[background noises] [background noises] is nick any on education and workforce will come to order. I note the quorum is present. That objection the chairs authorized to call recess at any time. Good morning everyone and welcome to todays hearing. Acting secretary at soup, i like to start by saying you have been a hard witness to schedule. The committee began working with the department to secure your in person testimony beginning in march. You would not appear in may, we honored your request to appear in june. Using the day, june 7, that was offered by your staff into which you agreed. More than a commenting to establish a mutual date for this meeting, this hearing. Why is it that late friday evening following the committees public posting of the hearing a week ago, your staff told us you were quote no longer to make june 7 work . What was so important that you are willing to stop the work of a Congressional Committee come up in the schedule 45 members of congress and leave the America
Enough money, so they didnt have it. And yet theyve got this huge football field, you know . So i guess my question is how do we encourage, not only encourage the students to get interested in lieu of an active Human Exploration Program beyond low earth orbit, how do we bring that apollolike interest in s. T. E. M. That apollo generated kind of on autopilot, basically . You know, it just happened because everybody was interested in the program. Young students wanted to get involved in engineering and science and math. We dont have that, you know, at this time, at least not that im aware of. So how do we, how do we get them involved or interested in pursuing those things with a visibility that they see with the sports on tv and some of the other aspects of our society that arent, you know, that are more visible than the Space Program . So ill, ill start to answer that. I think theres two halves to the equation. I think one of the keys in getting more kids interested in the s. T. E. M. F
1 15. Up until then from this mornings washington journal, senator sanders from vermont. Host senator bernie sanders, senator from vermont, here. Thank you for being here. You served on the Budget Committee. We saw senator patty murray, the chairman, introduce her budget plan. Heres the headline in the Washington Times there are no sacred cows that calls for 1 trillion in new taxes. Whats your takeaway . Guest well, what it does is also call for substantial cuts, but it deals with deficit reduction in a balanced way. What the republicans want to do is do deficit reduction simply by cutting, cutting, cutting. Doing away with medicare as we know it. Right now converting that into a voucher system which we very, very onerous for senior citizens, making devastating cuts in medicaid which means that millions of millions of American People and kids will lose their Health Insurance. Massive cuts in education, in nutrition. Basically every program that in the middle of a terrible recession wor
It’s a new Crawford County Board of Commissioners, but with a familiar name as chairman as the group held its reorganizational meeting Tuesday morning at the county courthouse.
Manufacturing will continue to play a major role in the future progress of Butler County.
At present the county is home to more than 300 manufacturers, ranging from chemical plants to steel production.