the national science foundation is spending billions of your taxpayer dollars on programs to boost diversity in science arguing only a diverse laboratory can achieve scientific breakthroughs. that's funny because somehow the 200 national scientists foundation grantees discovered dark matter and the genetics of viruses without conforming to today's metrics. of course this mania for parity continues into the private sector one human's resources manager sued youtube for firing him because he refused to go along with those mandates only females blacks and hispanics at entry-level engineering jobs. just because they are the wrong race and gender. guess who does not care about the diversity metrics? >> china. the best thing trump could do to level the playing field is few cargo planes from american university to dump them on beijing university and the's research lab. until that happens they will go ahead in science because they care only about one thing at the science lab, accomplishments. politics kit - - tears our society apart to hate the greatest thinkers and creators of the past. it must be n

the national science foundation is spending billions of your taxpayer dollars on programs to boost diversity in science. arguing that only a diverse laboratory can achieve scientific breakthroughs that's funny because somehow the 200 national science foundation grantees who won nobel prizes managed to discover dark matter, and the genetics of viruses, among other breakthroughs, without con forming to the day's diversity met tricks. of course this many ya for gender parity in science continues interest the private sector after james demore was fired a human resources macer at youtube and google sued youtube for firing him because he had refused to go along with the mandate to interview only females, blacks and hispanics for entry level engineering jobs. potentially groundbreaking scientists are being passes over today because they are of the wrong race and gender. guess who does not care about diversity metrics? china. the best thing this trump could too to level the playing field would to be airlift a fewer cargo planes of gender theory u.s.es from american universities universities and dump

and with that them feel the national government and the national science foundation pressuring every academic out there with computer science not to base upon merit but gender and race. passive death care? china. as long as they pursue excellent without regard to gender and race if a laboratory is all hispanic and those of the best qualified, fabulous. great. what we should not be doing of those of computer engineering. >> "the diversity delusion" comes out the end of august booktv on c-span2. freedom fest in las vegas. >> so to hear about this and where that comes from. they were both born

the clerk: h.r. 5509, a bill to direct the national science foundation to provide grants for research about stem education approaches and stem-related work force and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from texas, mr. smith, and the gentleman from illinois, mr. lipinski, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. smith: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to include extraneous material on h.r. 5509, the bill now under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. smith: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. smith: mr. speaker, h.r. 5509, the innovations in mentoring, training and apprenticeships act was introduced by kevin mccarthy, co-sponsored by a number of committee members and aplooved -- approved by the science, space and technology committee. h.r. 5509 continues the bipartisan progress the science committee has made to

let's have a bit of 15-year-old ham. >> anthony: since the national science foundation took over froma lot less wild west around here. it feels like dorm life at college. bathrooms are communal, everybody rotates housekeeping duties, everybody shuffles off at designated hours to the galley, where the cooks do the very best they can given the infrequent delivery of what are called in longing tones around here freshies, or anything not frozen, canned, or prepared. the little connectivity i have with the outside world, i owe entirely to you. you have been helping me enormously. joni works i.t. and has been coming here for nine seasons. but it's coming, right? i mean, sooner or later they're going to put a satellite up there and everyone down here is going -- >> joni: maybe. i mean, we're a long way away from having cell service down here and everybody having internet like at home. >> anthony: it's really the last place on earth for cell service. kristy is a heavy equipment operator, coming for 19 seasons. >> kristy: i actually started off two seasons in the galley, and then i ended up ge

it is now spreading diversity ideology in the stem field, national governments, national science foundation is pressuring every academic department in engineering and computer science, math and physics to hire not based on merit but based on gender and race. guess who doesn't care about that definition of diversity. china. as long as they pursue science excellence without regard to gender and race, if a laboratory was female and all hispanic and those are the best qualified, fabulous, great. we are putting irrelevancies like sex and race and ethnicity ahead of somebody's knowledge of physics and computer engineering. >> host: heather mac donald's no book "the diversity delusion: how race and gender pandering corrupt the university and undermine our culture" comes out in august. you are watching the tv on c-span2. from freedom fest in las vegas. >> c-span launched a booktv 20 years ago on c-span2 and since then we had 54,000 hours of programming of authors and book festivals. the late christopher hitchens appeared 40 times. in 2007 he was on booktv's in-depth. >> the most notable would be th

