senator blackburn has asked that she might go earlier so i yield my time to her. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we have a telephone town hall with tennesseens. i did not want to miss hearing your testimony, because i think this is a tremendously important topic. and one that congress -- time has arrived for congress to take some action and to focus on appropriate light touch regulation to hold big tech responsible. and dr. episteen i agree with you, they are manipulators. it is not lost on me that mark zuckerburg said facebook worked more like a government than a corporation. i will tell you, i agree with you, too. they are nothing but big advertising companies. and their business model is pretty much built on greed. and mr. parker, i will say my heartbreaks for you. i very vividly remember seeing that footage with allison. and i can only imagine as a mom and a grand mom, i can only imagine what you and your family have lived through. and so i thank you for your courage in speaking up. mr. kent, i will say to you privacy is important. and i think probably it is time that we do somethi

blackburn. >> thank you. mr. bhatia, thank you for coping here. i felt like 2018 marks the end of the age of innocence for the internet and if you look forward to this summer we have facebook that has been hit with a $5 billion fine from the ftc and in my opinionin my opinion that's not enough, it should have been $50 billion. we all know that they did things in violation. the privacy agreements at google, you guys are facing a justice department inquiry. and microsoft with their 20 year antitrust saga, if that's any indication then i hope you realize this is very serious. it is a serious inquiry. and it seems like the problems around big tech as it has become a mature industry, this is just mushrooming. and when we talk about privacy or lack there of and data security, offenders that are the biggest and the worst offenders, unfortunately for you all, people put google at the top of the list. so we appreciate that you are here today. i want to start with you and talk a little bit about prioritization of search results. i think this is important to

mr. chairman. that is very exciting and a. great vision. >> it is exciting. >> senator blackburn. >> thank you you, mr. chairman. and administrator, good to see you in this position. i have known your passion for nasa, and that is really what you wanted to do. to see your leadership and your vision, we love it. couple of questions i have dealing with china and great power competition. as you talk about commercialization in artemis, in gateway, what are your contingency plans if what you need is not commercially available or it is not mission ready, or let us say it is already earmarked for defense priorities? what is your contingency plan so that you stay on schedule? >> when we look at the architecture, we want to build dissimilar redundancy into as much of the architecture as possible. in fact, we talked about landers a little bit earlier, we talked about having multiple human landers that are reusable that , can go back and forth to the moon from the gateway. why do we want multiple human landers in the development process? because if one of them falls behind her cannot meet the milestones, the others can go

mr blackburn, the police officer, described lee pomeroy as a decent man he was stabbed to death asa decentetball world cup is under way in liverpool. 16 nations are taking part, including england — led by tracey neville. the roses are amongst the favourites having won commonwealth gold last year. but australia and jamaica are also strong contenders. hopes are high that england can end five decades of dominance by the reigning world champions, australia, and win the tournament for the first time. let's discuss all this with claire carter — presenter of the netball show. thank you forjoining us. how excited are you? i woke up this morning and i thought something seems a little bit different. i have been waiting for moments like this since i was a seven—year—old girl on the sidelines of my primary school, desperate to get on court. it is fantastic. this is the biggest ten days of netball we have seen to date. it comes at a time when women spot is on evil. do you think it is benefiting from that big boost? —— women's sport is on its way up. definitely, what we have seen with the football and t

mr. chairman. >> thank you senator blumenthal. senator blackburn. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you to our witnesses. we appreciate that you are here. i enjoyed visiting with you for a few minutes before the hearing began. mr. wolfram, i want to pick up where we had discussed. in your testimony computational irreducibility. look at that for just a moment. as we talk about this, does it make algorithmic transparency sound increasingly ielusive and would you consider moving towards transparency is a worthy goal or should we be asking another question? >> yeah, i think there are different meanings to transparency. if you are asking tell me why the algorithm did this versus that, that's really hard. if we really want to be able to answer that, we're not going to be able to have algorithms that do anything powerful. in a sense being able to say this is why it did that, we might as well follow the path we used to explain it rather than have it do what it needed to do itself. >> so the transparency, what we capital do is try to get a pragmatic result. >> yeah, we ca

blackburn? >> thank you, mr. chairman. and, general, thank you so much. and secretary wilson, we appreciate that you're here. and we like having you back in d.c. so thank you for being here. and to your family, i want to say welcome. we appreciate that you all are here, and we are thankful for your time and your willingness to work this. i want to stay right where senator jones was looking at, i call the new axis of evil, which is russia and china and iran and north korea. and when we talk about russia and china, they are putting quite an emphasis on their strategic and non-nuclear weapons, one of which is cyber. and i want to encourage you as you take on a on the new role, end this perception that they are going to have the opportunity to be a player in this great power competition. i think you're exactly right to say this is a strategy that is in need of talking this out and developing a strategy and having a game plan for how we move forward there. i thank you for your emphasis on that. i want to talk for just a moment about republic of korea. and have

mrs. blackburn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. president. i appreciate the opportunity to participate today and talk a little bit about my state of tennessee. and i will tell you as we're talking about what we're going to do and how we're going to be working across our state during the august work period and how we're looking forward to having people visit our state during that time, one of the things that strikes me so very often, when people talk about tennessee, when they hear that i'm from tennessee, they will tough and say that is one of the most beautiful states. and the state's beauty with rivers and lakes and rolling hills and mountains and the flat lands over toward memphis. indeed it is. it's very long. and that also is quite remarkable to people. when they start to drive through the state, they say i spend the whole day driving through the state of tennessee. from the time they enter up around mountain city and bristol and make their way through to memphis, it does really take the day. and i thi

mrs. blackburn: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mrs. blackburn: thank you, madam president. as i begin my remarks, i would like to thank the senator from texas for the work that he has done on arranging our travel to the border tomorrow. i'm one of those committee members that will make that trip. and how wonderful it is that he is working with chairman graham to make certain that we're going to be able to visit with the border patrol to see and hear firsthand what is going on and making certain that we all focus on the security of this great nation and providing the resources that are needed. so i thank him for that good work. i do, madam president, want to talk today about another issue that is related to what is happening when it comes to trafficking. this has to do with our childr children. in 2017 i.c.e. agents arrested francisco javier soldad on charges of pornography using the popular social media app snapchat. he assumed a variety of false identities. first a teenage boy. later an adult woman. and coerced at least six underage ch