Livingstone, Deputy Director in our Global Energy center where i need to work on climate and advanced energy. Thank you very much for joining us here today. Its a terrific to see a full room, particularly amid the dark days of august when so many folks in dc leave for cooler or at the very least, less humid climates. It is surely a traffic registration of interest in this topic and before we get started let me give a big thanks to zach strauss and are Global Energy and art interns who are instruments and making today happen along with our talented medications and events team. They are truly a testament to the assets and professionalism of the Atlantic Council. Dive in to todays discussion by noting that not only are you here because youre fascinated by the narrative that surround the climate challenge in the Energy Transition but you are likely also very interested in the narrators that help us to understand the complexities, ambiguities, leading characters in the emerging solutions at
A maker ofessor, and spacesuit replicas. The Smithsonian National air and space museum in washington, d. C. , hosted this event. We have assembled a panel of speakers. Some of my favorite people i like to talk to when talking about spacesuits, to recount the making of the apollo spacesuits and inform us on the lessons we have learned in going back to the next thing in Spacesuit Development be it going to the moon, an asteroid, or mars. In order to save time, i will introduce all four speakers and they will come up sequentially and tell their stories. Then we will have time for discussion and questions from the audience at the end. Our speakers in order of appearance are a recently retired test engineer at ilc dover, the company that made the apollo spacesuits and makes the current spacesuits our astronauts used to spacewalk from the iss when they leave via the american port on the International Space station. The next speaker will be ryan nagata, an artist and maker from Southern Calif
Sequestration is a place you go when you cant Reach Agreement and you start cutting how we meet the needs of the American People in a very indiscriminate way. Its harmful to children and other living things. Its harmful to our national security. Its over. We avoided a shutdown for the moment. We still have to go through the appropriations process, but the way the legislation was written for bipartisan agreement on any for us to proceed on any extraordinary measures, i think we have forestalled any prospect of a shutdown. Offsets, they wanted overwhelming offsets, we have half of what they wanted. They even wanted more than hat. It was good because what we were offset investments we make in people. And we just werent going to go to that place. Parity, im always fighting for parity. To the extent you increase defense budget, you have to increase the domestic budget. Except this time we got 10 billion more than parity. Our fight was to get more funding for our veterans. That was a constan
Speaker pelosi good morning, everyone. Well, yesterday, we had a culmination of a lot of work over a period of time to pass the caps agreement in a very strong bipartisan way on the loor of the house. Of course, i always want more, but it was bipartisan, and it was a compromise. It ended sequestration. For what that means in the lives of the American People, sequestration is a place you go when you cant Reach Agreement and you start cutting how we meet the needs of the American People in a very indiscriminate way. Its harmful to children and other living things. Its harmful to our national security. Its over. We avoided a shutdown for the moment. We still have to go through the appropriations process, but the way the legislation was written for bipartisan agreement on any for us to proceed on any extraordinary measures, i think we have forestalled any prospect of a shutdown. Offsets, they wanted overwhelming offsets, we have half of what they wanted. They even wanted more than hat. It
After labor day. Speaker nancy pelosi briefed reporters about the democrats agenda in congress. Speaker pelosi good morning, everyone. Well, yesterday, we had a culmination of a lot of work over a period of time to pass the caps agreement in a very strong bipartisan way on the floor of the house. Of course, i always want more, but it was bipartisan, and it was a compromise. It ended sequestration. For what that means in the lives of the American People, sequestration is a place you go when you cant Reach Agreement and you start cutting how we meet the needs of the American People in a very indiscriminate way. Its harmful to children and other living things. Its harmful to our national security. Its over. We avoided a shutdown for the moment. We still have to go through the appropriations process, but the way the legislation was written for bipartisan agreement on any for us to proceed on any extraordinary measures, i think we have forestalled any prospect of a shutdown. Offsets, they w