is 6,000 years old, but if you think that, you shouldn't be head of nasa or head of the national science foundation or on a science committee. >> but you can be a member of congress. >> so, i'm not going to fault someone in congress for thinking any one way or another if they represent a community of people in this country. so, as an educator, i turn around and face the people in this country and i say, "if you think this is science, but it's not, then you --" it's an if-then statement -- "then you are crippling the future economic growth of your region, of your state, and ultimately, if you have more power than that, of the nation itself." because innovations in science and technology are the engines of tomorrow's economies. they've always been and they will continue to be. >> so when do you engage on the public policy? >> i can make suggestions to people. i can say, "if you do this, this will happen, and if you don't do that, that'll happen." then i go home. i don't debate people. >> you don't debate people, but you wade in to the public policy. you do wade in to the policy a little bit. >> no. >

spreading the diversity ideology is spreading in the stem field, the national government, the national science foundationis pressuring every academic department out there in engineering and computer sciences and math and physics to hire not based on merit but based on gender and race. guess who doesn't care about that definition of diversity? china. as long as they pursue science excellence without regard to gender and race, if a laboratory is all female, if a laboratory is all hispanic and those are the best qualified scientists, fabulous, great, but what we shouldn't be doing is putting irrelevancies like sex and race and ethnicity ahead of somebody's knowledge of physics and computer engineering. >> host: heather mcdonald's new book the diversity delusion comes out at the end of august how race and gender pandering corrupt the university and undermine our culture, you're watching book tv on c-span2, from freedom fest in las vegas. >> here is a look at some of the current best-selling nonfiction books according to indy bound. introduction to formal education at the age of 17. after that it's humorous d

research scientt julienne stroeve is working with the national science foundation to find out. >>> i knknow the importance of snow anand ice in helelping rege the planet's temperature, it's one of the reasons i went intoto studying snow and ice because it's very important to our climate system. and i don't think it really was until about 2002, 2003 that we started to really start paying attention to what's happening in the arctic, because before that we would have, you know, we'd have low sea ice in the 1990s and then it would be followed by a high sea ice year, but what started happening in 2000 is you'd have a low sea ice year and another low sea ice year, and it just kept happening and happening year after year. and that was the thing we hadn't seen before, at least during the last sort of 50 years of data collection. and then when 2007 happened, where you had 26% drop from the previous september in 2006, and everybody was like, what is going on? 'cause nobody expected that large of a drop. it took everybody by surprise in the science community. the ratete of decline right now ove

senate, he served six years on the national science board, the governing body of the national science foundation that provides science policy guidance to the congress and the president. the doctor was renominated by president obama and again confirmed by the senate, serving a second six-year term on the national science board he took the university of oklahoma research facilities to carnegie r-1 status, the top status. he has an impressive record had the opportunity to be able to go through and see the research to see his background. one of the most impressive statements that i think you'll get from him is skips has no politics. science is just science. it's just the facts that you're looking at. so the key thing that he really brings to this is not only his extensive background, his experience working with the government and with congress and the white house in the past giving science recommendations, obviously the work he's done in weather and climate for decades now. but he is just an honorable individual. that i think you'll enjoy getting a chance to know, not only his science background, bu

if they were chosen by merit but if they are chosen because the national science foundation was conducting research of intersection nullity of engineering and math if any of you are so lucky to have been protected from the intersection nullity phrase that is the latest coin term of academic victim politics to express the multiple disabilities white people can check off numerous categories as the unofficial victim categories the nsf is actually paying gender theorist to study intersection nullity in the sciences it is so mind blowing an institution founded by congress in 1952 advance science basic research and we're doing intersection nullity. this is very much not to be ignored science education is slowed down pedagogy is changing there was an announcement this summer by the university of akron computer science professor he was arbitrarily raising the grades of all the female students as part of his contribution to gender equity of the sciences hoping that better grades would encourage them to go on so then there was an outcry to get them to back off but believe me initiatives are going on

that is reflected in the report as well. >> i am with the national science foundation. i live in fairfax county, virginia. my question is not so much in the operational side but with research. slide aboutd at the research, a talked about the people side of research. was there any typical -- technical topics that you identified that you think need more research investment? there was a list of them given in the report. everything from voter authentication to verifiability. limiting -- risk limiting audit technology, all of those things were mentioned in the report. from that point of view, it was nice to see more support for this kind of things. i'm at the national center for science engagement. about thesome mention convenience and physical infrastructure for voting. i have a two-part question. does the committee have a position on early voting as a way to spread out the stress on election systems? was there an assessment of the risks of keeping voting open longer? the reported knowledge the reality of the fact that there is more and more not any early voting taking plac

