Testified before a Senate Armed Services committee recently. He was asked about drug interdiction efforts, the humanitarian situation in venezuela, russias influence in the region and a number of other topics. Hey, the welcome, everybody. The emerging threat and capabilities subcommittee meets today to receive testimony from admiral craig faller, commander of u. S. Southern command or as we call it southcom. Our focus on the security situation in this theater as well as southcoms efforts to implement the National Defense strategy. Welcome to the admiral. Thank you very much for being here, sir. I appreciate it. Todays hearing is a continuation of the subcommittees efforts to provide oversight over National Defense strategy implementation. This is an important component of our efforts to ensure our militarys appropriately resourced, equipped and postured to dividend the nation against a growing array of threats. While much attention has been on countering china and russia in their tradi
Speaker. As chairwoman of the committee on science, space, and technology, its an honor to stand before you today to celebrate the 50th anniversary of apollo 11. The morning of july 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and buzz aldrin lifted ff from nasas cape kennedy. That day, millions watched in 11 s nasa launched Apollo Saturn 9 rocket to accomplish the goals set by president kennedy less than 10 years earlier, to land the man on the moon before the end of the decade. As president kennedy said in his speech at Rice University in september, 1962, 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. There is no better explanation that captures the american spirit. We choose to take joint leaps. We choose to know the unknown. We choose to lead into the future. On july 20, 1960, just four days after the launch, the world listened and watched as the first steps were taken on the moon. Again, hundreds of millions of
It is ready to be rolled out as soon as apollo 11 is on its way for a launch. It will be rolled out to launch within two months to me still try to meet president kennedys goal of landing on the moon in this decade. If apollo 11 goes as well as planned, they will take an extra couple of months to get a good reading on the rocks and so forth that are brought back. And then they will send apollo 12. We have an announcement coming up from Launch Control. This is apollo seven Launch Control. In less than 16 minutes, planned liftoff of the vehicle. All going well at this time. The astronauts have had a chance to rest over the last few minutes. They havent been busy with procedures with the spacecraft. We have been performing final checks on the guidance system. Once we get down to the three minute 10 second mark, we will go on an automatic sequence. All aspects from there on down will be automatic, run by the ground master computer here in the firing room. This will lead up to the 8. 9 minut
Remarks from 2020 president ial democratic candidate Bernie Sanders and spoke about his medicare for all proposal yesterday at George Washington yesterday. This is about 45 minutes. Cheers and applause] senator sanders lets make a political revolution. [cheers and applause] senator sanders let me thank all of you for being here this afternoon to discuss one of the country,ses facing our crisis that is on the minds of people all across the nation and let me thank the dozens of organizations throughout america who have supported my medicare for all bill and let me thank the tens of thousands ofdom tors and nurses and other Health Care Professionals who understand that we cannot continue with the current dysfunctional Health Care System and let me thank the 14 cosponsors of my legislation in the senate and the over 100 cosponsors of similar legislation in the house. And mostly, let me take this opportunity to thank the American People, who increasingly understand that health care is a hum
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