This is houston, loud and clear. Buzz, this is houston. Radio check. [beep] clear. Roger. We are getting a picture on the tv. Weve got a good picture. There is a great deal of contrast and it. Down. Tly, it is upside we can make out the fairmont of detail fair amount of detail. Ok, we can verify the position of the opening on the camera. There is a foot. There he is, there is a foot coming down the steps. Ok, neil. We can see you coming down the ladder now. [beep] checked. Just heading back up to the first step. Adequate to get back up. Roger, we copy. So there is a foot on the moon. Stepping down on the moon. The first step, he must be stepping down on the moon at this point. Buzz, this is houston. Shadow photography on the sequence camera. Ok. I am at the foot of the ladder. On the surface, about one or two inches. There appears to be very finegrained as you get close to it, almost like a powder. Board, look at those temperatures. Wow. A little shadowy, but he said expect that, on th
By 2003, 3000 people. You can see the proportion. Side. As the economic a Significant Impact on the country in relation to health care, education, social work. It has a decade of dictatorship. The present government has slow decisionmaking. It is a manifestation of countries new democracy. It is not the most effective system because there is no opposition party. All of the parties have his editions in cabinets and in parliament. You have to get the buyin of everybody for any system for any declaration to put in place. A very adverse dictatorship in dictators usually create regulations and procedures to suit the wishes and needs of the dictator, not of the society. That is the key issue. We will talk about that later. To transform the democratic process, you have to go through a very painful process. You cant just people dont adopt democracy like they can adopt a new fashion or a new dress or any new sport. No, it is a much more fundamental it impacts your core belief in the society, co
The appropriations debate and with regard to Defense Authorization moving ahead. Two other issues we are following, one is Homeland Security grants. Were still working off a system built 10 years ago. We need to move to system 2. 0 or 3. 0 and get more sophisticated about the grant funding. The last one would be veterans. A lot of folks are coming back from the theater about how do you get them employed. The government is famous for silos. Governors have been taking the lead in saying we need to work ,o break down these silos combine data and information so we can best help and assist our veterans. , further Committee Members the governor only session, our chair asked us to look at the issues which we will follow up on. Governor snyder, anything else youd like to add . Thank you for your leadership. Its been great. I want to thank the representatives from the red cross. I appreciate all the wonderful work you do. Thank you for your service and all your colleagues. The guard is somethin
Theks the hush falls over the hush falls over the room. We will start. Our guest today is douglas Congressional Budget Office director. This is his fifth visit to our room. Of the cbo inctor january, two thousand nine and brings an impressive background assignments. His master masters and doctorate in economics are from harvard. Our guest taught at harvard, and was on the staff of the council of economic advisers and the Federal Reserve board and served as the assistant deputy treasury secretary for policy. He was senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program it at bookings. Ritual recitation of mechanical details, as always, we are on the record. Please, no live blogging or tweeting or other means of filing while the breakfast is underway. There is no embargo with the session and, except that our friends at cspan have agreed not to air video of this session until one hour after the breakfast is over to give reporters in the room a chance to file. Finally, if you would like to ask a qu