that is reflecting in the report as well. >> jeremy epstein, national science foundation. my question is not so much in the operational side but you mentioned research. when i went to the side about research it talked about the people's side. was there any technical topics that needs more research investment? >> there was a list in the report. you can see the details. voter identification to verifiability. the risk of the audit technology is evolving and it needs more research. it is all mentioned in the report. specific technical challenges and i think from their point of view it was nice to see more support. >> the national center for science. some mention in the presentation about the convenience and physical infrastructure for voting. does the committee have a position on early voting as a way to spread out the stress on the system and was there an assessment of keeping it open longer? >> i think the report acknowledged the reality of the fact that there is more and more not early voting taking place but there is more mechanisms put in place to make it more convenient.

economy going strong, the bill supports strong investments of research and development at the national science foundation, national aeronautics administration, and the -- and noaa. and my colleague mentioned nasa and the breakthroughs that we're seeing at nasa helping to drive innovation. this scientific innovation creates new discoveries that leads to new industries to new american jobs. that's good for this country. we need to make sure that the funding in this bill gets passed out of the senate and the congress before we get to the next process -- appropriations process for 2020. instead today what we're going to do is to vote to put the agencies that are funded by c.j.s. on autopilot until december through a continuing resolution. they will spend the same amount on programs and initiatives on the same items with no adjustment under this c.r. now we know that businesses don't operate this way, families don't operate this way, and the united states government shouldn't operate this way. so senator moran and i are going to continue to argue that we pass this bill. i would urge the leaders here in the se

also what we are hearing and that's reflected in the report as well. >> jeremy epstein, national science foundation, also precinct the april 8, 1941 fairfax county virginia which is important that all of us recognize the importance of poll workers. my question is not in the operational side but research. where there any aspects, when i went to the slide about research it talked about the people side, where their technical topics that you identified that you think needs more research investment? >> susan and ron? >> there were a list of them given in the report and you can see the details, everything from voter authentication to verifiability. i think that the risk and audit technology itself is evolving. all those are mentioned in the report. there's a whole suite of pacific technical challenges and i think from that point of view, it was nice to see more support. >> my name is kyle clemens with the center for civic engagement area there was some mention in the presentation about the convenience in the physical infrastructure for voting so i have a two-part question. does the committee have a posit

what we're hearing, and that's reflected in the report as well. >> hi, jeremy epstein, national science foundation can, also a precinct chief for 841 fairfax county, virginia, which i think is very important that all of us recognize the importance of poll workers. my question is not so much in the operational side, but you mentioned research. were there any aspects finish when i looked at the slide about research, it talked about mostly the people sides of research. were there any technical topics that you identified that you think needs more research investment? thank you. >> susan and ron? >> yeah, there were a list of them given in the report, and you can go through them and see the details, everything from voter authentication to end to enverify about and things in between. i think the risk-limiting audit technology itself is evolving and needs more research. all of these are mentioned in the report. there's a whole suite of specific technical challenges, and i think from nsf's point of view, it's be nice to see more support for those kinds of things. >> hi there, my name is kyle clements with

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senate and served six years in the national science ward from the science foundation and science policy guidance to the congress and president and renominated by president obama and again confirmed by the senate serving a second six-year term until the national science board, the last four years as the vice chairman. and he took the university of oklahoma and the research facility happening there when he was vice president as carnegie status and he has an impressive research and background and one of the most impressive statement is science has no politics. science is just science. it is just the facts that you're looking at. so the key thing that he really brings to this is not oven his extensive background and experience working with the government and with congress and with the white house in the past giving science recommendations, obviously the work he's done in weather and climate for decades now but he is just an honorable individual that i think you'll enjoy getting a chance to know his science background and his personal and family background as well. it's interesting to see, i

the national science foundation put out an important notice, as vice president for research i was involved in taking it to my university, helping us understand. they agreed with my personal feeling a lot of us who say this kind of behavior is absolutely unacceptable and has to stop. we owe all of our researchers at safe environment in which to work. they said we will not tolerate sexual harassment of women or any other individuals. the workplace will be safe. we want you to do that. on the other hand, we reserve the right to come in and take away funding and take unilateral action. i thought that was an important strong statement. that andst p could do have all the agencies in that conversation and promulgated throughout all the agencies. nothing more important than making sure we have state -- safe environment. sen. nelson: one final question since i haven't broken -- haven't spoken to -- you will do something about the fact that this committee has taken a strong position with regard to protection of passengers -- consumer protections on airlines. yet, we have not seen the airlines do the

