Are again. Once again finding yourselves in a transformational change. To hear stories about these changes as they are foundational with innovation and competitiveness the commission cochaired is a multiyear effort for americans innovation potential to have a new path and the 21st century. And as this slide shows a little less than a year ago of poor leadership we begin to build this effort and by august pulled together a powerful and diverse set of commissioners from across the country from industry and academia and the labor union and today is the 2020 roadmap of activities that we hope will change the future and trajectory of American Innovation and to make this happen with hundreds of advisors and innovation practitioners with this new innovation agenda and movement for americana. This morning our Commission Leadership will share their Top Priorities of the strategy and i would like to look at a future centered around a more sustainable approach of production consumption and the be
Vote the presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or change their vote . On this the vote the yeas are 53, the nays are 40. The nomination is agreed to and confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates actions. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22, do hereby bring to a close debate on the nomination of Lawrence Vandyke, of nevada, to be United States circuit judge for the ninth circuit. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of Lawrence Vandyke, of nevada, to be United States circuit judge for the ninth circuit shall be brought to a close . The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk will call the rol
Word for the day, it kind of governs how i conduct myself often times and just my frame of mind. Today, im going to pick an image of the day. If you look at your screen, one of our commissioners shared with me this image. And i think it really sets the tone and the stage and underscores the importance of why we are here and the significance of this panel. Is a chinese book for kindergartners. Chinese,ou dont speak circled our two letters. Ai. Kindergarten. Textbook. Ai. Us senator talked about tooling ourselves and getting ready from grade school to grad school. Now, we are talking about kindergarten or even prek, if you are going to keep ahead and really stay number one when it comes to ai. I just wanted to start with this image. Because it really, for me underscores the urgency of why this commission was formed and why it is so important that we are here today. Nscai has a broad mandate and working group number three is charged with recommending concrete steps the government should t
And im included what i think of less frequently mentioned topics of this period. Here we have before us images of top jacks jackson square, ridge high. Happy valley. S50 plant and steam plan at k25 site. With here. Change. E of the time is certainly there was a change from the arm corps of engineers Atomic Energy commission. There was change in the town and labor. Congress, the Atomic Energy act. Searcher spice. Came to search for spies development and you see at articles, these are titles of articles in the nat 0 10en. 14, 1946 two big things that day. A will get into that in minute. Im very appreciative of ed escott and others that were involved in not only recording history but writing about it so about our past. Thank you, ed. An eye chart. His is Manhattan Project employment. There is total employment across Manhattan Project at any given time the top line. 124,000 of employment 1944. Ne of here we have total construction, 90,000, to s than the operation and research on curve. Tha
And alters the earths climate. Yet, scientists tell us more of the Carbon Pollution thats been emitted into the atmosphere has occurred hearing in 1988. 2007 been in Congress Since and weve done some good things since then. We raised auto efficiency standards. Supported the dramatic expansion of wind and solar power. The kind ted to fund of Climate Resilience to protect the places that we know and love. Enough, not by a long shot. Piece ed our first major of climate legislation in 10 years. 9, partisan vote sent h. R. Climate action now, to the action. Here it awaits that bill takes a commonsense approach of keeping the united paris climate agreement. Because the u. S. , we shouldnt back down. Shouldnt surrender. Not in the face of the Climate Crisis. To take bold action now. Now. F 70 of young people in america say they worry about Climate Change. I dont blame them. Theyre doing more than paying class. On in science this generation is the most wellinformed and connected in history, an