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Before mr. Connolly and i give Opening Statements, i want to thank everyone. Our guests, panelists, those in the audience, members and staff and everyone for how accommodating you were this morning. We had an unforeseen contingency that arose in our normal hearing room. Thank you for being so understanding. Over the past two decades, illicit drug use emerged as a Public Health and safety crisis with overdoses becoming the leading kauj of injury or death in the United States. Opioids specifically...

Who took part in our 2017 studentcam documentary competition. And studentcam 2018 starts in september with the theme the tunisi tunisi constitution you. Were asking students create a video of why the constitution is important. Now a House Oversight hearing on a bill to reauthorize the office of National Drug control policy. This is almost two hours. The committee on government oversieft and reform will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to call a recess at any time. Before...

Texas. Thank you jim. Id like to start by explaining how i came to write this and why i came to write this. And to that purpose ill read from, initial part of the preface. Im a physicist not a historian but over the years ive become increasingly fascinated by the history of science. My own handwriting is touch on history, its been mostly the modern history of physics and astronomy, roughly from the late 19th century to the present. Although in this era we learned many new things. The goals and s...

A group of us felt we would help heal the wounds of our community by celebrating its diversity because back then miami was one of the most Diverse Communities in the company, and we would invite everyone under one gigantic tent to celebrate the written word and begin a conversation together. That conversation hasnt stopped for these 33 book fairs. And i for one want to thank doctor petrone who is president of the Largest College in the country with eight campuses. [applause] for never wavering f...

Years. In the late 90, i came across Artificial Intelligence from a chat box. Have you spoken to a chat box . I would recommend it. I thought wow, this is fantastic. This learning algorithm that can talk to human and mimic our behavior and knowledge. I thought this could be fantastic and i thought or maybe not and i really realized that nothing in my training as a psychologist to date. I came across the work of writers here in the u. S. Who wrote about cyber knowledge and i thought that is the f...

Learning disabilities and this could be fantastic and maybe not. I realized nothing in my training as a psychologist or my study of psychology equips me to understand the impact of technology on Human Behavior. Looking at literature, i came across the work of a famous writer in the us who wrote about cyberpsychology and i thought that is the future. Everybody told me i was wrong. I went back to college, masters of science and fool phd, the first person, worldwide coming through with doctors in t...

That changed the world. A couple of notes before i get started now is a good time to turn off your cell phone and other devices you might have. When we get to the question and answer part of the talk if you have a question which we do encourage, please step up to the microphone. We have cspan book tv and we would like to pick up your question for the recording. After the talk, books will be available behind the register in the back end of the line will start to the right of the podium. As you ge...

Ahead of that big fed announcement. What do we see on a day like today . The dow, the s p lower, not seeing a big budge. The tenyear yield, 1. 79, below 1. 8 as we have seen some buying in treasuries. Bi big move into gold and drop in oil. More than 14 million barrels, thats the biggest increase in the 34 years of u. S. Energy information agency, actually been collecting the data. Wti is lower by 1. 44, decline of 3 to 45. 23. It is down more than 8 in the past week. Brian . Michelle, heres what...

Thats my first point. My second point is its going to be relatively easy to field. Again, we discussed this in email before the panel. Most Autonomous Systems today are still stationary, both. Why . Because movement for Autonomous Systems is complex. Its difficult. You have object avoidance. You have lots of different types of capability. Now the most oldest autonomous Weapon System on the planet is the land mine. Now some people would say its semiautonomous because of the way it works, but if y...

Thats my first point. My second point is its going to be relatively easy to field. Again, we discussed this in email before the panel. Most Autonomous Systems today are still stationary, both. Why . Because movement for Autonomous Systems is complex. Its difficult. You have object avoidance. You have lots of different types of capability. Now the most oldest autonomous Weapon System on the planet is the land mine. Now some people would say its semiautonomous because of the way it works, but if y...