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they disagree on whether it is a credential or liability. we are pleased to welcome dr. benjamin carson to the table. thank you. al hunt: we know you are a great surgeon. you operated on our son. america has not elected a president with no political experience. why would ben carson be different? thecarson: if you look at political experience of everyone in congress today, al: it comes out to under 9000 years. yet, where has that gotten us? it is possible to gain experience. this country rose from nowhere to the pinnacle of the world quickly. al hunt: we have had presidents with political experience. reagan, bush, roosevelt. dr. carson: you can get experience from lots of different areas. al hunt: would it be different if you wanted to hire a baltimore ravens coach with no football background or take a smart person with no medical background and say, we are going to have you do brain surgery. it requires an enormous amount of knowledge to become a neurosurgeon. it is not ....
that s what brings us here today. now, not everyone here is a scientist. (laughter) but some of you are among the best scientists in the world, and what you and your colleagues have been showing us for years now is that human activities are changing the climate in dangerous ways. levels of carbon dioxide which heats up our atmosphere are higher than they have been in 800,000 years. 2014 was the planet s warmest year on record, and we have been setting a lot of records in terms of warmest years over the last decade. one year doesn t make a trend, but 14 of the 15 warmest years on record have falo fallen withe first 15 years of this century. climate change is no longer just the future we re predicting for your children and grandchildren, it s about the reality we re living with every day right now. the pentagon says the climate change poses immediate risks to our national security. while we can t say any single weather event is entirely caused by climate change, we ve see ....
that s what brings us here today. now, not everyone here is a scientist. (laughter) but some of you are among the best scientists in the world, and what you and your colleagues have been showing us for years now is that human activities are changing the climate in dangerous ways. levels of carbon dioxide which heats up our atmosphere are higher than they have been in 800,000 years. 2014 was the planet s warmest year on record, and we have been setting a lot of records in terms of warmest years over the last decade. one year doesn t make a trend, but 14 of the 15 warmest years on record have falo fallen withe first 15 years of this century. climate change is no longer just the future we re predicting for your children and grandchildren, it s about the reality we re living with every day right now. the pentagon says the climate change poses immediate risks to our national security. while we can t say any single weather event is entirely caused by climate change, we ve see ....
tillis. welcome. senator john kennedy, welcome. chris van hollen. and senator katherine cortez. we appreciate all of you, and i m sure i speak for all of the regular members of the committee that we welcome you and look forward to. to a lot of good work. earlier members of the committee. [laughter] i was told by both sides to speak for myself. i look forward to working with all of us on the committee all members this year. i look forward to working with all of us on the committee all members this year. this committee has a long and distinguished history of tackling important issues and this congress has no exception. we have a significant list of issues that we will need to deal with and we will do that and i am confident we will continue the tradition in a strong and bipartisan manner. i look forward to working with my colleagues. we ve had a number of hearings already that we will be dealing with an and we will work to lead the committee through some very important ....
of the department of housing and urban development. mr. crapo: on january 12, the senate banking committee held its confirmation hearing and dro questions and concerns thoroughly and thoughtfully. dr. benjamin carson was unanimously reported out of the senate banking committee on january 24. to many americans, dr. carson needs no introduction. however, his impressive resume bears repeating. dr. carson was raised by a single mother in an impoverished part of the city of detroit. he attended yale university and the university of michigan medical school. and later became a highly accomplished and respected neurosurgeon. dr. carson was named director of pediatric neurosurgery at johns hopkins hospital in 1984 at the age of 33, the youngest such director in the nation. he gained national fame in the 1980 s by becoming the first doctor to lead an operation that separated twins conjoined at the head, one of many high-profile operations led by dr. carson. he also ran for presid ....