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Testimony of Aerospace Industries Association President and CEO Marion Blakey

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Testimony of Marion C. Blakey President and CEO, Aerospace Industries Association

To the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee

The Impacts of the Government Shutdown on our Economic Security

October 11, 2013

Chairman Rockefeller, Ranking Member Thune and members of the committee, I appreciate the opportunity to provide testimony on this very important subject. From the perspective of the Aerospace Industries Association, our member companies and their thousands of skilled and dedicated workers, I can report that the partial government shutdown is having a very negative impact on many of the civil aerospace programs that help advance our nation's technological and economic progress. We also expect that the longer this goes on, the worse it will become.And while not much attention has been paid to the private sector workforce that supports our government agencies, they too are suffering the consequences of the shutdown. We are particularly concerned about the small companies that are vital to our nation's aerospace and defense supply chain. With limited cash flow, they are at risk of shuttering their operations in the event of an extended shutdown. And unlike the Department of Defense, many domestic agencies have furloughed most of their financial and accounting staff, leaving companies often performing essential work without reimbursement.

It is impossible to predict exactly what the economic and other impacts will be of a two week, four week, or longer period of the shutdown. Each program, each contract is different and it will take some time to work through the consequences in terms of both costs and delays. However, I believe that the following facts and concerns that we have regarding the impacts of the shutdown to NASA, NOAA, the Federal Aviation Administration and aerospace product exports will help impress upon this Congress and the Administration the need to end the shutdown.

I also want to emphasize our industry's concern about the ongoing problem of sequestration and lack of budget predictability. In the absence of a bipartisan agreement to address fundamental fiscal issues, the sequestration budget cuts will continue to undermine work on the very federal programs that make our country stronger, safer and more economically robust. With these thoughts in mind, I would like to address emerging and expected impacts of the partial shutdown to date to NASA, NOAA, FAA and Department of Commerce export activities, and related industry impacts.

Civil Space Impacts

Under the Federal government shutdown, NASA has been operating with a skeleton crew of less than three percent of its 18,000 workers, hampering many of the agency's ongoing programs as well as programs in development, and impacting industry's ability to do its job efficiently. The industry workforce supporting NASA is also being affected. Program costs are expected to rise as schedules slip. All of NASA's programs may face future funding challenges as a consequence. While the industry's work on high visibility NASA programs - including the Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket, the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle and the James Webb Space Telescope - has been largely unaffected to date, this has not been just due to good fortune; rather, it is due to smart planning by industry and NASA in anticipation of a shutdown and the availability of DoD quality assurance inspectors at facilities with a DoD presence. The situation in other facilities where these inspectors are not present is more problematic as I will explain in more detail.

With regard to NASA facilities, with a few notable exceptions such as the International Space Station support activity at the Johnson Space Center's Mission Control in Houston, and those needed for the upcoming launch of the MAVEN mission to Mars, they are shuttered and unavailable for industry access. For support contractors working at NASA locations, this means they are unable to do their jobs. To compensate, larger companies are forced to encourage workers to take unplanned vacation time off or try to find other work that they can do elsewhere. Smaller firms often do not have this flexibility; in many cases September 30th marked the end of a contract period of performance. With no funding and no contract in place, small firms are keeping their workforce together at their own risk with no assurance the workers will be paid for the work done during the shutdown. For companies of all sizes, if the shutdown persists, these workers will face furloughs and, unlike furloughed Federal employees, there is no guarantee that will be reimbursed for lost wages. There is a real potential for a negative ripple effect throughout local economies in these regions. Other work that contractors are doing at NASA facilities - including preparations for the first Orion space capsule test launch in 2014 are shut down since contactors are not allowed access to the NASA facility where the work must be performed.

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Obituary: Kenneth L. Temple, 1918 – 2013

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Kenneth Temple, emeritus professor of microbiology at Montana State University, died of pneumonia at age 95 on September 30, 2013, at home in Bozeman.

Ken Temple was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on March 22, 1918, the third child of Sterling Temple and Isabella Matchett Temple. At an early age his family moved to New York state where Ken grew up, first on Staten Island in New York City and then in Niagara Falls. He developed his lifelong love of reading, gardening, nature, and the outdoors early on, and adopted his younger sister's accordion after she lost interest. He was raised in the Methodist church. His collegiate undergraduate years were spent at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Ken developed many outdoor interests including downhill and cross-country skiing, camping, hiking in the Adirondacks, horseback jumping, and working as a camp counselor. In those days ski lifts were rare enough, so he said, that skiers generally had to work their way up the slopes by sidestep or herringbone to reach the top. Ken had an old pair of hickory skis dating from that time that he kept for many years.

Ken majored in chemistry, as had his father and an older brother before him, earning his degree in 1940. He then received an M.S. in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. It was in Madison that he learned to square dance. With the imminent entry of the United States into World War II, Ken became an employee of the U.S. Navy, working at Naval Research in Washington, D.C. In Washington, at a square dance, he met his lifelong love and partner, Ruth Remsberg. They were married September 4, 1943. Their marriage continued for 55 years until Ruth's death in 1998.

After the war Ken switched fields and earned a PhD in microbiology from Rutgers University. After receiving his degree, Ken became a post-doctoral researcher at West Virginia University. There he did groundbreaking work on sulfuric acid runoff from coal mines. Prior to this, no one had identified microbial action as the source of that pollution. Ken discovered and named the organism responsible, thiobacillus ferrooxidans.

After five years, Ken relocated to Houston, Texas to work for Texaco. Two years later, in 1955, he moved to Montana to join the Department of Botany and Bacteriology in what was then Montana State College. The Bozeman area suited him perfectly, offering as it did both interesting research opportunities in microbiology, as well as a wealth of opportunities for hiking in the mountains, summer and winter camping, skiing, hunting and fishing, and canoeing.

