murphy's office in las vegas was the model for "c.s.i.," and he was the only coroner the national academy of sciencesited to testify. the national academy of science's study, you contributed testimony to it. >> yes, sir. >> bergman: you support its recommendations? >> not in its entirety. >> bergman: what do you object to? >> i guess one of the things i'd have to say is the elimination of the coroner office, per you know, it was a pretty broad stroke. can you do it with a nuclear approach? >> bergman: "a nuclear approach." they... they want to blow the whole thing up? >> i think they want to say, "wipe all this out and go this direction." and i'm going to tell you that... i think there's a chinese proverb that says, "be careful what you ask for." i don't think the system could... could function without the coroners at this particular time. the first thing you're going to have to do is make sure you have enough forensic pathologists. and if you don't have that, i think the system would... would start to crumble. there's a... a huge demand, and there's very little supply. >> bergman: it would take at l

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overwhelming vast majority absolutely it most of the scientific societies around the world national academies of sciences the intergovernmental panel on climate change all the leading experts of the world they get together and make scientific statements about climate change they all agree that climate change is real it's unequivocal and they're very worried about the lack of action on the parts of weaning ourselves off of fossil fuel these guys have been able to delay action on climate change for two decades all along making billions and billions of dollars in dirty energy according to pay our man and author jim hogan the success of this echo chamber has nothing to do with science and everything to do with spin it was a media campaign they wanted to create doubt in the minds of journalists they wanted to create doubt in the minds of the public and your average person will never know they just see some articulate guy needn't be a scientist basically being shills for industry people like fred singer he was a guy who worked for tobacco now works on climate change but because they're wearing a lab coat and t

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it accurate to say that there is no such thing as a safe level of radiation it is the national academy of sciences here in the u.s. for decades now most recently in two thousand and five in the seventh iteration of this report called the biological effects of ionizing radiation as affirmed again and again that there is no safe threshold of radiation it goes right of these why this insanity on radio and television every single light well it's only one hundred twenty two rads i guess suno or not or mill around one hundred twenty resident nuki pretty fast but it's you know or orgy and we've only got to go you know four hundred tries background i guess will break if i don't get it why why is this being treated like a like you know sports scores well the nuclear power industry is one of the biggest players certainly in the united states but also internationally both at the government level but also within the media and they sponsor the media with their contribution was their underwriting their commercials so they have way too much sway in the last minute any end game here how do you see this thing reso

of nature. there is no serious disagreement on the science of climate change. in fact, the findings have been confirmed by all leading scientific academies around the world. the national academy of sciences last year issued a series of comprehensive reports that are unambiguous. it says, for example, quote, climate change is occurring, it is caused largely by human activities and in many cases it is already affecting a broad range of human and natural systems. and even a team of scientists from uc-berkley who were told to try to disprove global climate change just reported last week to a congressional committee that in fact global climate change is occurring. this is simple. this is clear. h.r. 910 represents an effort to deny and run away from science and from reality. it ignores one of the chief drivers behind our need for a clean and modernized energy policy, massive and growing human consumption of carbon-based fuels. last congress and again today i chose to be on the side of those who acted to address a climate disaster and put into place a framework for an energy policy which this country so painfully goes without and so little can afford. i urge my colleagues t

of sciences, national academy of engineering. she is a fellow of the american association for the advancement of science. with that background, why she is here is she served as one of the commissioners on the president's commission on the bp oil spill. she will share with us her observations and share the findings and recommendations of the national commission. we are extremely fortunate to have professor murray hre. >> thank you, and good morning. i would like to express the appreciation of both of that commission co-chairs. the commission is now over. we have produced our report, which i will review with you. i am sure you have all read it. you also have two people on your committee who are intimately familiar with the commission and its report. we had seven members of the presidential commission that began in june. the report was finished in record time after six months. we could only do that because we had such an incredible staff. we had 60 people on the staff, of which the chief scientist was rich. what the pre

