you referenced nist in your comments. in particular, the manufacturing extension partnership which i know you're familiar with. within that, in the last couple of years, there's been a special outreach effort called the supplier scouting initiative. and i don't know if you are familiar with that or not, but basically, the idea there is to work harder to find a match between these contracting opportunities with the federal government and domestic manufacturers and suppliers and vendors so that we don't have as many instances where somebody is applying or asserting a waiver should be granted from, say, a buy american provision. because in fact, if you look a little harder, and you get the word out and you are more affirmative in the outreach, you can, in fact, find american manufacturers and suppliers who can do the job. so you don't have to deploy these waivers and so forth. and, obviously, it's better in terms of creating jobs. i wondered if you could speak to the potential of that kind of outreach. i mean it goes to the

of this project. >> probably the biggest question i always get asked, how did nist get involved for such a project? we've had a -- a tradition of working with some of the most important document inside the beltway, basically preserving them for both the national archives and a library of congress. this encasement itself had some unique challenges, as you can see the document comes out at you, so it's almost a three-dimensional image coming at you. that floating document created a lot of design and manufacturing problems to us that we were able to overcome. the design of the encasement, i don't known it will withstand a nuclear blast, but there are a lot of inherent things that ten years ago would not have been in any encasement found around. we've made this to be able to take a lot of the expected environmental issues that could occur, even something as simple as changes in barometric pressure can have a large impact when you are trying to seal something and oxygen changes. the lighting to make it an absorbing background so you can see everything. we try to make it as reflective as

for more than a year, archives conservators, scientists and exhibit staff met with nist engineers and we talked through every possible detail to make sure it was just right. that led to the design of the encasement you see here today. and i'm pleased now to introduce to you design engineer jay brandenberg. jay works for the national institute of standards and technology and he'll tell you about the nist side of this project. >> probably the biggest question i always get asked, how did nist get involved with such a project. we've had a tradition of working with some of the most important documents inside the beltway. basically preserving them for both the national archives and the library of congress. this encasement itself had some unique challenges. as you can see, the document comes out at you, so it's almost a three-dimensional image coming at you. that floating document created a lot of design and manufacturing problems to us that we were able to overcome. the design of the encasement, i don't know if it'll withstand a nuclear blast, but there are a lot of inherent things that ten

i'm very focused on some of the special initiatives that have been undertaken at nist. you referenced nist in your comments, and particular there's the manufacturing extension partnership, which i know you're familiar with. within that, in the last couple of years, there's been a special outreach effort called the supplier scouting initiative, and i don't know if you're familiar with that or not, but basically the idea there is to work harder to find a match between these contracting opportunities with the federal government and domestic manufacturers and suppliers and vendors, so that we don't have as many instances where somebody is applying or asserting that a waiver should be granted from, say, a buy american provision. because, in fact, if you look a little harder and you get the word out and you more on affirmative -- you are more affirmative on the outreach, you can find american manufacturers and suppliers who can do the job. so you don't have to deploy these waivers and so forth and, obviously, it is better in terms of creating jobs. i wonder if you could speak

he was living in that neighborhood, becoming a famous art nist the lower part and did this all for free. to give you a sense of the size of this, we had a celebration where we celebrated the murriel and you can see the district supervisor in the back. that's a big ass bunny you're looking at there . i just want to say if you can possibly change your minds and realize this does belong there, i would really appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> hello, my name is lisa shin. i'm a resident and small business owner, also active with lower hayden neighborhood merchant association. opened up a business about a year ago and have been really impressed with the neighborhood effort. it's really a unique neighborhood and the demographic we serve, i think it's one -- we all feel like the underdogs to small neighborhood, but you know i've seen the work that the board has put forth, specifically with 55 laguna. and i think for, you know to have a neighborhood that's focused on the issues at hand, you know, we want to keep that intact. i understand there are always political reasons, and i

so nist is the same way, they have a technology program. i think the politicalization program has been overblown. >> i'm telling you as a reporter who's covered these issues for more than 40 years, it seems very clear. each president, i know where the money is going to go depending on the party from the day one. you know who's going to get the jobs and how that group of people will think it will affect policy down the road. you know in advance. you don't have to be in washington very long to know where the pressure, like where the pipeline came from. i mean the national resources defense counsel has been up in arms about it. i don't know why. they've got such great minds. they haven't worried about such things since apples. >> it seems to me we've got to do more energy research in oil. there's a lot of opportunity and we've got to do in it clean energy. the idea we're going to pick one over the other, we need to do both. >> could i? i think rob's actually right, places like aarpa and darpa are success stories. >> just spell them owl out. th

