heavens and once again imagine the possibilities waiting in those big, beautiful stars. if we dare to dream big, and that is what our country is doing again we are dreaming big. this is a giant step towards the aspiring future, and reclaiming america s proud destiny in space. space has so much to do with 70 other applications, including a military application. we are the leader and we will stay the leader, and we will increase it in many fold. i want to invite vice president pence to say a few words. he has been leading this for me, and i appreciate it. vice president pence: thank you for your leadership and the honor to be here today. in my capacity as chairman of
ronald reagan, a lot of smart people. congressman, talking before cable, when i had hair. this is ancient history. a long time ago. giving you a history lesson now. another topic really important. one of the reasons a lot of people think north carolina carolina in particular, american manufacturing job wages are stagnant is because of china? well, my interest in china you may know, i introduced a bill with senator cornyn. this is to target those businesses who have been sought by the chinese to acquire them that have a direct relationship to our military and our national security. the chinese have been on an aggressive effort to acquire technology companies. semiconductor companies, acquired 43 of he s companies in the last three years. 20 of which from the united states. they have a military application. so we want greater oversight so china or any other country cannot acquire these businesses that are, have affiliation with our military. with our supply chain of the departm
i had to find out. i spoke with my supervisor mike about my visit to agi and the discovery of crack 99. the two things we decided on was that, one, we were going to initiate an undercover operation and, two, we re going to need to call dave hall. dave had a prooub track record. i knew that dave understood the complexities of these times of investigations and based on the fact that it was sensitive technology. one of the concerns we had at the beginning of the investigation was weather this person was working for the chinese government. generally speaking they are considered to be an adversary of the united states and this software had direct military application and it gives us an advantage strategically in dealing with adversaries. figuring out who was behind it was a little bit like finding a needle in a haystack, operating in an nipplety on the internet makes it a lot easier to commit these crimes. agi had done a little bit of