Now we all know that Hansen is a really smart guy that we wished we had listened to back in 1988 when he first testified about global warming.
He first testified that the stomachs of pelicans contained no trout, mackerel, or pompano; instead, they were loaded with mullet, pigfish, Gulf menhaden, pinfish, and thread herring.
"Clearly," said the spokesman, Jim Manley, "it would have been better if Senator Burris had provided this information when he first testified".
Talk story about Marina Castelnuovo and the provenance of the infamous gold-and-blue Ermenegildo Zegna necktie which Clinton wore on the day Lewinsky first testified before the grand jury.
There's been remarkable progress in this field since the pop superstar first testified before Congress in 2002 - treatment rates are up worldwide and infection rates are down.
Senator, Kamala Harris, very clearly seething at this point — having had her questions to Facebook knocked about since November 2017, when its general council had first testified to the committee on the disinformation topic — was determined to get under Sandberg's skin.
James Hansen, the NASA scientist who first testified to Congress about global warming in 1988, was so convinced that no meaningful accord would come from the talks in Copenhagen that he didn't bother to attend.
Since 1988 when Jim Hansen first testified about global warming to Congress, there has been no major federal legislation, no comprehensive international agreement, and plenty of denial amongst many of our political leaders.
Kerry, who first testified before the committee in 1971 to express his opposition to the Vietnam War, choked up when recalling his father's service as a career diplomat.
But friends and allies said he was preparing a point-by-point rebuttal, most likely to be delivered when he first testifies before Congress.
