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by Reeve Hamilton, The Texas Tribune
January 13, 2011
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Dallas, will not be seeking re-election in 2012.
She issued a letter to supporters making the announcement that she would leave her post as the state’s senior senator next year. “That should give the people of Texas ample time to consider who my successor will be,” she said.
BLOCK: Now on to Texas, where a $300,000 earmark from Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison would fund the Texas Height Modernization Project. Garey Gilley directs the Texas Spatial Reference Center at Texas A&M in Corpus Christi.
And Garey Gilley, you’re modernizing the height of what and why?
Mr. GAREY GILLEY (Director, Texas Spatial Reference Center, Texas A&M): Well, we’re trying to modernize is actually to bring up to current standards the national control system for positioning, both horizontal and vertical across the face of the Earth.
Most everybody is now familiar with GPS. They have GPS in their cars. That’s very, very accurate as to where you are on the face of the Earth. But GPS is not accurate as to how high you are and what is your relative position to mean sea level.
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