the carbon cycle, which is an extremely high priority that comes from the service of the national academy of sciences and you have my commitment we are going to follow the guidance of the cato surveys for the purpose of keeping it as you have set a political, bipartisan, nonpartisan because of the science must not be partisan. nasa is not a regulating body. what we want to do is we want to get the science. we want to get the data and make sure we provide that data and that science to decision makers who can ultimately make sure we are doing the right things for the nation and leading the world. you have my commitment that nasa will continue doing that kind of activity. and we are. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. administrator for being here. appreciate it. you waited a while to get here, so glad you are taking charge. you and i talked about the facility. i wanted to know -- i know that you've been aware and are supportive of that. i want to know what you might envision for the future they are for the applications may be more beneficial but also within the federal government. if

we continue to work with the national academy of science to move that ball forward as was directed by the commission. before i close here this morning , i want to introduce to all of you my communications director erin joy. erin just joined us this past monday. i asked her to come here this morning to meet rachel and the consumer federation of america. it's important that we all work together . erin i am glad to welcome you aboard to the united states consumer product safety comission commisioner. it also like to say that every time i speak , myself and agency and all of our staff and commissioners work for all of you the american people. my door is always open. if there's anything that i can be assistance of, or that you have an issue or concern about. i hope you will feel free to reach out to my office and contact me so that we can have that important discussion. that door is always open. enclosing i would like to say that the mission of united states consumer product safety comission commisioner is critical. one of the most important of a government agency to keep the consumers a s

national academy of science issued a report on geo engineering the science of using technology to counter the impact of climate change the panels contrition the benefits of carbon dioxide high risk costs a challenge they called for more studies to determine if storage of c o two could be safe and effective scientists at the university of rice and harder and they studied. capturing c o two is just one possible solution but scientists have another plan and not burying carbon dioxide but they are finding a way to use it the technique has. scientists in amsterdam are studying another solution to help reduce global c o two levels they're innovating green manufacturing techniques of some common products like plastics that actually remove instead of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during production currently the plastic manufacturing process emits huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the environment adding to the problem of climate change. but what if the new technology could produce a type of biodegradable plastic that could actually help reverse the greenhouse effect the possibility of this

finally, there is a big study by the national academy of sciences couple of years ago that shows thatost certainly innocent people have been put to death. i would like reflection on those points. susan: thank you very much. kent: let's see. as far as the deterrence go, there is evidence of deterrence, it is disputed. experts disagree as to help persuasive it is. it certainly has not been proven it is not a deterrent. as far as the execution of innocent people, i do not believe it has been definitively demonstrated that the executed people have been executed. the first point, rich and white people have been sentenced to death. we have a new jersey case that a person who was a big-time political player was convicted and sentenced to death. he got off death row when the rules changed. he was not executed but he was sentenced to death. susan: anything more to add? carol: i tend to agree. i think the viewer obviously has read much of the evidence that supports those points. in 2012, the national academy of sciences did an overarching review of all of the studies about deterrence to try and

along his accolades he's been elected to the academy of arts and sciences, the institute of medicine of the national academy of sciences. if you want to learn more i highly recommend you read his book. it's a seamless blend of autobiography. he also has a new book out. there may be some copies for you to grab called the consciousness instinct, unraveling the mystery of how the brain makes the mind. there's no one more fitting, his vision for the cognitive neuroscience could become true many of us to this field of study and he continues to inspire future generations. he is able to reflect back and how we've gotten to where we are now. and if the practice passes any predictor of the future is well-suited to look ahead as to what the since sites can do in the future. i hope you'll join me in giving him a warm welcome to the podium. [applause] [applause] >> thank you for that marvelous introduction. some of my families here i have been hurt it. my new book of my gift is to take a copy if you know i could give it your graduate students are some of before we get into the subject of consciousness i wanted

