The use of genetically modified organisms on farms and in food products. In august a federal Aviation Administration missed a deadline for writing rules for drones to prevent interference with regular air traffic. This week an faa official testified at a house hearing that the missed deadline means e comprehensive rules wont be made until 2017 at the earliest. This hearing of the subcommittee on aviation is two hours. Good morning, the committee will come to order. Would like to ask unanimous consent that members not on the committee in addition to members not on the subcommittee be permitted to sit with the subcommittee at todays hearing. Theres a great deal of interest and offer testimony and asked questions. Without objection, so ordered. Would like to thank all of you for being here. The United States has been the Global Leader in aviation. Were all very proud of that. The American Leadership in manufacturing, air transportation, Flight Safety and technological innovation is tremen
Rawhide is ok. Next on American History tv a panel of espionage historians talk about julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the spy couple who leaked secrets about the atom bomb to the russians. They discuss the role of antisemitism in their prosecution, and the eventual execution of the treasonous couple that sparked National Debate in the u. S. This 90 minute event to place in the National Archives in washington d. C. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I will get us going. I am the Senior Adviser of the pulitzer center. A harvard Professor Emeritus im happy to add, and a former journalist for cbs and nbc. Our program focuses on the rosenbergs and the role they played in soviet espionage in the United States during the cold war. It is a heck of a story. To start with. Im sure you are all here because you are involved in it emotionally or intellectually. It is a story that goes back to the 1930s when young people joined the communist party in the United States, and world war ii came along, and t
They formed that bond with him and i think that carried him through. It kept him from getting a lot more trouble in places where other president s would have faced a lot rougher time. Rawhide is ok. Up next, a panel of espionage historians talk about julius and Ethel Rosenberg. A spy couple who leaked secrets of the atom bomb. The role of antisemitism in their prosecution, and the eventual execution of the treasonous couple that sparked National Debate in the u. S. This 90 minute event to place in the National Archives in washington dc. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I will get us going. I am the Senior Adviser of the pulitzer center. A harvard professor emeritus, im happy to add, and a former journalist for cbs and nbc. Our program focuses on the rosenbergs and the role they played in soviet espionage in the United States during the cold war. It is a heck of a story. To start with. Im sure you are all here because you are involved in it, emotionally or intellectually. It is a stor
So you mentioned the Supreme Court case. I want to get in a minute for bend the cost curve which seems to be occurring already, but as result of obamacare, made as a result of other things. But could you give the audience here and the students a quick summary of whats at stake in the burwell case in these five words, and what you think might happen if the Supreme Court comes in and says you can have these exchange is funded the way they are funded. Thats actually for words established by the states. Those are the keywords, and the plaintiffs have put forward an argument that suggests that only states that set up their own help exchanges are entitled to subsidies for those constituents. And i would be 17 states. So in 34 states if the plaintiff prevails in this case the subsidies, which make insurance affordable for now about 8 Million People who have signed up for coverage would cease to exist. But thats just step one. The subsidies would go away. The Affordable Care act all ready has
Talking about both people accused on the base of solid evidence of providing information in the making of atomic weapons from the United States to the soviet union. They were americans who are doing what they thought was right. It started in early 1950, when one of the most important soviet spies, a physicist, was arrested and fbi officials learned that he had passed information to moscow by courier, a courier named harry gold. Under interrogation gold identified David Greenglass as his contact. Greenglass identified Julius Rosenberg as the leader of a key spy ring. In june of 1950, julius and his wife ethel were arrested. Both of them charged with conspiracy to commit espionage under the espionage act of 1917. In march of 1951 they were convicted. In june of 1953 they were executed. Since that time, there has been new information produced, and we will talk about some of the new information this evening. What i would like to do now is quickly get into the introduction of the people who