director vought: the national science foundation is very important. mr. khanna: i get all that, you would disagree with her characterization. director vought: i would just point out that the national science foundation doesn't need to be immune by looking at waste, fraud and abuse. they spend money on winemaking programs and supposed to be investing in science and waste, fraud and abuse is something they are not free from. mr. khanna: and cutting their budget by $4.9 billion. director vought: we bring the national institutes of health down. mr. khanna: do you why some people may think you don't believe in science and technology when you are cutting the national science foundation by a billion which the republican increased and when you are disagreeing with people like secretary rice. you see why that perception would be there? director vought: i don't understand. we are spending $134 billion in research and development and that's what we spent in the last two years and allocate it differently but we prioritize it a great deal. mr. yarmuth: i now recognize

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reasons's one of t the national science foundation funds us, we're a community facility. >>ngreenivasan: raymo is lea this week on an research expedition, which will be collecting new core samples near antarctica. she'll be on a ship for the next two months. >> it's going to a place that has never really been studied before in fact we don't even e know what e of the sediment at the bottom at the bottom will be. syoknow the ocean is vast. you know they say we know more about the surface of the moon than we know about the bottom of the ocean and there are still many, many places to explore and many uncertainties about what happened in the past especially around antarctica. >> sreenivasan: even as she brings back more samples, raymo says there are still parts of the existing collection that haven't been fully explored. >> i would say about half of them have been studied in depth by scientists. but you kno there's still a lot of undiscovered gold in this in this building. >> sreen: ivas've been following how different countries have been investing in and developing new ways t

captioning sponsored by cbs >> in his 2020 budget proposal, president trump calls for cutting national science foundationng $1 billion. >> due to budget cuts, bill nye the science guy will not be seen tonight. instead it's ♪ ted ryan >> look, it's there, now it's gone. now it's back again. how does that work? oh! hello, kids. today we'll talk about the weather and what causes thunder and lightning with our friend ella here. >> what does cause thunder and

organizations we're talking about that would be the center for economic policy research and the national science foundation grant was a group that was working under this grant including a woman by the name of penny goldberg you might know her name she's the chief economist at the world bank so you have a lot of very influential process involved in all this and they've come down with a bottom line here the bottom line is the american the average american has been paying for these tariffs in the church to the tune of sixty nine billion dollars so really when you break it down there's your trickle down all the way to the average american so we're talking about these terrorist two hundred fifty billion you know against china plus tariffs against canada and mexico and japan those are mostly dealing with aluminum aluminum and steel so all these tears when it comes down to it i mean there was a breaking up of supply chain because we know that a lot of the lumen of the steel specially like i'm talking from canada so we know our steel goes to their heads to the states to build cars etc companies get hurt if they ha

he proposed a billion dollars in the national science foundation is that correct? >> the single biggest thing $7 billion for the science foundation is a very healthy -- >> would you disagree with the characterization to double the budget with the secretary i would point out it doesn't need to be immune to the extent they spend money on the programs they are supposed to be investing in science and yet we still find that waste, fraud and abuse isn't something that they are free from we bring the national institutes onationalinstitutes t 33 billion. >> bought trying to be partisan but do you see why some people may think that you don't believe in science and technology when you're cutting the national science foundation by italy in and cutting the national institute by 4 billion at the republican congress increased 2 billion last time that is exactly what we spend in the last two years and we allocated differently we talk about going off script and i think that we are fairly following the script and some of the things we say are very predictable and i'm sure that you

he has been chair emeritus of weather views and has -- was a cofounder of the national science foundation engineering research center for collaborative adaptive sensing of atmosphere which goes by the acronym casa. oklahomans know him for his newspaper weather column. many of us in the science community know him because he was appointed by george w bush and subsequently by barack obama to two six year terms on the national science board. he has been an visor to the governor of oklahoma. he is a trustee of various scientific and educational associations and corporations. he is a fellow of the american meteorological society and a fellow of the aaa s. everyone who works with him finds him to have a very accessible manner. we scientists hope and trust that this will turn into accessible policy. we will call on him frequently and expect to find this access that he is so famous for. i think his winning manner will help him win the trust of the president and people in the administration. so that he will be able to make clearer to president trump and others in the administration that science can