the national academy of science has published a report in february that shows nih funding contributed to every one of the 210 new drugs approved by the fda from 2010 till 2016. that is quite a record. and we are appreciating the fact that that work continues. we see increased branch among young researchers, anything you have to sayabout that would be welcome .but this has been an effort that this committee has entered into together and senator murray has been a great partner and nih as we hope to be appropriately involved in our oversight responsibilities as well but let me turn to senator murray for her comments. >> mister chairman, doctor collins, it's great to see you too and all of your amazing team to thank you for being here today and i want to say it's a pleasure to see anheuser back there as well. she's done a lot to support our subcommittee's work for many years. he's a great person and i want to recognize her back there as well. president sean's budget for fiscal year 2019 put the cuts across the spectrum of health activities including a reduction to the national institute o

finally in 2012 the national academy of sciences did an overarching review of all of the studies about deterrence to make sense of whether or not there is a deterrent effect. ultimately they said that none of the studies alone or together make out a case of a deterrent effect but they also say they don't make out a case where it doesn't exist so we are stuck in a place where we just don't know what that the claimed evidence to support a deterrent effect has been essentially debunked by this. >> i would say that's too strong of a word. there are legitimate expert disagreements on the strength of these.>> franklin tennessee. welcome. are you there? >> i'm here, i'm sorry. my question is with the use of the guillotine, would that be cruel and unusual punishment under the eighth amendment? >> it would certainly be unusual. i don't think anything like that is going to seriously come back. >> george in pittsburgh, you are on the air. >> i was wondering if the term unusual has to do with its punishment or if it only has to do with the ability to charge someone with a potential penalty? >> it'

we're working with the national academy of science to move the ball forward as was directed by the commission. before i close this morning as i'm going to get a hook pretty soon. i want to introduce my new communications director, aaron joyce. aaron just joined us this past monday. i asked her to come today to meet rachel because it's very important that we work together and that we share the same message and safety message to the consumer. i'm dplglad to welcome you aboa. i want to also say to all of you, as i say every time i speak, myself and the agency and all of our staff and the commissioners work for all of you, the american people. and my door is always open. if there's anything i can be a help of, i hope you'll reach out to my office and contact me so we can have that important discussion. i will just say, the door is always open. in closing, i want to say that cpsc's mission is a critical one. it is critical. maybe one of the most important of a government agency to keep the consumer safe from unreasonable risks of injury and harm. nothing is more important than the safety of our ch

in twenty seventeen they've done a study that was published in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences and what they found is that people that were suffering from loneliness have white blood cells is very interesting so they have white blood cells that were observed to be more active in a way that increases inflammation in the bodies so inflammation of the body is response natural sponsor we get a if you get a wound if you get an infection your body reacts to that swelling and inflammation but the body isn't meant to be inflamed all the time so in a lonely person their immune system is so overworked that it leads to higher incidences of things like cancer neurodegenerative diseases heart disease is it literally changes your blood when you're you're constantly in a state of i hurt so i need my body feels like it needs to heal itself and you know i look that's one of those important things i mean improve storks society you don't you go back and look at those you know the worst thing that could happen to somebody as good as roll out of the group or to get out of the tribe or whatever. on

we are working with the national academy of science to move the ball forward, as was directed by the commission. before i close here this morning, as i'm going to get a hook pretty soon, i want to introduce to all of you my new communications director, erin joyce, who is here up in the front. erin just joined us this past monday. and i asked her to come here this morning to meet rachel and to meet consumer federation of america, because it's very important that we work together and that we share the same message and safety message to the consumer. so erin, i'm glad to welcome you aboard to cpsc. i also want to say to all of you, as i say every time i speak, myself and the agency and all of our staff and the commissioners work for all of you, the american people. and my door is always open. if there is anything that i can ever be of assistance of or to or you have an issue or a concern about the agency, i hope you will feel free to reach out to my office and to contact me so that we can have that important discussion. and i will just say, the door is always open. in closing, i want to

