St test test test. This is a test. This sophomore a captioning test. California are looking at Carbon Pricing. Many as you heard over 30 have their own gas taxes. Some are going to tolling. So there are a lot of different ways we can raise revenues without focusing only on eds, which states are thinking about right now. I like to say there are no silver bullet, we need to learn from the states and see which work. We now have our chair and Ranking Member from our transportation infrastructure subcommittee. I want to salute them and their stats and leadership they are providing as we go through this process. Thank you. Senator boseman. Thank you, senator braun. Mr. Braceras, arkansas, it was significant, record breaking floods both in height and just the force of the water. Tremendous damage, lots of damage to the infrastructure, the good news is, like utah, arkansas is working very hard, theyre going to recover, great leadership in our state and all of those kind of things. I guess what
Host Annie Jacobsen, its start with definitions. Whats area 51 . Guest thats a secret basese out in nevada where all kinds of mysterious things happen that you and i can talk about and maybe we know what is going on out there maybe we dont. Host whew its called area 51. Guest big debate. I believe its called area 51 because of the original project that went on us there in 1951. Information given to me by some of the sources that i interviewed at length for that book, but of course, everything about area 51 is kind of a mussel inside of a palestine sol thats debated. The actual origins, the original date, the origin story of area 51. Host in 1951 what was going on . The Atomic Energy commission was doing loots of Nuclear Testing out there in the middle of the desert, and they wanted to keep what they were doing secret, and the cia was kind of coming into existence with its programs, and the two merged in this idea of if you have a secret base in a secret place you can do secret programs
Looking for that, had anyone else done this . You can find everything on our site. We did not create anything original except for the structure around the data. The answer is yes on every topic. Their action is some very good check these topics and do them very well. I saw visualization about how government money gets spent. That is super. You dont see many places where people are adding together state, local, and federal data. That is pretty rare. Most governments present themselves government by government. Everything out there is available, the question is bringing it together. If you say how many jobs are in food preparation and service, you will find that pure of labor statistics website. You may not navigate it well and you make correlate that with other things happening in the economy. Charlie who will use it . I hope that we get iitially is people in the government field, journalists will benefit, and what i call the most engaged part of the citizenry. People who read publicati
[inaudible conversations] let me start with a few preliminaries about todays newsmaker. I am david anderson. A longtime member of the club and member of the clubs newsmaker committee. Im an attorney, years ago i was was correspondent for the cincinnati herald. The there may be a lot of folks who are not journalists in here so do re speak the members of the media, who may be here, and asking questions. And many of those may be working journalists and so please understand that theyre here to do a job. Now, after our guest makes his opening remarks youll have chance to ask questions. When you do please identify yourself, name and affiliation. Before we get started, id like to mention some Upcoming Event test club. On march 21st, a panel on the South China Sea dispute. And that will include various security, economic, and legal issues. On the 22nd, the club will also have a newsmaker on millenials, and on march 24th, the club will host john kot ky nin, commissioner of the irs, and that is
Same time. After the u. S. Summit on mars, we are meeting here on earth. This happy coincidence captures the relationship. A fiveday u. S. Trip this week with a working dinner with president obama and an overnight stay at the white house. In new york, modi met with fortune 500ceos and investors with his Ambitious Program to modernize indias economy. India is a democracy the size of western europe with a population over 1,250,000,000. Ithas figured in asias great game since the president of george w bush. In 2001 he lifted sanctions imposed by the u. S. On india after the country secretly developed a nuclear bomb in 1998. Lifting the sanctions of pursuing a strategic relationship between india and the u. S. To can culture chinas growing influence. Alongside a Standing Army of 1. 3 million soldiers. India has around 100 nuclear weapons. Last month they displayed Technology Call prowess by sending a satellite to mars. President obama wants india to play a prime role in the asian pivot. Un