Held a hearing on u. S. Military space assets and potential National Security threats. Hyten raymond be, commander of the air force Space Command, was among those testifying. This is an hour and 15 minutes. [inaudible] fiscal year 2018 priorities and posture of the National Security Space Enterprise. Were honored to have the panel of expert witnesses who are leaders in our National Security Space Program to join us here today. And before i introduce them though, i want to take a momento to acknowledge that while i cant imagine there being a better place to work than for the Strategic Forces subcommittee on the House Armed Services committee, apparently somebody thinks theres a better job on washington d. C. We, therell be the thisll be the last hearing that steve will be this his current position. Hes leaving us to go to work for the secretary of defense, be the assistant secretary of defense for space policy x. Be our loss the secretarys gain. So were going to miss him. Hes been with
Negotiations. It might decide at the margin not to make certain last mile investments in its network. I guess another cost i add, i think i offered eight of them through the paper, i wont take you through eight now, but another one im worried about unraveling content agreements between content providers and i is sps. Netflix and comcast entered into an agreement. If netflix looks out the window and sees cogent or level three by regulatory assistance can get a better deal, then you would accept a voluntary agreement. Why is that upsetting . Theres something efficient about those doing a deal. It was cost in place where should be and do my put downward pressure on the price broadband access. If youre telling and isp youre telling and i speedily we can raise money is on the backs of its customers a can make money off transit, cant make money off service. Youre basically putting upward pricing pressure on access races for consumers. Let me go back to you. Say although more about, you are p
Himself a combat veteran, i recognize the gentleman from colorado, mr. Coffman. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Coffman as a gulf war and iraq war veteran, im grateful for your leadership on the House Committee on veterans affairs. H r. 4 61, the Gulf War Health Research Reform act of 2014, which i sponsored along with Ranking Member kirk patic right hand and full committee Ranking Member michaud restores the infence of the Research Advisory committee on gulf war illnesses to perform the role it has historically played. As intebbeded by congress. To improve the lives of gulf war veterans. This bill is necessary because some career v. A. Staff have been trying to revive the discredited 1990s fiction that nothing special happened to gulf war Veterans Health and that the problems experienced by gulf war veterans are, quote, what happens after every war, unquote. Due to psychological stress factor. Because there is no Scientific Evidence for this position, v. A. St
There were people able to preregister when they were 17 so they could vote at 18. If you ask the vast majority, did they like the early vote period, did they like the right to exercise their constitutional privilege, the answer would be resoundingly yes. And professor raskin, youve heard someone characterize the udall amendment were considering today as an effort to repeal the First Amendment. Now, i dont believe thats accurate, but i hear it in paid ads and others and i guess if some of the billionaires are going to profit by this pay for that enough time advertisements were americans may believe it. Youre a constitutional school lore. If this proposed constitutional amendment were to be ratified would it repeal the First Amendment . Of course not. The first thing we have to remark is that the Citizens United case did not endow a single individual with any right to speak that he or did did not have. All of the employees of the corporation, all of the members of the board, all of the e
As your commanderinchief, i know you will. May god bless you. May god bless our men and women in uniform, and may god bless the United States of america. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] on wednesday, the president will be in brussels. Expected to meet with the ukrainian president elect. Wednesday evening, president obama will attend the g7 summit. Meetings inre g7 brussels. Inends his trip friday normandy, where he will attend sir moneys along with european leaders and russian president Vladimir Putin to mark the 70th anniversary of the dday invasion of world war ii. Along with National Security concerns, and the u. S. Policy in , the representative spoke for about 30 minutes. [applause] thanks. I appreciate the invitation to be with you all today. Benefitednly have from the heritage foundations insights on National Security since i was a young hill staff are working on defense issues in the ear