>> fact of the matter, immigrants commit less crime than the native born according to national academy of sciences. the fact of the matter is, these people are contributing to the economy. we ought to work with them. we ought to celebrate them and their work. >> reporter: california's underfunded pension system was also on the table which all of the candidates agreed needed to be changed. high-speed rail, the democrats were supporting it with conditions. republicans vowing to stop t and the state's gas tax which could be repealed in november. again support for and against it was along party lines. gavin newsom who is the current front-runner refused to be part of post-debate press conference and skipped several previous debates and is not likely to participate in any more before the june primary. >> we could see two democrats facing off in november. >> the top two system. it makes things interesting. a chose between one of two evils. but we have seen a lot of early polls that predicted we would see the race between newsom and villaraigosa in november but republican john cox has done very well in r

last week a new study in the national academy of sciences found trump voters in the 2016 election were motivated less by economic anxiety and more by status anxiety. fears of waning power and stat us in a changing america and an earlier prri analysis came to a similar conclusion highlighting the fears about cultural displacement were the key to understanding white working class trump voters. donald trump may not read these academic studies but he clearly understands in his gut what stirs his base and he is determined to inflame these fears regardless of the facts or the effect this will have on the country. for more go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column this week. let's get started. >>> the atomic clock is ticking, if an atomic clock does tick. president trump has just a handful of days left to decide whether he's going to unilaterally pull out of the nuclear deal with iran. what would it mean if he did? energy secretary under president obama and then secretary of state john kerry were the top u.s. officials in the talks between iran and the world powers. welcome, m

survey indicated that cleary oh and as you mentioned pace are high priorities for the national academy of sciences that created the survey so that being the case what we are doing right now within the earth science division of the mission director is we are evaluating that the cable survey and trying to make sure that were covering the science that they have called for us to cover and at the same time because of what the senate and house did for the 2018 on the bus we are moving forward with those programs. you mentioned and right now we are currently moving forward with those programs and as required by the omnibus of 2018 and so when we get to the point where were ready to present how nasa sees the new to cato survey that just came out i'll be more than happy to come and review. we can make sure were in the sciencgetting all the science tt they called for. >> i appreciate that. i will probably submit for the record that there other programs that nasa is on a pathbreaking mission for refueling and a number of other programs including discover but if i could just use my remainder of the time to ta

it was just -- there was just a piece accomplished by the -- published by the national academy of sciencesut six weeks ago that said every single one of the 210 drugs approved by the f.d.a. from 2010 to 2016 were based on science paid for by taxpayers through the n.i.h. drug companies wait till the drugs show promise, swoop in, acquire the i.p. and charge crazy prices, $400,000, $500,000. the other thing is drug compans spend more on advertising and marketing than they do on r&d. and when they got the big tax wind falls from the tax cut they used it to do stock buybacks. so theact is there's plenty of room, this is a very profible industry, there is plenty of room to low prices and mainin a pipeline. i have an incurable blood cancer. eed them to develop drugs or i will die sonar than i want to. but we need for them to pay for it as taxpayers.ay >> thehey want the do this in the trump administtion is have the f.d.a. reieire drug compto save the price in the advertising. do you think that will make a temperatures? >> no, it's insufficient. it's a good thing, useful, but that's not going to l

that you're referring to was something that happened -- it was reported in 2014 in the national academy of scienceskerberg was making a record-breaking donation to a public hospital, he also had made the largest manipulation of people, human experimentation on nearly 700,000 people had occurred to try to cause and to successfully publish their findings that they were able to cause massive emotional contagion. and to read that study and to see that there was absolutely no regard for the well-being -- liz: what does that mean, though? emotional connotation? that facebook is wanting to get people addicted to the site? is that it? >> no. it's not a matter of addiction. i was making a joke about that because i enjoy facebook myself, and i am happy to share and read news on the site. so this is not against facebook or against mr. zuckerberg as a person or as being ungrateful. that is not the point. what is the point is that this research was done to see whether it was possible to remotely make people feel something. liz: okay. we have to go. can we have you back on the show? i'm sorry we're up against a

he's currently serving on the national academies of science, engineering and medicine committee on the future of voting, which expects to issue its report late this summer. so we'll start with alex's presentation. >> all right. i'll move over here so i can see the shidlides. hi, everyone, and thank you, uci, for having this conference today and inviting me here. this is such a timely topic. i don't want to bore you with a power point presentation, but i thought i would speak very briefly about the nature of the threats that are facing u.s. elections through cyber attacks. the nature of u.s. elections is broad and distributed. typical election is going to be on a scale of 200 million voters or more, counted in tens of thousands of jurisdictions. in 2016, there were more than 187,000 different election precincts, and they use more than 52 different models of electronic voting machines nationwide. this complexity is echoed in the map of the states. you can see here the technology that states adopt is a patch work. each state chooses its own kind of voting machine, and often individual cou

