courtesy of aerospace corporation. amy is a spaceflight historian, author, public speaker and popular space personality not unlike her subject one of the only academically trained young female spaceflight historians writing for a general audience. she runs the beloved blog vintage space posted by discover magazine which is also a youtube channel with over 325,000 subscribers. she is a writer for the discovery speaker and has hosted numerous science related shows among them the unexplained files. she gives talks about spaceflight over for the u.s. and america. please give a warm welcome to the two amy. [applause] bring this down to short level. good morning, everyone and thank you for coming out to listen toy me talk first thing in the morning for some including myself. i will try to live e up to the everything. i want to start with food here has heard of the team. there s a decent number of hands maybe 1515 or 20 or sometimes te first lady astronaut trainees. sorry, there w
blog, vintage space, hosted by discover magazine which is also a youtube channel with over 325,000 subscribers. she is a regular writer for discovery seeker and has hosted numerous space and science related shows. among them, nasa s unexplained files but she gives talk about spaceflights all around the u.s. and america. please give a warm welcome to amy teitel. [applause] guest: bring it down to short level. [laughter] good morning everyone and thank you for coming out to listen to me talk first thing in the morning for some including myself. something weird about hearing your bio read like that. i will try to live up to everything that was just intensely said about me. so, i want to start with a brief conversation of who has heard of the so-called mure andry trent mercury 13? oh there s a decent number of hands, maybe 15 or 20, sometimes called the first lady astronaut training. sorry, there s no way to print my talks i m gonna read this bit off my phone. [laughter] if you
the ayes have it. mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from kansas seek recognition? question the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 3-s of house resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? mr. quigley: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. rush of illinois, pursuant to h.r. 8, i inform the house that mr. rush will vote yes on h.r. 5314. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? mr. speake
this building is quite large and, in fact, when they knew that the dirksen building was not going to be sufficient to house the ever-increasing number of senate staff, they originally thought they would just replicate the dirksen building, build its identical twin on this side to finish the block off but it wasn t going to be large enough. in 1983 when this hart building opened, the u.s. senate staff tripled in size. part of that was the result of vietnam and watergate. of up until then the executive branch provided by most of the information that congress needed. once congress felt it couldn t trust the information the executive branch was giving it, they felt they needed their own separate independent staff. also there are a series of legislative reforms in the 1970s that, for instance, allowed every senator to have at least one staff person on each committee in which that senate is served. that was a big break through. they created minority staff as well as a staff for the
investigation or personal privacy. becauseas reluctant everyone of his federal agencies thought this was a nightmare. you mean people are going to be rummaging through our files? we can t do that. thebill moyers helped newspaper editors especially to marshall their argument about how we really are in favor of open government. one of the fascinating things we found was bill moyers had written a nice signing statement where hedent johnson had this ringing language that this registration spring from our most essential principles. democracy works best when people knows what their government is doing. they must have access to policy and rules. good government functions best in the full light of day. what is great about that is we now know from l.b.j. s own daily schedule that on the telephone johnson called moyers and said cut that out. thiss have to x through ringing declaration about freedom of information and puts in the final version that this legislation springs from one of o