Today, our subcommittee is holding an oversight hearing on the federa the faa is a 17 billion agency with 44,000 employees who are responsible for virtually every aspect of aviation in our country, including the safety of commercial airlines, general aviation, and cargo aircraft. Every day, faas air Traffic Controllers are responsible for more than 44,000 flights and 2. 7 Million Airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace. Over the last year, muchneeded attention has been focused on the crashes of lion air flight 610 and Ethiopian Air flight 302. Serious questions have been raised about the effectiveness of the faas regulatory framework. For the sake of the 346 victims and their families, we need to ensure that these accidents are thoroughly investigated, their causes identified, and their solutions implemented. Unfortunately, at this point, we do not yet have the conclusive results of the two crash investigations and cannot say definitively why these terri
[gavel] the committee will come to order. Today, our subcommittee is holding an oversight hearing on the federal aviation administration. Im very pleased to be joined by senator jack reed, the subcommittees Ranking Member, senator caputo is here right from the start, and im sure we will be joined by others. The faa is a 17 billion agency with 44,000 employees who are responsible for virtually every aspect of aviation in our country, including the safety of commercial airlines, general aviation, and cargo aircraft. Every day, faas air Traffic Controllers are responsible for more than 44,000 flights and 2. 7 Million Airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace. Over the last year, muchneeded attention has been focused on the crashes of lion air flight 610 and Ethiopian Air flight 302. Serious questions have been raised about the effectiveness of the faas regulatory framework. For the sake of the 346 victims and their families, we need to ensure that these accid
Ago i started the research as a dissertation. Hes an interesting figure. I will give you a couple of brief biographical insights. Born and raised in ohio, goes to west point, not a stellar student. Hes won to merit away from being dismissed every year, actually. [laughter] his best friend at west point was Winfield Scott hancock. Hes 32 out of a class of 52. He participates in the seminal wars and the new mexican wars. He sees himself being this career military person and making a life in the military. He finds himself as a Lieutenant Colonel in the War Department. If you have read the book, you know i tried to sidestep the claim that he was responsible for starting the american civil war. Was sent on a secret mission to talk to Robert Anderson about the prospect of what might happen if South Carolina decided to secede. You have to understand, floyd, the war secretary, has given bewell no instructions and he spent three days in trust and harbor with Robert Anderson and after the first
Cornwallis over here to america, to the colonies, to support the war effort. Another one of captain tates sons, the youngest named robert, lexington and fought on the american side. There was a dynamic within the family. I am sure that captain tate at the time had to trade neutral ground. Ead neutral ground. He lived here until he died at the age of 94. He never left and stayed here is a citizen. Family, captain tate, lived here until 1794 when he passed away. He lost his wife in 1770. She was killed. She had gone to their storehouse where they kept food stuffs. It was boobytrapped. The reason it was is because provisions were missing from the storehouse. So, the son william had set up a boobytrap. Everyone in the family supposedly new. Supposedly forgotten. She had asked the servant betty to go out and grab some things out of the storehouse. Mary went out so herself and open the door. There was a musket ready to fire when the door was opened. It did, and she was tragically killed. The
Anthem. Ring the what cspans washington journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Join the discussion. All weekend long, American History tv is join our spectrum Cable Partners to showcase the history of portland maine. To learn more, visit cspan. Org citiestour. We continue with our look at the city of portland. Tour of the driving city. Thank you for showing us around. When people hear portland, theland, maine may not be first place that comes to mind. Portland, maine is the First Portland in the United States. Oregon is the one that stole our name. The two people who founded the city both wanted to name it after their hometown. In this city was a part of massachusetts when it started. Its one of the oldest working parishes in the city continuously. The original building was wooden with a steeple on top. Was the church with a Henry Wadsworth longfellow family worship. There is actually a revolutionary or cannonball in the chandelier that they found when they tore down the wooden structure.