Good afternoon, everyone. I am the director of the museum and staff director of the museum of Natural History. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the next pandemic. Hopefully its not the next pandemic right here. You might think that the Natural History museum is not the best placed at the meeting like this. This museum is the largest Natural Museum and has 145 million objects. I say that objects, whatever, but the reality is collecting the Natural World for the last frontiers in preserving preserving those objects in museums, and this is the place where we have what we know about planet earth, so the records have collect and over the years 300 years preserved at acceptable by research scientists. Last year over 400 species were described by scientists working the building. At the same time we welcome 6 million visitors. Most of those visitors are tourists which means the next years a different 6 million, the world plus largest collection, visit by the Worlds Largest is the audience,
Washington correspondent. Kevin, let me start with you. They have three whole weeks to get things done and they have to get health care through at least the senate with republicans. What are the chances . Kevin they have three weeks, but time is running out. Now posed with the option of rather to not whether not to negotiate with Heidi Heitkamp or muster a deal with alexa ted cruz and mike lee c. Some folks on capitol hill are suggesting that the majority leader is not potentially serious with working with democrats. He wants to put pressure on these republicans and say this is it. This is the moment. This is the opportunity in order to get some type of repeal and replacement effort on the Affordable Care act. Either way you start looking at the numbers of 2 million for opioid addiction or defunding planned parenthood. Look at the 22 million americans according to the nonpartisan congressional argent losedget office that would insurance because of this legislation and any look at the I
Thats fair but republicans dont automatically assume the only way to people help people is with another Government Program and republicans circa dont agree with this particulaparticula r Government Program is a good thing. Again its hugely expensive. Its very bureaucratic. Even trying to get people to sign up for it they have had three years to come up with a system to enroll people and it is not working. Even the democrats admit that so in terms of the republican alternative we had a republican alternative when this bill was being debated here it i helped put together. It covered the existing conditions. It did it through the creation of a secondary market on a statebystate basis where you created a highrisk pool and you had state and federal subsidies for that risk pool for people that had a preexisting condition and couldnt get Health Insurance in the private marketplace. And the idea of keeping children on their parents Health Insurance until they reached 25 or 26 was and is a repu
Copper Communications Network and significant plans to deploy new fiber infrastructure how will the new Fiber Networks handle natural disasters like hurricanes . We know that the copper continue to operate but what happens now with the new Fiber Networks and you know dealing with that issue . How are you going to deal with them . There is unfortunately no Ip Technology congressman that allows you to power the line. You cannot put power over a fiber connection. Fiber has many other advantages in addition to its internet capacity and one of them i think is relevant in a hurricane or a flood zone or a sandy type situation is that seawater will destroy copper and make it unrepairable. Fiber is very resilient in that type of situation frank desoer our wireless networks. We get them up and running quickly after these storms and i say that knock on wood because we are still in hurricane system. Again i think that we all agree that these community should not lose services they rely on simply b
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