Good evening. My name is Kathleen Richardson and i am the dean of the school of journalism and mitigation at Drake University. Welcome both to the members of our audience here at the Science Center of iowa and des moines and to those of us or those of you who are joining us by lifestream. This year we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of journalism education at drake and from the beginning in 1919 our program has been characterized by a close relationship with our profession and by service for our community. We are very proud to continue that tradition by cohosting the conversation tonight. We have experts on the front lines of this pressing public issue. This event is brought to you through a collaboration between Drake University and sidelined. Sideline is a philosophically funded free service for journalists based at the American Association for the advancement of science in washington dc. It connects reporters to scientists in order to promote more credible Accurate Research ba
Notice that three of them are from ucla. I would like to remind those of you at nyu that these three people used to be at nyu, and i think their presence here today is a symbol of the fact that once you are at nyu, you never really leave. It is just like a magnet coming back. We would like to congratulate them on their new roles and especially on this study. I should also say to remind you at nyu, we are now the Global Network university. So in a sense, think of ucla sort of like nyu west. As we congratulate you, we are also proud of your competence. The way we are going to proceed this morning is, im going to introduce all of our speakers and they will follow each other without further introduction. Our first speaker will be are still as torres arose go. The other comment i want to to make, because we have very distinguished speakers, for those of you not in academia is important for you to know that when someone is a high level besser professor, they have this other name they start t
From first page to the back page. I think that as a matter of policy and procedure and human rights we should have the posting of passports in nepal. I dont question for a minute we should have it from day one. We will now going forward. Anything we communicate to the nepalese we do it both in english as well as the nepalese including their contracts, their Employment Contracts thank the chairman for additional time, and i yield back. Thank you. Now recognize mr. Cummings for five minutes. Thank you very much mr. Chairman. Id like to discuss the examination of two Construction Contracts at the kabul embassy. The first one was in 2009 and the second was awarded in 2010 to a different contractor, thats correct . Thats correct. Can you briefly describe the two things that were contracted and their estimated completion dates . I believe the 2009 contract was to construct a number of temporary offices and housing. It was also to construct an Office Complex that my state colleagues have refe
Engineers to say these are the basic requirements and put our buildings together. So we could give you many documents, i think you have requested many of those already and were in the process of giving those, so im happy again to have our folks work with yours and to prioritize the list of things that youre asking for and to make sure that you get every single thing that youre asking for. This is sort of the recurring theme here. Were asking what was the plan for kabul, and there wasnt one. What is the plan for Design Excellence as opposed to standard embassy design, which was pretty fairly clearly defined. There are plans for both. And we can provide you documents for all of those things if we havent already. That would be great, because we have been asking for a long period of time. And we still havent got to that point where you could say, all right, now based on this, you should be able to understand everything were doing with Design Excellence. Thats what were trying to get to. Th
Republicans, 202 7488001. Independencts, 202 7458002. You can also find us on facebook and twitter. You can send us an email at journal cspan. Org. The dodd frank act was named after its authors, and senator chris dodd and barney frank. It was a massive bill that required federal agencies to write hundreds of new rules. Here are some of the things that the dodd frank act did. It was signed into law by president obama on july joint first, 2010. It created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It attempted to an too big to fail bailouts of Financial Firms. In eliminated loopholes of financial products, providing shareholders a say on executive compensation, and enforce regulations on the books. Here are some polls that show just exactly the scope of this bill. A summary of the bill by a law firm shows that the bill was 22,290 six pages long. It has had 119 congressional hearings, and there have been 139 bills issued in congress to amend or repeal the act. The stats also give you a se