Thank you for your service past and present to the country and to fellow veterans. We are honored to work alongside you. That is exactly what we will do over the next few days. We will be working together. Not in a typical way and not our daytoday work. You will have an opportunity to pause and take a step back from the day to day grind and challenges. All of those things we struggle with every day and think about what we are doing and why. Are going to think about what we know and what we dont know. Those of you know me know that formal remarks are not my specialty. I want to show hands, how many of you that when we set it will be data, where like all. A show hands. It is okay. I am a selfprofessed data geek. I had that feeling to. I want to talk to you about why data is important. Sometimes it feels abstract and disconnected from reality. Sometimes it is dry and boring. Not really connected to the veterans we serve every day. We are here to serve veterans but data can help you we can
Moon landing. This was part of an event hosted by Space Center Houston to mark the missions 50th anniversary. Good morning and happy Lunar Landing day. [ cheers and applause ] its great to have you here. Tracy lamm we are the Visitor Center for the nasa Johnson Space center. As a nonprofit entity and smithsonian affiliate and the worlds First Certified Autism Center as a science center. We believe in equity, inclusion, accessibility. And we take that on as a great badge of honor that our staff has had expert training to ensure that our staff is able to work with people who have any type of learning disabilities or any type of challenges or anything like that. If you see a need we are not meeting please let us know because we always want to improve. Welcome today for our first panel discussion. [ cheers and applause ] you know, i aspen over 20 years of my life with nasa and industry. And i tell you, ive been around a lot of folks, been around the Flight Controllers and directors over th
Present. The committee a quorum is present. The committee is meeting to hear testimony on the importance of trauma and practices in education to assist students impacted by gun violence and other adversities. Miss beth of georgia, of minnesota, miss the of wilde ofiss pennsylvania, and mr. Pastor of texas, are permitted to participate in todays hearings with the understanding that their questions will come on the after all members of the subcommittee have had an opportunity to question the witness. ,ursuant to committee will 7c Opening Statements are limited to the chair and the Ranking Member. This allows us to hear from or witnesses sooner and provides all members with time to ask questions. Can you hear me all right . All right. I recognize myself now for the purpose of making an opening statement. I want to begin by acknowledging that this morning marks 18 years since the terrorist attacks that struck new york, pennsylvania, and the pentagon on september 11, 2001. Let us please tak
American people were happy in suburban homes with their nuclear families. I like ike, its so simple and it conveys that happiness. This idea, however, is a myth and its a political construction. The 1950s in fact was a time wrought with racial discrimination, conflicts, intense political and social pressures to conform to a suburban ideal that imposed gender hierarchies and mandated heterosexuality in the law. It was a time in which anticommunism targeted the liberal reform impulses of the new deal and frequently anticommunists took away civil liberties. And these are all different areas of political pressures in terms of enforcing certain ideals and resisting against those that we will look at next week. But i like ike as a political construct shifted attention away from those divisions and it created a sense of consensus. In many ways again this is political construction. And at the root of it was a very innovative and transformative Marketing Campaign that transformed a military her
American history tv weekend on cspan3. The admiral who heads the u. S. Southern command testified before a Senate Armed Services subcommittee recently about u. S. Military partnerships in latin america, drug interdiction, the humanitarian situation in venezuelan a a number of other issues. This is just over an hour. Okay. The welcome, everybody. The emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee meets today to receive testimony from admiral craig fouler, commander of u. S. Southern command or as we call is south com our focus on the evolving security situation in this theater as well as south coms efforts to implement the National Defense strategy. Welcome for the admiral. Thank you very much for being here, sir. I certainly appreciate it. Todays hearing is a continuation of subcommittee efforts to provide oversight over National Defense strategy implementation. This is an important component of our efforts to ensure our militarys appropriately resourced and equipped and postured to de