Senator as you know there were originally seven Pilot Projects that we looked at. For them were approved in three of them are not approved including the 70 Million Dollar mississippi grant. We were deeply disappointed as well because he wanted to try to make this work but at the end of the day the state in nta couldnt agree on terms because the states plan didnt provide the necessary level of detail we needed to meet the statutory requirements. As you know under the btop program there were specific statutory requirements that this had to meet and the mississippi plan that came forward was not a viable alternative that medbee statutory requirements. One of the things that ntia is committed to the. To requirements from 2012 . I believe from the original btop program and my understanding is the Mississippi Program didnt provide broadband so that was one of the challenges of this. But look we wanted to try to make this work or at the Firstnet Team worked very hard and long hours with missi
Sanctions. We will not get any sanctions because the other countries will not go with it. Host ok, we are all out of time on capitol hill right now. Before the Senate Finance Committee Testimony to be had about protecting taxpayers from schemes and scams during the 2015 tax Filing Season. That is the topic. We will bring you live coverage on cspan. Welcome. The Committee Meets to talk about growing criminal activity that is threatening taxpayers across the country. These criminal acts are prevented by themes hiding behind telephone lines and computers, preying on august taxpayers on august taxpayers and robbing them of tens of billions of dollars a year. We are here to hear about federal and state officials on the fight to catch these crooks and protect taxpayers. First, i would you talk about one case in particular. In one very large number, by the way. This is a hearing that is long overdue as far as i am concerned. We will get into it. I have to apologize that a senator is not. , bu
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
To pull all of it out, we are trying to keep the mud at bay until the weekend. Right now, we are fighting the weather. Each member will stay awake in the middle of the night just to speck out this reporter at last check, city clerk said one resident has so far filed a claim with the city. John mcafee said he is in hiding, staying one step ahead of police that want to question him in a homicide case. The Software Pioneer tells Associated Press he thinks the police antigang unit wants to kill him. He said he is changing locations and phones frequently to evade investigators. He is considered a person of interest in a Fatal Shooting of a neighbor on an island in belize. The man convicted of killing his exgirlfriend and her friend on the bridge three years ago made an odd request in the penalty phase of his child. He told jurors they should flip a coin to decide whether or not to give him the Death Penalty or give him life in prison. He was convicted last week. He was a toll taker and ever
I didnt attempt to take someone else but followed people up to that point and said no. Reporter the sevenyearold he admits to kidnapping says to be the easiest target. He followed the mother and her girl home. Her mother was upset. I was upset. I wanted her to know i have a sevenyearold son myself. I can only imagine how reporter in a sometimes emotional jailhouse interview, douglas calls the kidnapping a cry for help, claiming people from the government have been following him for years, and told him to do it. I said i dont know why im supposed to take you. I just know that i am for some reason or other. These people want to see this happen. I dont know why. I said but why dont we both try to calm down first and then well talk about it more in a minute. Reporter douglas says he had no intention in harming the sevenyearold and was as scared as she was. When i picked her up, she said she was scared. I said im scared, too. We were both shaking. Reporter he says he never touched the girl