Watch the National Book festival starting at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. Our coverage includes interswruz rouge Bader Ginsburg in her book my own words, david treuer, Sharon Robinson talks about her book, chifld the dream. Rick atkinson and thomas machll. It is saturday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on book tv on cspan2. Up next, a discussion about the apollo spacesuits 50 years after the first u. S. Moon landing. Panelist is including designers. The space museum was the host of this event here in washington, d. C. Weve assembled a panel of speakers, a really fantastic. Some of my favorite people i like to talk to when talking about spacesuits, to recount the making of the apollo spacesuits and to inform us on the lessons that we have learned as we are going back to the next spacesuit in the next thing in spacesuit development, be it going back to the moon, going to an asteroid or going on to mars. In order to save time for tonights program, im going to introduce all four speakers and theyre going t
He serves the ninth district. That includes houston and here to talk about his efforts on impeachment of the president. Good morning to you. Good morning. Its an honor to be with you. Pleased to receive your 40year mug. 40 years of allowing the loyal opposition to have a voice. Thank you. Thank you for joining us. The third attempt at this. What makes this different than the previous two times . Well, its different this time because were now engaged in a bifurcated process. Yesterday there was a vote of condemnation. The president was condemned. Today well have a vote to punish. You see, when you go to court, this is similar to going to court, not the same. The first phase is to determine whether a person is guilty or not. Clearly 240 votes, he was found guilty. Today we have the opportunity to punish. Yesterday there was no fine imposed. The president is not going to lose his job. You and i might lose our jobs if we did such a thing. But the president wont lose his job. So we have to
Come to order. The chair be authorized to declare recess during states hearing, that objection is to order, subcommittee hearing to ask questions and objections so ordered. Good morning and thank you, to todays witnesses for joining the subcommittees hearing today on the state of aviation safety. Recent tragedies at home and abroad have shed new light on what is required to ensure the safety of the traveling public. In addition to the integration of new entrants drones into the National Airspace they also present safety and security challenges. The last congress they of 2018. Bipartisan legislation was setting a Solid Foundation to improve the safety of the nations airports, pilots, crew and passengers. Todays hearing is an opportunity to get the publics perspective on current risks and challenges facing our Aviation System and necessary safety improvement. This testimony will also shape priorities as we continue our investigation into the boeing 737 max and the oversight of the faas i
Come to order. The chair be authorized to declare recess during states hearing, that objection is to order, subcommittee hearing to ask questions and objections so ordered. Good morning and thank you, to todays witnesses for joining the subcommittees hearing today on the state of aviation safety. Recent tragedies at home and abroad have shed new light on what is required to ensure the safety of the traveling public. In addition to the integration of new entrants drones into the National Airspace they also present safety and security challenges. The last congress they of 2018. Bipartisan legislation was setting a Solid Foundation to improve the safety of the nations airports, pilots, crew and passengers. Todays hearing is an opportunity to get the publics perspective on current risks and challenges facing our Aviation System and necessary safety improvement. This testimony will also shape priorities as we continue our investigation into the boeing 737 max and the oversight of the faas i
I recognize myself for opening statement. In five weeks time, the Inspector General released two alerts detailing dangerous conditions at u. S. Customs and Border Protection facilities in texas. According to the ig, at some of the facilities conditions are so bad that they require immediate attention and action. The first alert focused on the detention of single adults and detailed, quote, dangerous holding conditions at the el paso processing center. Unfortunately this report was not a surprise to me and my colleagues, along with vice chair, i visited the same facility a few months ago. Even then, conditions we observed were unacceptable. Women, children, families were either outside waiting to enter the facility, shoved into overcrowded cells, or sitting in hallways. Prior to the visit, we understood hundreds of families were housed outside for days in a tent behind the Border Patrol facility. We expected to meet with them, but to our surprise, the tent was empty. It was not until af