captioning sponsored by cbs >> in his 2020 budget proposal, president trump calls for cutting national science foundation fund buying $1 billion. >> due to budget cuts, bill nye the science guy will not be seen tonight. instead it's ♪ ted ryan >> look, it's there, now it's gone. now it's back again. how does that work? oh! hello, kids. today we'll talk about the weather and what causes thunder and lightning with our friend ella here. >> what does cause thunder and lightning, mr. science funding cut guy? >> your guess is as good as mine. maybe it's god bowling. maybe it's angels moving furniture. you ask too many questions. >> isn't scientific curiosity good. >> spoken look a true witch! i'll have you burned at the stake! >> it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight, howdie pard their. plus, stephen welcomes donnie wahlberg heidi schreck featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hole! right this way! right this way! right this way! jon! hello! >> jon: what's going on? >> step

we're going up with nasa, noaa scientists, national science foundation folks and we're going to be withe it in person. >> we're very excited about it. >>> just ahead, olympic star simone biles revealing how she coped with crippling depression in a courageous and emotional new interview. >>> also ahead this morning, we are live in boston where parents charged in that massive college admissions scandal are facing a judge today. >>> plus, there's a new chapter this morning in the spectacle that is, al's spectacles. >> you taking those to alaska with you? >> i don't think so. >>> but first, stunning claims about the infamous tiger attack that led to the end of siegfried and roy's famed show. has the ♪ congrats, kim! you got your own car, with your own insurance. no more driving that old hand-me-down. did you trade it in? my parents handed it down to my little brother. you ready? yeah... surprise! no. not beige betty! you guys can't do this to me, seriously?! my car is like a rite of passage. how do you expect me to drive this?! just turn the key... and yeah, it's just uh... some of this...

baird: and is well positioned to support the department of homeland security, the national science foundation, and commission's election security research efforts. i would like to note that the amendment does not add the committee of science, space, and technology as the recipient of the report required by section 321-b. i am the ranking member of the research and technology subcommittee which has jurisdiction over the d.h.s. science and technology rectorate, the n.s.f., the n.s.t., all of which are implicated by section 321. although do i not expect h.r. 1 to ever become law, i hope election security is something that we can can do on a bipartisan basis in the future. this process has been rushed and appropriate due diligence to create strong and bipartisan election and security reforms has not been done. once again i support the intent of this amendment, but i oppose h.r. 1. i thank the gentleman. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from new mexico. mr. lieu happen han -- mr. lujan: i yelled to our chair, zoe lofgren. the chair: the gentlewoman california is recogni

federal funding from agencies like the national institutes of health and the national science foundation is actually critical to their work. sustained, reliable funding is critical to continuing advancements in neuroscience and to scientific advancement in general. this week, the brain awareness week, and i want to commend the brain initiative partners. the 2008 total -- 2018 total for brain initiative program at n.i.h. is more than $400 million. i long supported research, investments in neuroscience research. it's opening up a vast understanding of our brain and is vitally important to the over 100 million americans impacted by neurological development, neurodejen tiff and neuropsychiatric brain disorders. i ask my colleagues to support robust funding for the national institutes of health so that the brain initiative can continue its outstanding achievements. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? >> madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the

this is four economists working at the national science foundation on a grant from there. the institutions. and it is u.s. consumers that are bearing the cost of this. so on the margin, there are head winds for the u.s. economy, particularly- >> i think that's reflected in the consumer confidence numbers, the most recent university of michigan number shows a 6% decline year on year in the average decline before recessions is 9%. so it's getting to be a pretty bright yellow light in terms of the traffic signal. >> that of confidence, sam, is pretty high isn't it historically in terms of where the average consumer is thinking and feeling about the economy. aren't we kind of due for a down period, friday coming up on the tenth anniversary of the longest bull market in history, aren't we due for a down period? maria: the bull market approaching the 10 year anniversary today, since that bottom in 2009. >> if we were to say we're celebrating our tenth year, it's like borrowing against your allowance. we will have to hit a new all-time high in order for the tenth birthday to be o

