who fired multiple lawsuits against heisel, claiming it is violating constitutionality.hese groups would rather have the states and state elected racing officials mandate what is going on instead of turning it over to the higher power congress has approved. >> you mentioned there have been clusters of deaths and multiple reasons for horseracing deaths. when you get clusters like the one we saw at santa anita in 2018, i think 30 horses died, a cluster of seven in a month at laurel park. the string of seven at churchill downs. is there a commonality through those clusters? >> some of the injuries occurred during training, some in actual races. with the deaths at churchill downs, it was a variety of situations. two in races on derby day. another one when a horse flipped . it may have been spooked by something it saw and it flipped and hurt itself and was not able to be saved. generally there are a variety of causes. it can be a catastrophic leg injury. some horses have dropped dead of heart attacks. each case can be individual. there is obviously standards by which they inv

chairman: thank you, senator cramer that reminds me of my heisel football coach who said he wanted us to be mobile, agile, and hostile. [laughter] i'm not going to go into our record. our team motto was were small but were slow. senator gillibrand. sen. tillis: brain >> can you speak to the ability to leverage funding and service capacity would impact the space force space launch efforts? gen. saltzman: yes ma'am, thank you. we have grown our capacity. from what i remember the 10 12 launches we are getting close to a hundred lunches a year and most of that is commercial launches so the infrastructure that we are providing is being used and it needs to be refurbished on a more regular basis then what i call the old days. i think commercial industry understands this and they are trained to figure out the best way to support and now we have to look for the contractual and legal mechanisms to make sure that we can maintain that infrastructure. our investments started us on that path. we've still got a lot of work to do to make sure we maintain the kind of infrastructure we need to support