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The house is coming in at 9 00 for an early session. We will bring you live coverage gavel to gavel of that. The president earlier this morning met with the European Union leader. This is what one leader had to say after meeting with the president. On one area, first and foremost on counterterrorism. I dont have to explain why. There are some issues that remain open like climate and trade. Sure we can say have a common position and opinion about russia. When it comes to the conflict in seems we ...

Watch the battle of midway 75th Anniversary Special live from the mcarthur Memorial Visitors Center in norfolk, virginia on june 2 beginning at 9 30 a. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan 3. Announcer washington journal continues. Host joining us from capitol hill congressman Francis Rooney from florida, a former ambassador to the vatican from 2005 to 2008. I want to begin with the secretary of state Rex Tillerson to answer questions from reporters aboard airforce one as they left the vat...

Its a crisis. It doesnt discriminate. Its in every corner of my state. Earlier this month a Police Officer named chris green in east liverpool, ohio, had a near fatal fentanyl overdose following a routine traffic stop. He went up to a car and noticed there was white powder spread around the car. He put on his mask and gloves, arrested some individuals, went back to the police station, and noticed that on his shirt there was some powder. He reached up like this and brushed the powder off his shir...

Command. This is hearing of fiscal year 2018 priorities and National Security Space Enterprise. Were honored to have a panel of expert witnesses in our Space Program to join us here today and before i introduce them, though, want to take a moment to acknowledge that while i cant imagine there being a better place to work and for the subcommittee on the House Armed Services committee, apparently somebody thinks theres a better job on washington, d. C. This will be the last hearing that steve can ...

Emphasizing the role of the Buffalo Soldiers in opening the west. We are fortunate to have him here from our neighbor to the southwest, arizona. He earned his ba in history and historical archaeology, his ma in history with a concentration on the American West and spanish borderlands with the second emphasis on film history from the university of san diego. He later earned his phd in military history from kansas state university. After a 45 year in public history, he retired to tucson in 2015. H...

President and ceo of the Treatment Center and the Truman National security project. Welcome. Lets start with the big picture. This is a president that breaks with tradition. He ran on an antiglobalist message. What is notable in his style and substance of this trip . Caller i would make three broad points. The first i would say, not exactly on topic but headed into memorial day weekend i want to say this is a complicated weekend for many veterans and military members. We are thinking about you a...

President and ceo of the Treatment Center and the Truman National security project. Welcome. Lets start with the big picture. This is a president that breaks with tradition. He ran on an antiglobalist message. What is notable in his style and substance of this trip . Caller i would make three broad points. The first i would say, not exactly on topic but headed into memorial day weekend i want to say this is a complicated weekend for many veterans and military members. We are thinking about you a...

To join us here today and before i introduce them, though, i want to take a moment to acknowledge that while i cant imagine there being a better place to work than the Strategic Forces subcommittee apparently somebody thinks theres a better job in washington, d. C. We this is the last hearing that steve will be in the current position, he is leaving us to go to work for secretary of defense, to be the assistant secretary of defense for space policy. And our loss is the secretarys gain. So were g...

The committee will come to order. I now recognize mr. Lobiondo for a motion. Pursuant to rule 1a1, i move that the chairman be authorized to declare a hearing on todays hearing. All those in favor signify by saying aye. The ayes have it and the motion is agreed to. I want to thank everybody for being here today. This is an important hearing were having here today. And were talking about what i consider extremely important legislation. And i believe everybody on the committee, both sides of the a...

Rights legislation that became law while i was 9 years old, yeah, that was a signal. It was optimism. It was a promise that you could do all the things that my parents told us we ocould do anything. They mistakenly told the doctors that as well as the sons so we took them at their word. As a result, you saw laws and barriers falling as you went along. You came away from that hopeful and optimistic about the possibilities. And looking back over this period, civil rights law, brown in 54, 55, all ...