Generally my pleasure to welcome you to the subdmooit committee. Were looking forward to hearing your testimony. Mr. Secretary, your responsibilities are many. Your departments responsible for ensure properly payments of medicare and medicaid dollars for overseeing buy kbroe medical research that could save millions of lives, for helping families break the cycle of poverty and protecting our nation against bioterror and pandemic events. The cuts promodes this month are extensive and span the reach of your agency. I believe theres always fat that can be trimmed and priorities that can be reordered, but i will ask you some questions this morning about whether this budget leaves america sufficiently prepared to respond to a pan demmic, a new disease like zika or bioterrorism event. Ill ask questions about how youll fulfill your mission of enhancing the health and wellbeing of americans at these levels of funding and ill ask how you will work to solve some of the challenges in your agency
History, what happened with nasa on this date . September 8, 1967, the surveyor 5 launched, september 8, 1983, satcom 7 launched. September 8th, sts 106 launched. Today, september 8, 2016, Margot Lee Shetterly Lee Shetterly publicly Lee Shetterly publicly launches her book story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race. [applause] i believe you know Margot Lee Shetterly. They couldnt wait to see her again. She was born and raised in virginia, graduated the university of virginia with a degree in finance, generous independent researcher, entrepreneur and cocreator of english language magazine with her husband aaron, margo is daughter of one of the first nasa black mail engineers, grew up among many figures, the founder of Alfred P Sloan Foundation Fellow and recipient of the Virginia Foundation of humanities grant for her research into the history of women, lives in charlottesville, virginia. Anonymous is history, usually a woman. Let me say that again. Anonymous
To say since im not a can you synopsize your life in two sentences . I wanted you to just in some very brief way tell the audience what this book covers, and then i will delve in and well start through going into specifics, and then build from there. Well, thank you very much. First of all, its a great pleasure to be here with you, and to be here at the public library. So thank you very much. Youre welcome. I guess what i would say, my autobiography is really the strand of my life story because i was born in 1933 in the depression. My father was a Life Insurance salesman with i was the second of two boys in atlanta, but nobody was buying Life Insurance. So my father left atlanta, went to southwest georgia, and established the first black funeral home in blakely, georgia. But beyond that my father was the social activist because this is during the period of legally enforced segregation. And in southwest georgia in those years for blacks was not a very happy place, but my father was an a
Wondered what would happen, was a very positive experience. What about boston at that sometime. Yes. Boston was mixed. By and large, going to boston i had read about paul revere and his ride some lexington and the concord battles and the Boston Tea Party and also crispus attus was the first black to die in the revolutionary war. So i went to see the memorial for hem on the boston common. So i soaked up the hoyt the history of boston, so very positive. So my experience in boston really was very positive, but later in the late 50s the year i entered medical school was the year brown versus board of occasion, the Supreme Court decision, and so as this was implemented around the country, problems of not only in the south but in the north as well. And boston was one of those areas. So, my experience in boston was somewhat different from blacks who went to boston in the late 50s. They found with the political shenanigans of hicks i still remember him from south boston, running to be mayor, b
It is the heart of gold that come from the people in this beautifully picturesque and again amazing place. Its a great honor to celebrate talkeetnas centennial today here in the United States senate. And with that, mr. President , i yield the floor. Gram mr. President . The presiding officer the mr. Graham mr. President . The presiding officer the senator South Carolina Program Program i wish i could go. I wish to see that before i die. In three minutes the final game of the championship round of the College World series takes place. Coastal carolina is playing the university of arizona. Coastal carolina is a very relatively small school in myrtle beach. Dustin johnson is a graduate. This Baseball Team is inspiring. Arizona and Coastal Carolina have had a great to games. Tonight is the rubber match, winner take all. I dont know whats going to happen, if Coastal Carolina falls short, youve won in every way you can win. It has been the most exciting world series i can remember. South car