That much harder to attain. Think about the i think Everything Else is that much more challenging along the way. I think it can be done. Ive seen it done. And we did it in montana. I was attorney general when actually was general in part with your former mike delaney who is always good to see when the case called Citizens United came up. That was the case that said oh, money is speech and corporations have the same rights as people. When that case came down, every single state in the country said game over. There is absolutely nothing we can do. Democrats and it really was it was a completely captured state. Regular folks said enough is enough and passed this corrupt practices act in 1912 saying corporations couldnt spend or contribute in elections. And we had some of the lowest contribution limits in the nation. Actually people talking to people, not how much money is going to be spent on the outside. So in Citizens United came up as ag i knew i had to do something. Took the first cas
Know, the betty murphy award is given every year to an unsung hero, Community Service leader, an Organization Builder who inspires others efforts. Betty was an amazing woman. As many can tell, who knew her, she was chair of the nlrb and administer of the wage hour of the department at the department of labor and our very first cochair. We have many past betty murray award winners. The founder of our pittsburgh chapter and was later nominated for attorney general in pennsylvania. We have linda kerns who led our philadelphia chapter in 2016. Did a great job getting president trumps shocking victory in 2016. Later we have mike davis who used to lead our colorado chapter. And mike left colorado to come here to help confirm his friend, kneel gorsuch neil gorsuch. So thats going to be a great panel at the end of the day for all of you who want to watch that. Lastly, we got brenda hankins. She founded her womens initiative. She was also one of the leaders of getting a universal reporting syst
Adequately supportive of that traditional ally. People look at the arab spring which has developed into something unsparing like. The question is how much did an american president have to do with that . What can an american president do in response to that . Those are legitimate questions and they are questions you can be sure historians will be debating for a very long time to come. But that in a curious way goes back to my point, like him or dislike him, whatever, the fact that barack obama, and whatever his legacy is will engage the interest and attention the support and hostility of historians and others for a long time to come only testifies to the significance of his presidency and the magnitude of what he has attempted. Richard norton smith is our guest talking about the reporting after the president s win on the trade bills and also the relation ship with the Supreme Court on samesex marriage and their reporting that this was his best week ever. We are discussing his legacy. Y
So we have to be if youre in an enclosed environment be very concerned with what the human body is exhaling. In terms of the future of space station, do we have plans to expand, put different elements on to the space station at this point . Currently on the u. S. Side we just reconfigured the permanent Multi Purpose module from one location to the other location to make room for a docking adopter that we discussed earlier to let commercial vehicles come. Thats about all were going td on the u. S. Side. Theres no major new additions coming. The russians talked about a solar platform to provide solar energy for their segment. The russians talked about another Research Module they may add. We on the u. S. Side dont have any major additions, no. The Bigelow Company has a new concept without the inflatables. Is there any use of this technology . It will be added to space station next year. This is an expandable module that will be added to the station. It will stay there for about a year, y
Iss. Hover, while the range of iss uses is expanding the resources to support them are not. Funding for the iss Research Represents a mere 12 of the overall iss budget. Constraints on Cargo Transportation, as well as Available Power and precious crew time limit what research can be accomplished at the station. In that regard i know many of us want to understand the implications of cargo resupply operations. Crew operations and the sustainability of the station. In addition, mr. Chairman, theres critical work to be done on the iss and Human Health Research and Technology Development that needs to be carried out if were going to make progress toward the longterm goal of sending humans to mars. In january 2014, the Obama Administration proposed to extend iss operations until at least 2024. The administration has three rationales for the extension. To complete iss research that supports Long Duration Human Missions beyond lower earth orbit to garner societal benefits. Some of which we see