Services for veterans with traumatic brain injury. The presiding officer is there objection to proceeding to the measure . If not, the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed. Mr. Carper mr. President , i further ask the bill be read a third time and passed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Carper finally, mr. President , as if in legislative session, i ask unanimous consent that the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee be discharged from further consideration of h. R. 5687 and the senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk h. R. 5687, an act to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 101 east Market Street in long beach, california, and so forth. The presiding officer is there objection to proceeding to the measure . If not, the committee is discharged an
Hearing on efforts to improve education on science, technology, engineering and math. The Mars Exploration summit began with opening remarks from nasa administrator charles bolden, he spoke about the importance of humans becoming a multiplanet species and nasas goal of putting humans on mars in the next two decades. This is 30 minutes. Thank you very much, and thanks to all of you for allowing me to be with you this morning and it kind of kick us off, i hope. I also want to thank explore mars as well as g. W. President steve knapp and scott pace of the g. W. Policy institute for bringing us together for the humans to mars summit. Lets leave that slide up, ill talk about it all day long, and at least you can refer to it and you dont have to look at me. With mars making its closest approach to effort last week and currently appearing as the brightest body in the eastern sky during the month of april, this is an ideal time for this conference, as the red planet draws nearer to earthsort o
Budgets that we spent to become great in the world. Theres no reason i can see why we should not redress that grievance, although obviously its an uphill battle. No, i dont why not go for the big money . Well, were going for the biggest money we think we can logically go for right now. But i just think its unrealistic to assume that this congress and any future congress is going to jump to 4 of gdp. I just dont think 1 . We may get to 1 . Now 1 is 1 would be like a gold mine. Indeed. And im not saying im just i said a modest increase, but we have to be able to demonstrate that we can do what we said we can do. Commercial cargo was a first step. People said it couldnt be done, we have done that. We have got to get a commercial crew and we have got to demonstrate that can do it consistently. Step by step, otherwise people are just not going to support us. Thank you all very much. I really appreciate it. Thank you. More now from the Mars Exploration summit with sr. Officials talking about
One way to look at it, apollo 13 with the event that it had. I believe that was around 84 hours. We had to keep the crew alive for 84 hours. So we had life support systems, if youre going to go to mars that have to work for months, possibly over a year, depending on how long it takes you to get there and how long you stay. We have to take the steps to get that in place. Its going to take some time to get a reliable system in place. We can land a metric ton on the surface of mars, thats all we know how to do. Thats about the size of a mini cooper car. If were going to explore mars, it needs to be something bigger than that. There are challenges that we have, we know what the challenges are, but it will take some time to get those technologies ready. Have you counted up how many breakthroughs you think you need to get there . We ought to talk about it a little bit. Im not sure theyre breakthroughs in a sense. If we can build on what we know now today, and just expangd it. For example lif
Proceed. There were instances when voter i. D. Laws had received preclearance because they sought to protect the ballot as opposed to act in a different way. But where there is an indication that the vote will somehow be harmed, i believe the department of justice certainly has the obligation to review that matter and look carefully at all of the facts and evidence and proceed accordingly. I couldnt agree with you more. And i find it ironic and painful that at this moment in our history, as we celebrate with the movie selma and talk about 50 Year Anniversary of the Voting Rights act that many states are making it more difficult for americans to vote, without any evidence of voter fraud to back up those changes. In one Southern State it is estimated that 600,000 voters were basically precluded from voting in election because of new voter i. D. Requirements. In that same state a 93yearold veteran was turned away. A 73yearold doctor turned away, people who were proud and wanted to vote tu