could possibly do for their mother. they ended up sending her money, but it was never enough and that was black horse harry, and he was the one who had literally lost the farm. it was sold and eventually came to be betsy mccarty who was the sister of black horse harry's wife and she eventually was -- she, for 50 years, was the mistress of stratford. >> thank you so much. [ applause ] >> folks, we are madly counting the ballots in the back. we will give the television audience just a few minutes with emory. rather than us taking a break, by the time everybody gets up and walks out and walks back in, why don't you talk am

i will ride -- he's still in the united states when he write this is -- i will ride to the hermitage this evening and see the old chief, general jackson. salute our friends. so, again, he's not in texas yet but he's already speculating that if the change comes about, he can enlist indians north of the red river to come and help the text -- texans fight. now, he's not even being coy here. he's in texas now and he's writing his old friend, president andrew jackson. i am in possession of some information that will doubtless be interesting to you and may be calculated to forward your views if you should entertain any, touching on the acquisition of texas, by the government of the united states. that such is a measure desirous of the population of the province i cannot doubt. the mexican rulers have not honesty and the people have not intelligence. and of course, sam houston is a paradigm of honesty. you will no doubt do ample justice to the motives which prompts this communication to you. and i should censure myself if i were to conceal from you the knowledge of any facts which would ena

there's a lake hermitage marsh creation project that will create approximately 104 acres of brackish marsh from the beneficial use of dredge material. that's knowledge announced today. and the louisiana oyster culture project. that consists of the placement of oyster culture into about 8350 -- 850 acres of seed grounds throughout louisiana. those projects are the start of that nrda process coming to fruition. and then the second important work that's ongoing that involves all of us here in the senate directly is the need to pass the restore act through the highway reauthorization bill, the transportation reauthorization bill. the restore act language would dedicate 80% of the clean water act funds related to this disaster to gulf coast restoration. i thank all my colleagues again for an enormously positive, really overwhelmingly positive bipartisan vote to attach that restore act language to the senate highway bill. and i urge my house colleagues, including house conservatives, to pass a house version of the highway bill today. that's important for our country, for highway infrastruc