Good afternoon. Im chris miller, acting secretary of defense and im here today to update you on president trumps plan to bring the wars in afghanistan and iraq to a successful and responsible conclusion and to bring our brave Service Members home. From kabul to kandahar and fallujah. Hundreds of thousands of americas sons and daughters who answered the call to serve in our Armed Services have brought us to this point. Us to this point. Their efforts and sacrifice will go down in history as showing the strength, commitment of a force that is unlike any the world has ever seen. Just last night, i joined Vice President pence and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to have the soldiers who perished in the middle east. This was a somber and hum bling moment that reminded us of the tremendous sacrifices of the men and women of the United States military of our Armed Services take an oath to defend the constitution of the United States. They serve not for personal gain but for the protectio
The honorable, the chief justice and the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Oh yea oh yea oh yea, all persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States to give their attention with the court is sitting, god save the United States and this honorable court. We will hear arguments first this morning in 19 for 65, the lot below and the others versus the state of washington,. Mr. Chief justice and appease this court, the question in these cases is straightforward to the states have the power to control through law how an elector may vote, they do not, then ordinary expected meaning of the words of the constitution against the backlog of the framers deliberation make it clear that the state has no such power in what is also clear, washington is not like the constitution design, ask this court to read the words elector as agents or maybe better minion and it is clear that the board vote elector is not the constant meaning there vot
Georges county executive was named the chair of youth for reagan. Hes looking quite youthful today, i might add. He supported then governor reagan during the president ial primary. Now, young larry hogan would 1980 as a delegate in the republican convention. We have a lot of reagan devote ease join us at the institute. I think Governor Hogan may rank above them all. You see, he did not just support in 1980,agan in 1976, 1984, he managed to support him in 2020 as well. I know you consider president reagan your political hero, governor, but that, sir, thats real dedication. By the way, you didnt have to do that just to be invited here today. Ladies and gentlemen, i want to thank you for joining us. We are honored to welcome you virtually to the reagan our center for civics, education and opportunity. We work at the nexus of these three pillars, answering ansident reagans call for informed patriotism to ensure a prosperous future for america. The governor knows quite a bit about this call
Lets kick it off with kathy. What an amazing last couple of days. I cant tell you how wonderful it was to see the crew come to the hatch. We have been talking about all of the firsts. His mission was a dream for us to one day be able to have crew Transportation Services to the International Space station, and today that dream came a reality. A huge step for us. Folks, a huge team of not only spacex folks but nasa folks and our federal agency dod come a ton of people made this happen today. It was not easy. If you think about all the things this team had to go through, they would have said this is too much, but it wasnt. This team has done a phenomenal job. Do crew on orbit is going to phenomenal things over the next six months and we are going to keep doing Crew Missions and it is the start of a new era. Am very proud of the nasa, and for stepping out and doing this. Thank you. Will go next to mark. You forwant to thank your leadership in making this happen. It is a terrific day for na
Now come a heang on the Health Concerns of the veterans exposed to hazardous checals. While deployed at the airbase in his pakistan known as k2. A Veterans Affairs Department Official told the subcommittee that more Scientific Data is needed before providing health care and disability benefits to those that served at the base between 2001 and 2005. This is about 90 minutes. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to todays hybrid hearing of the National Security subcommittee. On the committee of oveight and government reform. Pursuant t the hse rule, some members will aear in person and others will appear remotely. Since some members are appearing in person, let me first remind everybody that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician, all individuals attenng this hearing in person must wear a face mask. Members who are notearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few rinders for those members that are appearing i person. You will only see member