the national academy of sciences has done an expansive report on the economic issues with people who come here that are lower skilled, over longer periods of time. there is -- there is a policy discussion to have. unfortunately, because of the type of language that is used, it turns into something that is more ethnic or something that comes across as being, you know, scare mongering of people coming into this country, and it does not help the policy debate move forward at all. obviously the president chooses his words, using the criminal element of illegal immigration and these kinds of things to rile people up. and it works. i think he -- partially why he got elected was over this issue. and it is unfortunate because it is multifaceted and things do need to be fixed at the border with security, but this doesn't advance the conversation when you use language like this. >> can i jump in here, please, as a daughter of mexican immigrants? john kelly's words were ignorant, plain and simple. immigrants have been coming to this country and assimilating just fine since the inception of this

also it has not been examined as closely as biological science and a should say from the national academy of sciencesdoing a study to ask the question what is happening in other areas of science with reproducibility but they have different kinds of issues. one of the struggles of biomedical science dealing with living cells that are highly variable so if you are using a small sample size you will fight hard to see a signal of what is really happening over the cacophony so biomedical science has a huge problem even behavioral science as well. if you study at there is less variability and also they think about these problems more deeply so where there was a huge experiment involving at least a thousand scientists and to say we will build two separate detectors with different principles to see if you can get the same answer from each that was built in that verification from the beginning that's why they were confident with those results but it cost $4 million for the experiment we cannot afford to do that for every biomedical experiment but there are issues like the coldfusion story people were fools if

on the deterrence question, in 2012 the national academy of sciences did a big overarching review ofll the studies about deterrence to make sense of whether or not there is a deterrent effect, and ultimately they said that none of the studies alone or together make out a case of a deterrent effect. they also say they do not make out a case where a deterrent effect does not exist. we are at a place where we just do not know. the claimed evidence to support the deterrent effect has been debunked by this expert. kent: debunked is too strong a word. there is legitimate expert disagreement. franklin, tennessee. welcome. are you there? caller: i'm here. my question is, with the use of the guillotine, would there be cruel and unusual punishment? kent: it would certainly be unusual. i do not think anything like that will come back in the united states. susan: george in pittsburgh. you are on the air. caller: i was wondering if the term unusual has to do with the execution of the punishment or the ability to charge someone with that potential penalty? carol: it is unclear if those words cruel

there is a state of the art paper on this in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences. will i think in the end, it tries to hard for the either-or. it feels as if it is entirely a threat to one's status in the future, but it does not take much reading of a number of our colleagues possible books to see how much economic wealth you challenges over time. future opportunities with one's particular community. feelings of others making out like bandits and "they are not real americans are: the time of static stagnation and the great financial crisis and recession, what if it never occurred? we kept our post-world war ii period 4% growth that was fairly evenly shared across income quintiles. adjustments were made for changes in technology and globalization. we took care of those who got squeezed by the developments. there were resources within society to pay for them. i think it would be a different situation. we would've been in a better position to handle the larger amount of immigration. we moved from 4.5% to 14 or 15% over decades. it is a little complicated in all parts

the national academy of sciences published a report in february that shows nih funding contributed to everyone of the 2 fdaew drugs approved by the from 2010 to 2016. that is quite a record. thatpreciate the fact that work continues. we see increased grants among young researchers. anything you have to say about that would be welcome. senator murray has been a great as we hope to be appropriately involved in oversight responsibility as well. collins, itay: dr. is great to see you and all of your amazing team. thank you for being here today. she is a great credited agency. i wanted to recognize her back there as well. president trump's budget for fiscal year 20 1900 seeks deeps deepar 2019 again seeks cuts to the nih below the 2017 enacted level. that request is out of step with the sentiments of congress and the country. less than two months ago president trump signed into law a bipartisan bill that increased funding by nih by $3 billion, the second largest increase in its history. those funds will be used to discover cures to alzheimer's, cancer, and other diseases, tackle the opioid

