before hutchinson died, he wrote these words. i am sometimes tempted to endeavor to forget that i am an american and to turn my views from my native -- to turn my views torts remains of life in england but my passion for my native country returns and though we know not how to reason upon it, i feel a fondness to lay my bones in my native american soil. justice peter oliver also from an old american family also fled to england and lies. there. george washington and other respected american leaders across the country condemned the boston tea partiers as vandals and they might well attended in jails and faded into obscurity had the british government not responded so rashly and so violently by sending troops back to boston. .. >> all 13 states declared independence from britain, and who were those original tea partyers, the men on the ships, who set off the exposure that sparked a revolution and helped bring down one empire and helped create another? who boarded those ships and dumped the tea in boston harbor? sam adams hancock at t

1634 and include in the great religious leader and hutchinson.he adored this country. it belonged to him as much as it did to sam adams. more so, he had served this country and its government. sam adams had never done that. before hutchison died, he wrote these words. i am sometimes tempted to forget the ayman american and to turn my views from my native, turn my views towards life in england. but my passion for my native country returns and though i know not how to reason upon at i feel with a fondness to lay my native american soil. justice peter oliver also from an american family pled to england and lies buried there. george washington and other respected american leaders across the country condemned the boston tea party as vandals and then ended in jail and faded into obscurity at the british government not responding so rationally and violently by sending troops back to boston by cornering troops in private homes of phyllis as well as boon rebels military command seemed to declare war against all americans and that provoked almost the entir

the shallow water is off by 50% and as senator hutchinson says, it wasn't under technically it wasn't under the moratorium, but it found itself under a moratorium, want to submit that for the record and then finally to also said that for the record the billions of dollars that are outstanding today in bonuses and annual rental payments on leases that are not usable as we speak, and i don't know if people realize how significant the in the numbers are, mr. chairman. but for instance in one of the sales a few years ago, $3.8 billion was paid in bonuses to secure leases that are going unused. the numbers will range from the low of 48 million to the high of 3.8 billion. the annual payments by these -- this industry can go from the low of a few hundred thousand to it looks like 28 to $32 million a year. so there's a tremendous amount of money, mr. chairman, being invested by companies. there is oil and gas in the ground. we need to find a way as soon as possible to get it out, and i hope both senators will express if not now leader their views on revenue sharing for alaska and for texas an

i am united states senator kay bailey hutchinson from texas. with energy prices soaring nationwide, american families are struggling to put gas in their cars and trucks. we have seen the price of food and other goods rise. an overwhelming majority of americans say gas prices are causing financial hardship for their families, and more than half say they of had to make major changes to their budgets and to compensate. unfortunately, rather than work to increase domestic energy production and bring down gas prices, the obama administration is seeking to impose more regulation and taxes on oil and gas companies. this is keeping our own resources out of reach and harding at job creation. their proposals will increase pain at the pump. earlier this week, republicans put a modest bill to increase production on the floor and democrats could not even support that. with gas hovering at around $4 a gallon. republicans have consistently called for greater access to our domestic sources of energy to spur american jobs and to prepare for circumstances we can

i know the begich/hutchinson bill would help. i think senator bingaman's legislation two bills that we are looking at today would help. i would hope that you would work with us on that. let me just switch if i could another comment that you made in your opening statement up. indicated that there were three buckets that the administration was looking at oil, gas, renewables and alternative and efficiency. as you may know, last week, legislation was introduced by senator shaheen and myself, it's s1,000. and it's basically leverages deployment of energy efficiency technologies in the home building, commercial separation, and industrial space with respect to the federal government. we would love to get your input on the legislation and hope to get your support on it. i wonder if you had any thoughts on the legislation today? >> senator portman, i have not reviewed the legislation s1,000. i would be happy along with my colleague secretary chu and the energy administration. he's a huge part of the bucket to get us to the energy future.

these students are manu glandhar, elizabeth anne billingsley, jathan hutchinson, june ma, kathleen majorski, virginia burns paisley, matthew pierce, garren schwartz, and benjamin wider. >> congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> congratulations again. congratulations again. congratulations. congratulations. >> we also support students at the madille school of journalism through a $5,000 gift towards a post graduate degree for a student in the government and public affairs reporting track. this year that student is cortleysubaramiam. >> thank you, ms. obama, thank you, bob. congratulations to our scholarship winners. you know, in addition to awarding scholarships and working with the press office on coverage issues, the white house correspondents' association also helps local schools training young journalists. here's an example of our work. ♪ >> how does it affect us as a school? >> i just love to write. i come to the library a lot. our librarian is like join the newspaper. >> i like to write about clothes and style guides and what to wear. >> our newspaper a

