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For today and cspan 2 booktv so make it all proud just to give a brief sense of how we do things in the next 15 minutes. Im going to introduce just an art. Make sure thereve book will have a discussion. I think the title of this panel is rebuilding or evolution informally in my mind. It is detroit and austin that the beginning and end of all things. That appeals more to my grammatic sense. So jeff kerr is the author of austin texas history. The first was austin, texas then and now. The next was republic of austin. On the most recent one of the reason we are here this morning is seat of empire the embattled birth of austin, texas, which is a history of the founding of boston and the battle in the republic of texas over by this capital would need. Jeff also raised a regular history and he is practicing pediatric urologist at the same time. If we have and the emergence sees. The author will take care of them. Mark binelli is the author of vincennes msi, contributing editor to relate to an ....
Continue those discussions as well. Inwhat was your experience the cloud sector and smart grid sector tell you that will end up looking like . Probably the most maturing right now is the discussions the smart grid, just because it is a little bit older than the cloud side. It was focused on the government adoption side. The smart grid, a smart grid interoperability panel, which is an actual 501 c 3 organization , was put together because the Stakeholder Group felt there was not an existing organization that could facilitate that process. They establish one of their own. This has provided funding for the operation of the organization. We remained working with them routinely today where you now have a living cycle of, ok, here are the changing issues, here the top ones, here are the ones to fix. The top panel does the triage. And in many cases, now works with all of the different standard organizations that are hey,rting that, sa ....
Of staff to mike rogers on the House Intelligence Committee and also spent seven years in various senior positions with the National Security council under the george w. Bush administration. He managed to write a book and have two young sons and set up a very successful new business all in the space, and continue work on the hill at the same time so very impressive. Mike has agreed to speak about the big themes and stories in this book for a half an hour and engaging q a and throw it out to you in for questions. Mike. Thank you. I will go over to the podium if thats okay. I think you can do without that. I want to thank the new America Foundation for having me today especially peter for the invitation and thank you all for coming out in the rain to hear a little thats about my book blinking red and i ....
Fundamentally not change the underlying operation of the program in the house and the senate. Republicans and democrats in the judiciary committees are just in a different place. And so the congress is split, i think, on these two. Last night president obama said to Chris Matthews that, you know, hes planning to make changes. He didnt specify what they were, and as you know, this group at the white house is working on thinking through what those changes might be. Do you have any sense, any predictions about what is likely able to happen, what is politically able to fly on the hill . I think this is an open question as to what the review group will recommend and what who is in the review group in. A variety of individuals appointed by president obama. I think the two most recognizable figures are Michael Morrell who now works for you. Who now works at the firm i am at and wor ....