Coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and Public Policy events. You can watch all of cspans Public Affairs programming on television, online or listen on the free radio app. Be part of the National Conversation through cspans daily Washington Journal Program or through our social media feeds. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. This week on the communicators, our guest is representative frank lucas, republican of oklahoma, and the Top Republican on the science, tech, and space committee. Joining us as our guest reporter gopal ratnam of cq roll call. Thank you for being on the communicators this week. Congressman, what have we learned when it comes to technology in the last couple of months, and whats the role of congress in advancing that . Rep. Lucas i think we have come to finally appreciate as a nation how absolutely important it is that we maintain our technological edge
Peter congressman frank lucas is the Top Republican on the science, tech and space committee. Gopal ratnam covers Technology Issues for cq roll call. Thank you both for being on the communicators. Gopal thank you. Cspan has unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the Supreme Court and Public Policy events. You can watch all of cspans Public Affairs programming online or listen on our free radio app and be part of the National Conversation through cspans daily Washington Journal Program or through our social media feeds. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. President trump met with the American Workforce Advisory Board on the economy. He was joined by his daughter ivanka and several cabinet embers and Business Leaders. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States accompanied by the honorable vanka trump. [applause] President Trump thank you very much. Busy time. Were making a
Cable television companies. Peter this week on the communicators, our guest is representative frank lucas, republican of oklahoma, and the Top Republican on the science, tech, and space committee. Joining us as our guest reporter gopal ratnam of cq roll call. Thank you for being on the communicators this week. Congressman, what have we learned when it comes to technology in the last couple of months, and whats the role of congress in advancing that . Rep. Lucas i think we have come to finally appreciate as a nation how absolutely important it is that we maintain our technological edge and that we move forward. We make sure it is accessible to all. I cant imagine as a member of congress how we would have functioned in this pandemic without the ability to use a variety of conferencing and communications technology. Not just the traditional phone calls that we use for our Republican House conference, but webex, and a whole variety of platforms to move information back and forth. Thats not
Policing accountability seems to be always about Holding Someone responsible after something has gone wrong. That includes criminal prosecutions and civil rights actions, civilian review boards and body cameras. Government, of the cut accountability is about people having a voice upfront, their elected representatives passing laws transparently that govern different areas of whatever the regulated industry is with public input. We dont do that around policing. Our organization is dedicated to changing that. Host what caught our attention was an oped you wrote in the wall street journal, how to rethink policing is the headline. You write that cops should not be sent to deal with social problems like Substance Abuse, Mental Illness and homelessness that they are not trained to handle. Tell us more. Guest one of our big strategic areas is called Reimagining Public Safety based in part on some of the same assumptions of the defund folks. I dont think many police would disagree with the ass
Advance. Everyone needs a chance to prosper. And broadband, the internet, modern communications is to us what pencil and tablet was to my greatgrandparents 100 years ago. Peter lets bring our guest reporter, gopal ratnam, from cq roll call into our conversation. Gopal thank you for having me, peter. And congressman lucas, thank you for taking this time to speak. I want to ask you about the proposal you have, that you put out in january, asking for an increase in spending on federal r d. Among the things that you called for is a boost in spending on Artificial Intelligence, biotech and quantum computing. But given the pandemic we are amidst now, 120,000 plus americans have died, is there anything that you would change in terms of areas of focus, areas of research where such federal spending to be applied . Could be applied . Rep. Lucas i think what we have seen in recent weeks demonstrates not just the need, but the magnitude of the resources that are necessary. When legislation was bei