Gentleman from washington. Mr. Hastings thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the bill under consideration. The speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. Mr. Hastings i yield myself as much time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Hastings thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, s. 130 directs the secretary of the interior to convey to the powell recreation district approximately 322 acres of land located in park county, wyoming. The powell recreation district will continue to use the land for public recreational shooting complex as it has since 1980. The bill would have no cost to the taxpayers since the powell recreation district is required to pay for any administrative costs associated with the conveyance. This is a noncontroversial bill, mr. Speaker, and i urge its adoption and i reserve the balan
I rise today to speak on the syria. The real issue is that they gassed more than 426 children and their parents. Those who perished died a horrific, unnecessary deaths. We must come together and docked with the president to create a credible threat of force and thereby deter the future use of chemical weapons. Thatsomewhat optimistic syria is willing to place its chemical weapons under International Control and the solution could possibly bring a peaceful resolution but we must remember that a ron is also watching. Iran is also watching. Will they really stand up against the plan to build Nuclear Weapons . We need to send a message to the world that we mean what we say. We will not allow aside to keep gassing his own people and we will not allow iran to develop a nuclear weapon. Click cspan, we bring Public Affairs events to washington directly to you putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, briefings, conferences offering gavelte dabble to coverage of the
You wrote a letter on july 19, just a couple of months ago, to senator levin you laid out the different options for military force in syria in terms of control of chemical weapons and even in the context of a limited strike. You and im quoting from your letter here on the efficacy of a limited strike. Over time the impact would be the significant degradation of capabilities and an increase in regime desertions. Again a lot of us read this stuff. Im sure in the public sometime theres skepticism but your warnings, for a lot of us, have been taken to heart. What i think a lot of us struggle with is how can a policy rely on the assaad military to secure chemical stockpiles at the same time were bombing that army . And again you addressed this in the past and a lot of us are trying to figure out what changed here to give us that confidence level that we can count on on the assaad regime to continue to control these stockpiles. Well, without getting into the targeting as i tried to articulat
Shooting. His visit coming just hours after he continued to sow more division about with his rhetoric. As he is said to head to el paso next, his visit may be less than welcome there. Well have two people telling me why they dont want the froze come. Also a forceful rebuke of racism. Senator and president ial candidate cory booker just delivering a major address from another site motivated by hate. Emanuel church in charleston. Well play part of what he said a few minutes from now. But we start with President Trump on the ground in ohio. A live look at Air Force One on the tarmac at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Hell be visiting places where shootings took more than 30 lives over the weekend. He will be meeting with victims, First Responders there and then he will will be traveling to el
paso, texas. The leaders of both cities have made it plain that the president s divisive rhetoric is not welcome. Before he left the white house President Trump talked about their concerns. I think
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. The eagle has landed. Now we can see you coming down. A moonshot for all of humanity. One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. That first walk on the moon was over 40 years ago. In this hour well explore five great moon shots of today. Sending astronauts to mars 3d printing a human heart, creating a star on earth, flying from new york to london in an hour and mapping the human brain. Welcome to a gps special, moon shots for the 21st century. It was early december 2014 at cape canaveral. Beautiful morning for a launch in florida. But it felt a little bit like the days of apolo. Go. Bp. Go. Status check. Go delta. At the top of a delta 4 heavy rocket sat orion, the spacecraft nasa has designed for sending human beings to mars. Three, two, one, and liftoff. At dawn the dawn of orion, the new era of American Space exploration. It went farther into face than any