Screeria nigeria. Hearing. Manhattan institute hosted a discussion about education and the future of the africanamerican community. Today the Brookings Institution hosted a discussion about driverless vehicles. Engineers, legal analysts and state Department Officials participated. This is an hour and a half. Good morning, everyone. The u. S. Department of state and it is my pleasure to welcome all of you to the discussion on bringing Driverless Cars from markets and introduce you to the the Deputy Assistant secretary of state for science, space and health, doctor Jonathan Margolis. As a member of the service, dr. Margolis oversees policy programs in the areas of International Science technology, International Health and body of defense and space and advanced technology and also conducted courses at the university of maryland, American University and the Foreign Service institute on these dr. Margolis began his career as antiamerican association of incident of science policy fellow and
Also district maps a foldout map of capitol hill, and a look at congressional committees, the president s cabinet, federal agencies and state governors. Order your copy today, its 13. 95, plus shipping and handling through the cspan online store at cspan. Org. Tonight on the communicators, at this years Consumer Electronics show we met up with you a Thor Peter Nowak who says were in a new phase of Human Development and through robots and other technology were likely to enhance the human condition. Robots i think is an especially interesting one because 2014 i think was the year of robot angst. I dont know if i could a day went by i didnt see some kind of story about how robots are stealing jobs from humans and were all going to end up out of work. On a daily basis you hear stories about here is a robot thats a better bartender than humidities a better waitress or waiter than humans and so on and so on. The thing that i find the point i think thats missed a lot is that every prior revol
Va must atone for its gross mismanagement. It should find cost savings in this program and other programs in any way it can. Ultimately congress does have an obligation to ensure va has the resources it needs to complete this project and additionally, further delay and funding uncertainty will only lead to higher costs overrides. Gl. There is no easy answer and i believe the that the facilities are necessary and must be completed. Where that money comes from is another question, but i think it was said its about veterans and veterans need to be cared for and Congress Needs to find the money somewhere to continue. Should never happen again. I think va should get out of the business of building hospitals. We would agree in regard to the construction and just more broadly, in and all cost overruns of va provide high risk of no provides the highest quality care to veterans. Whether for construction or anything else. Iva supports the secretarys budget request. We also support his request fo
Head start, all of which were probably among the leading agenda items of any democrat over the last 40 years. These are ideas that have the freshness of the hula hoop and wage and price controls. At the moment the political and ideological project of the left is to muster a coalition of the ascending on behalf of an agenda of exhaustion. In contrast on the right we see a time of genuine ferment. Near his death, bill buckley said that conservativism needed to be rebaptized. The tea party has been the concrete vehicle for that reaffirmation of the pillar of the conservative faith, and we have begun to see ago effort to fill in the details of those principles with concrete policy, whether its the entitlement reforms of paul ryan the tax plans of marco rubio or the health care promise of richard burr and orrin hatch. Much of his lies under the banner of socalled reform conservatism which should properly be understood i believe as either a misnomer or a redundancy. Because reform shouldnt b
The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered chaplain, guest springfield, missouri. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, you equip the founders with great resilience as they sought your wisdom in establishing our nation. With that same power that inspired our patriots, bless these members of congress today, lift them up, o god, when they feel discouraged, when negative thoughts seem to dominate, when the winds are against them, strengthen their minds and spirits with an inner faith that only you can provide. As we are now united in prayer, unite their efforts, help them leave bitterness by the wayside. May their decisions consider the hopeful faces of parents, children, elderly, soldiers, veterans that each person in every district will be blessed by the strong leadership of this congress. As many voices compete for their attention, create a sanctuary for them to pause, reflect and hear your voice. Equip them with the courage that constantly reminds them that w