150 scientists from the islamic world from 40 countries will be present. Isfahan will host the 5th mostafa science and Technology Award , the press conference of the science and Technology Event was brought up in which 150 scientists from the islamic world from 40 countries are present. Academic is it that these scientists in different universities and in different faculties do not have the technology that is considered for them with the owners of industries and taking scientific visits for the validation of networking , Capacity Building and discourse building of the four axes of Mustafa Foundation in holding this scientific event in the form of especially in this course, the subject is given attention and the gathering of activists will be held on friday and saturday, the 7th and 8th of october. The area under the name of rawan ko the system of science and technology that the people who have opinions from sang are going to be honored as the top five scientists of the islamic world in
To ask questions. Without objective, thats so ordered. Can would like to welcome everybody to the hearing today. Its going to focus obviously on how we can build the 21st century infrastructure. And the committee is holding a host of hearings to gather ideas on what congress can do to achieve this goal. And today, were going to hear ideas from our highways and transit stakeholders. Gathering input from our stakeholders is essential to the process. That we use to again surface transportation policy. Its valuable in our efforts to pass the act, which was the first longterm highway bill in a decade, and were going to continue to need your assistance with future legislation. Even with the Additional Resources we provided, the nations surface Transportation System still needs additional investments. Enacting a long Term Solution for the Highway Trust Fund is a critical component to insuring we can address those needs long into the future. Since passage of the f. A. S. T. Act, building a con
Vote on the nomination. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then former secretary and former governor Michael Leavitt who we welcome today good to see you and have you back and senator young, a member of this committee will introduce mr. Azar. After his testimony, each will have five minutes of questions. I anticipate a good, vigorous questioning time. Azar, you will be running a 1. 1 trillion organization. That almost equals the total of the 12 appropriation Bills Congress passes each year to find everything from National Parks to National Defense to national laboratories. You would be overseeing medicare and medicaid, our nations Insurance Programs for the poor and elderly. Mental health and substance abuse, where you will have to address the europe your crisis other issues. The National Institutes of health where with Francis Collins excellent leadership the United States is leading efforts to develop a cure for new treatmentd for cancer. The fda, where Scot
Justice . This was interesting. Obama has gotten attention for his comments on court cases particularly before theyre decided, as well as after where i think its perhaps a bit more typical for president to speak after decisions are made. But it did seem interesting that i mean he actually went as far to criticize the cert stage when he said the court shouldnt have even taken the case. So it was interesting. And just by coincidence i happen to have sitting in my inbox a study of president ial comments on pending Supreme Court cases since 1954. Looking at this study and seeing how really rare it was, although not completely unheard of for president to comment when they had cases of which they took some interest before the Supreme Court, i dont think it is going to be a very typical thing. I think this as one factor that the study itself observed, president s most likely to comment on pending cases tend to be lawyering who think they know a lot about the law and are in a position to discu
His political right. Sunday night at 87 on cspan q a. Congressmen will heard is a republican from texas, he is chair of the Information Technology subcommittee. He is a former Cyber Security analyst and a former cia agent and he is our guest this week on the communicators congressmen heard, you have a bill that has passed the house that deals with Information Technology in the federal government. What is it . Is called the modernizing Government Technology act. What it does is actually quite simple. If a cio, chief Information Officer in the federal government saves money by doing Something Like transitioning to the cloud, they are able to use the money they save for up for three years in a working capital fund. Why is that important . The federal government is spending 90 billion. Year on purchasing it goods and services in 75 of that is on old, outdated legacy systems. We need to be using a taxpayer dollar wiser. By being able to have the authority to introduce new technology, that w