Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of eighty-three. Sunrise is 5:39 AM and sunset 8:22 PM, for 14h 43m 02s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 45.8% of its visible disk illuminated.Today is the nine hundred eighty-ninth day.
Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 5:30 PM.
On this day in 1862, the 2nd, 6th and 7th Wisconsin Infantry regiments continue their reconnaissance from Fredericksburg to Orange Court House, Virginia.
Recommended for reading in full:
In Congressional hearings yesterday, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff described – and ably summarized – Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report:
Daniel Samuelsohn reports Lawmakers fess up to not fully reading the Mueller report (‘Time for a Mueller report reality check: Only a small segment of America’s most powerful have read it’):
Time for a Mueller report reality check: Only a small segment of America’s most powerful have read it.
President Donald Trump can’t give a straight answer about the subject. More than a dozen members of Congress readily admitted to POLITICO that they too have skipped around rather than studying every one of the special counsel report’s 448 pages. And despite the report technically ranking as a best-seller, only a tiny fraction of the American public has actually cracked the cover and really dived in.
“What’s the point?” said Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who like many other lawmakers recently interviewed in the Capitol acknowledged they hadn’t completed their own comprehensive read.
The result, say lawmakers, historians and cultural critics, is a giant literacy gap in the country when it comes to the most authoritative examination into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and whether Trump obstructed that investigation. And closing that gap could determine whether Democrats feel they have public backing to launch impeachment proceedings against the president. That’s why numerous Democrats, activists and pro-impeachment advocates say it’s up to them to teach Americans what the Mueller report says, even if there’s already considerable public fatigue with the issue.
The education campaign runs the gamut, from celebrities staging a dramatic Broadway reading of Mueller’s most juicy findings on obstruction of justice, to House Democrats pulling Robert Mueller back from retirement next week to publicly testify, hoping that live television cameras can illuminate what the dense government report cannot.
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“It’s tedious,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who has a copy of Mueller’s work in a large stack of things she turns to for her daily reading. She said she started right away on the report’s first volume detailing the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russians while on a trip to Vietnam, and as of late June she was still plugging along. “In fairness, I haven’t picked it up in at least two weeks.”
“I’ve got a lot on my reading list,” Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said as he explained why he’s avoided one of the most highly anticipated reports in recent American history.
(The report is available online. Someone should remind these officials that sloth is a sin.)