it has not been examined as closely as biological science has and the national academy of science is oing a study to ask the question, what is happening in other areas of science in terms of reproducibility but they deal with different issues. for one thing, one of the struggles in biomedical science is we are dealing with living systems that are highly variable to begin with so in a small sample size, you're likely to be fighting really hard to see some sort of signal of what is happening above the noise, the cacophony of what is happening anyway so biomedical sciences have that huge problem and behavioral scientists do because human beings -- if you are studying adams there is less variability but from one calcium adam to the next and physical scientists think about these problems more deeply. the hunt for the higgs but on in switzerland, a huge experiment involving thousands of scientists and what they did when they set up that experiment was this that this is how hard the signal we are looking for, we are going to build two separate detectors with different principles and see if w

threats they have done a state of the art paper on this that is in the proceedings of the national academy of sciencesbut i think in the end tries too hard for the either/or. and feels as if it's entirely a threat to one's status in the future but it doesn't take much reading of the book or a number of our colleagues books to see how much economic well-being changes over time nature of future opportunities within one particular community and senses align into feelings of others they are making out like bandits. they are not real americans i think that's what we're up at. we are up at. let's do another counterfactual that the time of economic stagnation into the great financial crisis and recession never occurred. we just kept our post world war two. of growth. we had 4% or so of growth that was fairly evenly shared across the income of quintiles that adjustments were made to changes in technology and globalization that we took care of those who got squeezed by these developments and there were resources within a society to pay for them. i think it would be a very different situation. we would've been

kansas through nih research before too long and look at that project along with others the national academy of sciences published a report that shows nih funded contributing with the fda through 2016 that is quite a record and anything you have to say would be welcome and what this committee as nih was to appropriately involved and we will turn to senator murray for comments. it is good to see you and your amazing team to be here today doing a lot to support the subcommittee work and i want to recognize her back there. president trump perfectly in 2019 took big cuts across the spectrum including a reduction to the nih cutting funding down roughly 100 million that request is with the sentiments of congress and less than two months ago congress passed and president trump signed into law the bipartisan bill to increase funding for nih by $3 billion the second second largest increase in the agency's history. it will be used to accelerate cures to alzheimer's and cancer and other diseases tackling the opioid addiction crisis with universal flu vaccine and more. president trump's request to undermine these e

the national academy of sciences published a report in february that shows nih funding contributed to everyone of the 2 fdaew drugs approved by the from 2010 to 2016. that is quite a record. thatpreciate the fact that work continues. we see increased grants among young researchers. anything you have to say about that would be welcome. senator murray has been a great as we hope to be appropriately involved in oversight responsibility as well. collins, itay: dr. is great to see you and all of your amazing team. thank you for being here today. she is a great credited agency. i wanted to recognize her back there as well. president trump's budget for fiscal year 20 1900 seeks deeps deepar 2019 again seeks cuts to the nih below the 2017 enacted level. that request is out of step with the sentiments of congress and the country. less than two months ago president trump signed into law a bipartisan bill that increased funding by nih by $3 billion, the second largest increase in its history. those funds will be used to discover cures to alzheimer's, cancer, and other diseases, tackle the opioid

highlight a study that we are part of back when i was at the university where we supported the national academy of sciences to carry out a study entitled disaster resilience, national imperative. in the study, it looked at a community in new orleans which is primarily made of refugees from vietnam about 15 minutes from the french quarter. this community, in response to her hurt kane katrina was able to self organize. they were the first community to come back in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. they were able to rebuild their lives in community. they did this with very little support from the government. for years people try to figure out what was it about this community that made them more resilient than some of their neighbors. the study was really interesting. it highlighted three factors that i think are sufficient in terms of resilience. it noted social identity and memory as one factor, social capital in community competence. i will briefly explain them. around social identity, as war refugees and recent migrants, their experience of both the hardships and the reward of relocation, they really saw

a study published last week in "the proceedings of the national academy of sciences" compared the lively underwater cacophony of a vibrant great barrier reef in 2012 with the quiet of bleached locations in 2016. the life that teems around a healthy reef decreased with the loss of the corals. there are actually some open-ocean species like juvenile clown fish or the nemos that actually rely on sound coming off these reefs from all the life and all the feeding and all the activity. they actually use that sound to find reefs to go settle on. so this quiet of dying reefs makes their job harder finding new homes. climate change makes the heat wave that spurs coral bleaching more intense and also more frequent, leaving corals less time to recover before the next heat wave hits. and we may see the more vu vulnerable corals fail to recover at all, as the waters warm too much for them to survive. a study published earlier this year in "science" looked at 100 tropical reefs and found that only six had avoided bleaching. bleaching events that occurred in the past once in a generation now occur arou

