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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 155, Pt
January 20, 2009 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—SENATE, Vol. 155, Pt. 1 1185 grandmother or his grandfather, but I PROGRAM DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS believe it was his grandmother. His fa- Mr. REED. Mr. President, tomorrow ERIC K. SHINSEKI, OF HAWAII, TO BE SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. ther’s parent was in the gallery that the Senate will consider the nomina- day on the first trip, I believe, from Af- EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT tion of HILLARY CLINTON to be Sec- rica to this country to see the son of an PETER R. ORSZAG, OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO BE DIREC- retary of State, with up to 3 hours for TOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET. immigrant sworn into the U.S. Senate. debate prior to a vote. Under a pre- So I thought 4 years ago, and I think DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY vious order, the Senate will recess for again today on this day on which we JANET ANN NAPOLITANO, OF ARIZONA, TO BE SEC- the weekly caucus luncheons from 12:45 swear in Barack Obama as President, RETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY. until 2:15 p.m. Senators should expect a what a remarkable country this is. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION rollcall vote on confirmation of the Here in this Senate 4 years ago, the ARNE DUNCAN, OF ILLINOIS, TO BE SECRETARY OF Clinton nomination around 4:30 p.m., if 14th-generation American KEN EDUCATION. all time is used. SALAZAR is now going into President DEPARTMENT OF STATE Following executive session, the Sen- Obama’s Cabinet as Secretary of the HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, OF NEW YORK, TO BE SEC- ate will resume consideration of S. -
American Bottom Conservancy • Arkansas Wildlife Federation
American Bottom Conservancy • Arkansas Wildlife Federation • Audubon Chapter of Minneapolis • Biodiversity Project • Center for Neighborhood Technology • Citizens Against Widening the Industrial Canal • Committee on the Middle Fork Vermilion River • Delta Chapter Sierra Club • Delta Waterfowl Foundation • Friends of the Kaw/Kansas Riverkeeper • Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers • Great Rivers Environmental Law Center • Gulf Restoration Network • Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy • Iowa Chapter Sierra Club • Iowa Environmental Council • Iowa Rivers Revival • Jesus People Against Pollution • Kansas Natural Resource Council • Kansas Wildlife Federation • Kentucky Resources Council • Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation • Louisiana Bucket Brigade • Louisiana Environmental Action Network • Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper • Lower Mississippi River Foundation • Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development • Mid South Fly Fishers • Milwaukee Riverkeeper • Minnesota Conservation Federation • Minnesota Division of Izaak Walton League of America • Minnesota Ornithologists' Union • Mississippi Chapter of the Sierra Club • Mississippi River Corridor • Mississippi River Fund • Missouri Coalition for the Environment • Missouri River Initiative of Izaak Walton League of America • Missouri River Waterfowlers Association • Open Space Council • Prairie Rivers Network • South Dakota Wildlife Federation • Tennessee Clean Water Network • Wolf Rive Conservancy • Yell County Wildlife Federation June 21, 2011 President Barack -
EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson Schedule
Release 4 - HQ-FOI-01268-12 All emails sent by "Richard Windsor" were sent by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson 01268-EPA-5928 Noah Dubin/DC/USEPA/US To 01/26/2012 06:15 PM cc bcc Richard Windsor Subject 01/30/2012 thru 02/12/2012 Schedule for Lisa P. Jackson *** Do not copy or forward this information *** EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson Schedule 01/26/2012 06:11:57 PM Monday, 1/30/2012 08:45 AM-09:15 AM Daily Briefing Location: Administrator's Office ------------------------------- 09:30 AM-10:30 AM HOLD: WH POST-SOTU Ct: Ryan Robison - 202-564-2856 Location: Administrator's Office ------------------------------- 10:30 AM-11:00 AM Personnel Discussion Ct:Ryan Robison - 202-564-2856 Staff: Diane Thompson, Jose Lozano (OA) Paul Anastas (ORD) Optional: Bob Perciasepe (OA) Location: Administrator's Office ------------------------------- 11:00 AM-09:00 PM Out of Office See EA or Jose Location: NYC ------------------------------- 01:00 PM-02:00 PM FYI: Senior Staff Location: Bullet Room ------------------------------- Tuesday, 1/31/2012 09:30 AM-10:30 AM HOLD: WH POST-SOTU Ct: Ryan Robison - 202-564-2856 Location: Administrator's Office ------------------------------- 10:30 AM-10:45 AM Depart for White House Location: Ariel Rios ------------------------------- 10:45 AM-12:15 PM Cabinet Meeting Ct: Liz Ashwell 564.1008 Full Cabinet Meeting w/ POTUS and VPOTUS Location: Cabinet Room, White House ------------------------------- 12:15 PM-12:30 PM Depart for Ariel Rios Release 4 - HQ-FOI-01268-12 All emails sent by "Richard Windsor" were sent by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Location: White House ------------------------------- 12:45 PM-12:50 PM Drop-By Meeting with Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission Ct: Earl Comstock - 202-255-0273 **AA DePass will be lead on this meeting, the Administrator will drop by if her schedule permits **This meeting will last from 12:45 to 1:15 -Mr. -