of sciences, national academy of engineering. she is a fellow of the american association for the advancement of science. with that background, why she is here is she served as one of the commissioners on the president's commission on the bp oil spill. she will share with us her observations and share the findings and recommendations of the national commission. we are extremely fortunate to have professor murray hre. >> thank you, and good morning. i would like to express the appreciation of both of that commission co-chairs. the commission is now over. we have produced our report, which i will review with you. i am sure you have all read it. you also have two people on your committee who are intimately familiar with the commission and its report. we had seven members of the presidential commission that began in june. the report was finished in record time after six months. we could only do that because we had such an incredible staff. we had 60 people on the staff, of which the chief scientist was rich. what the pre

of the 2010 census. he was elected from the national command to me -- the national academy of sciences. he has served as president of the institute of management sciences and the institute of operations research and the management sciences, and that is an acronym, in form. he holds a master's degree from southern methodist university. does that make you a mustang? and that phd in operations research from the university of texas. longhorn. mr. vargas, the executive director of the latino elected officials. prior to joining the national association of latino affect original elected in imported officials. he was the vice president for community education and public policy at the mexican-american legal defense and education fund, where he supervised and directed the organization's community education and leadership development programs. mr. vargas is nationally recognized expert in latina demographic trends, of electoral participation, from voting rights, the census, and redistricting. we're glad that you're here. we appreciate your preparation for today's hearing. your entire statements wi

year will be complete at our academy of sciences, lorenzo piano, great architect with one of the most sustainable green developments, in fact the most of any in this nation, $180 million development at that academy of sciences. we are redeveloping old brown fields in san francisco, replacing old power plants. we had one of the most polluting plants in the state of california, just shut it down, old pg&e. we are focusing on replacing blue collar jobs with green power jobs to communities that disproportionately have been hurt by our neglect and i believe the next narrative in this discussion and i think it's critical that it not just be next, it needs to be intertwined and how do we reconcile this with the old strategies of electricity and fossil fuel production and begin to address the issues of poverty instead. i think that is striking in san francisco when the vast majority of our pollutants and waste, waste water system, et cetera, are disproportionately in areas where people have the highest unemployment rate and the lack of resources to truly make their lives as successful and prosperous as we all are trying to achieve. we're a city that has the high

on fallujah science matters and the senate panels of the need the expertise to look at a particular subject, and we use them -- the offering in many ways similar to the way the national academy of science and set up a panel to look at a particular matter of scientists in that field. >> thank you very much for your testimony. >> senator lautenberg? >> thank you mr. chairman. two things in life are more essentials and the water we drink and the government has few responsibilities that is critical to protecting the country's water supply. in going to use these couple of minutes for my statement. communities are reporting serious contamination of the water supplies from the drilling process that we are now looking at cracking and the environmental protection agency as we discussed here is widely known as powerless to protect these communities because and soon the republican congress advised president cheney's the test period but the epa from setting standards. this so-called halliburton local elaine is the chemicals in the ground in order to reach to get to the heart to reach natural gas. some states as we've heard have adopted strong laws to reduce the risk to their residents b

a study by the national academy of science conducted at the request of the u.s. navy concluded that climate change will pose an emergency challenge for the united states navy and the emerging frontier. one of the most serious threat analysis was done by a dozen of the country's most respected retired generals and admirals. in the 2007 cnn report, the national security and threat of climate change report. in this study, madam speaker, these retired generals and admirals concluded that climate change poses a serious threat to america's national security and that the national security consequences of climate change should be fully integrated into national security and national defense strategies. the report goes on to say that climate change, national security and energy dependence is also related -- affects our military and these threats should not be ignored or pushed down the road for future accidents. unfortunately, this bill does exactly that, it pushes the challenges of regulating greenhouse gases which contributes to climate change firmly down the road for ac

on fallujah science matters and the senate panels of the need the expertise to look at a particular subject, and we use them -- the offering in many ways similar to the way the national academy of science and set up a panel to look at a particular matter of scientists in that field. >> thank you very much for your testimony. >> senator lautenberg? >> thank you mr. chairman. two things in life are more essentials and the water we drink and the government has few responsibilities that is critical to protecting the country's water supply. in going to use these couple of minutes for my statement. communities are reporting serious contamination of the water supplies from the drilling process that we are now looking at cracking and the environmental protection agency as we discussed here is widely known as powerless to protect these communities because and soon the republican congress advised president cheney's the test period but the epa from setting standards. this so-called halliburton local elaine is the chemicals in the ground in order to reach to get to the heart to reach natural gas. some states as we've heard have adopted strong laws to reduce the risk to their residents b