quantum initiative program with the national institutes of standards and technology, the national science foundation, and the department of energy playing a lead role. through the establishment of a national coordination office an outside advisor committee, and interagency working group, the program will take on an integrated government approach to accelerating progress in quantum research and development. i want to express my appreciation for the deliberative bipartisan process by which we developed this legislation. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore:le gentlelady reserves. the gentleman from texas. mr. smith: first of all i'd like to thank the gentlewoman from texas, ms. eddie bernice johnson, for those nice comments. she was right. this was a very bipartisan effort and bipartisan bill. i'd like to yield three minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. weber, who is also the chairman of the energy subcommittee of the science committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas, mr. weber, is recognized for three minutes. mr. weber: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, c

federal dollars through our national laboratories, the national institutes of health, the national science foundation, and other agencies. it is important that the american people know that the republican majority in congress worked together with democrats to provide record levels of funding for science, research, and technology. so i would say to all those who might not have noticed this quite a development that congress is funding science and research at record levels. and that we continue to do so -- and if we continue to do so, we will make america more competitive and spur creation and high-paying jobs. a lot of hard work went into these negotiations over the last several months. our staff members worked over weekends and vacations to make that happen, including the last few days. on my staff tyler owens, jen armstrong, rachel littleton, and senator feinstein's staff, doug clapp, chris hanson, samantha knell sofn. on senator shelby's staff, shannon heinz, jonathan graffio, david atkins. i'm deeply grateful to them for their professionalism and their bipartisan work. now, mr. president, i would l

states as well as internal studies we have support from the national institute of health, cystic fibrosis foundation, and it's based on robust science from the preclinic into the clinic now. >> how about the 600 comps that we talked about? >> in 2014 we started with a single compound. we had a theory which was you can control chronic inflammation by modulating the endo cannabinoid system what we announced today is the next logical progression if it works with one of them, we want to be the leading pipeline. we want to have the ability to tap into many, many more of these. that's where gen ren comes in. >> you didn't disclose how much it costs i am worried people will buy and then it will be illogical. >> our cash position is strong one of the nice things of the deal is it's back ended. it's generous towards gen ren in the later stages. >> would this replace meth treksen? >> it could. that's used for rheumatoid arthritis. what about the patients that perhaps need a second line therapy drug remember, this field is dominated by drugs that date back to the late 1990s. >> yes, very little improvement in this field. people are desperate,

foundation of individual liberty. so, i'm wondering if we can extrapolate what he said about the arts and sciences in medial times and talk about our modern environment in which universities across the nation especially united states, we may not be conscripted by warlords but we are definitely pressure to be conscripted in the social justise warrior army, and how speakers on campuses are being turned away. berkeley. there is not a lot of academic freedom. if we can extrapolate what au said about the arts and sciences in medieval times, what in our modern day may be destructive to our concepts of capitalism individual freedom today? dr. levy: all right. there are number of different lines to chase down there. one is that i -- one is that w rousseau was talking about the rise of the arts and sciences, he does not have the middle ages in my. university survived across that transition. medieval universities that taught theology, law, traditional philosophy became in the renaissance what we think of the liberal arts. on a verytook to informed intellectual contest, as a result of the rise of global arts and the renaissance. she world that rousseau' complaining about is the post renaissance world

and according to the national science foundation, between 2002 and 2011, the top eight institutions where african american ph.d.'s in science and engineering earned their bachelor's degree were all hbcu's. hbcu's annually generate $4. 8 billion in economic impact. they add more than 134,000 jobs for local and regional economies. in 2014, alabama hbcu graduates can expect to earn total earnings of $130 billion over their lifetimes. i could go on and on with these remarkable statistics for these remarkable colleges and universities. for all of these incredible achievements, though, every achievement that i just named, hbcu's in alabama and across the country are working against strong headwinds of serious financial struggles. the government accountability office recently investigated the capital finance needs of hbcu's at the request of my colleagues, senators pat at this time murray and senator casey, also congressman bobby scott and congressman g.k. butterfield s the report indicates that 46% of all hbcu buildings are in need of replacement or repair. this is due to deferred maintenance,