Harvard University
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ROBERT AND RENÉE BELFER CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 2000-2001 ANNUAL REPORT 2 Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs 2000-2001 Annual Report Director’s Foreword 5 Overview From the Executive Director 7 Environment and Natural Resources Program TABLE 8 OF Harvard Information Infrastructure Project 52 CONTENTS International Security Program 71 Science, Technology and Public Policy Program 109 Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project 155 WPF Program on Intrastate Conflict, Conflict Prevention, and Conflict Resolution 177 Events 188 Publications 219 Biographies 241 Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs 3 2000-2001 Annual Report 4 Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs 2000-2001 Annual Report Director’s Foreword —————————————♦ For the hub of the John F. Kennedy School’s research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues, conflict prevention and resolution, and science and technology policy, the first academic year of the new century has been bracing. According to our mission statement, The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs strives to provide leadership in advancing policy-relevant knowledge about the most important challenges of international security and other critical issues where science, technology, and international affairs intersect. BCSIA’s leadership begins with the recognition of science and technology as driving forces transforming threats and opportunities in international affairs. The Center integrates insights of social scientists, technologists, and practitioners with experience in government, diplomacy, the military, and business to address critical issues. BCSIA involvement in both the Republican and Democratic campaigns. BCSIA was privileged to have senior advisors in both camps in one of the most unforgettable American elections in recent memory. -
August 10, 2016 the Honorable Edward J. Ramotowski Deputy
August 10, 2016 The Honorable Edward J. Ramotowski Deputy Assistant Secretary for Visa Services Bureau of Consular Affairs U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, D.C. 20520 Dear Deputy Assistant Secretary Ramotowski: We, leaders and members of the higher education community, are writing to bring to your attention that the current visa renewal process is harming the United States. Requiring the renewal of academic visas abroad is disrupting scholarship, impeding research, and is an undue hardship that our international scholars currently endure. Most students admitted on F visas are admitted under “duration of status” and they are allowed to stay in the country as long as they are a student, whether their visa expires or not. However, students who leave the country after their visa has expired have to apply to renew it before they can be re-admitted. Most nonimmigrant visas, including class F visas, must be renewed at a U.S. Embassy or Consulate office abroad and the Department of State recommends that applicants apply in their home country. The visa issuance and renewal process has been shortened over the past several years, and we are grateful for the Department of State’s efforts thus far to improve the process. However, requiring visa renewals be done abroad is impacting our scholars in a number of ways: 1. The time required to travel and renew academic visas abroad is an interruption to international student’s academic career, is detrimental to the undergraduate students in their classes, and stalls cutting-edge U.S. based research. 2. -
Presidential Administration and the Durability of Climate-Consciousness Abstract
YUMEHIKO HOSHIJIMA Presidential Administration and the Durability of Climate-Consciousness abstract. President Obama took executive actions to address climate change that far ex- ceeded previous Presidents’ efforts to pursue policy objectives through presidential administra- tion. This Note does not focus on the Obama Administration’s major climate change regulations and international agreements, which have already attracted much attention. Rather, this Note identifies a concerted but inconspicuous effort to embed climate-consciousness throughout the executive branch, elevating climate change as a key decisional criterion for federal departments and agencies. This Note explains how the Obama Administration’s efforts exhibited a delicate interplay with the judicial and legislative branches, responding to a judicial demand for rigorous administrative reasoning about climate change while sidestepping congressional hostility to cli- mate change action by finding a narrow zone of congressional inattention. Although convention- al wisdom counsels that subsequent Presidents may easily reverse policies advanced through presidential administration, the Obama Administration’s efforts to advance climate- consciousness may prove surprisingly durable due to formal legal constraints, bureaucratic iner- tia, and public backlash. author. Yale Law School, J.D. expected. The author would like to thank Professor Jerry Mashaw for teaching the Advanced Administrative Law seminar and providing feedback on early drafts; Kyle Edwards, Joshua Macey, and Arjun Ramamurti for workshopping the paper in the seminar; and Patrick Baker and Anthony Sampson for thoughtful editorial feedback and their immense patience. Special thanks to Professor Daniel C. Esty for reviewing drafts and providing insights about sustainability that undergird this paper. All errors, mischaracterizations, and omissions are mine alone. -
