Collecting plans from all over the world and had hundreds of thousands of people collecting plants and sending them back to fort myers to find a source of plant material that could produce rubber. The laboratory was put here because they could grow the plants on site and do the preliminary research on site. The laboratory was interesting for many reasons. There was no patent process for plants, chemical patenting. This lab caused the United States government to come forward with what was called the u. S. Patent law that said if you invented something with plants, and it was a process that was worthy of patening, it was issued a patent. Looking at the history of fort myers, florida including a stop at edisons research laboratory. Megan mcardle argues that United States is unique in letting its citizens and businesses fail and this is what has made the country successful. This hour long Program Starts now on booktv. Thank you, everybody for coming. I am timothy carney. I am a visiting fe
Governors. To identify those businesses that in fact have needs and literally physically bring them in. Then there is 100 million available. The business of the employers why dont they go and train them . Either member when dupont bought conoco. Dupont needed a number of people especially that didnt have on site. They had some 8,000 additional employees. A lot of these outfits are not so sure. They are not so sure that the workforce is going to materialize. They are not so sure the people they are training are able to connect because of the new technologies in a particular organizational structure like the Community College. So this is about marrying them up in a lot of you have done that very well already. As a matter of fact, the governor in South Carolina has created a Central Office. A Central Office within the Community College system. They have the Apprenticeship Programs and they are the greatest guarantee. They are able to raise a family while they are learning the skill 89 if
Think the federal government should regulate ecigarettes and how far regulations should go. We have a special line for users, 2025853203 with republicans at democrats at independents at you can checkcatch up with us on twitter and facebook and at www. Cspan. Org. We have more on the restrictions that were implemented in los angeles over the weekend. Here is the story from the los angeles daily news. Ecigarettes or restricted to the same as tobacco when it was made illegal to puff on batterypoweredd devices starting on saturday, and when to put away their ecit garettes and public parks and beaches and Outdoor Dining areas, this comes one month after reports of potentially harmful chemicals in the ecigarette vapors, and they seek to limit these in the same places that the bok tobacco is barred. This was over the objections of the users who inhale nicotine through water vapor. That is the story from over the weekend. Last week, 11 lawmakers on capitol hill issued reports gateway to addict
Middleclass jobs and generate economic growth. I dont know a single governor in any Political Party no matter how far left or right you are who doesnt want a job that yout you can raise a middleclass family and it saves you a lot of problems. You get a choice between a job that is a minimum wage job and a job that someone can make a decent salary and benefits it is the best thing to contribute to your economy regardless of your politics almost every one of those infrastructure jobs are just that. None of them are minimumwage jobs. And you all know better than anyone else the incredible Ripple Effect of infrastructure projects. It means jobs at the end down the supply line in every business and communities in the states. Thats how you build up the economy. Thats how we built it in the past. In addition to the infrastructure, it is critically important that we have the most advanced highly Skilled Workforce in the world. And madam chair that you and the nga ha have been in the forefrot o
Around the law and saying congress is not doing what they should be doing to fix the problem, so i will grant you a waiver out of the law. That is one issue. The second issue is, why dont we block grant the money . Everyone has great ideas. The next thing you know, we Christmas Tree ornament all these bills and it gets on while he. You have different demographics in utah than we have in tennessee. We ought to have our own program. Why can we not get back to what we have done at least previously , where the federal government says we are going to help you, we are going to gather money, push it out there to equalize him and help those who are may be rural or poorer areas of our country so everybody has an opportunity to have a good education, but just give us the money without any strings. When you talk about the federalization, it is the money with the strings that nationalizes the program. That would require an election, and maybe two to do. I agree with you. That is the difference of