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throughnd went on progressively more responsible positions to become chief of staff of the army and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. few men have played such a significant role and the developments leading to our current involvement in vietnam. for the last five years, general taylor has been associated intimately with the making of vietnamese policy decisions. as personal military representative of president kennedy and 1961 and 1962, as chairman of the joint chief of staff, and as our ambassador to south vietnam in 1964 and 1965. he is now special consultant to the president, and accompanied him to the recent conference in honolulu. general taylor, we are very pleased to have you. we have had you often before and are very familiar with you. we welcome you to make whatever statement you choose. mr. chairman and gentlemen, i want to thank you mr. chairman and the members of the committee for your willingness to hear my views on the situation in south vietnam. i am ....
levin talks about trade policy. the national governors association closed out its annual winter meeting today with a discussion that included senators mark warner, lamar alexander and joe mansion, all former governors. they talked about the relationship between states and the federal government. this is an hour 20 minutes. governors, i think we re ready to begin. welcome, one and all. it s good to see you here this morning. we had a great opportunity to gather at the white house last night and be hosted by the president and the vice president and the first and second ladies. it was great to see you all. i think we all enjoyed ourselves and had a good chance to just kind of be in a casual environment. although, we were in black tie. and associate one with another. good to see you this morning. we enjoyed last evening. as i call the meeting to order, we welcome you all. one thing that ....
meaning. while trying to enhance competition in the set-top box market, the item shoots miles beyond that narrow frame on its very first page redefining statutory terms referencing to hardware such as navigation device, interactive communication equipment and other equipment to mean hardware or software including apps. i don t know how much clearer the terms device or equipment could be in their intent to reference tangible, physical hardware. if those words don t work to restrict the commission, are there any that could? i don t think that anyone here believes for a second that stellar could have made it out of a single congressal committee if the members knew it would be interpreted to allow the fcc to force them to stream all of their content for free to any app developer willing to jump through a few hoops. getting back to the original question, why this proposal? the rational stated is to achieve parity among competing interfaces and first glance anyone can see tha ....
calcification galore and the enormity of the situation needs to be perhaps graphically shared. under the city of albany, the capital of new york, which is part of the 20th congressional district i represent, happens to lie 317 miles of pipe. drinking water infrastructure. you know, you could travel from albany, new york, to baltimore, maryland, that s the sort of linear responsibility associated with that system. should we anticipate rightfully, that there may be some bumps along the road of that 317 mile stretch in any given year? absolutely. let s think of it in those sorts of terms, so that we can have a better understanding and awareness of an aged infrastructure, which by the way is also accompanied by a discontinued inventory in many cases. valves that are required are no longer manufactured. and so we have to come up with some innovative response when there is a break. and while we ve talked a lot about capital improvements, capital infrastructure, physical infra ....