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Speaker. As chairwoman of the committee on science, space, and technology, its an honor to stand before you today to celebrate the 50th anniversary of apollo 11. The morning of july 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and buzz aldrin lifted ff from nasas cape kennedy. That day, millions watched in 11 s nasa launched Apollo Saturn 9 rocket to accomplish the goals set by president kennedy less than 10 years earlier, to land the man on the moon before the end of the decade. As president kennedy said in his speech at Rice University in september, 1962, we choose to go to the moon in this de...

I call this hearing to order. Todays hearing is about the need for this committee to draft and to pass a bipartisan Highway Infrastructure bill. Both Ranking Member carpers staff and my staff have been working on drafting this legislation along with all of the members of this committee. We appreciate all the input we received from our home states, from our fellow members and from transportation stakeholders. Its our shared goal to advance a bill out of the committee this summer. That means the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will be first out of the gate to pass a Highway Infrast...

This hearing is called to order. Welcome. 50 years ago, exactly what each week from today, at approximately 9 30 am, two 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. Including half of the United States congress. These three astronauts, as one of the newspapers put it at the time, carried with them the hopes of the world. The year was 1969. The year before i was born. The astronauts were Neil Armstrong, buzz al...

The Committee Plans to hold this congress. After examining the history of the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change and the Public Health effects of Climate Change in our first two hearings, today the subcommittee turns to the impact of Climate Change on Natural Disasters. This subcommittee has three goals today. First, were going to illustrate how Natural Disasters are made both more intense and more frequent due to Climate Change. Climate change is real. We are con substantiate constan of that fact. Greenland lost 2 billion tons of ice in one day alone. 2 billion tons of ice lost in a day a...

Do we have a second . A second. An all those in favor signify by saying aye. Thank you, commissioners. There is no Public Comment request for that item. And if anyone does have Public Comment request, i am the person to see. Hand me the forms. Item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners. Grant colfax, director of health. You have your directors report in front of you. I wanted to highlight a few issue, and i think the major issue that i wanted to highlight today was, as you know, we have had major patient care incidents at laguna honda hospital, and june 18 i was joined by my...