mr. loudermilk, for as much time as he may consume. mr. loudermilk: i thank my colleague from indiana for rembing this time and giving me a few minutes to speak upon this very important and critical issue. mr. speaker, as i'm standing here, i see the words liberty engraved at the base of the roster. one of the great principles of this nation, one of the principles of which our founding fathers sought to take on in the field of battle the most powerful military force in the history of the world. for an idea. a principle of liberty. one of the great influencers on our founding fathers was charles month skew, an 1th streveragery philosopher and judge. he said that when the legislative and the executive power is vested in one person or one body, there can be no liberty. many of my colleagues that stood here before i came this evening have testified to the role that the president has taken upon himself to become both the legislator and the executive in this matter. in fact, on the white house website, in his statement, he said that he was going

mr. loudermilk. mr. loudermilk: thank you, madam chair. a big supporter of cyber insurance simply because of the standards that the insurance companies put up on these businesses. i sold my business a year ago, was greatly relieved when i sold the business because while cyber security was on my mind 24 hours a day owning this small company and managing it, it was not on the minds of my customers. ebay, weon mentioned had many instances where we put a secured network and to place managing power distribution systems, and we engineer it. we put some of the products in that some of you guys represent. firewalls, gateways, content managers, bandwidth managers. then we would find out they would go and buy parts for these off of ebay that would come from somewhere overseas, and we do not know the firmware on it. i understand what is on their mind, especially when you are dealing with small businesses, is small -- is bottom line. we are supposed to take care of that. forward and say, this is what we need to do to upgrade, we do not want to do that

mr. loudermilk from georgia. >> thank you, mr. chairman. good morning to our witnesses and thank you for being here. mr. chairman, thank you for holding this hearing. today we'll be hearing from gao and noaa regarding the polar orbiting and geostationary satellite programs. the jpss and g.o.e.s.-r program have experienced setbacks. we intend to learn what has changed since our last hearing in february. earlier this year gao published a report detailing its concerns that the noaa polar satellite program is facing an unprecedented gap in satellite data. gao believes while jpss remains within its new life cycle cost estimates and scheduled baselines, recent rises in component costs and technical issues during development increase the likelihood of a near-term data gap. additionally, although noaa has reduced its estimated potential gap from 15 to only 3 months, gao noted that this assessment was based on incomplete data and does not account for the risk posed by space debris to satellite hardware. this is even more concerning given that the re

mr. loudermilk. >> after spending 30 years in the i.t. industry myself, i can equate to a lot of what you're saying. especially the cyber insurance. big supporter of cyber insurance because of the standards that the insurance companies put upon these businesses. and i sold my business a year ago. was greatly relieved when i sold the business. while cyber security was on my mind 24/7, it was not on the minds of my customers. mr. clinton mentioned ebay. we had many instances where we had a secure network in place and we engineered it and put the products in. some of the products that you represent from spam filters, firewalls, content managers. then we would find out that they would go and buy parts for these off of ebay that would come from somewhere overseas and we don't know the firmware that's on it and i understand that what's on their mind, especially dealing with small businesses, is bottom line. lawyers are being lawyers, they are doing what they are doing. we're supposed to take care of them. but when we go forward and say this is

mr. loudermilk said, dealing with life, limb and property as well as science. and, you know, i think i mentioned the last time you were here, i've been working on this since 2009 and 2010 with n-post. and what i would like to do is sort of go back to basics and understand the structure, the decision-making structure here. so i come from a construction family. and if -- with respect to jpss and the go systems, am i correct when i look at it as noaa is the owner, nasa is sort of the general contractor, and then the private companies, the lockheeds, the balls, the orbital atks are in effect the subcontractors. is that a fair way to describe this? and this is to both of you. dr. volz. >> yes, but noaa is the owner but also the architect. so the architect doesn't just give the plans and walk away. the architect is there with the general contractor and is there when the general contractor sometimes is talking to his subcontractors, to make sure that what he had in mind in the architecture is what is being implemented. so that's the role noaa plays. we do not have the

mr. loudermilk: blackstone said life is the immediate gift of god, a right inherent in every individual and it begins in contemplation in law as soon as an infant is able to stir in the mother's womb. that is one of the foundations of this nation that life begins at conception and our founding fathers understood that. it was a great philosophy. that's when the protection of law begins. and on january 22, 1983, we departed from that philosophy with a decision of row vs. wade. since then over 57 million americans' lives have been taken because of that decision. that number is equivalent to the population of georgia, florida, alabama, mississippi, kentucky, south carolina, louisiana, and tennessee. that one decision, mr. speaker, has not only literally not figuratively, but literally chidged the landscape of america. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from california is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. b