In 1995, The Heritage Foundation's Missile Defense Study Teamproposed to Congress a comprehensive plan for developing anddeploying an effective global defense against ballistic missiles.
atlantis has a crew of four and a multipurpose logistics module that they are starting to grow containing supplies and spare this interrelationship between parts for the space station. neighboring space than those the crew is also taking the first iphone into space to help that work both industries would with experiments aboard the say the tie is very tight. gps is one of the neighbors. international space station. this is about 15 minutes. the factory will to include gps here is our commander, chris think that was important. ferguson in the suit up room. so one thing i will go through he s having a fit check of his is the process, how we got to helmet. the policy. this white house, you know, most ps our commander on this of you are familiar with the flight, and going over to pilot interagency process. but then brett summit many tax doug hurley. about the space transportation policy is having 50 people in the room with different opinions, sometimes they reflect the agenci
to end this dangerous over reliance on oil imports and improve our efficiency and improve international cooperation, i believe the administration should reverse its prohibition on new offshore oil drilling, develop new forms of liquid fuels from domestic feed stocks and dramatically increase the fuel efficiency of our vehicles. as this occurs, the state department must boost our energy trade with reliable and transparent allies such as canada. although the situation in libya is extremely dangerous, we can be thankful that the of people is occurring without a nuclear weapons dimension. the bush administration was successful in coaxing libya to give up its nuclear weapons program eight years ago. the importance of that this that has been magnified by the current prices current crisis. there have been average, including the programs, the state department plays a key role to overcome the proliferation threat. as we discussed yesterday in the context of north korea, regime ins
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the supreme court ruled 8-1 today that the 1st amendment protects church members who mount antigay protests outside military funerals. we ve the oral argument in just a few minutes. as the gadhafi forces continue to rebel, he gave a speech. there s security challenged around the world and was asked about colonel gadhafi. that comes later. i want to take a brief moment just a say a few words about a tragic event that took place earlier today in frankfort, germany. i m saddened and outraged of this attack that took the lives of two americans and injured two others. i think the american people are united in expressing our gratitude for the service of those who were lost. michelle and i have their family and their friends in our thoughts and prayers, and we are praying for a speedy recovery for those who were injured. i want everybody to understand that we will spare no effort in learning how this outrageous act took place,
can to help them on the subcommittee realize what you need. thank you, mr. chairman. well, thank you, mr. chairman. , we are anxious to hear your presentation, so we invite you to make the statement as you prefer. your entire statement will be placed in the record and you present it to us in any way you like. thank you, mr. chairman. members of the committee, i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you, perhaps for the last time, to discuss the presidents budget request for the next fiscal year. at first like to thank the members of the committee for your support of the men and women in uniform would answer the call in time of war. i know you ll join me in doing everything to ensure they have all they need to accomplish their mission and come home safely. the budget request for the department of defense being presented today includes a base budget request for fy 12 of $553 billion in an overseas contingency operations request for 117.8 billion. i submitted statement