Part of a twoday symposium hosted by the National World war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri. I would like to introduce our next speaker of the day, dr. An associate, professor of history at the United States army command and general Staff College at Fort Leavenworth kansas. Prior to this position, he was an active duty marine Corps Officer and retired in 2009 as a Lieutenant Colonel after 22 years of service. Today, we have the honor to welcome his welcome him for his talk that will explain how forces battled for air superiority during world war i. Listen truly for how he will how skyfought battles lead to the modern development of the concept of total war. Welcomeoin me in a warm for dr. John curatola. Thank you. I appreciate the introduction. If you notice when she went down my biography, im a marine officer who works at an army school who studies airpower, so i have kind of a schizophrenic background on that. Today, we will look at airpower as it pertains to 1916. Fir
Attorneys, assists members with all aspects of tax legislation. This panel is about 45 minutes. So our first panel is going to examine portions of the history of the joint committee on taxation. And our first speaker is george yin and his paper deals with the joint committees role in the codification of the tax laws. George . Thank you very much, and thanks to the u. S. Capital and Historical Society for sponsoring the event and to the joint committee, tom and the rest of the staff per organizing it and inviting me to participate. Its wonderful to see so many familiar faces and join in celebrating the 90th anniversary of this great institution. I thought i would use my time to mention just a few of the surprises i have discovered in researching the history of the joint committee. Truth be told, virtually everything ive learned has been very interesting, if not surprising. In addition to satisfying our curiosities, the story of the joint committee is important because the staff of this