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The Senate Committee is chaired by roger wicker of mississippi. Good morning, and welcome to the newly restored Committee Room of the commerce committee. I want to thank senator blunt of the rules committee and the architect of the capitol for their effort in restoring this room and welcome all of you to a history making hearing. The first hearing in the newly opened room. Today the committee convenes to discuss the security and integrity of the telecommunications supply chain, that is to say th...

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Thank you all for being here. I would like to thank Ranking Member whitehouse, my friend and collaborator. Its great to be here at doing this together. I was just saying to him, i told him i would tell you it would bt nice to them in his edges because hes a top question. He will take you to test. I would like to thank the witnesses for their attendance today. I would also like to highlight two empty chairs toda...

This weekend, booktv is live from the 33rd annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest in chicago. Our coverage starts today at 11 00 a. M. Eastern with author Mary Dearborn with her book, ernest hemingway, a biography. At noon, abram candy and his book. Followed at 1 00 by Michael Eric Dyson with his book, tears we cannot stop, a sermon to white america. And at 4 00, Sidney Blumenthal with his book. On sunday, our coverage continues at 11 00 a. M. Eastern with heather and thompson and her book...

Technical question but upon real issues of policy and governance that effect the globe all the way around. It is those Accountability Measures that havent been test driven yet. Before the transition was announced. The accountability of icann such as it was depended upon essentially the u. S. Governments exercise of soft power. The persuasion behind the scenes, if you will so it wasnt an explicit control and secretary strickland is right about that, but nonetheless, it was implicit in many ways. ...

Privile privileges to a hospital within 30 miles and requiring facilities have to hospital like standards is a violating their right. Whole Womans Health versus hellerstedt. Mr. Chief justice, may i appease the court. The texas requirements undermine the careful balance between statess legitimate interest in regulating abortion and woman ability to make their own decision. They create obstacles to abortion access. There is a preliminary question. Would you address that . That disclaim is for pru...

Look at all these choices. So much choice, thats our show tonight. John when we talk choice, theres not much more important than health care. The president sold obamacare saying it would lower costs and yet give us more coverage and more good choices, winwin. Some people would gain better insurance and even if you didnt, you wouldnt lose anything. If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. [ applause ] oops, that one didnt work out so well. Millions have learned that ...

Safe territory. It has been a long and bumpy road after failing in the house. Going through several interations but the major hurdle was passing the house last week. It seems fairly safe in the senate tomorrow. The stort of big changes is the ends the direct payments in which the government sent out 5 billion regardless of the weather or crop yield. It didnt prod farmers to plant any more of one kind of crop to get subsidies. But it wasnt politically poplar. They are beefing up the insurance for...

Hi, everyone. My name is james matheny, the new ceo and president of the Rand Corporation. A nonprofit nonpartisan Research Organization committed to the public good. This is my first public event in my new role and i am grateful that its on biodefense. This is probably the topic i lost the most sleep over the last 20 years. I expect i will be losing more sleep tonight but but i thit will be worth it. The covid 19 pendant has shown a devastating impact can be due to a moderate pandemic, and we c...

Sleep tonight, but i think it will be worth it. The covid19 pandemic has shown the devastating impact can be due to a moderate pandemic. And we can imagine the impact of biological threat here or in the horizons that have more than a 1 fatality rate. The biological threats that are enabled by advances and Synthetic Biology is make possible to design pathogens that are even more severe, even more deadly than what we find in nature and the capabilities are accessible not just to state and biologic...

Preparedness and emerging bio threats from other nations. Nonstate actors and natural causes. They also talk about the role of government partnerships with the private sector and International Communities as well as intergovernmental coordination. Im the ceo and president of the Rand Corporation a nonprofit and nonpartisan Research Organization committed to the public good. This is my first public event in my new role and i am grateful that its the topic that id lost the most sleep over the last...