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enjoy reading it. i look forward to visiting with you a little bit about it. hopefully creating a little interest because i think it is certainly a worthy read. you write in the prologue, prologue, when politics is broken, we should fix it. you describe religion and religious people as a gift to politics and that religion puts politics in its proper place. as someone who has lived a little bit of politics myself i know it can become all-consuming and it can become god. you tell a story in your 1982 reelection when you were running against harriet would. i almost lost it. your family, and efforts to encourage you and a little despondency about the race, can you recall that story that your daughter, i think she was 15 at the time. my third daughter dede, i never thought that i had the chance to lose the election. i thought that was going to be fairly easy and then maybe three weeks or so before election day, a pole came out and it showed that i was dead even with ....
interest with our pension advance than we would have paid if we simply paid off the interest over time on our existing debt. moreover, we learned after the fact that there were alternatives we could have used to reduce our debt load while avoiding the high fees charged by structured investments. we have fully paid off structured investments. looking back on our experience, it is clear we made a mistake. we should have been more aware of what we were buying. we also want to make clear that we accept that we signed the contract and accept responsibility for that. we should have known better. as we said, ours is a cautionary tale. we want to make two points to those who may find themselves in a situation similar to ours. first, you have other options. you should explore those options and resist the urge to reach for easy, immediate cash. second, had we known what we now know, we d never have taken out the pension bands with their unreasonable fees. we wish we could do ever ....
will it be a major vehicle that nasa s going to use to establish priority? and then what kind of challenges did the agency face that caused a one-year delay to the issue shans of the road map? thes a stro biology road map that again will come out shortly, the reason that it s taken longer is because this science is evolving so rapidly. and how the scientific community looks at it, bringing in all these multiple disciplines that want to have a voice in astrobiology because you might have thought ten years ago if you re a helio physicist nothing you do has anything to do with astrobiology and now you say, wait, i can contribute. we have been trying to get the best science from the scientific community, get it properly reviewed and get it out as soon as we can and so we re happy that it s done and it s about ready to go. how we use those road maps is definitely comes in several different ways. basically, when anybody then proposes to nasa whether it s to do research, to ....
understanding of their hometown economies and hear firsthand from their customers about why they visit the area. so planning government s judgment with their on-the-ground knowledge stands to hurt the economic harm already done to this area. we should see solutions to address these problems in the hands of the folks on the ground who have been working to solve these problems for years. the good samaritan approach i have been broaching, please be able to see both our senators from the state of colorado here who join with us in that concept of being able to address the problem and make sure we re achieving a positive result, and i appreciate that support as one of the possible solutions as opposed to superfund designation. the animas river is a significant source of revenue in southwestern colorado and beyond, especially in the tourism season. this avoidable spill will have a significant impact, a long-term impact, and we re working with state, local and federal officials ....
but was unable to send a ct, representative.epa instead they submitted testimony and we have their testimony before us.instead i ask it be entered into the record. and i also want to welcome to o. the committee senator bennett nd who will be here momentarily ano will be joining us not as a who member of the committee but as t member of the senate who will also be able to participate in this committee hearing. he will be here shortly.mittee h in the interest of time, i wille withhold my opening statement the congressman s district tip includes silverton and north tet where the spill occurred. mr. tipton was elected to represent this area in november 2010.orado wh congressman, your perspective i. invaluable. we appreciate your service and look forward to your statement. welcome, congressman tipton.he thank you, senator gardner. extend my thanks to chairman vitter for convening today s my issues. when it comes to the impacts sse we re going to be feeling in southwestern ....