Research tract faculty. There are jobs in industry, journalist, many where needed and we want to be sure people find the right match for themselves. We have started new programs, an early independence award which im excited about which allows a talented phd to skip the post doc and go to an independent position. I go to the presentations each year and its the most exciting day of the year because of their vision and their ideas. Similarly we have this new award where you cant apply if youve previously had a grant and your valentines day has to be out of the box, a little wacky for you to be allowed to apply for that proposal mechanism. And when we look at the output it has been truly impressive. All that is great but of course it doesnt solve the main problem we have which is this loss in purchasing power for research. We can try to balance things as best we can, protect those young investigators. We can only go so far. I appreciate that. And resources are obviously key to this as well
Sanction. It must approve that relationship. Theyre two different questions. Mr. Verrilli it is different, i agree. And i, and it leads to the second thing i think that the that the lawrence catalyzed for our society, was it put gay and lesbian couples, gay and lesbian people, in a position for the first time in our history to be able to lay claim to the abiding promise of the 14th amendment in a way that was just impossible when they were marginalized and ostracized. And youre right, mr. Chief justice, this is about equal participation, participation on equal terms in a stateconferred a stateconferred status, a state institution. That is different than lawrence, but i do think that what lawrence has allowed us to see is that the justifications for excluding gay and lesbian couples from equal participation in this Institution Just hold up. And i do think and the court has raised this question about whether what we are talking about here is a is a fundamental change in the nature of mar
The secretary i am directed by the president of the United States to deliver to the house of representatives a message in writing. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip , but in o five minutes no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentlelady from North Carolina, ms. Foxx, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to talk about h. R. 899, the Unfunded Mandates information and transparency act, which will be considered by the house later this week. I realize, mr. Speaker, that this name doesnt come trippingly off the tongue, but it is an important piece of legislation. Every year federal agencies
Practice online at booktv. Org, and tune in suns on cspan2 sundays on cspan2 to watch all of your favorite authors. Host and now here on booktv were joined by professor gale pooley, coauthor of this book called superabun with dance. Abundance. Professor, what do you mean when you talk about superabundance . Guest well, first of all, thanks for giving me the opportunity to schaffer what we kind of to share what we kind of discovered in our research. The idea a of superabundance, it really occurred to us when we were looking at this original bet between julian simon and paul ehrlich. If you remember that back in the 1980s,s, you had paul ehrlich who had written the population bomb, and it was this book that kind of painted this soviet future, that things were going to crash, england wo wouldnt exist, and we were going to dash. And an economist picked up book and thought initially the model makes sense, but maybe i should go back and look at the data and see what the data say about resour
But for the First Time Since maybe the 1980s, maybe even the 1960s, today were confronting a real possibility that Vladimir Putin might decide to use Nuclear Weapons in the war in ukraine. Terrifying possibility. This is a kind of wild eyed scenario that used to be able to read about only in the back pages of obscure rand reports, but its here in real life right now today. So the book were talking about today arrives at exactly the right time. The book is called winning and losing the Nuclear Peace and its about the decadelong effort to reduce Global Nuclear dangers. And were fortunate of the author Michael Krepon here with us to talk about it today. Michael is the cofounder and distinguished senior fellow at the stimson center. He cofounded the stimson center. In 1989 after working the executive branch and on capitol hill. He received the Carnegie Endowment award for Lifetime Achievement in nongovernmental work to reduce Nuclear Dangers in 2015. For people like me, thats like being vo