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Astronaut flying today. Although robert has over 4000 hours of flying time, this will be his first time in space. The astronauts make their way across the access arm towards the shuttle in the predawn hours before launch. An american spaceship has never carried a human crew on its Maiden Voyage. At the Launch Control center three miles from the pad, final steps are being happening for before cap them. Theyre made in mission and control position, where the launch will clear the tower. There has n...

Website. And so, i think your words need to be taken down. Accusing staff our staff of leaking that is not true. Those words should be taken down. Madam chair . Blackburn the staff had asked for the documents to be shared. Before thehared website, released to the entity. In order to take comments down, they have to be personal in nature. So with that, let us begin with our opening statement. And then, we will receive our first panel of witnesses. As i was beginning earlier, i want to welcome all...

Dirksen building. Senatere in the hart office building, which is connected to the dirksen building. They are two halves of the same building, that they are entirely different. Building is the central building. We are in the room known as hart 216. This room was specifically designed for television, and we are in one of the television booths overlooking the hearing room. When they knew that the dirksen building was sufficient, they originally thought they would just replicate the dirksen building...

Executive producer, moderator and editor of closeup on cspan. Please join me in welcoming john and the panel to the stage. [applause] john hi, everybody, good evening. Thanks for joining us. You received information on your way in and my guests also did. So if you are here you know who the panelists are because that is part of the draw. Correct . Let me tell you where they are sitting from left to right. Jack, athe left is Pulitzer Prizewinning historian from stanford university. Just innext to ...

Dedicating his flag to all the other men who are still missing in action or prisoners of war in vietnam. A lot of times veterans, if they want to come see the things that they left, we are always willing to give them a tour and show them around. It also helps us because we can connect specific names, donors to what they left. We have a big barrel that was left. I think it was left in 2002. I am too young to know what it was. But i have been told that in vietnam they used it as a letrine. An unfo...

Generating 46 million in proceeds. Beyond our brick and mortar infrastructure is our Information Technology infrastructure in which the government and the Global Economy depends. Reliable i. T. Is vital to all of the services the government provides. However, many agencies are not able to effectively have i. T. Infrastructure, emission writ call systems due to large upfront Capital Investment needs and increasing share of costs that maintaining these older systems occupy in technology budgets. T...

Not housing, food, travel, transportation. 100,000 in financial assets. Houston, we have a problem. So, theres good news and this is where i want to focus this going forward. And the good news is the culture of aging is changing. I bet if i had time to spend with each one of you what id find is that your attitudes are different than they may have been earlier in your lives. Frankly different than those attitudes that might have existed with your parents and grandparents. The majority of baby boo...

And though intelligence and military levels. It is necessary to take action against these individuals prior to attacks like the one we saw in brussels this week. Sec. Carter getting back to the fight in syria and iraq, i should also mention, a number of European Partners to include belgium in the last month and a half after i had the ministerial chairman in brussels, they have increased their contributions. I wanted you to know that the belgians did that, too. In the fight in iraq and syria, i w...

The National Park service. I work specifically for the Vietnam Veterans memorial collection, which is housed here in the Museum Resource center. The building is for the National Capital region parks. But our collection specifically is housed entirely in this building. We are a collection of objects that are left at a memorial in d. C. , Vietnam Veterans memorial. Visitors come by every day, leave objects at the memorial which our park rangers collect. And then every two weeks or so, we do a pick...

Back in the early 60s, medicare and medicaid combined were. 1 of gdp. Gdpal security was 2. 6 of and Discretionary Spending was 11 and a half percent of gdp. Medicaid arere and 5. 6 of gdp, Social Security is 4. 9 and discretionary expenditures has shrunk to six and a half percent of gdp. Why is that important . Are reallyyments consumption and you do not get that much return on your investment and i want to highlight the blue line. Back in the 60s, investments as a percentage of the federal bud...