The state of the union address, tuesday night live on cspan. Listen live with the cspan radio a. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Held a field hearing of the 2018 washington auto show to examine technologies for making cars more energy efficient. Witnesses from gm, toyota, Oak Ridge National laboratory, and the center for Automotive Research testified. This is one hour and 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. It is a unusual to be at the Convention Center point Energy Hearing but it is appropriate given the subject matter we have today. But it is a great setting surrounded by the latest and greatest the Auto Industry has to offer. And from the great state of michigan has encouraged me that the washington auto show is good the Detroit Auto Show is great. [laughter] so that may be the locale on the same subject. I appreciate you sitting in. I understand that senator manchin will be with us but he is enjoy
And countering the flow of foreign fighters and countering messages and we can build on current or local efforts being taken to counter daesh affiliates locally around the world. We must not forget that daeshs lit frp ledge legitimaty is tied to a caliphate with specific geography. This means our overarching objective must not be just countering daesh around the world but bearing down hard encore daesh in iraq and syria and squeezing and degrading and daesh there in its core makes it much more difficult for an affiliation to stand alone beyond the boundaries of the iraqsyria region. So as a coalition we cannot eliminate every rivalry, whether between nations or different faiths or those who hold power and historical grievances, one against another. But in coordinating the global effort to counter daesh, in championing muteure interest and respect over our many differences, we can and we have changed assumptions about how nations can come together to fight one of the great challenges of
Traditional and in some ways Old Fashioned area of technology, yet one of very rapid and ongoing innovation. Very central to the performance of our military forces as well. And were going to talk about software and the ways in which systems, electronic systems, countermeasure systems that have heavy electronics and i. T. Component have to be thought about today, have to be improved. All of this relates clearly to some big themes in defense, budgeting, Defense Strategy, to what extent is Technology Changing so fast that we need to emphasize pursuit of a revolution of military affairs perhaps even more than we have been. To what extent do we need to get on top of a new wave of innovation and make sure our adversaries dont do it first. Or what extent is this an ongoing evolutionary process and a lot of exciting important things are happening but we dont need to get overly excited or disruptive about our approach to defense resource allocation. And the broadest of all senses it relates to
Think of me and us as a resource to help navigate that. What i brought today for the purposes of an introduction, im glad to answer any questions about our body of work but i highlights pages to two testimonies and theyre on the table over there. One was a testimony in may of 2010 before this committee, and it was based on a report that came out in july of 2009. And we were asked to look out how much progress had sba made in implementing the Small Business Disaster Response and improvement act of 2008. Its a mouthful. Ill now call it the 2008 act. Very important piece of legislation. It was a good way to look at progress sba had made from basically the problems that incurred during katrina and rita and it was also what remained to be done. The other thing we did was extensive fieldwork looking at the response of the 2008 disasters, which were of a smaller magnitude of katrina or sandy. It was the midwest floods and hurricane ike in particular where we did extensive fieldwork and we cou
Versus i to what is the poetry, the secret of a house. And im told about their motivations. Though really goal of architecture is to create habitat for human about their struggles and dreams. Responsibility is huge. They havent so much to lose. Shattering the glass ceiling. Women in architecture. Does this have to be really, really good . Starts september 30th on dw. It fits with, ah, britains new Prime Minister is putting the economy at the top of her agenda, but with the poorest consumers facing the choice of heating or eating can she help before the winter starts to bite . Also on the show, not just the u. K. Facing and Energy Crunch nations across the e you are trying to secure gas apply to protect the most vulnerable from high prices. Well hear from a course its that time again dw business. Welcome. Brittons Prime Minister list trust has taken office. Her 1st pledge as p. M. To tackle the loom economic crisis facing the united kingdom. Heres what she had to say. I have a bold plan