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endless, incredible! good afternoon, i m frank mallicoat. i m michelle griego. scientists defied the odds and landed a spacecraft on a comet traveling 84,000 miles an hour. it s not easy to even just send a spacecraft to another place in the solar system, let alone, um, land a small probe on a comet. cbs reporter charlie d agata with the moment scientists at the european space agency realized history was made. whoo! reporter: scientists in germany celebrated the success of the decades-long dream. the rosetta space shift released a 220-pound lander that dropped for 7 hours before attaching to a comet. this is a big step for human civilization. reporter: it s the final stretch of a 4 billion-mile journey. [ non-english language ] reporter: the european space agency had been chasing the comet since the launch of the rosetta in 2004. catching up to a comet traveling up to nearly 84,000 miles an hour meant using the gravity of the earth and mars as a slingsho ....
what a speaker ought to be able to accomplish. not to say that whatever the speaker accomplishes or has accomplished during his term is a one-man show. it most certainly is not and in this room today are people who shared with me the agonies of trying to figure out what on earth can we do in this situation and one of them is david bern. one of them is tom foley and one of them is dan rostenkowski. the speakership under rayburn was something that i guess entered my consciousness as the model of how a speaker should be. sam rayburn saw national needs and he made things happen. he was an activist speaker but he was also the 20 essential southern gentlemen and he treated all of us like gentlemen. in his view, we all were speaker rayburn once said, the chair always takes the word of a member on one occasion when a point of order had been made about a member s representation that he had been in the chamber at a time qualifying him to vote on an issue. the chair always takes ....
in here and that production will stay in the u.s. in the exported to south america and europe. we feel there is a very good chance at a very good condition to not only build here, but compete to a u.s. base. a year ago we did the same thing in victoria, texas on another excavator plan. these are the large machines. 42 that 5010 machines that came in from japan that will be built in us for the first time in the united states and exporting to south america. some of that is coming back to the u.s. and i m happy and proud of that is the u.s. manufacturing come to me. in fact, we spent about $6.5 billion in capital expense in the last five years in the united states. we ve also spent about $10 million in research and development. we had a plant in our system here in the united states that exports very large mining equipment. we have factories were 80% of the reductionist for export only. we work hard at being competitive both internally. we also work hard with the u.s. gover ....
concerns. so i ll be up testifying in front of the senate banking committee again on tuesday. i do that before both the house financial services committee and the senate banking committee, required to do it at least every six months. typically it s been a bit more frequent than that. [laughter] but i always value that opportunity and look forward to it again next week. it s always just because republicans on the house financial services just really like to see you and talk to you because they really enjoy your company. which i try to help them enjoy my company. on those questions of both oversight from the committees and pushback responses from industry, what are maybe one or two examples of things that you have responded to and changed based on that oversight, that feedback? i think specifically about the review process with banks there was concern at first that there were enforcement attorneys coming to these things, they were more adversarial than they necessar ....
repeatedly tried to blame insurance companies too. here s what the washington post fact checker had to say about that. the administration s effort to pin the blame on the insurance companies is a classic case of misdirection. that s the washington post. classic case of misdirection. they got three pinocchios for that whopper. unfortunately that doesn t seem to have deterred our friends on the other side from indulging in the blame game. within just the past week we ve seen the white house lash out at the words of a cancer survivor and try to point a finger of blame at texans. and a few days ago get this one one of the president s closest political allies attacked the very kind of folks who are now losing their health coverage under obamacare. free riders he called them. free riders. you know the folks he s talking about. these aren t people who have done anything wrong. they re not freeloaders or free riders or anything else. they re our neighbors, our constitue ....