we are working with the national academy of science for analysis going forward. the marketing will depend on several other issues. we are working to do that shortly. we have already put out guidance for tanks there are different issues with regard to tanks. we are helping to move the pumps so that people can move to the higher bland. >> do you think congress will take away epa authority to regulate the greenhouse gases? . . >> we've said, if we're going to start, that that's where it should start. the clean air act is a technology law. it is often thought of as a public health law, and it is. you've heard the liveds they have saved and the hospital zations and the rucks in health care costs. but the writers of the law were relying on technology to move us forward. the technology for moving to a pipe is not there. the technology that is there is energy eefficiency. in the work we've done to date, whether it be on mobile sources like cars and trucks or the best available controlled technology, the guidance we put out in january for large sources, it is all about en

on fallujah science matters and the senate panels of the need the expertise to look at a particular subject, and we use them -- the offering in many ways similar to the way the national academy of science and set up a panel to look at a particular matter of scientists in that field. >> thank you very much for your testimony. >> senator lautenberg? >> thank you mr. chairman. two things in life are more essentials and the water we drink and the government has few responsibilities that is critical to protecting the country's water supply. in going to use these couple of minutes for my statement. communities are reporting serious contamination of the water supplies from the drilling process that we are now looking at cracking and the environmental protection agency as we discussed here is widely known as powerless to protect these communities because and soon the republican congress advised president cheney's the test period but the epa from setting standards. this so-called halliburton local elaine is he chemicals in the ground in order to reach to get to the heart to reach natural gas. some states as we've heard have adopted strong laws to reduce the risk to their residents bu

we are working with the national academy of science for analysis going forward. the marketing will depend on several other issues. we are working to do that shortly. we have already put out guidance for tanks there are different issues with regard to tanks. we are helping to move the pumps so that people can move to the higher bland. -- higher blend of ethanol. >> do you think congress will take away epa authority to regulate the greenhouse gases? >> i certainly hope not. that is the answer to the second question. there is nothing to fear from common sense use of the clean air act to begin to put this country in the direction of moving toward direction -- addressing greenhouse gas emissions. i join the president in calling for legislation to address greenhouse gas emissions. i believe that would have been the most efficient way for our economy to move in the direction of lowering pollution from many different sources. that did not happen. now we are left with the clean air act. one of the things about the clean air act is that is not the ideal tool. but it is a t

harvard school of engineers in applied science and professor of applied science and professor of fizz sicks. in addition to all of those qualifications, she's a member of the national academy of science, engineering, and arts and sciences and further a fellow for the advancement of science as well as past president of the american physical society. with all that background, why she's here is she served as one of the distinguished commissioners on the president's commission on the bp oil spill. she is going to share with us her observations and share with us the findings and recommendations of the national commission. we're extremely fortunate to have professor murray here. welcome. >> thank you. good morning, and i would like to express the appreciation of the commission cochairs, bob graham and bill riley. the commission is now over. we have produced our report which i will review with you, and i'm sure you've all read it, and you have two people on your committee who are intim matily familiar with the commission and the report. we had seven members of the presidential commission that began in june. the report was finished in record time after six months. we could only do

. >> well, with the national academy of science be able to put that kind of body together which is what they generally do when they look at something? >> yes, i think the national academy is certainly an option. sometimes they move more slowly than one would like, but i think if they -- in my view, perhaps with a strong connection to an outstanding technical group like npo, for example, could be a good way of putting together a review. >> thank you. anything else, senator? >> no, i'd like to thank the witnesses for a very helpful statements that you made and thank the chairman for looking into this. as i said at the beginning, it's very important that we talk about nuclear power. you know, nuclear power is such a complex mechanical operation that is makes sensational television news whenever there's a problem even though hundreds of thousands of people in japan are homeless and 1,000 bodies washed up on a beach one day, the news was about the nuclear reactors. it's important as a country we similarly learn how to honestly ask questions to continuously improve what we're doing, but at th

