Understand that it is not in our interest of the nation to have two providers and one of them go out of business and end up with a monopoly. Which means theres going to be some level of security. Would you agree with that . And are your investors, your parents, aware of that . The only data i have to operate at the moment is the forecast the government has provided for the space lift that occurs in that window of time. And its important to remember that were the ride for National Security assets. Theyre recapitalized in waves. So we are currently recapitalizing a set of National Security satellites that are well past their design life. Thats going to complete in a short number of years. The pipeline being designed and built, it drops from about eight to ten a year to five. And then that will be divided between at least two providers. So two or three. And thats not a sustainable economic model if you do not also have access to civil and commercial markets. Okay. Mr. Chairman, i yield ba
Were all very comparable to the nk33 because it had been in development for all tm ten years now to replace that engine on a couple of different russian rockets. So when we started talking to them over three years ago, they were pretty far along on that path already. There was a lot of analysis and whether we reached a point where we needed to move forward with another engine, it was the one that was most likely to succeed in our application and the one that was available to make sure we could deliver cargokargcargo. Ms. Van kleeck, youve had heard some reference to it today and in the next panel, were going to hear that its going to cost a significant amount of money to reengine the atlas five with the ar1. Can you address where 200 and as i understand it, its going to cost at least 200 million to modify the other spot for the arrow one. Can you address that . Yes, i can. The weve been working closely with ula for several years now on replacing an rd180 in various forms. Like i said,
The federal acquisition regulations provide for different models. 15 is one set, another set is referred to as 12 and there are others that do exactly that and provide guidance when it is appropriate to use the less elaborate systems. So there is some flexibility within that. Is far15 the biggest and scariest monster out there. Yes. But there are bigger monsters. But you just mentioned that to scare us. Ghost stories. It happens in the world we live in at ula. The question that was mentioned, monopoly. But nobody likes monopoly but in the best case we would have adieu only or adieu og only, we need other millionaire to back miss van gleek or where is branson with others with eggees and when you say the Business Case isnt exciting about this, the diminishing number of pay loads, the substantial risk it takes an investors ego to propel the sort of speculative investment, the glory of space faring. But so i think as we fear monopoly we should fair in mind the best case is were going to ha
Approved beneficiaries of their family members were not able to actually take advantage of it and come to the United States because of the numerical limits on family based immigration every year. Continued to deteriorate. As we have had requests from other stake holders to take another look at that, my leadership would agree to take another look at the program. They have agreed to consider it. You have a request and im sure you should consider it. That is a problematic to do business. Were increasing number of refugees for syria and i think that is the appropriate way to openly and directly deal with this. The parole system was never designed to be used in this fashion as i understand the law. With regard to resettlement, i guess, mr. Chair, does that follow within your area . Yes, it does. And general, i believe some sort of consultation with communities about a desire to resettle a number of people in their community. What is your policy on that, and can you assure us any community t
When you were working to establish the exchange that there was the template your website had issues and im assuming all thats been resolved and the people that went into medicaid temporarily cms approved are now out of that . All of those temporary medicaid members have been redetermined into either requalified health plans or medicaid. Great. And ms. Otoole, do you still have a backlog of about 180,000 public insurance renewals in the system . Thank you for the question, congressman. We do not. That has been resolved. Okay. And it says despite additional funds, im sure you do continue to struggle some, obviously. And again, i applaud all of you for what youre doing. The goal of our committee is to find out where we can make improvements, right . But minnesota announced that theyre going to revert to the old system for minnesota care because of mshares problems, is that true . Congressman, that is true just for a short period of time, and that is we have prioritized that functionality