Members of congress, distinguished guests colleagues from the department of defense, past and present. Members of the Vietnam Commemoration Advisory Committee the, thank you for being here today. Thank you to the organizers an commemorative partners of this important event and thousands like it across the country and the entire vietnam commemoration effort. Most importantly, thank you to the vietnam era veterans and their families who join us. You honor us with your presence. In a year of anniversaries for this years marks the 150th anniversary of the end of our civil war, the 70th anniversary of the end ever world war ii, the 65th anniversary of the start of korean war, today we gather to remember the vietnam war and to honor those who served in it. We remember the 50th anniversary of president johnsons executive order establishing the Vietnam Service ribbon and we honor our 7. 2 million living vietnam era veterans. Fair fallen comrades in arms including those still unaccounted for an
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Nasa peerreviewed research is needed. You asked about critical areas of research. The life and physical sciences survey which was completed in 2011 at Congress Request summarized the sequence 6 summarized an sequenced 65 high priority tasks. Furthermore, the study created two research plans. One with the goal of building a Research Enterprise and the other with a goal of a Human Mission to mars. More about those goals in a moment. You asked about priorities. Prioritizing i. S. S. Research isnt a new concept. In fact, we been working on that problem for close to 15 years. But the key question for prioritization isnt scientific. Its programmatic. It is Something Like this. Shall Discovery Research or fundamental research or Translational Research take precedence in the mature years of the i. S. S. Program . The answer to that question has to be provided by government. Once those programmatic priorities are sequenced can we prioritize the research . Absolutely. The l. P. S. Survey provide
Federal prisons. Thats live tuesday at 10 00 eastern here on c span 3. Millennials and their role in todays economy was the topic of a republican policy meeting on capitol hill. The task force is chaired by Elise Stefanik who at the age of 31 is the youngest member of congress. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. The House Republican policy meeting task force on millennials will now come to order. The committee is meeting today to discuss the essential role of mill epials in todays economy. And though were meeting on that important topic, couldnt start todays hearing without mentioning that our hearts and minds are with the people of paris today as they deal with the horrible tragedy over the weekend. We want them to know that we hurt as they hurt. And we all understand together that we have to be united in standing up to these terrorist thugs threatening our waive rife and ultimately douefeating them. I will recognize myself for an opening statement. I want to thank everyone for com
I think that the court has upheld such broad delegations that principle is simple a term it invokes. It doesnt have meaningful bite. Where i think the courts do Police Delegation is in terms of how they read statutes. In terms of whether or not its sub constitutional. Its statutory interpretation and Administrative Law when they subject something to more search and e review and require reasoned explanation thats in part to make up for the lack of the congressional delegation. And thats where i think the courts should play a role because thats where the most effective. Im very sympathetic to your vision of the collective congress as a matter of policy, but i heard you to be making not just a policy argument, but also an argument from constitutional structure. And i wonder what do you make of the fact that the constitution isnt more clear about this and that it does speak about the speaker of the house and the president of the senate. And it does speak of officers of these houses and giv