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Earth day. I hope you go do Something Special for the earth but we are happy. We have an unbelievably special panel today. We are lucky. There will be a lot we can learn from these individual books that you think you know about these subjects but will find your surprised to learn, as i was when i read them. I will introduce myself. I am dan smith, a writer from montana. I like to come here and get sunshine in the spring so its nice to be here. We will be doing some book signings and i urge you to join us if you want to talk to talk to any of these authors. We will lead you out. I want to intro...

Some of our very important Homeland Security initiatives until we have an appropriations bill. Its key that we get one. On the good news front the year ago there were a number of vacancies in the seniorlevel positions and we now have including myself over the last 12 months is to the hard work because 13 confirmed president ial appointments. We also have confirmed president president ial points and is the assistant secretary for legislative affairs in the new assistant secretary for public affairs. We have one nomination think an undersecretary for management to actually happens to be a former...

The departments relationship with Small Businesses that can take part in the sbirsttr program and it encourages the secretary to enter into agreements with the program at the National Science foundation. Our National Labs have been at the cutting edge of Technological Development and we must always ensure that development is in the national interest. A discovery lost in the labs is a discovery wasted. Thats why id like to thank my good friend, mr. Kilmer, for partnering with me in this effort, as well as mr. Fattah and mr. Nunnelee, who were sfounding founding members with me. Chairman smith a...

The united states a lump that we can beat into jelly any time. turning to gordon chang. a foreign affairs author. a win for the president here? >> at least a minor win. it's also very temporary. >> shepard: why is that? >> because there's the exercises that are starting on august 21 between south korea and the united states. they're held every year. the chinese are upset about them. the north koreans are upset about them. this could be a time where kim jong-un says look, you have not responded by restraining yourself, so i'm going to fire those missiles toward guam. we don't know what he will ...