chair of the national academies board on behavioral cognitive and sensory scientist and most previously the chair of national research benge mack council on field evaluation of cognitive sciences based methods and tools for intelligence and counterintelligence and a member of the nrc committee on developing metrics for the department of homeland security science and technology research. noticeably absent from the witness table is the transportation security administration. tsa was invited to the initial hearing on march 13 that was postponed. they were invited to this hearing several weeks ago. in response to these invitations, dhs has refused to send a tsa representative. on another committee hearing just yesterday, department of homeland security refused to have a witness said on a panel with other witnesses. dhs has staked out a claim that i think is intolerable. it is unconscionable that tsa will not send their representatives here today to this important hearing on this program. $1.2 billion of taxpayers money to talk to us about it and i find that totally reprehensible. dhs sought to detail is subcommittees interest presumably quoting from rule 10 of the house of represe

chair of the national academies board on behavioral cognitive and sensory scientist and was briefly the chair of national research committee, field evaluation of behavioral and cognitive sciences base methods and tools for intelligence and counterintelligence. and a member of the nrc committee on developing metrics for the department of homeland security science and technology research. noticeably absent from the witness table is the transportation security administration. tsa was invited to the initial hearing on march 13. it was postponed. they were invited to this hearing several weeks ago. and respond to these invitations, dhs has refused to send a tsa representative. on another committee hearing just yesterday, the department of homeland security refused to have a witness sit on a panel with other witnesses. dhs has staked out a claim that i think is intolerable. it is unconscionable that tsa will not send a representative here today to this important hearing on this program, that is slated to send $1.2 billion of the taxpayers money, to talk to us about it, and i find that totally reprehensible. in a letter to this committee, dhs sought to detail the subcommittee's inter

the national council of negro women and the national congress of black women addressed the issues of girls getting into the pipeline. the 100 black man looks at math and science academy's on saturday morning. the urban league makes a dent in job training. we in the black leadership forum are addressing the least of these. as such, i am a bit offended that you are saying the organizations are looking highbrow at 38,000 feet and not addressing the least of these. yes, we are. >> i said that the accomplishments of the civil ,ights movement were tremendous but relative to trying to bring millions of people out of poverty, the jobs part of jobs and justice, dismantling legal segregation is a much easier problem. we have figured out how to do that. the second answer to question is, there are these organizations that are doing god's work out there, and we still have a million black men in prison. we still have a 60% dropout rate. these organizations have been working for decades. i am posing to the possibility that maybe we need more. >> i would like to set thank you to all of the panel members. when i came here, i had almost the whole box of kleenex, and this is all i have l

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of lords academy. guided by their teacher, susan fleming, these four young ladies, gabriellea, christina, lauren and diana have been selected as regional winning finalists at the national science teachers association exploreavision competition. this group of intelligent young laidies envisioned an innovative proposal for medical technology, a surgical procedure that would treat patients whose vocal chords have been paralyzed, allowing them to speel speak again. their groundbreaking idea was selected from over 4,000 entries and over 13,000 students. innovative students like these four impressive girls will help lead our nation into the future and i wish them much success in the upcoming national judging phase. thank you, mr. speaker, for the time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from hawaii rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. hirono: mr. speaker, before i talk about the bipartisan local tax relief ability to re-authorize impact act, before i go to that, i too would like to add my condolences to the family of john adler. john and i used to do yoga

the national council of negro women and the national congress of black women addressed the issues of girls getting into the pipeline. the 100 black man looks at math and science academy's on saturday morning. the urban league makes a dent in job training. we in the black leadership forum are addressing the least of these. as such, i am a bit offended that you are saying the organizations are looking highbrow at 38,000 feet and not addressing the least of these. yes, we are. >> i said that the accomplishments of the civil ,ights movement were tremendous but relative to trying to bring millions of people out of poverty, the jobs part of jobs and justice, dismantling legal segregation is a much easier problem. we have figured out how to do that. the second answer to question is, there are these organizations that are doing god's work out there, and we still have a million black men in prison. we still have a 60% dropout rate. these organizations have been working for decades. i am posing to the possibility that maybe we need more. >> i would like to set thank you to all of the panel members. when i came here, i had almost the whole box of kleenex, and this is all i have l

