Good afternoon. This hearing will come to order. Before i began, i will thank the witnesses for accommodating the scheduled change today. We left the senate floor where senator Johnny Isaacson gave his Farewell Speech and may friend and colleague Ranking Member coons is down there now bidding him farewell on the speech. He and senator isaacson worked a long time together. Its fitting senator is there because in many respects he embodies a lot of the same attributes as senator isaacson in terms of working together on this committee. When he comes in he will interject but in the meantime we will get to your opening statements. We are here to talk about the issue of fraudulent trade marks. As everyone knows trade marks are the back bone of many businesses options. Unfortunately, the United States has seen a surge in fraudulent trademark applications. According to the wall street journal, from 2013 to 2017, the United States patent and Trademark Office testing a surgeon trademark applicati
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Contain thc. We will have the details. Ticket pact. Several car committees band together with california to reduce emissions, even after efforts to ease restrictions on carmakers. President trump calls the action illegal and now the Justice Department is investigating. But first over top story. I think trade war escalates, the job market decelerates, or so the u. S. Jobs reports indicates. At 130,000, below what was expected. Despite those numbers, president tellss top economic visor say uber he believes in the strength of the u. S. Tech sector. We are the world leader in technology, innovation, application, and new business startups. We are the world leader. Technology. Jewel,ogy as our family and we must protect america on that. That is the president s point of view. Joining me to discuss is mike sullivan. , you heard it there. Tech is the crown jewel. Do you agree . Michael i do. Tech is a big sector that is going fast. We are theknow if exclusive world leader on that, but we are do
We will have the details. Ticket pact. Several Car Companies band together with california to reduce emissions, even after efforts to ease restrictions on carmakers. President trump calls the action illegal and now the Justice Department is investigating. But first over top story. I think trade war escalates, the job market decelerates, or so the u. S. Jobs reports indicates. Jobs came in at 130,000, below what was expected. Despite those numbers, President Trumps top Economic Advisor tells uber he believes in the strength of the u. S. Tech sector. Larry we are the world leader in technology, innovation, application, and new business startups. We are the world leader. Technology. Technology is our family jewel, and we must protect america on that. That is the president s point of view. Taylor joining me to discuss is mike sullivan. So, michael, you heard it there. Tech is the crown jewel. Do you agree . Michael i do. Tech is a big sector that is going fast. I dont know if we are the ex
This hearing is call to order. Welcome. 50 years ago, exactly what each week from today, at approximately 9 30 am, 2 astronauts, sitting atop a rocket the size of a navy destroyer, packing 7. 5 Million Pounds of thrust, took off from Kennedy Space center in florida. Roughly 1 Million People had gathered on the ground to watch this historic event. That included half of the u. S. Congress. These 3 astronauts, as one of the newspapers put it at the time, carried with them the hopes of the world. The u. S. 1969. The year before i was born. The astronauts were now im strong, but, and michael collins. And the mission was apollo 11. Armstrong and aldrin went on to make history a little more than 100 hours later. When with more than one third of the earths the earth watching, word listening live. They became the first humans to ever set foot on the moon. The apollo 11 mission would go on to make history again. A little less than 100 hours after that, as the First Mission not only to put men on