Sherman, Kenneth ~ Oral History Interview
06-30-2016 Sherman, Kenneth ~ Oral History Interview Madeleine Hall-Arber Follow this and additional works at: https://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/humandimensions/voices-from-the-fisheries/index Recommended Citation Sherman, Kenneth. Interview by Madeleine Hall-Arber. Voices from the Science Centers. Voices from the Fisheries, NMFS, NOAA. 30 June 2016. This oral history was produced in 2016 as part of the Voices from the Science Centers Oral History Initiative conducted by Voices from the Fisheries with funding by the NMFS Office of Science and Technology. Voices from the Fisheries 166 Water Street Woods Hole, MA 02543 1 Interview with Kenneth Sherman by Madeleine-Hall Arber Summary Sheet and Transcript Interviewee Sherman, Kenneth Interviewer Hall-Arber, Madeleine Date June 30, 2016 Place Narragansett Lab ID Number VFF_ NG_KS_001 Use Restrictions This interview transcript is provided for individual research purposes only; for all other uses, including publication, reproduction and quotation beyond fair use, permission must be obtained in writing from: Voices from the Fisheries, NMFS, 15 Carlson Lane, Falmouth, MA 02540. Biographical Note Kenneth Sherman was born on October 6, 1932 and was raised in Boston, Massachusetts.In his early years, he would spend time with his father at the local Boston Fish Pier to observe the fishermen. He graduated from Suffolk University with the idea of attending law school. A mentor guided him towards biological sciences so he appliedto theWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He taught in western Massachusetts for the Audubon Society before he began his career at the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in 1956. He received his Master's degree in Biological Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island and a DSc from the Sea Fisheries Institute in Gdynia.He worked in Washington during President Nixon's administration when NOAA was created. -
The United States Government Manual 2009/2010
The United States Government Manual 2009/2010 Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration The artwork used in creating this cover are derivatives of two pieces of original artwork created by and copyrighted 2003 by Coordination/Art Director: Errol M. Beard, Artwork by: Craig S. Holmes specifically to commemorate the National Archives Building Rededication celebration held September 15-19, 2003. See Archives Store for prints of these images. VerDate Nov 24 2008 15:39 Oct 26, 2009 Jkt 217558 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6996 Sfmt 6996 M:\GOVMAN\217558\217558.000 APPS06 PsN: 217558 dkrause on GSDDPC29 with $$_JOB Revised September 15, 2009 Raymond A. Mosley, Director of the Federal Register. Adrienne C. Thomas, Acting Archivist of the United States. On the cover: This edition of The United States Government Manual marks the 75th anniversary of the National Archives and celebrates its important mission to ensure access to the essential documentation of Americans’ rights and the actions of their Government. The cover displays an image of the Rotunda and the Declaration Mural, one of the 1936 Faulkner Murals in the Rotunda at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Building in Washington, DC. The National Archives Rotunda is the permanent home of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights. These three documents, known collectively as the Charters of Freeedom, have secured the the rights of the American people for more than two and a quarter centuries. In 2003, the National Archives completed a massive restoration effort that included conserving the parchment of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, and re-encasing the documents in state-of-the-art containers. -
John Holdren’S Attack on Bjørn Lomborg’S the Skeptical Environmentalist
COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE The Heated Energy Debate Assessing John Holdren’s Attack on Bjørn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist By Robert L. Bradley, Jr. President, Institute for Energy Research Executive Summary In September 2001, Cambridge University Press published Bjørn Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the True State of the World. The book’s comprehensiveness (515 pages; 2,930 footnotes), the author’s green credentials (a former Greenpeace member, Lomborg began the book’s research to debunk Julian Simon’s forecasts of continuing environmental improvement), and Lomborg’s powerful refutation of the doomsday “litany of our ever-deteriorating environment,” sparked considerable interest. Favorable reviews followed in the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Economist. When the book became an international best seller, ideological environmentalists launched an angry counter-attack. Among the key figures to impugn Lomborg’s scholarship is the subject of this paper: Harvard Professor John P. Holdren. Holdren, a Clinton-era leader of climate policy and energy technology task forces, is now the leading academic member of the National Commission on Energy Policy, a $10 million, two-year project tasked with formulating a “centrist” energy policy. Holdren is also one of four authors to attack Lomborg in the January 2002 issue of Scientific American, in a feature pretentiously titled, “Science Defends Itself Against The Skeptical Environmentalist.” A more accurate title would be “Environmental Establishment Fears to Debate Bjørn Lomborg.” Scientific American refused Lomborg the right of reply in the same issue, offered no space to scientists not affiliated with environmental activist causes, and even threatened to sue Lomborg if he tried to reproduce the Scientific American articles, with his detailed responses, on his own Website. -