science teaching. five years later, another report, "rising above the gathering storm," presented the findings and recommendations of a national academies commission chaired by former lockheed martin c.e.o. norm augustine concerning the deterioration of stem education and basic research. last year, a follow-up report dramatically titled "rapidly approaching category five hurricane," warned us that the -- quote -- "gathering storm is now threatening to wipe out u.s. leadership in global science and technology if we don't act fast, and it said so with good reason. according to the bureau of labor statistics, nearly every one of the 30 fastest growing professions require stem skills. these include jobs in some of the fields that are most critical to the future of our country, health care, energy, climate change and national security, and yet too few kids are graduating from high school with the interests or the preparation to successly pursue stem degrees in college. well over half of college students in china and japan major in stem fields compared with only one-third of u.s. citizens. international standardized tests show that we rank on

national -- natural resources defense council. he served as director of the nuclear program until 2007. he initiated a series of joint nuclear weapons verification projects with the academy of sciences. he is a member of the department of energy nuclear energy research advisory committee. he is on the fusion energy sciences advisory board. the t.m.i. public health advisory board. last but not least, sharon is a good friend and colleague. she served as a director and senior fellow for the center for science and international -- strategic and international security studies. i apologize. we all just take to the acronyms here. sharon was a senior associate in the nuclear non-proliferation program. from 2002 until 2007 she advised congress on weapons of mass destruction. i thank you all for participating. you will each have about 15 minutes. then we will open it up for questions again. we will break around 6:00. then we will have a nice reception. >> i would like to thank the ambassador and paul walker for inviting us to discuss the lessons of chernobyl for nuclear energy policy today. the talk i was going to give up when we were invited, which was a week or two before the figures in the

the national council of negro women and the national congress of black women addressed the issues of girls getting into the pipeline. the 100 black manooks at math and science academy's on saturday morning the urban league makes a dent in job training. we in the black leadership forum are addressing the least of these. as such, i am a bit offended that you are saying the organizations are looking highbrow at 38,000 feet and not addressing the least of these. yes, we are. >> i said that the accomplishments of the civil ,ights movement were tremendous but relaveo trying to bring millions of people out of poverty, the jobs part of jobs and justice, dismantling legal segregation is a much easier problem. we have figured out how to do that. the second answer to question is, there are these organizations that are doing god's work out there, and we still have a million black men in prison. we still have a 60% dropout rate. these organizations have been working for decades. i am posing to the possibility that maybe we need more. >> i would like to set thank you to all of the panel members. when i came here, i had almost the whole box of kleenex, and this is all i have left.

sciences. this mentions a variety of documents and reports, some of which i have here, include many produced by the national academies, national research council, such as consensus reports and other documents, but the written testimony focuses on two i was involved with the workshop on field evaluation and the intelligence and counterintelligence context, and a short set of papers on threatening communications and behavior. because of time limitations, i'm not able to describe these in detail and refer you to my written testimony. regarding the field evaluation workshop summary, however, a number of the participants spoke about various obstacles to field evaluation. obstacles they believe must be overcome if field evaluation of techniques and devices derive from the behavioral sciences is to become more common and accepted. perhaps the most basic obstacle is simply a lack of appreciation among many for the value of objective field evaluations and how inaccurate, informal, lessons learned approaches can be to field evaluation. a number of people throughout the process of developing this summary spoke about the pressur

science matters we present to it. they can set up special panels if they need the expertise to look at a particular sub. cheject. they operate in a similar way to the national academy of scientists. >> thank you very much for your testimony. >> a few things alive for more essential than what do we drink and government has few responsibilities as critical as protecting our country's water supply. i will make my statement. communities across the country are reporting serious contamination. of their water supplies from a drilling process that we are looking at. the environmental protection agency has been powerless to protect these communities because a republican congress prohibited epa from setting standards. this so-called halliburton loophole eliminates the federal oversight that we would like to see on companies that inject chemicals into the ground in order to breach -- in order to get to the hard to reach natural gas. some states have adopted strong laws to restrictfracking. nots face it, water does recognize state boundaries. you may live in a state that has strong laws against this process but the state next door does not. your water and your family could be sti