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My name is john charles. I will be your moderator. I retired from nasa a year and a half ago. I have been living at my childhood families, playing here with the artifacts. It gives me the opportunity to sit on the stage with heroes of the apollo era. People who did the work i only dreamed of doing. We have with those two individuals who worked during the Lunar Service service exploration activities. That was the work done on the moon. Its the reason for the apollo moon missions. Not just to have a big rocket or their landing. The objective was to get to the moon and to the moon and do something useful. Arthur schmidt, who goes by larry, who was involved in the operations activities. Laterally on the missions, helping navigate the lunar rover. When dell mandel. He is an icon of lunar science as far as the early days. He came out here in 1963 and it was here for the lunar landings. Mendell has been responsible for understanding the l ....
Smithsonian museums, including the inkwell used by president lincoln to sign the emancipation proclamation. This is just under one hour. The committee will come to order. David skorton, i would like to welcome you to todays hearing. I appreciate you joining us this morning to share your vision for the future of the smithsonian and to discuss your Budget Priorities for the fiscal year 2017. The members and staff are also grateful you brought some interesting historical items for show and tell. It is going to one of the highlights of our hearing season. You clearly have one of the most interesting jobs in town. I think most of us around this table would love to trade places with you, but something tells me it would not be in the best interests of the smithsonian. So we will all keep our jobs. The smithsonians mission is to increase the diffusion of knowledge. As the 13th secretary of the smithsonian, you are interested with the c ....
Uguay are being asked to shoulder a heavy burden in responsibility, and there are real concerns about the Administration Setting aside intelligence assessments to deceive countries about the threat posed by the militants they are being asked to take in. That was certainly a finding of this committee, our investigation into the release of six detainees to uruguay in december, 2014. I want to thank mr. Jeff duncan of south carolina, the chairman of our subcommittee. The focus is on the western hemisphere. Ate Department Official overseeing guantanamo at the time wrote to the president of uruguay that there was no information about these six that that no information that they were involved in conducting or facilitating terrorist activities against the United States or its partners or allies. No information . The ....
The construction is now nearly complete. Construction of the African American museum and the proposed repairs to the national air and space museum are illustrative of the very real challenges the subcommittee faces. Both increasing demand for and shrinking supply of federal dollars to address many legitimate priorities. For this reason, it is essential that the smithsonian outlined and clearly communicate its highest and greatest priorities. Every member of the subcommittee would like to support the 10 increase for funding for the smithsonian. But, given the incredible demands, it is probably not realistic. Difficult funding decisions will have to be made. The subcommittee will do its very best to adjust the smithsonians most urgent priorities. I look forward to your testimony and continuing to Work Together. In closing, i want to commend you for the smithsonians efforts to ....
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