mr. bradley: i would say no. the afghan war and the war in iraq does not show the lessons of vietnam have been learned. the notion we can intervene in a particular place and engineer a transformation, place after place after place, it doesn't work. all you have to do is look backward in time. the british believed they could do that as an imperial power. the french believed they could do that as an imperial power. it did not work in the end for them as well. the whole notion that these kinds of interventions can achieve the policy goals that are imagined as possible, but that is fundamentally flawed. yet we seem to do it over and over again. when i first started teaching i did believe this could never happen again. people have seen this and learned a set of lessons. the last 10-15 years would suggest almost the complete other way around. susan: history gives us the opportunity to revisit these questions. what are some of the significant ways you are observing the next of anniversaries are being observed and discus

mr. bradley: i think the crucial shift has been more recent and -- in certain kinds of ways. wayng the war itself, the academic historians wrote about war, vietnam was a mistake.

mr. bradley led public policy for enron before its scandal and bankruptcy. he founded the institute and remains its c.e.o. he is also affiliated with a koch-funded cato institute and competitive enterprise institute. the alliance is the institute's political arm, a 501-c-4 organization founded in 2008. the 501-c-4's are political organizations. they don't have to disclose their donors. they can engage in all sorts of politicking and lobbying, and they can spend unlimited amounts of money. the alliance share's office space and staff, including the president with the institute. their joint president is thomas pile who had previously lobbied for koch industries. they receive funding directly and not so directly from the koch brothers. since 2008, one or the other has received funding from the charles koch institute and antigovernment group formed from the charles g. koch charitable foundation, freedom partners called the koch brothers secret bank, a 501-c-6 organization that gives tens of millions of dollars to extreme causes. the wellspring committee, inc, fun

mr. zuckerberg won't be able to question them, but we citizens can say what are you going to do? >> bradleyhe best analog may be the financial industry. right? we know that in the great recession we realize that our regulators were well outgunned. the big money went to the companies that found ways around regulation, and generally the public feels we want banks and financial industries to do well and flourish. but at the same time we need certain protections. >> yep. >> when reed talks about what the europeans have done, is there a way of regulating companies like facebook that don't ruin their essential essence? >> sure. the first part is just people recognizing that facebook is and what it isn't. it's a great service product that helps a lot of people connect. but they make their money on harvesting your data and commercializing it. and that's okay as long as people understand this is what i'm consenting to when i choose to go on facebook. and the a value proposition of what facebook is and isn't hasn't been made clear to consumers. the europeans have gone further to help consumers unders

so ladies and gentlemen, please give me a warm welcome for congressman bradley byrne. [applause] mr. byrne: it is an incredible honor for me to be here today. 50 years ago, i was a teenager and, like hundreds of thousands , if not millions of teenagers across america, when senator kennedy stood in this room and hi announced for president it s electrifying and he touched so many people before he announced , but after he announced -- and you've seen the pictures, some of you were there with him, and even though those that weren't in his physical presence, he was touching us, too. a couple weeks ago, we had the annual pilgrimage to birmingham, montgomery, and selma and we had robert dorr with us in montgomery, john dorr's son who , who reminded me that john dorr was a republican. and we heard the stories of what senator kennedy and john dorr did in alabama in the 1960's, and i said then and john was there to hear it and i'm going say it again. that changed alabama forever. him so much so that the congress person from selma is an african-american woman named terry sewell who grew up in

the vacancy under consideration today is the suspension of bradley whitmire after missing meetings. any questions? >> any questions for mr. pickford? are there any members of the public who would like to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, this is the district 3 seat, and i am soliciting applications and to that end, i would like to continue this item to our next meeting. if at least a motion to that effect made by commissioner yee, seconded by commissioner kim, we have a different house. counselor, can i do that without objection? [off microphone] >> roll call on continuing the item as motion made by commissioner yee, seconded by commissioner kim on that continuance. a roll call, please. [roll call] [votin [votin [voting] >> next item, please. [ agenda item read ] >> clerk: this is an action item. >> mas. craft. >> good morning for the second time. i'm going through the positions. assembly bill 2530. this would cease bond for the rail. similar to past positions, on senate bill 1376, recommending a support position. this would require that the public utilities commission september reg

it was about bill bradley in college basketball and after all of those one-on-one sessions with mr.iscussing backdoor plays and of the role of the left-handed, and that architect tonics of the game while the new yorker magazine curled towards its deadline i finally set in wonderment, how can you afford to use so much time and go into sony things in such detail with just one writer when this whole enterprise is yours to keep together. he said it takes as long as it takes. as a writing teacher i have repeated that statement to two generations of students. if they are writers they will never forget it. it can take a lifetime. thank you so much. [applause]. >> you can watch this and other programs on my netbook tv.org. book tv.org. [inaudible conversations] >> all right, everyone, can you hear me back there? good evening and welcome to kramer book. a reminder to silence your cell phones before we begin and if anyone is standing in the back was to grab a seat there are more couple chairs here if you would like. to date we are fortuna

the next generation for the bradley fighting vehicle, if you will. >> okay. thank you. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> mr. larsen. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you all for coming. so, we've been hearing testimony in the committee and a couple of subcommittees, specifically with regards to the investment in emerging technologies from other countries, china and russia in particular, and how that could change a military balance of power so that the current s&t budget for the department as a percentage is, i think, lower than it was when i was first here in the early 2000s. right now it's about 2.3% of the total budget. so, the question i have is, if this is a concern and a high priority, the s&t budget does not seem to be reflecting that. so, for each of you, briefly, can you tell us what your plans are for investing in your own s&t budget over the next five years, as opposed to just today? >> yes, sir, let me first say, from '17 to '19, we're seeing nearly a 20% increase in terms of rdt&e funding, so about $8.5 billion to $10.2 billion or so. alongside that, what we plan

mr. byrne, i'm truly grateful for. he happens to have a democratic opponent this cycle named bobby kennedy. [ laughter ] no relation, i assure you. so ladies and gentlemen, please give me a warm welcome for congressman bradley byrne. [ applause ] >> it is an incredible honor for me to be here today. 50 years ago, i was a teenager and, like hundreds of thousands if not millions of teenagers across america when senator kennedy stood in this room and announced for president it was electrifying and he touched so many people before he announced but after he announced -- and you've seen the pictures, some of you were there with him, and even though those that weren't in his physical presence, he was touching us, too. a couple weeks ago we had the annual pilgrimage to birmingham, montgomery and selma and we had robert dorr with us in montgomery, john dorr's son who reminded me that john dorr was a republican. and we heard the stories of what senator kennedy and john dorr did in alabama in the '60s and i said then and john was there to hear it and i'm going say it again. that changed alabama forever. so much so that the congress person from selma is an african-american woman named terry sewell who grew up in selma