Week for congress, especially the house, as they tackle these issues. Ryan mccrimmon, thank you for your time. The committee met this week to look at nominations. Mrs. Callista gingrich is the nominee to become the u. S. Ambassador. Is nominated for counterterrorism. Mr. George edward glasses the nominee to be the u. S. Ambassador to portugal. Is nominated to be the counselor for foreign affairs. I want to welcome the nominees, their families, and this committee congratulates them on their selections. We havee that congressman rooney here supporting mrs. Gingrich. He was the ambassador to the holy see during president bushs term. We are honored to welcome our distinguished colleagues who will introduce our witnesses. And sen. Ron wyden, portman ohio from ohio. Thank you for your courtesy. As senator portman knows, we are in the middle of debating tax reform. I know it is a topic of great interest to many senators, and i am trying to help out chairman hatch. I will make this a filibuste
Reporter john glenn will be remembered for his many roles in american history. He was a warrior in battle. Our first astronaut to orbit the earth. One of our most successful political leaders. He added oldest person in space to his roster of achievements. I cant help but stand here with a sense of deja vu 40yearold of deja vu. He was bo. Reporter he was born in ohio. After the japanese attacks pearl harbor, he signed up for the Aviation Cadet program and became a marine corps pilot. Long before senator john glenn landed in our nations capital, he served in world war ii, flying 59 successful missions. Fire yeefars later, he was read to fly again, this time over north korea. After serving in korea, glenn attended Test Pilot School at the Naval Air Test Center in maryland. Here he gained Early National recognition by setting the transcontinental speed record from los angeles to new york in three hours 23 minutes. By the late 1950s, the u. S. Manned Space Program was just being conceived.
Reporter john glenn will be remembered for his many roles in american history. He was a warrior in battle. Our first astronaut to orbit the earth. One of our most successful political leaders. He added oldest person in space to his roster of achievements. I cant help but stand here with a sense of deja vu 40yearold of deja vu. He was bo. Reporter he was born in ohio. After the japanese attacks pearl harbor, he signed up for the Aviation Cadet program and became a marine corps pilot. Long before senator john glenn landed in our nations capital, he served in world war ii, flying 59 successful missions. Fire yeefars later, he was read to fly again, this time over north korea. After serving in korea, glenn attended Test Pilot School at the Naval Air Test Center in maryland. Here he gained Early National recognition by setting the transcontinental speed record from los angeles to new york in three hours 23 minutes. By the late 1950s, the u. S. Manned Space Program was just being conceived.
Reporter john glenn will be remembered for his many roles in american history. He was a warrior in battle. Our first astronaut to orbit the earth. One of our most successful political leaders. He added oldest person in space to his roster of achievements. I cant help but stand here with a sense of deja vu 40yearold of deja vu. He was bo. Reporter he was born in ohio. After the japanese attacks pearl harbor, he signed up for the Aviation Cadet program and became a marine corps pilot. Long before senator john glenn landed in our nations capital, he served in world war ii, flying 59 successful missions. Fire yeefars later, he was read to fly again, this time over north korea. After serving in korea, glenn attended Test Pilot School at the Naval Air Test Center in maryland. Here he gained Early National recognition by setting the transcontinental speed record from los angeles to new york in three hours 23 minutes. By the late 1950s, the u. S. Manned Space Program was just being conceived.
Issues before the meeting today and we would have gladly pulled this aside. It was not brought to the attention of the chairman. I know you want to Say Something commissioner. Commissioner narasaki i just want to note that the commissioners are all well aware of which state advisory and needs are open recruitment. My staff and i have gone out of our way to help as much as the staff to identify people. I have to say that not every commissioner is doing that, so one of the problems we have, as knows,ioner heriot well we have a large number of stated by three committees who are open and not feel and we need to get them done because as we just heard from the report today, they play a very important role. So staff is doing the best they can to try to get these slates up and running. Awould be happy to entertain waiver of our rules to go back and add some people, if there are some qualified people to some of these slates, but we need to start getting some of these slate done. As the chair ha