Notices. So point three is everybody better exercise what can happen but also what might happen thats really dark and awful. And that requires leadership, that requires time and training. And a lot of people are not doing it. And thats worrisome. After that, actually a few years ago, rand had a sabrini panel. I was a member of that too. There were only two of us who were laymen. There were army generals, steve abbott, fourstar navy admiral, was the chair, i was the vice chair. It was chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological event. That was what was exercised. And we concluded, to our horror, that nobody law enforcement, National Guard, the local First Responders had a clue what a nuclear event, dirty bomb, what did it look like in terms of injured people or a chemical or a biological event. Now, have things changed since then . Certainly at the state level. But guess what . No Congressional Committee had a hearing. Amazing. We went to see one senator who said, god, this is really
Ongoing efforts in developing Autonomous Vehicles and answered questions on safety, Cyber Security and their hopes for updated rules and regulation from the national highway traffic administration. This is two hours. Good morning. Id like to call the subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection to order. The chair now recognizes himself for five minutes for an opening statement. Again, good morning and welcome to the first hearing of the 115th congress for the Digital Congress and Consumer Protection subcommittee. Its a pleasure to be here with you today. Before we get started, i want to thank the chairman for the work they did in the last congress here on the subcommittee. I want to recognize the new vice chairman from mississippi. Glad to have you on board. Also looking forward to working and advancing an agenda that creates jobs and puts consumers first and i want to recognize the lady in illinois, our Ranking Member. I appreciate well be working with her this congress.
Auto executives testified about their work on selfdriving cars, testing the cars themselves and safety of government regulation. [ indistinct chatter ] good morning. Id like to call the subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection to order. The chair now recognizes himself for five minutes for an opening statement. Again, good morning and welcome to the first hearing of the 115th congress for the Digital Congress and Consumer Protection subcommittee. Its a pleasure to be here with you all today. Before we get started, i want to thank the chairman for the work they did in the last congress here on the subcommittee. I want to recognize the new vice chairman of the subcommittee, the gentleman from mississippi. Glad to have you on board. Also looking forward to working to advance an agenda that creates jobs and puts consumers first and i want to recognize the gentle lady from illinois, our Ranking Member. I appreciate well be working with her this congress. I look forward to wo
Good afternoon. Before starting, would you please silence all cell phones during the session. A reminder that personal recording of sessions is not allowed. There will be a book signing following the session, and this panel will be meeting in signing area number one which you will find noted on your festival map. And you can also ask one of the volunteers in the room to direct you. Welcome. Im lynn fieldman, a freelance Science Writer and editor of Science Writers magazine published by the National Association of Science Writers. And i will serve as moderator of this session on science, technology and the human condition. It is my honor to introduce our panelists. At your far right beth shapiro, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the university of californiasanta cruz. Her research is centered on the analysis of ancient dna. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including nature and science, and she is a 2009 recipient of a mac arthur award. She live
Conversational at least among them began to do massive oral history work with people so that you can go online and have innumerable websites with paperwork from survivors of the camps. The other part which is always interesting, the military, everything is done on paper. A lot of political stuff gets destroyed, military stuff doesnt. You could get a couple pictures, one of the heroism of japanese americans before regimental combat teams and also stories of the people who only came to burps with people 30 or 40 years after it did so that it was a thrill to go through that research. Talk about the california environments, there was a man shot in the back by a young sentry, by independence, they were bored out of their minds and always looking for excitement and this guy is yelling, this Young American in a tower, there were americans on both sides of the barbed wire, that is the story but the deaf guy is walking along the fence and soldiers shouting at him to stop and get out of the way.