The White House Science Advisor in an Age of Climate Confusion, A
A Rook or a Pawn: The White House Science Advisor in an Age of Climate Confusion Len Aslanian I. INTRODUCTION ....................................... 473 II. -S&T ADVISEMENT IN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION ................................... 476 III. S&T ADVISEMENT IN THE OBAMA ERA ............ 483 IV. STRUCTURAL CHALLENGES OF THE SCIENCE ADVISOR .............................................. 487 V. SUGGESTIONS FOR THE SCIENCE ADVISOR .......... 493 I. INTRODUCTION In October 1986, at the height of the American AIDS crisis, the Office of the Surgeon General issued the federal govern- ment's first major report on the disease.* In direct and some- times explicit language, the report detailed the nature, symptoms, and causes of AIDS and called for a nationwide educational cam- paign that included controversial measures such as early child- hood sex education and public promotion of condom use.' Eighteen months later, in the largest public health mailing in US history, a condensed version of the report titled Understanding AIDS was sent to 107 million American households.2 Both versions of the report were personally penned by Presi- dent Reagan's Surgeon General, the bow-tied and billy goat- bearded pediatric surgeon C. Everett Koop.3 A controversial fig- ure due to his evangelical Christian background and anti-abor- 1. See id.; The Reports of the Surgeon General: The AIDS Epidemic, PROFILES IN Sci.: NAT' LIBRARY OF MED., http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/Narrative/NN/ p-nid/62 (last visited June 12, 2011). 2. U.S. Du'r OF HEAIA-rH & HUMAN SERV., UNDERS-TANDING AIDS (1988), avail- able at http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/QQ/B/D/RIU/qqbdrl.pdf; Who is the AAME? C. -
Pnas11224toc 3..7
June 16, 2015 u vol. 112 u no. 24 u 7333–7616 Cover image: Pictured is a person carrying a basket up the steep slopes of the Longji rice terraces in Guangxi province, China. The Nature as Capital PNAS 100th Anniversary Special Feature, appearing in this issue, suggests that despite high awareness of the interdependence between ecosystems, economic systems, and human health and numerous examples of trans- lation of conceptual understanding into management practices, adoption of these ideas by corporations and governments is not yet widespread. See the Introduction to the Special Feature by Anne D. Guerry et al. on pages 7348–7355. Image courtesy of Stacie Wolny (Natural Capital Project). From the Cover 7348 Nature as capital 7426 Identifying scientific Sleeping Beauties 7472 Tropical tree species richness 7530 Ruggedness of fitness landscapes Contents SCIENCE AND CULTURE—How science intersects with culture 7335 Science and Culture: Oppenheimer goes center stage Amber Dance THIS WEEK IN PNAS 7333 In This Issue CORE CONCEPTS—A brief introduction to emerging topics in science 7337 Core Concept: Ecosystem services Amy West LETTERS (ONLINE ONLY) E3090 Questioning the biogenicity of titanite mineral trace fossils in Archean QNAS pillow lavas Eugene G. Grosch and Nicola McLoughlin 7339 QnAs with Jane Lubchenco E3092 Reply to Grosch and McLoughlin: Glass bioalteration Paul Gabrielsen trace fossils can be preserved by titanite in 7341 QnAs with Madhav Gadgil Paleoarchean greenstones Prashant Nair Hubert Staudigel, Harald Furnes, and Maarten DeWit E3093 Optimal foraging theory and niche-construction theory do not stand in opposition Kathryn A. Mohlenhoff, Joan Brenner Coltrain, COMMENTARIES and Brian F. -
Exxon Valdez
£%%0# YJlO£ZOIL SPILL TRUSTEE COUNCIL E ~olume ~ ~um~er ~ Trustees move toward the future Restoration Reserve to River otter recovered, fund habitat protection but for most resources and research recovery is incomplete he Trustee Council de en years after the T cided March 1 to continue T nation's largest and its dual efforts combining ma most destructive oil spill, rine science with habitat most of the fish and wildlife protection as the best long species and otherresources in term approach for restorahon juredby the spill have not yet of the oil spill-damaged eco fully recovered. Only two of system, with special emphasis 28 species and resources listed in the future on research. as injured by the 1989 Exxon After 18 months of public The Trustee Council and Public Advisory Group met in joint session Valdez oil spill in Prince Will comment and meetings January 21-22 for a public hearing on updatmg the mjured resources list iam Sound are considered to and possible uses of the Restoration Reserve Photo by Roy Corral throughout the spill region, be fully recovered from the Trustees voted unammously devastating effects of the spill. to split about $170 million in available funds, using about The Trustee Council updated its list of injured resources $115 million to support a long-term research, monitoring, and in February for the first time in 2 1/2 years. "Ten years after community-based restoration effort and $55 million to fund the spill, there has clearly been a lot of progress toward re See Restoration Reserve, Page 9 See Injured Resources Update, Page 10 1O-year event looks at legacy of Exxon Valdez egacy of an Oil Spill: Ten Years after Exxon Valdez is a 8:30 a.m.