We have a scheduler, one person who handles everything, both in the district and in d. C. Shes based here in d. C. And we have a chief of staff, serves as legislator director. We have a good team, you make adjustments officer the course of months and years. And responsibilities, people come and go with life events, and thats the best way to stay organized is having a good team. How do you interact with Republican Leadership on a daily basis . Well, i you probably i would say i interact with my colleagues most on the floor. When were there for votes. Thats what happens most often. There may be events in the evening or youre able to cross paths with a particular member. At times you might be sitting in a dinner for two hours, next to a colleague. Someone maybe that youre first time youre having a conversation with them. So i would say over the course of a routine, though, here, you most frequently interact with leadership and fellow rank and file members when youre on the floor. When you
Brotherinlaw jack who stayed in the military for 22 years after vietnam, it was a good place for him to be. But for my other brotherinlaw, my wifes brother who is a helicopter pilot in the vietnam. He got out after his tour. And it was very, very challenging for him to try to blend in and forget, you know, to pretend he wasnt a vietnam veteran. Which at that time, so many who had been to vietnam had to do. It was a challenging time. And our nation treated our veterans in a shameful manner. It was a difficult time for our country and our veterans. It was a hard time for the army, i know. Very difficult time for our marines. But we learned, i think, the reason you see over 40,000 military nonprofits out there today, and there are over 40,000 that have popped up in the last 14 years. And i think one of those, one of the reasons is because people are aware of what happened in the late 60s and early 70s to mid70s to when our Vietnam Veterans were treated poorly. And like me, many of them wa
Thank you for being here today. Of the president strategies and had involvement with missiledefense. On the secretary defense of the obama administration. Yorty met the director of the missiledefense program. Tom will talk about missiledefense 2020 and next steps. Laura is a Senior Scientist in the program. Aboutso has a book missiledefense and will speak to that and a number of issues, i think. Our third panelist is a major general, retired friend, and his last posting was the director of strategy for norad and nor calm. He headed up several commands were already missile and air defense, and was director of at one point. I want to thank you for coming and those unable to be here due to a scheduling conflict. To kick is words often than we will turn to the panelists, indeed as mentioned earlier, the Trump Administration is kicking off a major review of the missiledefense policy. If we go back to the 2010 missile review conducted by the last administration, it is defensethat it placed i
Remarkable success that he enjoyed in the context of his democratic his campaign for the democratic nomination for president. Senator sanders competed in every state across the country. And earned more than 10 million votes for his campaign. Thats a remarkable accomplishment and the president complimented him and congratulated him on his success. I think you could describe the conversation as friendly conversation. That was focused on the future. Part of that future conversation was about the importance of the upcoming general election. Youve heard the president say on a number of occasions how important it is to him personally that he be succeeded in office by a president who is committed to building on the remarkable progress that our country has made over the last 7 1 2 years. So that certainly was an important part of the conversation. But it went beyond that. There also was a conversation about the longterm future of the Democratic Party. And senator Sanders Campaign enjoyed so mu
Then youre really dealing in a vacuum. This is what happened with the proposed dishwasher rule. These are technical matters. Its very important that not only manufacturers republican gauged early but all stake holders. This asrac process does do that. But the asrac process is useful once a decision has been made that will will be a new standard. What were talking about is a change in the process for determining whether there should be a new standard. If there is going to be one, consensus is always the best. We feel we will do better as the advocates feel given a give and take putting data on the table and not wondering where the data came from. Before we go any further i really want you guys to get the dishwasher rule right. Im the dishwasher at my house and if the dish washers dont clean ive got a real problem. Its going to be double work for me. Mr. Cosgrove, go ahead. I certainly agree with what my colleague says. I think what ive heard is listening to this conversation is at least