then that person becomes a pro taking nist because that person is -- protagonist because that person is taking us into the time. i try as best i can to be of the moment in what i'm portraying because i think that's intell electricity actually more honest in a way in that these people don't know what's going to happen next any more than we do in our time. they don't know what the outcome is going to be. they don't know that alexander hamilton is going to be secretary treasurer. they're only thinking about can i survive the next hour and they're very often in a situation where they don't know what's happening. confusion reins all around. that's very important to remember if you're trying to get inside that time and understand the human situation and to feel it. i don't think you could really know anything until you feel it, brian. i think that you've got to care. otherwise you could get all the facts and figures and statistics in the encyclopedia and that's not necessarily the truth. i'm drawn into the time and the experience as it happened to the people who were there. and if i have s

richard is doing because we've been talking about rules nist groundbreaking poll should deal with america's signed yesterday and its whole reason for good technical expertise and its own gains access to russia's also involves unconventional extraction projects such as show gas christine says corrina from ratings agency standard and pools explains why this makes sense for russia. it is estimated that in terms of conventional recoverable reserves russia has around one hundred trillion cubic meters in terms of gas but if you look at unconventional potential excluding hydrates it is estimated thirty of can have anything between one hundred fifty to five hundred trillion cubic meters so that's a huge potential they've seen that. the united states so they're trying to cover their faces start understanding how to develop these potential resources in the future that could pardon sea you know give it a gobbling all tripling of its own reserves likely there are some in canada be you where it. is your fruit for a strong healthy result from. point four percent commodity prices the drug problem of the w

role that the federal government plays by way of a stimulus, by way the kind of work that is done at nist, right here in thissa the d.c. area, where woodall rodgers doing, for example, this work on nanotechnology right now, that has opened in every case, invited -- the only thing i know, let's just say in the united states, as a manufacturer focused on advanced manufacturing could go and use the lab and bring in the best people. the universities you work with best people and so on. >> i appreciate that. most of the grant programs, economic development administration is a good example, aren't providing for advanced manufacturing technologies. these programs are going to old line industries. most say get the government out of my way, regulation and allow me access to trade so i can advance markets. the president said when he was campaigning, he with need to cut back waste at agencies like economic development, his words september 2008. i haven't seen that. i've seen continued efforts of this commerce department to try and pick winners and losers in the manufacturing space. >> the federal go

also, through the commerce department at nist, the national institute of standards and technology, the new budget, the 2013 budget requests $1 billion for a national network of manufacturing innovation. and this would help maximize the industry strengths in each of our u.s. regions. i'll comment on that later if you'd like to go into that. overall, our focus at the commerce department is powerful and sharp. the way we express it is build it here and sell it everywhere. manufacturing, build it here, sell it everywhere. i want to close by thanking you for continuing to support a vibrant and dynamic manufacturing base. thank you for passing hr-4105, the bipartisan gpx legislation. this allows our manufacturers to challenge and seek relief from unfairly subsidized products entering our market. efforts such as these will help strengthen our recovery, create more jobs and ensure that american manufacturing continues to lead in the 21st century. pleased now to take your questions. >> thank you, mr. secretary. i will recognize myself with the first set of questions. and my question to you begi

technologies, i have always been a huge supporter of things like putting additional funding into the, into nist, into putting additional funding into edarpa, putting additional funding into darpa. there are many ways in which as you know the u.s. government if you go into the history of the evolution of our major new sectors over the past 50 years, you will see that the government has played a major role as a supplier of basic research funding, as a supplier of supporting the training of the scientists and doctors and engineers who actually do the research with the research funding, the government has been a major source of support in terms of procuring, procurement, just buying the stuff as a big buyer, as it comes out the door. so actually, if you look at the office of science and technology policy and look at the present science and innovation budget, i think you will see to the extent that they have been able to do it, again within political restraints, the idea of supporting particular attention on research in energy on nanotechnology, on continued support for innovation and research in he

