Commerce, science and transportation committee, topics included critical mineral supply chains, manufacturing of Semiconductor Chips, workforce shortages and Rural Broadband access. The hearing runs two hours and 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, the Senate Commerce committee will come to order. I think my colleagues who have been in this room for many hours already today doing double duty today on aviation hearing and very important conversation about the chips in science act, which are committee played a big role in, needless to say are committee has been working diligently on a lot of transformational policy but while we are waiting for our colleague here i think i will thank senator wicker again for his work on chips in science act. People may not remember but this committee, dont know how many were processed. It was in the hundreds. Might have been in the 300s but i definitely believe a regular order process is good for the institution, good for the debate abou
The critical thing and we should visit when we have more time. Let me just say the reports about because way are incredibly disturbing and i cant count on the investigations but we take every threat seriously and investigate to the fullest wherever we think theres some incredible allegation that a company has done an end run around your export controls. We need different tools, im supportive of the guard act which would and the restrict act which would codify our itcs authorities. We need that to have a comprehensive approach to go after connected apps. We would need resources additionally to do that. I think we need Additional Resources around enforcement to do exactly what youre talking about. Candidly we need the threat is different today. The threat from china in 2023 is different than the cold war threats of decades ago. It is technology and a. I. And it is moving fast so i would welcome a broader discussion with you around how we modernize what we do and how we properly fund what
The minister of roads and urban development , presenting a report on the financing of housing projects , announced that with the policies of the government, the cost of land for the construction of National Housing movement projects has been reduced to zero. In this report, the necessity of planning to provide the basic items of housing construction, including cement and steel was emphasized. At the ceremony of handing over 2,050 plots of land to the beneficiaries of jamiat youth plan in tehran province, minister shaherarsi said that so far 400,000 plots of land have been handed over to the applicants of the National Housing scheme. Mr. Bazer pash also emphasized that by the end of this year, 500,000 plots of land in villages will be given to applicants. I dont feel like flying , im very happy. The celebration and happiness of these families comes from the dedication of the land that was given to them based on the law of the youth of the population. How much impact does this transfer o
Myself. I think i was in the last year of albers high school. Very deep from a question, from a relatively simple hypothesis that the speed of light is the same for everyone, and this was related to euclids geometric properties, that is, from einsteins special relativity, it could be obtained with rational geometric laws that were old and the results it gave were very good. It was believed, for example, the length of the contraction or time expansion and this was really strange and miraculous for me and drew my attention to physics. Of course, i cant say that in my early years, i thought i would go to science as a profession, that is , i considered it as a kind of fun. In my high school years, we were actually thirsty to learn and to move forward and understand more and more. This is amy tieh. I came here to continue my education after i finished high school in iran. I have a very good feeling about this university. I feel like a kind of home for me because it was the first place i cam
We allocated an amount of 100 million tomans to each of these magazines. In fact, magazines are a tool that can show us this scientific growth and diplomacy of science , and in the very good meeting we had today , it was actually a meeting of mutual thinking. We received the constructive comments of respected editors of medical journals in order for our magazines to be encouraged, each of these magazines that i mentioned will be given 100 million tomans to help the magazine, of course , in the areas where they can express and enter and help the ministry according to the contracts with them. It is closed, god willing , we will give more credits. Drug exports to the countries of the region have increased. Last year, more than 70 Million Dollars of medicines and related industries were exported from our country, which according to the officials of this field, this trend is increasing this year. The establishment of the International Exhibition of medicine and related industries is an oppo