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Jose serrano id like to welcome nasa administrator, jim bryden stein, and acting associate administrator for nasa human exploration and operations ken bowersox to the subcommittee this morning. Earlier this year, nasa commemorated the 50th anniversary of the landing on the moon, which remains the single most successful and Famous Mission and nasas history. Just a week before the cjs bill was marked up in subcommittee, nasa submitted a 1. 6 million 1. 6 billion Budget Amendment that intended to advance our humans to the moon by four years. This prevented us from adequately considering the proposal this hearing will give us an opportunity to obtain more information from nasa regarding the revised plans for returning to the moon. This subcommittee would like to send the first woman astronaut into deep space, including to the surface of the moon. We want to do it in a theonsibl ....
Be determined by the two leaders. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell now, mr. President , this week our friend and colleague, the senior senator from tennessee, will mark a major milestone in his states history. As of tomorrow, Lamar Alexander will have served as tennessees governor or u. S. Senator for 24 years, eight months and 15 days. More combined years in offices than any other tennessean. Of course, senator alexander also remains the only tennessee governor ever popularly elected to the United States senate. The only Tennessee Republican to be undefeated in six statewide primary elections, and his 2008 general election vote total of 1,579,477 votes is still the largest ever recorded by a tennessee statewide candidate. So, mr. President , i ask consent that a statement from the tennessee s ....
You can also watch online at cspan. Org or listen on the free cspan radio app. We will take your phone calls and get reactions. Of course, the big story today was the total Solar Eclipse as across the entire continental United States. It was the first such eclipse in 99 years and the first total Solar Eclipse visible in any part of america since 1979. On our facebook page, we want to know what you did earlier today and what you think about the future for the space program. Earlier this afternoon, cspan aired nasa tvs coverage. We will take you back to this afternoon beginning around 1 p. M. Eastern because we ares going to be tracing this eclipse all across the country. Not only does everybody in the country have a great view, but we have some views from the sky, dont we, sean . That is right. Looking up from the ground is ....