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[gavel pounding] this hearing is call to order. Welcome. 50 years ago, exactly what each week from today, at approximately 9 30 am, 2 astronauts, sitting atop a rocket the size of a navy destroyer, packing 7. 5 Million Pounds of thrust, took off from Kennedy Space center in florida. Roughly 1 Million People had gathered on the ground to watch this historic event. That included half of the u. S. Congress. These 3 astronauts, as one of the newspapers put it at the time, carried with them the hopes...

From all three major indices, with the dow down 138, s p down 16, the nasdaq down 68. Do not count out iran, guys. Mounting tensions also sending ripples of worry through the markets as the rogue nation further breaches the limits set on its enrichment of uranium and continues to boast about breaking the terms of the nuclear deal. Our twoway starter, bob hormats, former Goldman Sachs vice chair, analyzes both of these situations, iran and what is Jerome Powell going to do, but more importantly, ...

The chair on this vote the yeas are 348, the nays are 75. He amendment is adopted. The Unfinished Business is the quest for a recorded vote on amendment 32 printed in part b of house report 116109 offered by the gentlewoman from california, ms. Matsui, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. The clerk will redesignate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 32 printed in part b of house report 116109 offered by ms. Atsui of california. The cha...

Good morning. Todays open hearing is the fourth in a series the committee is skukting to examine the intersection of Key National Security challenges and intelligence. In our prior hags we explored the rise of authoritiarianism, russian intelligence trade craft and chinas use of technology as a actual of oppression. This morning we will look at Climate Change which is the greatest longterm it National Security threat to the u. S. And affecting every dimension of National Life for decades and pos...

Our teeth and the Winter Olympics begin in beijing. Fireworks. The Opening Ceremony of the Chinese Capital as beijing becomes the 1st city to host both the summer. And now the winter gate. Ah, i break off is good to have you with us on this friday. We begin with 2 president s who want the world to know that they are on the same page. To day, the leaders of china and russia promised each other deeper ties with quote, no limits. Vladimir putin met with season paying in beijing. And what was a chor...

There were culture industry, there were Culture Committee hearing is 4 hours. If we cant. Is an here . I guess whichever. The meeting will come to order. Ladies and gentlemen, we are at a very historic moment for our nation. Who would have thought of it even as soon as just a few years ago that we would have this golden opportunity to provide electricity that would motor our vehicles but was bringing on some serious questions and serious issues so that we know what it will take to make sure peop...

Killing scores of people and knocking out power water and communications. Residents are still recovering today. Id also caused multiple offshore oil spills. Active pipelines and platforms where the source of some spills, while a banded ones with no identifiable we wear this earths of others. I attributed identified from space, following a weather event since the government started tracking leaks and spills using satellites almost a decade ago. We shouldnt view this as a oneoff event or a freak a...

There were culture industry, there were Culture Committee hearing is 4 hours. If we cant. Is an here . I guess whichever. The meeting will come to order. Ladies and gentlemen, we are at a very historic moment for our nation. Who would have thought of it even as soon as just a few years ago that we would have this golden opportunity to provide electricity that would motor our vehicles but was bringing on some serious questions and serious issues so that we know what it will take to make sure peop...

Killing scores of people and knocking out power water and communications. Residents are still recovering today. Id also caused multiple offshore oil spills. Active pipelines and platforms where the source of some spills, while a banded ones with no identifiable we wear this earths of others. I attributed identified from space, following a weather event since the government started tracking leaks and spills using satellites almost a decade ago. We shouldnt view this as a oneoff event or a freak a...

Planet and is the source area for hundreds of glaciers. The juno icefield Research Program, or jirp, has been studying these mighty rivers of ice since 1946 to better understand how our planets natural environments are changing and what this means to our common future. And actually theres a little bit of complexity as to why we use glacier ice. I came here as a science student 23 years ago and returned to work here this summer as a parttime staff member. Like other jirpers, as we call ourselves,...