Members of congress, distinguished guests colleagues from the department of defense, past and present. Members of the Vietnam Commemoration Advisory Committee the, thank you for being here today. Thank you to the organizers an commemorative partners of this important event and thousands like it across the country and the entire vietnam commemoration effort. Most importantly, thank you to the vietnam era veterans and their families who join us. You honor us with your presence. In a year of anniversaries for this years marks the 150th anniversary of the end of our civil war, the 70th anniversary of the end ever world war ii, the 65th anniversary of the start of korean war, today we gather to remember the vietnam war and to honor those who served in it. We remember the 50th anniversary of president johnsons executive order establishing the Vietnam Service ribbon and we honor our 7. 2 million living vietnam era veterans. Fair fallen comrades in arms including those still unaccounted for an
[inaudible conversations] the committee on space will come to order and without objection the chair is authorized tour declare a recess at any time. Welcome to todays hearing entitle the International Space station addressing operational challenges you have the written testimony biographies and truth and testimony disclosure for todays with this is part or recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Good morning welcome to our hearing today and i want to thank our witnesses for taking time to appear before the committee. Since 2013 the program has experienced a number of challenges we have thank committed to identifying challenges to address them and reach our goal and Justin Lehigh commitment. At the iss have had water leaks third three times with one during a spacewalk. April 26 an unmanned russian vehicle damage stave reflector while docking with the. Host team per could generate 14, a false alarm of the ammonia leak caused the crew to retreat into the russian segmen
Competition for available crude time and heavy demand for Key Facilities to limit the amount and type of experiment that can come to iss the crouton is already allocated at 100 to redress the challenge now is dependent on commercial crew providers who promised the capabilities as planned. With these capabilities nasa can had a crew member to devote most of the time to research to double the research time. However many technical challenges than the ability to fund the program could delay the efforts. Finally even if they can navigate the challenges challenges, demonstrating a return on investment is difficult and scientific research. In the short term it is essential that the continued to make progress to achieve the goal of the increased role and we reported that nasa could do more to define and assess on progress and for example, by assigning a measurable targets to the annual performance the tricks. They concurred and agreed to take action and respondent in conclusion it will likely
Still cant [inaudible] why the looting, why the violence . Angry about the way were being viewed as not people. A recent poll finds most americans believe Race Relations in this country are bad. More than 50 of whites think so. More than twothirds of blacks feel this way. People are angry. Where we go from here, i dont know. Theres one race, the human race. Weve been together and apart more than 239 years, part of this great experiment, the United States of america. [cheers and applause] there have been incredible gains on many fronts. Change has come to america. [cheers and applause] and yet we still have seen dramatic and dangerous instances. The parishioners have bibles. Dylann roof had his 45 caliber black pistol. The pain that this causes us all as a loss, this is to the entire society. Its beyond my comprehension how anybody could do the act that this young man did. A poll shows of 0 of white 60 of white people are uncomfortable discussing race with somebody of another race. The
Apple or a netflix or a tesla. After another day where the market hung in there, the dow gaining 67 points, nasdaq advancing. 26 , starting to be a pretty good year. I think its shining a light on the stocks that i follow in order to get a better feel for whats going on out there in the real economy, both domestic and international. So you have a sense of where we truly are. Lets start with my mainstays. Lets start with the rails. All aboard im always trying to measure the actual strength of our economy, and im not using all those data that comes from the fed and the government. That doesnt get there for me. One way to do that is by looking at the rails before there are only four publicly traded railroads of any size, and they all carry the same cargo so we can get some valuable nationwide comparisons. They move chemicals, iron, lumber, steel, cars, coal, ag products. Dont forget that they carry trucks too. So they doship merchandise that would normally be viewed as over the road cargo