we are working with the national academy of science to move the ball forward, as was directed by the commission. before i close here this morning, as i'm going to get a hook pretty soon, i want to introduce to all of you my new communications director, aaron joyce, who is here up in the front. aaron just joined us this past monday. and i asked her to come here this morning to meet rachel and to meet consumer federation of america, because it's very important that we work together and that we share the same message and safety message to the consumer. so erin, i'm glad to welcome you aboard to cpsc. >>> i also want to say to all of you, as i say every time i speak, myself and the agency and all of our staff and the commissioners work for all of you, the american people. and my door is always open. if there is anything that i can ever be of assistance of or to or you have an issue or a concern about the agency, i hope you will feel free to reach out to my office and to contact me so that we can have that important discussion. and i will just say, the door is always open. in closing, i wa

limited resources to do a problem of which the rand corporation and the national a -- academy of sciences have offered up potential solutions. i'm supporting today's amendment in the nature of the substitute, but warn against future efforts to erode the high quality of care that v.a. is providing, in order to better reflect v.a.'s position on improving access to military sexual trauma, i'm excited to work with our v.x.o. partners on legislation that would implement the recommendations in previous assessments and crease access to the high quality care. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues across the aisle to join us in drafting legislation that continues to heal military sexual trauma victims. with that, i reserve the balance of my time. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman is recognized. mr. dunn: at this time i'd like to recognize representative barr of kentucky who is the sponsor of this bill for three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. . barr: i rise in support of help identify deficiencies and vulnerabilities in their care for sexua

congratulate river city science academy of jacksonville, florida, for winning the state championship in the science olympiad and for their excellent representation in the national competition that took place in fort collins, colorado, on may 19, 2018. this remarkable achievement was the first time a school from duvall county has won the state competition and i couldn't be more proud of the students, teachers and parents that came together to achieve this outstanding victory. my district is home to some of the brightest students in the country and the academic excellence of the river city science academy is just more proof of the robust stem programs that we facilitate back home. stem education is so important in a highly competitive, technologically driven economy, and i'm thankful for the educaters who dedicate their lives to training the next scientists, mathematicians and engineers. congratulations once again to the river city science academy for leading the way and i look forward to hearing of their many successes in the years to come. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from arkansas, mr. womack

one of the gentlemen you'll hear from on the next panel, we served on the national academy on science, engineering, and medicine voting committee. we had an opportunity to hear from general mike hayden, former cia director, nsa director in an unclassified briefing. i asked him the direct question. i said, i'm from orange county, california. i will be responsible for a couple of the most competitive congressional races in the entire country. we'll be right here in our county for a few months. and i said, what is the likelihood now that we know what these bad actors did in '16 that they're going to repeat that same action? or will it be new actions that they will come forward with? and he didn't hesitate in his response. he said, they will be targeting congressional races, targeting other elections. you heard that from the previous panel. so we have, again, a ways to go. but i'm looking forward to the dialogue. >> on that chilling note, i want to pose a question. what we'll do is we'll pose a series of questions to the panelists and let them -- let them respond and then we'll take quest

sciences in 1988 from the medical academy of warsaw. she immigrated to the us in 1989 with her husband and two children to take a research position at the national institute of mental health in bethesda. she stayed on at im h and became chief of molecular biology, basic neuroscience research, mental illness and human brain development. she became director of the human brain collection core and internationally recognized leader in brain research and developing animal models to study the basis of schizophrenia. she offered 150 research papers and peer-reviewed scientific journals, she also has time to be a marathon runner and triathlete, and application that is part of the story she relates in the book. i couldn't put this book down. it is an amazing story that reminded me of other classics about the brain, its function and dysfunction and being human. barbara lipska explains at several levels how the cancer grew and was treated. you don't need to be in neuroscientist to understand this book and that is the beauty of it. there is much to be learned about the brain and cancer and its treatment. from barbara's experiences you learn about the functio

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