The Second World War cost 15 million lives. 2,000 of them u. S. Coast guardsmen who died fighting for our freedom. Two decades later their services would be called upon again in a place called vietnam. Their unwavering esprit de corps would carry them through ten years of war. Many would serve in the struggle for democracy in vietnam. One was paul scotty from new york. You came in the coast guard in 1965. And the buildup started in march when i joined the coast guard, i wanted to go to vietnam and i thought the coast guard would be a way to get there. But just before he shipped out he fell in love. I was go going to get ready for the war. I was getting in shape, chasing girls with one exception. An english teacher i had met wanted me to go out with this girl. So i figured id date her, take her out and that would be the end of that. Well, 32 days later i married her. We went off to reno and then i left for vietnam. We were together for 14 days. He arrived in country on 1 may 1967. As a
The Second World War cost 15 million lives. 2,000 of them u. S. Coast guardsmen who died fighting for our freedom. Two decades later their services would be called upon again in a place called vietnam. Their unwavering esprit de corps would carry them through ten years of war. Many would serve in the struggle for democracy in vietnam. One was paul scotty from new york. You came in the coast guard in 1965. And the buildup started in march when i joined the coast guard, i wanted to go to vietnam and i thought the coast guard would be a way to get there. But just before he shipped out he fell in love. I was go going to get ready for the war. I was getting in shape, chasing girls with one exception. An english teacher i had met wanted me to go out with this girl. So i figured id date her, take her out and that would be the end of that. Well, 32 days later i married her. We went off to reno and then i left for vietnam. We were together for 14 days. He arrived in country on 1 may 1967. As a
The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess in the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled semiannual testimony on the Federal Reserve supervision and regulation of Financial System. I now recognize myself for three minutes to give an opening statement. As we all know the dodd frank act vastly increased the powers of the fed way beyond has traditional Monetary Policy responsibilities. The act has made the fed omnipotent but cannot make it omniscient. No act can. Through the exercise of socalled heightened prudential standards the fed can control the largest Financial Institutions in our economy. Former fed governor kevin warsh recently wrote Central Bank Power is permissible in a democracy only when its scope limited, its track record strong and accountable assured. None of that do we observe today. Where his feds omnipotents has taken us . The big banks are bigger, Economic Growth lags and theres scant evidence our economy i
Accountable. This hearing is about three hours. [ room noise ]. The committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess in the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled semiannual testimony on the Federal Reserve supervision and regulation of Financial System. I now recognize myself for three minutes to give an opening statement. As we all know the dodd frank act vastly increased the powers of the fed way beyond has traditional Monetary Policy responsibilities. The act has made the fed omnipotent but cannot make it omniscient. No act can. Through the exercise of socalled heightened prudential standards the fed can control the largest Financial Institutions in our economy. Former fed governor kevin warsh recently wrote Central Bank Power is permissible in a democracy only when its scope limited, its track record strong and accountable assured. None of that do we observe today. Where his feds omnipotents has taken us . The big banks are bigg
Epa is only involved in actually a small percentage of those. Why . Because the authority to look at these is spread among a number of agencies, and epa can you break it down so that we have an idea of what the problem really is with some of these mines that may affect the health and welfare of our communities . We can do our best but i can tell you that the ones we follow are the ones on the National Priorities list and the ones where we work with states to address what we consider to be an imminent threat or a need for emergency response. The upper animus was in that category. I would like to see if you can answer some of this for the whole committee. I am glad mr. Bishop is worried about fish and wildlife and the endangered species. Thats something that is near and dear to a lot of us. With that, your budgeting. How much budget do you require to be able to do a job to maybe look at avoiding what happened at las animus . We have an entiermevironmentd that allows us to tap for the res