Id like to welcome nasa administrator, Jim Bridenstine and ken bowersox to the subcommittee this morning. Earlier this year, nasa commemorated the 50th anniversary of the landing on the moon, which remains the single most successful and Famous Mission and nasas history. Just a week before our bill was marked up in subcommittee, nasa submitted a 1. 6 Million Dollar Budget Amendment that intended to advance our humans to the years. This blowup obtained more information from nasa, regarding its plans to return to the moon. Of all of us on the subcommittee, we would like to send the first woman astronaut into the deep space, including to the surface of the moon and we want to do it in a responsible way, from the perspective of safety, cost and likelihood of success. As most of you know, i have been a strong supporter of nasa and we provide nasa more than 22. 3 billion in our house bill. However, i remain extremely concerned about the additional cause to accelerate the mission by four years
All right. This hearing will come to order, without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good afternoon, welcome to todays hearing. The future of electricity delivery, modernizing and securing our nations electricity grid. I want to thank all of our witnesses for joining us here today. This is such an important topic. Im a young guy as you can tell but i have read history about what it was like when we first started building the electric grid over a century ago now. I dont think we could have imagined the technologies that we would use to power or homes and businesses and hospitals and everything today. And i think the challenge is different, you know, back then the real challenge was just extending power itself throughout every corner of our society, and there was a challenge which was that those providing power knew they could make money in the cities in well Populated Areas in places with a lot of business and commercial opportunities, but it was not as p
Economy. He was joined at the white house by epa administrator Andrew Wheeler, interior gets secretary David Bernhardt and Energy Secretary rick perry for this 50 minute event. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. Chief playing] [applause] you very you, thank much. I hope you all had truly an independent wonderful Independence Day weekend, despite the heavy rain, and it was heavy, we had a remarkable salute to america on the national mall. Incredible. [applause] trump standing on the steps of the Great Lincoln memorial and looking out at the big, beautiful crowd, braving back toher all the way the washington monument, we celebrated freedom in all its magnificence while saluting our great military, who is something really special and i will say it was a wonderful day for all americans and based on its tremendous success, we are making the decision, and i think we can say we have made the decision to do it next year and maybe we can say for the foreseeable future. [a
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Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united dates. [ applause ] [ applause ] thank you, thank you very much. It is great to have you and i hope that you all had a truly wonderful Independence Day weekend. In spite of the heavy rain and it was really heavy, he had a remarkable salute to america on the national mall. It was incredible. [ applause ] standing on the steps of the Great Lincoln memorial and looking out on the crowd there were incredible dutiful crowds braving the weather all the way back to the washington monument. We celebrated freedom in all of its magnificence while saluting our great military. This was something really special. I will say this, it was a wonderful day for all americans and based on its tremendous success, we are just making the decision and i think we can say we have made the decision to do it again next year and maybe we can say for the foreseeable future. [ applause ] as we celebrate our nations founding, we are reminded once more of our profound