Distinction. For 24 years, you have honored and respected this institution. You have worked arduously to get things done. As speaker, you have been a leader willing to listen to all sides and address the complex issues of our time. We applaud your commitment and dedication to the house and well be forever grateful for your statesmanship and courtesy. While we may not have always agreed, your door was always open. I could always come to you and discuss problems and issues. I respect your opinion and consider you a friend. I speak for everyone when i say you will be missed in this house. You are a gentleman and a scholar scholar and it has been a pleasure and a privilege to have served with you. I wish you well in your retirement. Thank you. I thank the gentlelady for her kind words. Reclaiming my time, i mentioned before in my Opening Statement that there are a number of rival g. C. L. , Greater Cincinnati league, high schools. There are rivals in all sports and academics and everything
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] next, education secretary arne duncan on the results of a study on standardized testing. Then, house numbers paying tribute to outgoing speaker, john boehner. After that, nancy pelosi on problems in congress, and the importance of women in politics. On monday, education secretary arne duncan participated in a pound discussion on improving the effectiveness of standardized testing. Panelists analyzed data from a new report. This is just over one hour. Hour. I am the executive director and i want to thank you very much for being here this monday morning. We are going to go ahead and get started because i am sorry to say i can say that we will begin wrapping up this conference at about 10 30 p. M. We have been asked to meet with the president on this report at 11 00 oclock. So we will have to end
In the dirt for the living room and study. He did not have a successful postwar experience unfortunately. Thank you very much. I would be glad to sign any books you have upstairs. Thank you. [applause] you are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook. All weekend on American History tv, we are featuring Historic Sites and local historians from cities across america. These are highlights from cspans 2014 cities tour. See the schedule of where we have been an watch video of all our stops. This is a f100 super sabre. The first airplane we built this country that would go supersonic inflight. A miraculous airplane for its time. We brought this airplane here because it had a combat record. This museum was created to house combat airplanes and talk about the combat history of our air force. We have had f100s here before, but not this model. This was the one that did the most service in vietnam. This is the airplane that
We have george historic sites, and interviewed local historians. Coming up, some highlights from our travels. See the schedule on where we have been, and watch video from all of our stops, at www. Cspan. Org local content. This is a rick goddard f100 super sabre. A miraculous airplane for its time it. We brought this airplane here because it had a combat record. Created to house combat airplanes and talk about the combat history of our air force. We have had f1 hundreds here before, but not this model. This was the one that did the most service in vietnam. This is the airplane that had the combat record we wanted to have. It was very important to have this airplane here. Present of course is to airplanes that have actually fought in different theaters of combat. Thats why this airplane was important. When this airplane was first designed, it was designed for an air to air combat airplane. And also in the ground. It had to give ability to do both. It had to give ability to drop nuclear
Basically grew out of the Space Program. Prosthetic limbs. There are a whole range of medical inventions, devices that have come as a direct result of having made vibrant Space Program. People say, well, they are very expensive, the cost of those spinoffs has now been worth it. I guess it is a value judgment. It depends how you measure the value to you get for the los. Offer me Airline Safety is worth a great deal. I am sure for you it is as well, peter. Host what kind of money do we spend annually on the International Space station . Is there a return on that investment . Guest well, squeeze been a decreasing amount of our Gross Domestic Product on a. It is not like it was in the 60s when we were in the space race, if you will, where we spent up to of 4 percent of gdp. Now we are well below 1 . And actually, that has decreased even further. We have no Delivery System for u. S. Astronauts right now. We are using the russian spacecraft to send our people. It will be several years before