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big big >>> tonight's truth involves an outspoken protag nist, a high profile target, an apology andportrayal. hillary rosen is the instigator, mitt romney's wife, ann, her focus. >> his wife has actually never worked a day in her life. she has never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing, in terms of how do we feed our kids and send them to school and why do we worry about their future. >> no surprise, ann romney takes offense. >> look, i know what it is like to struggle. if maybe i haven't struggled as much financially as some people have. i can tell you and promise you, that i have had struggles in my life. >> what is surprising at first glance is how quickly team obama threw a long-time friend and ally under the bus. from michelle obama, every mother works hard and every woman deserves to be respected. from david axlerod, he tweeted this, also disappointed in hillary rosen's comments about ann romney, they were inappropriate. they show 35 white house visits by hilary rosen. she has been a trusted long-time friend and

johnson felt he had some great deal in the communities and instead of as yet it expected being a illini nist, he was being attacked. so you combine that with the tet offensive and that had offensive of a sudden after westmorland weeks before had said there was light at the end of the tunnel we were winning. all of a sudden all over the country exploded with communists assault. >> what date? >> march of 68. and he -- johnson summoned to washington his wise men, the people he counted on from outside of government like dean acheson and others and these were people that supported the war the whole time when he would bring them to washington they would say you have to keep doing what you're doing and this time that a defensive, actually was february, the aftermath, it went on for a month and in the it took a month to get the communists subdue them out of control, they said it's not working and then he was aghast. he thought somebody had poisoned the well and insisted on issuing the briefing that they had got because he couldn't believe that they had turned around so totally. george bundy who had

: and that bring to us the analysis of shields and brooks, syicated column nis mark shields and co nist david ooks. welcome. >> thank you. >> suarez: . >> brown: richard lugar what dow make of that, is that another sign of the diminishing or missing middle? >> it s the strength of richard luig certificate that he is somebody who has worked for consensus and coalition and compromise. and that is reported pretty vividly. that has become in many quarters the kiss of death, that we don't want somebody who can get down and work across different factions. we want somebody without just meets our checklist. whether it's on abortion or same-sex marriage or in invading iran or tax cuts or whatever. we just want this ro bat who will go there, if he or she doesn't, then get rid of him and put somebody else in. it's an entirely different view of what government is. do you have a representative go down, we agree with on most things who can work across, and forge a consensus and a compromise and compromise is not a dirty word. >> it's interesting to hear people talk about how he has changed or has our

the role the federal government plays by way of a stimulus by the kind of work that is done at nist right here in the dc area where we're doing this work on nano technology right now. that is open right now. the only thing i know in the united states as a manufacturer, folks can go and use the lab and work with the best people and so on. >> the grant programs are going to old line industries. do they talk about grants? i hear, "get regulation out of my way." the president said we need to cut back waste. his words in september of 2008. i have not seen that. >> the federal government is involved in manufactured in multiple ways. the work of the manufacturing extension partnership works what so many of these small and medium-sized manufacturers and in the communities and in the community colleges and so forth that work with them. there are dollars associated with that. we try to use those dollars really, really well. >> i'm sorry. my time -- >> small agency, a modest budget, very tight control over cost. it is the only development across the entire government and it does things and we can pr

it was a decision taken very quickly by my son -- >> sorry comegys nist -- >> -- i think mrs. rebekah brooks was still there and myself. it was done like that. >> i think he misunderstood the question, mr. murdoch. i'm not looking now at the decision you took, i think on july 7 -- >> did we sit down and write out the costs and how many millions? >> no. .. >> people are thinking well of our company and thinking well of our newspapers. >> do you expect that the evidence demonstrates that your company managed to -- the legal risks by covering it up? >> no. >> even though you said -- >> there was no attempt either at my level or several levels below me to cover it up. we set up inquiry after inquiry. legal firm after legal firm, and perhaps we relied too much on the conclusions of the police and you know i think that, you may not take my word for it but just in dates, we realized we had a mage or problem. then, the select committee of parliament met and heard from some of our executives and accused accuse them of selective amnesia, and i think that our response to that was hard to

it strengthens the cybersecurity r&d education, and awareness of nist and it provides for strategy planning for cybersecurity r&d across the federal government. this is a good fiscally responsible bill that enjoys broad bipartisan support. it represents a modest but critical of congress' overall efforts to address the cybersecurity in the united states. this bill has the support of numerous organizations, including the u.s. chamber of commerce, which caused h.r. 2096, an important step toward improving federal cybersecurity r&d activities to improve the security, reliability, of america's digital infrastructure in partnership with industry, unquote. i support the passage of h.r. 2096 and encourage my colleagues to do the same. i thank you again. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? mr. lipinski: i'd like to yield to the gentleman from rhode island, five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from rhode island is recognized for five minutes. without objection. mr. langevin: i thank the gentl