Now, good morning. I call this hearing to order. We have quite a full house today. I welcome the audience. This is a formal Senate Hearing in order to allow the committee to conduct its business. Im going to maintain decorum. That means, if theres any disorder or demonstration by a member of the audience, that person causing the disruption will be escorted from the room by the capitol police. First, id like to welcome the administrator of the Environmental Protection agency, the honorable scott pruitt to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for your testimony today. With respect to todays hearings, were going to abide by the committees fiveminute rule for length of member questions in the first round. Time permitting, we will also have a twominute second round of questions until 12 30, when administrator pruitt has to leave the building. Now of course, members will also have the ability to submit written questions to administrator pruitt for the record. Todays hearing is t
Used the tactic in past conflict. He spoke at the think tank new america in washington dc. This is one hour and a half. Now let me introduce fred. Perhaps his most important distinction i would say is that he worked previously as an american fellow but he has done one or two other things in his illustrious career. He is the National Security columnist and author of four books the most recent book which i think is here to tell us and has at least gone over with this new book that some one might not necessarily imagine. Fred is a Pulitzer Prize journalist back in his days at the boston globe and i am very pleased to be able to host him here today. On the format, shortly we will allow fred to give him a minute to describe the book and tell us about it what is in it and then i will take the opportunity to have a conversation, dig into a little more and explore some of the themes and what we might conclude that. Then i will open it up to the floor to give you the opportunity to ask fred som
Of four books, the new book as some people might imagine. A surprise winning journalist with his days at the boston globe. In a while he s will give a few minutes describing the book and whats in it. Some of the themes and what we might contribute from that and then i will open up to the floor give you the opportunity to ask some questions and we will wrap upqu at 1 45. [applause] ing didnt know what the title s going to be for a while but how long the history is it because most people think that it started with the outskirts of shanghai and no but now in prace goes back all the way to the dawn of the internet itself. This was the network where they would talk with one another in their Computer Program an into there was a computer pioneer who was also on the Scientific Advisory board and wrote a paper that has been declassified since but he said heres the problem once you have accessed from multiple locations. He wont be able to keep secrets anymore. When i was doing my research i talk
Seats so they could then control the state legislature, so they could then change the districts consistent with the bulk gerrymandering scheme. And the result is states like senator browns where, when he was reelected, he was on the ballot with president obama who was also reelected, and the majority of the votes cast in his state for members of congress were cast for democrats, and against that background, many more republicans than democrats actually went to congress in that election. A similar thing happened in pennsylvania, and my recollection is that on the same set of facts, senator casey, the democrat reelected, president obama reelected, and a majority of pennsylvania votes cast for democratic members of congress, the delegation was 13 republicans and five democrats. Somebody is messing around and it was a 54 Republican Supreme Court that opened that can of worms and unleashed red map on the political landscape. They have a chance to review that now, and senator mccain has writ
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