you said the national science foundation doesn't need to be immune from waste, fraud, and abuse, correct? mr. vought: i said they are not immune from waste, fraud, and abuse. ms. jayapal: do you think the defense department should be immune from waste, fraud, and abuse? mr. vought: no. ms. jayapal: do you know when congress mandated that all government agencies should undergo an audit? 199 0. it was 1990, almost three decades ago. and tell me, mr. vought, when was the first comprehensive audit of the pentagon done. mr. vought: this year. ms. jayapal: so almost 30 years later we do an audit of a department of with $716 billion budget right now. how many of the individual audits part of this audit of the pentagon, how many of those failed? where did the pentagon fail ? ese audits out of the 21 mr. vought: no. p ms. jayapal: 14 of these fail and two reseed passing grade. -- just received a passing grade. they estimated that pentagon made improper payments, their turn, which is not necessarily fraud but payments that lack sufficient or appropriate documentation or approvals which mean we was

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nation in our battle opioioidddictition and the epidemic. the endowmwment will establish a foundation that will receive an initiall $102.5 million that wil the osucifically to center for heaealth sciences center for wellness and recovery. year,ing january 1 next the foundation will receive an annual $15 million payment over a five-year period. and during that same five year timeframe, it will receive ongoing contributions of , treatment medicine both for rescue and recovery, and that has a market how you of $20 million. so $4 million in rescue and treatment drugs over a five-year period. theher $12.5 million from settlement has been set aside to providing funds that will directly abate and address the opioid epidemic's effects in oklahoma's towns, cities, and counties. purdue will alalso make a $60 millllion payayment to offset af the state's litigation costs to this point. amy: purdue is one of several firms named in the lawsuit that alleges pharmaceutical companies like johnson & johnson and teva pharmaceutical knowingly helped create the opioid crisis. the trial for the other companies is still on track to -- for this is the first may 28. settlement purdue has made amid some additio

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prior to joining the foundation , he worked with the children's national medical center in a platelet disorder association. he received his bachelor science from boston university, a master in nonprofit management from notre dame of maryland university. and finally, we welcome ethan landenberger. he is currently a student at norwalk high school in norwalk, ohio. he is here to share his experience seeking out information about vaccines and making decisions about whether or not to become vaccinated. welcome again to all of our witnesses. let's begin with dr. wuiesman. >> great. chairman alexander and ranking member murray and established members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss public health work and protecting people from vaccine preventable diseases. vaccines are safe, effective and the best protection we have against serious preventable diseases like measles. vaccinating children in the united states has saved millions of lives, increased expectancy, and saved our society trillions of dollars. my mission as washington secretary of health is to protect and promote the health of all its people and ensure our publi

prior to joining the foundation he worked for the children's national medical center on disorders and support associations. he received his bachelor of science from the boston university and a master of nonprofit management from notre dame of maryland university and finally we welcome ethan landenberger, currently a student at norwalk high school in norwalk, ohio. he is sharing his experience seeking out information about vaccines in making decisions on whether or not to become vaccinated. >>> welcome to all of our witnesses. let's begin with dr. wiesman . >> chairman alexander and ranking murray and thank you for working to work with people on vaccine-preventable diseases. >> vaccines are safe and work against the best protection we have immunizing against serious diseases like measles. it saves millions of lives, increases expectancy and saves society trillions of dollars. my mission at the washington secretary of health is to promote the health of all people and ensure public health is based on the best available science. i want to speak directly to parents that have children with serious health issues and attending the hearings in washin

scientific firms as well to hire based on gender because the mantra now coming out of the national science foundation is the only good science is diverse science. do i really care who discovers the cure for alzheimer's disease? i do not. and i'm not going to assume that i know your views based on your skin color for your gender. i'm so sick of this prefix now that comes about every statement in our identity obsessed world, which is well, as a woman, xyz, or even better, as a black woman, xyz. and best of all, as a trance black woman, xyz. none of that follows are ongoing to treat everybody as an individual but that is that what the diversity rhetoric is about. >> host: how did we get here? >> guest: difficult. it's easier to describe the trajectory than to understand the cause. all i know is that when i was in college in the 1970s, there was some crazy their equipment t which i unfortunately fell for, that said some very weird things about language, literature, meaning. but, but i was so fortunate to be in the '70s because it got to read the greatest works of english literature without anybody thinki