alderman wallace davis marian humes perry hutchinson and cliff kelley. see this man? the time he was a lobbyist. he was caught to not realizing it was the fed's he was dealing with. he is there is the fbi mole. once he saw the fbi videotapes acres agreed to cooperate. he admitted funneling money through weak management on super bowl trips. for car repairs for cliff kelley. he paid him a $6,500 bribe to help and a waste manager in a land deal. he pocketed 12,900. akers was sentenced to work-release. back then working for waste management acres tooled around on a car with license plate landfill allenby fl. today he drives a county car. 10 years ago town hired him. now he is cook county's solid waste coordinator. he earns $81,000 per year. it is not illegal but get this place. akers a man convicted of bribing city officials back then on behalf of waste management is not a traffic cop on with that very company is qualified to bid on county work. we tried repeatedly to talk to mr. akers with no luck. the all the men in that scandal all served their time and moved down. q p

but i guess what you're hearing today both from senator hutchinson and senator bagetch and others are -- ba given and others is that we do need to work on this process and we need to look back and see what the impacts were to avoid some steps backwards. i think the president head some good comments over the weekend. i was somewhat encouraged by what he said about extending leases in the gulf he also called for annual lease sales in the national petroleum reserve in alaska and i would hope that we'll continue to see some of these expedited processes to get moving on the outer continental shelf. i will say to senator franken's question, there's frustration with bureaucracy being given an appropriate amount of time but at that point, that the companies who submitted legitimate applications need to know one way or the other. the burden should be on the government to say why aren't we hufing forward? i know this bill would help in transparency that you're talking about. senator bingaman has a bill that would help. let me switch if i could for a second to another comment you made in the ope

senator hutchinson senato >> thank you, i have introduced in the last two sessions weather modification legislation not to do it but to start doing research to determine if there is a benefit to try to modify the veracity of tornadoes and hurricanes if it can be done and if it is done, does affect other areas? i think we should have the research to start determining that. my question is probably to the doctor polk or dr. dawson, do you think this is an area we should pursue? can it be done with computations with any degree of accuracy? would you pour so pursue tryingo determine a way to mitigate the enormous damage we see? it seems it is so much different from the past. i grew up in galveston county so i have seen hurricanes but we never had the kind of katrina for these alabama tornadoes. the damage seems to be so much more and the ferocity seems to be so much more in the last 10 years than it was in the previous era. would research help? could it be done with computers? where would you go from here? >> i would suggest that a bob ryan be brought into this conversation. >> bernie vonneg

chairman, ranking member hutchinson, and senator rubio -- i appreciate the opportunity to discuss the contributions of the space program. and the vital need to maintain our leadership on this endless frontier. this hearing comes in the same month of alan shepard's spaceflight and president kennedy's speech to congress about going to the moon. what it is true that every day spent in space is a memorable, there was one day aboard the international space station that remain in my memory. you'll see in a moment while i refer to this. it is a constant reminder of why america's commitment to be fully explore space for the benefit of our citizens and people around the world is so vital to our collective future. we must not retreat from our leadership in space, especially in light of recent events. while serving as commander, i was the only american in orbit. on the morning of september 11, 2001, i just comedic -- completed medical evaluations on my crew. someone said, "frank, we are having a very bad day on the ground." he described the events in washington, d.c., new york city, and pennsylv

kay bailee hutchinson said she is not going to run for re-election.ig announcement. for the first time in a generation they can win in texas. who is their candidate? take a look at this, retired general sanchez. maybe this makes sense for the democrats. here you have a military man. hard to paint him as a liberal in texas and he is a mexican american, born in texas, exploding latino and hispanic population in texas and the democrats think they have something going here. i will say one thing about him, he may have a little bit of baggage because he was the commanding u.s. general in iraq during the terror controversy. that may come into play in this election. it's still a long way away. >> you talk about a long way away, it's around the corner, my man. good to see you, as always. paul giving love to the senate after we talk presidential politics. we'll talk to you again soon here. >>> we'll talk to reynolds wolf in just a moment. of course, the weather is a big issue, in particular, not even weather so much any more. the actual flooding. all these citi

[laughter] chairman nelson, senators hutchinson, senator bozeman, senator rubio, thank you for giving me an opportunity to testify on this important subject. in 2009, i had the honor of working on the flight plans committees that issued its final reporting at the end of that year. the committee formally thiceaseo exist in 2009. today, i am testifying solely in my capacity. the human spaceflight committee was established to review nasa's record and to offer possible alternatives. we concluded that it could not be executed. the committee considered a variety of alternatives -- five principal integration options were evaluated. pawlenty engagement and mission safety -- no architecture would provide missions beyond the north orbit until close to 2030 under the fiscal year 2010 budget. the most important contribution of our committee is the free market for considering human spaceflight. first, the report emphasized that the mission had is not about destination. frame in the discussion this way and choosing a destination and searching for reasons to justify that choice. the committee conclu

