Welcome, everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome to the American Association to the advancement of science or sss, as we call it and welcome to the kickoff event for the historic charge for science and were at aaas. Its our distinct pressure to introduce our speaker dr. John holdren hes the professor of environmental policy at the Kennedy School of government and a professor of Environmental Science and policy in the department of earth and Planetary Sciences at harvard university. In 1995 john gave acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the pugwash conferences on science and world affairs, an International Organization of scientists and public figures in which he served in various leadership positions. More recently for the last eight years, john was president obamas science adviser and director of the office of science and Technology Policy where he was my boss for a while. John is the longest serving president ial science adviser in the history of the position. His
President obamas top science adviser discusses the science and environmental initiatives of the Obama Administration and how they are changing in the Trump Administration. This is about an hour. Welcome, everyone. Thank you, thank you. Welcome to the American Association for the advancement of science, or aaas, as we call it, and welcome to our kickoff event for the historic march for science tomorrow. Im celeste rolfing, chief operating officer here. Its my distinct pleasure today to introduce our speaker, dr. John holdrun. John is a professor of environmental policy at the Kennedy School of government and professor of Environmental Science and policy in the department of earth and Planetary Sciences at harvard university. In 1995, john gave the acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the pug wash conferences on science and world affairs, an International Organization of scientists and public figures in which he served in various leadership positions. More recently fo
Those comments coming up throughout the show. Silicon valley star aaron levie talking about why he is supporting Hillary Clinton, whether his company could be a takeover target. We are continuing to follow Hurricane Matthew causing devastating damage in haiti. We will take you live to florida and georgia to look at how businesses are preparing to weather the storm. Lets look at other industrials getting hammered. Bob pisani tracking the action here on the floor of the exchange. Honeywell is one of the main reasons that the overall market is weak down 8 . We have a Big Industrial like that down 8 on very big volume it weighs on the rest and has been a weight throughout the day. What is the problem . They lowered the 2016 guidance. It talked specifically about problems in the aero space saying foreign defense made the markets more difficult. They specifically talked about business engine sales hurt by soft energy sales and antiluxury campaign in china. This is the first material warning
Six miles per gallon. Anything we can do to increase the fuel efficiency there is going to be a huge saving. I know again d. O. T. Has a super truck. Is that what you were referring to . I did not get the acronym you used . Freidt i know off super Truck Program and focused on getting more 10 miles mper gallon. How do you think it will help on timing and deliveries. It is really Exciting Technology and theyre early stages. Mr. Monje has talked about a couple. Technologies and trucks enable how they are being driven to be able to provide feedback to the driver how he or she able to drive efficiently. We are seeing technologies al w allowing us to be cost effectively identifying the conditions of the high value break. So we know what it is and what kind of conditions it is being subjected to and to be able to use autonomous technology, to be able to identify containers t thats coming in on a ship and able to synchronize the way they are off loaded to take advantage of the trucks or traffi
The speaker pro tempore the yeas are 362 and the nays are 45. 2 3 being in the affirmative, the bill is passed and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Fitzpatrick, to suspend the rules h. R. 5606 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the bill. To clerk h. R. 5606, a bill facilitate to assist in the fighting of terrorist activities and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the spe