nine egypt's defense ministry says iran's request stated that the vessels would have nobody trick wittman or nuclear materials of boredom. here in russia or the final walk on mars has been completed in a virtual experiment ended studying the demands of deep space travel this was the last of three simulated strolls on the mock martian surface mars five hundred is a project aimed at studying the physical and psychological effects on people if mankind were ever to undertake such a long journey in the future the group of six volunteers are taking part us three russians to you. paeans in a chinese man they are now the official at the halfway point of the five hundred twenty day simulated journey spent in isolation in a moscow lab patrick fuller is the founder of a company specializing in scientific innovation he told me earlier that even though this experiment is quite accurate in reality this mission will be much much harder . there is a body of knowledge that can be drawn on there what makes this particularly challenging in a real mission when you're on the surface of mars or a long way from

i graduated in law school in 1975 and half my graduate class was wittman. not very -- was half of my graduating class were women. in law school, a good chunk of the class were women. in many places i have worked, there were a good number of women and a fair number of minorities. i would not feel comfortable on a court with all white guys. i would not know how to operate. when i say that, i mean me and my colleagues my age. i cannot imagine any other way it could be. i fight with my male colleagues and i fight with my female colleagues and i kiss and make up with my male and female colleagues. i don't think sex or race difference are good points for the lack of collegiality. i think that is nonsense. every time i hear some of the old-time judges talk about the good old days when they used to go to lunch together, i think i was glad i was not a judge back then. [laughter] >> you work on the supreme court that has a majority of women? >> yes. >> what is your impression? >> i do know how to work with old white guys. [laughter] my experience has been that divers

so i got back in touch with dan wittman and i asked him for more information. he said well, i have all the writeups that i did, and rewards for all my min. some got awards and other student that i can send you all of my writeups. i said sure, please do. and he did. lo and behold, he had written one of his boat captains up for a bronze star for that very ambush. and in the right up it said that the ambush was on december 5. so now i had the date. along the way, general 12 natonski had given me a powerpoint presentation that he gave after coming back from oif to end in that was a very extensive order of battle. and it had everybody that was in the first marine division in operations. and it showed that the 2nd brigade of the 2nd infantry division was involved. an army unit, the 2nd infantry division who are very very proud of their association with the marines, the teens team said they served under general lejeune in world war i. so, one of the people that i decided i was going to interview with colonel gary patton who was the 2nd brigade combat team commanding o

definitely accepted although i once taught a course at rutgers with a male colleague and we were doing wittmanand dickinson and when it came to dickinson he said i just can't read the little bitty poems. i don't want to bother with that. so there are still a few throwbacks. teachers though entered american history as a bestseller, as a pulled fiction writer. somebody who rode important fiction and had a huge a store quintet but not as an artist. one of the things i've tried to do in my book is to contest that attitude. we don't have an american jane austen. we don't have a 19th century woman novelist to have the same status so i think that has to be challenged and we have to say look, there are all these women writers producing artistically significant work who just never got the attention that they deserved and need to dismantle that. so i think if you read reviews in england now, they won't be quite the same imbalance that there is an american reviewing and there are a lot more venues for book reviewing in great britain than that are in the united states. you get a lot more different voices

he leaned across, somebody working for a mega meg wittman and sycophant for the candidate costs she's pro-choice. i said to you think it is the problem california? we are 12.4% unemployment. we are in the tank. the issue is jobs, unemployment, that's the issue. we want somebody that is going to bring the jobs back. that's the issue. we get caught up on the social issue and i'm not going to vote for you. but jerry brown for the third time. it was a better deal. i'm not going to vote for you because you are pro-choice and going with jerry brown. that works out well and jerry brown -- sometimes you just shake your head at these things that absolutely go on and i think we really need to stand back and look at ourselves. what are we doing to ourselves, what are we doing to purge people to be great. there's a young, not young anymore, firestone. whenever my father had a fund-raiser, when he was running for president of the united states he always called firestone. would you put on a fund raiser. and they would always just what ever you need. it would raise a lot of money for my dad, all the

you can do it meg wittman did in california run one set of ads in the hispanic community and another set of ads and the other communities and say oh how did they find out i did that? you have got to really be consistent and what we are missing in politics today is that consistency. i can talk to young people today who were born in 1990s and you give me about a week -- and they will be consistent because he was so consistent. you've really knew where he was coming from and you knew his heart and he had such a wonderful wonderful heart. the story i tell them there but the secret service agent. i walk in the room and the secret service agent is hand-feeding my dad. he is deep into alzheimer's and i walk in and the secret service agent said let me get out of the way. the secret service -- secret service agent grabs his hand and kisses it. who does that? or in 76 when he is campaigning in south carolina. he goes into a trailer to talk to children who live come to listen to his speech, the school for the blind. we have these young kids and they asked him to spend some time for them. he wan

said this to somebody that came up to be one day and said -- leaned across somebody working for mid wittman and said to that person i can't for your candidate because she is pro-choice. and i looked up and i said do you think that is the problem in california? i mean, we are 12.4% unemployment. we are in the tank. the issue is jobs, unemployment, that's the issue. we want somebody who in fact is going to bring the jobs back. that's the issue. what happens is we get caught up on a social issue and say i'm not going to vote for you so now what do we have? jerry brown for the third time in the state of california. that was a better deal. i'm not going to vote for you because you're pro-choice, i will go with jerry brown. that works out well. and sometimes you just shake your head at these things that absolutely go on. i think we need to stand back and look at ourselves and coke what are we doing to ourselves? what are we doing to ourselves to purge people who may be great? there is a common not young anymore, firestone. my father had a fund-raiser when he was running for president of the unite

wittman: it would give them the authority to close the command, pure and simple and would allow us to determine how the closure would impact national security. in august it was announced by the pentagon that the jifcom would be dissolved. congress was not informed and asked multiple times for the analysis that was done to lead to the decision to close jifcom without getting that information. this leads me to believe a thundershowero analysis into the jifcom was never consulted. in five years the pentagon will be asking congress to set up a mechanism to ensure jointness among our services. capabilities exist under jifcom that are paramount to our success in the current war the military is fighting. without that analysis we cannot know whether we're casting away years of joint experience that will be crucial to the future defense of this nation. with that i yield back. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from virginia. mr. forbes: mr. chairman, i'd like to yield the balance of my time to the congressman from the second district,. the chair: the gentleman is recogn