these students are manu glandhar, elizabeth anne billingsley, jonathan hutchinson, june ma, kathleenpaisley, matthew pierce, garren schwartz, and benjamin wider. >> congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> congratulations again. congratulations again. congratulations. congratulations. >> we also support students at the madille school of journalism through a $5,000 gift towards a post graduate degree for a student in the government and public affairs reporting track. this year that student is cortleysubaramiam. >> thank you, ms. obama, thank you, bob. congratulations to our scholarship winners. you know, in addition to awarding scholarships and working with the press office on coverage issues, the white house correspondents' association also helps local schools training young journalists. here's an example of our work. ♪ >> how does it affect us as a school? >> i just love to write. i come to the library a lot. our librarian is like join the newspaper. >> i like to write about clothes and style guides and what to wear. >> our newspaper at banaker had bee

was rick perry's campaign manager last year, an perry started the year 27 points behind senator hutchinson and ended the year 21 points ahead. i'm not promising you a 48-point swing against obama, but it's a nice model to start thinking about. [laughter] in texas, where they've had litigation reform, lower taxes, a brewer rock crease that actually encourages businesses to move in, what have they done? in two of the last four years, over half the private sector jobs in america have been to one state, texas. do you think anybody in washington has studied in texas? it has all the wrong things, small government, a legislature that meets only every other year. imagine a congress where they were only allowed to come to washington every other year. [cheers and applause] so part of my summary about economic policy is simple -- if you want a party that's going to try to learn from texas how to create jobs in america, the gingrich campaign would love to have your help. if you want to do for all of america what it's done for detroit, the obama team needs your help. it's that big a gap. that fundament

. >> good afternoon, the ranking members of the subcommittee and ranking member hutchinson. for the opportunity to be here to discuss the issues facing the federal aviation administration. i know that today's hearing will focus on the safety of our air traffic control system. i will probably get some tough questions from you about some recent incidents. i welcome the opportunity to ensure you and the traveling public that we remain the safest and most efficient transportation system in the world. we are taking a substantial number of actions to improve the level of safety. before i address these actions, i would be remiss bank i were to appear before you and not mention the need for multi-year reauthorization. we have a tremendous need to enhance this from the radar based system of the last century to the satellite based system of tomorrow. to accomplish our goals, the faa needs a multi-year authorization with sufficient funding levels. the faa has not had a steady source of funding for over 3.5 years. we relied on 18 short-term extensions of our spending authority. i am ple

i am united states senator kay bailey hutchinson from texas.in their cars and trucks. we have seen the price of food and other goods rise. an overwhelming majority of americans say gas prices are causing financial hardship for their families, and more than half say they of had to make major changes to their budgets and to compensate. unfortunately, rather than work to increase domestic energy production and bring down gas prices, the obama administration is seeking to impose more regulation and taxes on oil and gas companies. this is keeping our own resources out of reach and harding at job creation. their proposals will increase pain at the pump. earlier this week, republicans put a modest bill to increase production on the floor and democrats could not even support that. with gas hovering at around $4 a gallon. republicans have consistently called for greater access to our domestic sources of energy to spur american jobs and to prepare for circumstances we cannot control like natural disasters or unrest in the middle east that creates instabi

may be addressed the shallow water compared to deep water that senator hutchinson broad up -- brought up. if you can address the permit application in 30 days and do that, is there any defacto timeline on this process for getting approval? >> thank you very much. first, on the perception -- washington and these issues are in an interesting place. we have tried to move forward with upholding the policies come up which we are supportive of in the gulf of mexico and other places in america's oceans. we have also said we will not retrench this position, that we will do it in a way that is safe and protect the environment. as far as the statistics indicate to you, we're not just about talking, but we are walking the talk we are saying in terms of drilling and production in our country. i will tell you and multiple meetings with oil and gas executives, they understand what we're doing. they understand they do not have the containment capability available like last year, and they understand there is a lot of work, because of the issue in terms of being in the safe position we want to be. so,

but i guess what you're hearing today both from senator hutchinson and senator begich and others is that we do need to work on this process and we need to look back and see what the impacts were to avoid some steps backwards. i think the president made some good comments over the weekend. i was somewhat encouraged by what he said about extending leases in the gulf he also called for annual lease sales in the national petroleum reserve in alaska and i would hope that we'll continue to see some of these expedited processes to get moving on the outer continental shelf. i will say to senator franken's question, there's frustration with bureaucracy being given an appropriate amount of time but at that point, that the companies who submitted legitimate applications need to know one way or the other. the burden should be on the government to say why aren't we moving forward? i know that the begich and the hutchison bill would help in transparency that you're talking about. senator bingaman has a bill that would help. i hope that you would work with us on that. let me switch if i could for a sec

