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Commissioner. The hearing is about two hours. Good morning everybody. Senate will come to order. The title of todays hearing is keeping our promise to older adults and people with disabilities. The status of Social Security today. Today we will hear from Social Security Administration Commissioner omalley. We are grateful you are here. Commissioner omalley was confirmed last year. And i dont think i have to remind anyone in this room or listening and how important this program called Social Secu...

You watching aljazeera live from london also coming up on the program the. Kenyan Opposition Leader calls for the president ial rerun votes that he boycotted to be unknown lawyers for Facebook Twitter and google go before congress to explain how russia allegedly used them to influence. This president from mrs a former Campaign Aide indicted in the russian as a low level volunteer and. Also coming up well tell you why refugees are refusing to leave the man of the Tension Center that they fought t...

I know Law Enforcement has to do their job and staying with it because criminals are doing their job, too. Like it or not. And if it changes, crimes change, we have to change the way we operate. The concern is privacy, obviously and getting into that. Some have argued that the expansion of connected devices to the internet of things provides Law Enforcement with new surveillance tools and capabilities. Recently, the center at Harvard University argues the internet of things could offset the gove...

People an opportunity to play around with this fancy software that you use. It made me think about is the pipeline of young talent like you there . What should we do to enhance it . If it is not, what should be . Great question. I think for me, the key to making more people like me well, actually, i do that not cloning, but my wife and i have a whole Program Based on that. [laughter] im sure my wife is just loving that right now. Over sharing, right . I think the most important thing that we can...

And living in the tech age on booktv we have eye gods how technology shapes our spiritual and social lives and on cspan 3 more on the civil war specific sale the batter of crater in virginia. That starts at 8 eastern. Here is highlights for the weekend. Friday we will visit important sites in the history of had civil rights movement. Saturday night a biologist panel. And indepth in the evening. And ben carson is on afterwards. And Lawrence Goldstone talks about the competition between the Wright...

Hearing on efforts to improve education on science, technology, engineering and math. The Mars Exploration summit began with opening remarks from nasa administrator charles bolden, he spoke about the importance of humans becoming a multiplanet species and nasas goal of putting humans on mars in the next two decades. This is 30 minutes. Thank you very much, and thanks to all of you for allowing me to be with you this morning and it kind of kick us off, i hope. I also want to thank explore mars as...

Budgets that we spent to become great in the world. Theres no reason i can see why we should not redress that grievance, although obviously its an uphill battle. No, i dont why not go for the big money . Well, were going for the biggest money we think we can logically go for right now. But i just think its unrealistic to assume that this congress and any future congress is going to jump to 4 of gdp. I just dont think 1 . We may get to 1 . Now 1 is 1 would be like a gold mine. Indeed. And im not ...

Period. The are russians have flown ons. Several yearlong missions. Its but if we look at the tools wih weve got today we can see if ht theres anything in the human system, to see if there is that something that degrades that hasnt reached study grade in terms of human degradation in keeping humans alive. How important is it to simulate a mars mission in lower earth orbit that way, and how close do you have to make it to a real mars mission to be a ma value . Do you build i n the to communicatio...

Lives. Under emergency conditions the nations cellular Carrier Networks become overwhelmed and unusable for the transmission of Emergency Data we experienced this firsthand in Oklahoma City 20 years ago when they offered the Federal Building was bombed. The full deployment of the First Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network would ensure that americas First Responders can access Vital Information among all of the emergency conditions. Candidly there was skepticism from some Public Safety afte...

Handinhand with firstnet to make sure they have the resources not just from the department but from across the government, the best expertise available including a number of experts who have been involved. I have met and you are going to need to work with them. Youre going to your going to need to work with some of our intelligence agencies because the technology is so rapidly changing in these areas of the kind of sophisticated attacks that can occur and if we are talking about a terrorist atta...