Manufacturing a new Competitive Edge in this global economy. The best thing washington can do is to encourage further growth in investment. As president obama noted in his recent speech touting 3d printing hubs, if you want to attract more good manufacturing jobs, you need to be on the cutting edge. Our company could not agree more. Id like to thank the committee for holding this hearing and id be happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you, mr. Cobb. Our next witness is Peter Weijmarshausen founder and ceo of shapeaways, the worlds leading 3d printing marketplace and community. Prior to shapeaways, peter was the chief Technology Officer at sanjen which he and his team developed satellite broadcast modems. Hes director of engineering at ermiska where hes responsible for delivering a Business Broadband Service via satellite. He was born and raised in the netherland and moved to new york in 2010. Thanks for being here. Good afternoon, mr. Chairman and members of the committee
Weeks left. Its been a very interesting four years, kind of a revolution in whats going on in the automobile interest. I like to please welcome david strickland. [applause] thank you so much. This is a superstar panel. I need to stay longer and learn something here. As a number of you will be aware i will be stepping down from my post as a minister in a couple of weeks. But i wanted sure a couple of perspectives are equipped. Ive been told five minutes and i will keep the five. We first began our work during my tenure on destruction, starting really in earnest in 2009, 2010. I remembered my decision to make sure that it came to cbs as part of the regular auto show tour. It has become the fourth major auto show in america. Shapiro and the team at cea and manufactures a recognize the Car Companies are no longer just Car Companies do your technology companies. It is a convergence. As possibilities, opportunities, also greater risk. As my valedictory if you will in terms of where we are an
Tour because ces has become effectively the fourth major auto show, and Dave Schapiro and the team realized that there is a convergence. With convergence, there are possibilities, opportunities, and also great risks. So, i have valedictory, if you will, in terms of where we are and what we have seen, and where we will go, i am incredibly happy to see that so many partners are not talking to each other, which was not the case are now talking to each other, which was not the case that long ago. You have handheld manufacturers and automakers and system lab form providers, the windows, and the ioss of the world are now in Strategic Partnerships in figuring out ways forward. [phone rings] speaking of which i wish i had planned that, but i really did not. [laughter] that is all good things. But i will tell you that from the part of the agency nhtsa, as a safety regular, and there are other regulatory bodies that will be a part of this space and partnership with nhtsa, the federal trade commi
Yesterdays a snowstorm dumped a half foot of snow and left frigid temperatures in the east and here in the nations capital, despite those temperatures being in the teens of today, thousands of abortion opponents are expected to march and brave the weather in the annual march for life rally held on the anniversary date of the supreme escort the supreme courts roe v wade decision legalizing abortion. Your unceasing, we will have live coverage of the march here at noon eastern. You can place your comment on our Facebook Page and send us a tweet, cspanchat. Afternoon, health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius talks about the implementation of the Health Care Law. She will be speaking at the conference of mayors winter meeting at 2 30 p. M. Eastern. On our companion network, c continue thewe live coverage of the state of the state address, bringing you california governor jerry brown live at noon eastern again on c span2. I would like to add a personal word with regard to an gre