Hearing on efforts to improve education on science, technology, engineering and math. The Mars Exploration summit began with opening remarks from nasa administrator charles bolden, he spoke about the importance of humans becoming a multiplanet species and nasas goal of putting humans on mars in the next two decades. This is 30 minutes. Thank you very much, and thanks to all of you for allowing me to be with you this morning and it kind of kick us off, i hope. I also want to thank explore mars as well as g. W. President steve knapp and scott pace of the g. W. Policy institute for bringing us together for the humans to mars summit. Lets leave that slide up, ill talk about it all day long, and at least you can refer to it and you dont have to look at me. With mars making its closest approach to effort last week and currently appearing as the brightest body in the eastern sky during the month of april, this is an ideal time for this conference, as the red planet draws nearer to earthsort o
Cspan campaign 2014. More than 100 debates for the control of congress. Now a discussion on federal science policy and the use of simulation to address national threats. The chief scientist for the National Nuclear Security Agency and a special adviser to energy techtary. He addresses the university of tennessee Howard Baker Center for publictoba÷ policy in knoxv. This is about an hour. Thank you. That was an overly generous introduction. Thank you, again, taylor. I think the hospitality here at the baker center, the university of tennessee has been remarkable. Its a wonderful place, and im happy to be here. You know, as an academic who ended up in washington for some reason, i wanted to give you my personal take on computational science, what we do and kind of how i view this. I think its an interesting story, i hope youll find it interesting, too, as a beta tester, i guess this can fail and still be successful as part of your learning so we can look at it that way. So i have some fr
A look at some of the political ads running in that state. A few years ago, things in minnesota werent going very well. So we got a new coach. He made the tough decisions. And now, things are looking up. We added over 150,000 new jobs and have one of the Fastest Growing economies in the nation. Cut taxes while increasing our Rainy Day Fund and investing in education. Darn good record, right . Darn good coach. Im jeff johnson. As governor i will audit every state program. Im thorough. All done . I dont think so. Done with your homework . Lets doublecheck that. Did you eat this . Mark dayton should be held accountable for wasting our money. His Luxury Office and bonuses prove that hes out of touch with middle class minnesotans. Its time for a governor who gets it and gets us. Jeff johnson for governor. In a state plagued by specialists, a team of extraordinary candidates has stepped forward to restore minnesotas Government Back to its people. Together, they are the independents. Coming n
More trust building manner than the idea that somehow another one was spying on a particular community. If i could ask you the balanced question from the other direction, i wonder, do you worry or do you think that the public as 9 11 is becoming less concerned than we should be about terrorist threats. Is this what keeps you up at night or what does keep you up at night northwest mostly in this job sn. In this city the concerns about terrorism are every day in the newspapers. We will have the event on the 15th. The opening of the 9 11 memorial museum. In october we will open a new world trade center. In as much as that is where 9 11 occurred here, its constantly in our memory and constantly in our day to day lives. Throughout the rest of america. There has been a significant drop off. I really had to fight in los angeles the years i was there. 2002 to 2000 noin. To get resources to build up a Counter Terrorism capability. Again even though los angeles had been the subject of several te
Dayton and jeff johnson and hannah nicollet. Thursday night at 8 00 p. M. On cspan, live coverage of the oklahoma governors debate between joe dorman and mary fallin. Also on cspan 2, the nebraska governors debate between Democrat Chuck hassebrook and pete rickets. Between john lewis and ryan zinke. Cspan campaign 2014, more than 100 debates for the control of congress. Now we go back to the George Washington university forrum on Mars Exploration. This portion includes nasa chief scientist jame garvin. He spoke about the Robotic Missions taking place on mars and what theyve revealed about the planet. This is 35 minutes. [ applause ]. Thanks. Thank you very much. Can everyone hear me . Thank you very much. I want to take you on a tour really kind of like the ice lan dick sagas of what the science discoveries from mars especially in the last 14 years of our program of exploration known as the Mars Exploration program which is implemented at our jet Propulsion Lab has given us. I would li