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Outside facilities. at a house hearing today, one recommended more training for cdc scientists and it drew this reaction. listen. >> these people with ph.d.s do not understand that anthrax is dangerous? are you kidding me? they need more training? are you making excuses for these scientists? if they don't understand that anthrax is used for a weapon, it's spores can kill people, they shouldn't be working there. >> the director of the cdc announcing a moratorium on shipping agents until the problems are solved and closing of two labs were problems were reported. there's one key element the cdc ...

Florida, as an institution for origin of african-americans who go on to pursue ph.d.s in the natural sciences. >> they disproportionally prepare students in the s.t.e.m. area. >> science, technology, engineering and math. a prediction of s.t.e.m. related jobs is expected. that's why president obama hosts white house science fairs. he's trying to make s.t.e.m. education a priority. roughly 40% of students working on graduate degrees in s.t.e.m. fields receive their undergraduate degree from an hbcu. >> if we did not have them, we'd have hardly any african-americans in the sciences as profession...

We get more ph.d.s than men. in europe, they did this big study of men and women. they had to do kind of a rubik's cube. the men scored better than women. they found that the reason the women hadn't done as well because they haven't answered half the questions. he said you have to answer all the questions. when they answered all the questions, the women did just as well as the men. and that's what we're trying to get at, we have plenty of ability. that's not our problem. our problem is we are holding ourselves back. and what we say in the book is that it's not that we want women to be more agg...

Washington that are making that a near impossibility. >> i think, first of all, i think there is a real recognition. we have a moral responsibility to deal with immigration issues. as well as there is an economic opportunity. studies show that if we were to pass immigration reform, you'd have about 1.4 trillion dollars added to our economy. plus, this is, obviously, legislation that would create opportunities for many, many different kinds of companies, as well as individuals. do you know that 57% of ph.d.s in math and science in this country are immigrants? and 50% of ph.d.s are immigrants. t...

We turned people away who should be here whether working on agriculture or ph.d.s who create new jobs. they said that immigration reform would increase gdp by 3.5% and more than any democratic spending program or any republican-cut program. i feel a keen urgency to get this done, not for political advantage. if democrats wanted political advantage, we pass a bill that was way to the left and beat up our republican colleagues. in this senate, as you know, with john mccain and lindsey graham and many others, marco rubio, we forged a coalition. in the house a lot of trouble because our tea party ...