While at Montana State, research on microorganisms in Yellowstone geothermal waters became one of Ken's main professional interests. He was the first person to identify what are now called extremophiles, in this case thermophile organisms living in water previously thought to be too hot to support life. The study of extremophiles has become a major scientific enterprise since that time.

Ken lived in Bozeman for the rest of his life, except for a two-year research sabbatical in Australia, another year-long sabbatical in England, and two years late in life in a retirement community near his daughter Susan in the Seattle area.

Ken enjoyed a wide range of activities. His love of square dancing and playing the accordion continued all his life. He loved dogs and was very interested in all wildlife, whether that meant watching a nearby mountain lion, building bluebird houses, or videotaping wildflowers. Ken joined colleagues in winter ski-camping across parts of northern Yellowstone, hiking up Blackmore and in the Spanish Peaks, and climbing Granite Peak. He was also very family-oriented and enjoyed joining his children in recreational activities such as skiing, hiking, chess, and word games like Scrabble and Jotto. Ken and Ruth delivered Meals on Wheels together for decades. Especially after his retirement from MSU, Ken enjoyed playing and eventually teaching bridge (although he was never as good at it as Ruth). He read widely in literature, science, religion, and other areas. Science fiction was among his favorites. He had a good understanding of language, and would grimace if someone used a word incorrectly. Ken and Ruth enjoyed taking the family on long road trip vacations, including visiting relatives on the east coast, exploring national parks, and on one occasion venturing into southern Mexico.

Kenneth was preceded in death by his parents, his brothers Ralph and Willard, and his wife Ruth. He is survived by his three children, George of St. Paul, MN, Judson of Oklahoma City, OK, and Susan of Bellevue, WA; five granddaughters, Anya Temple, Sarah Temple, Kate O'Donnell, Kirsten Temple, and Julie Whitten, two great-grandsons, Connor and Alexander Whitten; and by his sister, Winifred Schumacher of PA.

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'Darling' takes on spirituality in Richard Rodriguez's terms

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Richard Rodriguez's "Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography" appears at first to have been mistitled; it is neither a book about the spirit, strictly, nor an autobiography in any common sense. Rather, it's a collection of essays some of which were originally published in Harper's, Kenyon Review and the Wilson Quarterly that approach the larger questions of faith and character through a broad array of filters, from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the legacy of Cesar Chavez, the collapse of newspapers to the reimagining of public space in a digital age.

"I did not intend to write a spiritual autobiography," Rodriguez acknowledges in a brief "Note to the Reader." And the more we read, the more we understand what he means. For him, spirituality is not some isolated aspect of existence, distinct from secular experience; it is, instead, inextricable from the secular, a way of moving through, of being in, the world.

Rodriguez has been immersed in these sorts of issues from the start of his career: otherness, identity, the line between how people see us and how we see ourselves. His first book, "Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez" (1982), was an audacious account of coming to terms with himself as American, even to the point of walking away from the traditions of his immigrant home.

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In its aftermath, he was criticized for betraying his heritage, although, in fact, he was after something more complicated, a way of understanding himself as a person in the middle, steeped in his history and yet at the same time a creation of the assimilated culture in which he lives.

It's a theme to which Rodriguez has returned throughout his writing life; in his 1990 piece "Late Victorians" (my favorite of his essays), he uses the Victorian elegance of San Francisco to reflect on both the decadence of the city's gay culture and the scourge of AIDS. "I have never looked for utopia on a map," he writes there. " If I respond to the metaphor of spring, I nevertheless learned, years ago, from my Mexican father, from my Irish nuns, to count on winter. The point of Eden for me, for us, is not approach but expulsion."

This idea of expulsion or, more accurately, separation resides at the center of "Darling," although Rodriguez is also drawn to seek out common ground. "The action of the terrorists," he writes of 9/11, "was a human action, conceived in error a benighted act. And yet I worship the same God as they, so I stand in some relation to those men." For him, this is a key point, that the Christian, Jewish and Muslim God ("the desert God," he calls it) is one and the same, since if "the Muslim claims Abraham as father, as does the Jew, as do I," then we are all siblings under the skin.

But lest that seem an easy bit of sophistry, Rodriguez has no interest in smoothing over what keeps us apart. To make this explicit, he turns to his childhood, when he worshiped at "two temples": "Sacred Heart Catholic Church, at 39th and J streets, in Sacramento [and the] Alhambra Theatre constructed in 1927 to resemble a tall white Muslim fortress." It's a stunning image of duality, not just between the religious and the worldly, the ancient and the American, but also between the Western and the Moorish, a symbol of the culture clash (on every level) that "Darling" means to explore.

The best material in the book pushes this theme provocatively: One piece suggests that Jerusalem is important less as a historical site than as an elaborate construction, "as condensed, as self-referential as Rubik's Cube." In the title essay, he uses his friendship with a divorced woman to suggest a link between the feminist and gay rights movements; "it was the brave suffragette," he insists, "(and not the tragic peacock Oscar Wilde) who rescued my sexuality."

Rodriguez is especially vivid writing about loss, including a meditation on Las Vegas seen through the filter of a hospice visit to a friend who is dying of AIDS, and a fragmentary set of riffs on time and disappearance, in which he recalls a homeless man named Wayne ("I fear he may be dead") and one brief instant of transcendence in San Francisco's Tenderloin. "But here's the thing," he writes: "Wayne's smile. I have thought about this for twenty years or more. Wayne's smile said: did you get it? Wayne's smile said: remember this moment, it contains everything."

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