then of course i want to turn to our colleague, the ranking member of the full committee, senator hutchinson. >> with your permission, i'll yield to my ranking member. >> of course. while we are waiting on kay to approach the microphone, i just want to say, the successes that we've had in the nasa bill being passed last year as well as a lot of the funding that has now implemented the nasa authorization bill, this lady, this young lady is responsible for a lot of that. so thank you. >> well, mr. chairman, i thank you. we have worked very hard to try to move nasa forward and i think that the authorization bill that brought together the need for the commercial investment and the commercial opportunity along with the use of our work force that has the experience of so many years and -- in building the rockets and launchers that together we believe that we have a good way forward. and what i hope we can hear from you today is that we need to adhere to the authorization strategy and that that is the way that we should be proceeding. i think the chairman and i and senator boozman and senator rocke

good morning, chairman nelson, ranking member hutchinson, ranking member boozman, and senator rudy. i welcome this opportunity to discuss the advantages of the space program. and the vital need to maintain our leadership on this endless frontier. this occurs in the same month that we commemorate alan shepard's first space flight and president kennedy's speech to congress. i had the privilege and honor on two space shuttle missions and one expeditionary mission to the international space station blogging 144 days in space. all it is true that every day spent in space is memorable, it was one day aboard the international space station the war remained seared in my memory as long as i live. you'll see in a moment why i refer to this. to me the state serves as a constant reminder of why america's commitment to peaceful explore and utilize space for the benefit of our citizens and people around this world is so vital to our collective future, and why we must not retreat from our leadership in space, especially in light of recent events. 10 years ago i was serving as commander aboard the

. >> good afternoon, the ranking members of the subcommittee and ranking member hutchinson. thank you for the opportunity to be here to discuss the issues facing the federal aviation administration. i know that today's hearing will focus on the safety of our air traffic control system. i will probably get some tough questions from you about some recent incidents. i welcome the opportunity to ensure you and the traveling public that we remain the safest and most efficient transportation system in the world. we are taking a substantial number of actions to improve the level of safety. before i address these actions, i would be remiss bank i were to appear before you and not mention the need for multi-year reauthorization. we have a tremendous need to enhance this from the radar based system of the last century to the satellite based system of tomorrow. to accomplish our goals, the faa needs a multi-year authorization with sufficient funding levels. the faa has not had a steady source of funding for over 3.5 years. we relied on 18 short-term extensions of our spending authority

i am breaking -- grateful that senator hutchinson is with us today. her commitment to the nation's space program is an example and an inspiration to me on the work of the subcommittee. are also want to acknowledge the successful launch on monday of the shuttle mission commanded by mark kelly. i wish the entire crew of the shuttle and those aboard the space station success in carrying out this very important mission to expand the scientific capability of this unique national laboratory and provide essential spare and replacement parts and other supplies to insure the health and vitality of the space station systems. i had the pleasure of going to kennedy space center last month for the planned launch of the mission. unfortunately the electrical problems with the odd salieri power unit prevented that launch attempt so i was unable to see the launch but my experience was very meaningful. not only was i able to see and talk with some remarkable, skilled and dedicated work force but i was able to see firsthand some of the facilities of our nation's and the

senator hutchinson address this. i think you were here for comment. and secondly, is there any defect or timeline on this process -- any defacto timeline on this process for getting approval? >> senator, thank you very much for the question. first, on the perception, you know, washington and these -- washington is an interesting place. of gasupportive exploration in the gulf of mexico and other places we have said that we will not retrench this position. we will do it in a way that the save and protect the environment. but the directors statistics, in terms of how we move forward with shallow water and with the quarter will indicate to you -- with shallow water and with deep water will indicate to you that we are not just talking the talk, but walking the walk. in multiple meetings with oil and gas executives, including those at the very top companies, they understand what we are doing. they understand that we did not have the subsequent capability until this last year. and there is -- it is a dynamic issue in terms of getting us to the safe position

[laughter] >> so senator hutchinson? >> well, thank you, mr. chairman. i have introduced in the last two sessions weather modification legislation, not to do it but to start doing research. to determine if there is a benefit to trying to modify the ferocity of tornadoes and hurricanes, if it can be done. and if it is done, does it affect other areas? and i thought -- i think we should have the research to start determining that. my question is, probably to dr. hooke or dr. dawson. do you think that this is an area we should pursue? can it be done computationally within a degree of accuracy? and how would you pursue trying to determine a way to mitigate the enormous damage we're seeing now? which is -- it seems to me that it's so much different from the past. i mean, i grew up in galveston county so i've seen their hurricanes but we never had the kind of katrina, these alabama tornadoes, the damage just seems to be so much more and the ferocity seems to be so much more in the last 10 years than it was in the previous era. so with that, would research help