of the subcommittee charged with funding your department and its several agencies i look forward to working with you on the increasingly significant challenges facing the department of commerce in fact that apartment faces them in a formidable challenges that we will not be critical research and operations of the burgeoning broadband issue the backlog of intellectual property applications the challenge of ensuring science and technique go rigor for economic expansion the complexities of international trade and all of its ramifications and then assess for economic development to this policy individual agency the minority business development agency the department is challenged by a diversity of missions and perceived lack of cohesion it is this committee's expectation and secretary locke will find the common thread among all of these diverse agencies and align their interest to bring the department and to the twenty first transparency by an agency whose culture is perceived as so and penetrable as to be self defeating recent contract modifications every frame the concerns and renewed some confidence in this agency big great risk remains and so much depends on the success of the employees to overcome the obstacles that in many ways were self created it certainly doesn't help that leadership in the form of a new director is delayed that there will have been three different directors in the three years leading up to the dissent and that a new secretary must guide the process recently this committee has heard testimony on the state of the climate and it is disturbing the nation indeed the planet is at a crossroads scientific consensus exists that humans are altering our climate humans are risk because the climate is affecting the organisms on which we all depend carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere for a thousand years and no matter what we do now projected one half to one degree further warming will hurt due to a lag in the atmosphere as dr susan solomon temperature has increased one point three degrees fahrenheit more rain is following a heavy rain ocean acidification is becoming a serious threat as the ocean is a carbon sink the atmosphere is currently at three hundred eighty five parts per million c o two and on its way to four hundred fifty parts per million as a consequence the oceans have become thirty percent more acidic already and another thirty percent change appears likely the organisms we depend on have not evolved to deal people rising sea levels will compound the problem and this committee heard testimony that the levels will very likely rise about one meter by twenty one hundred as a result in some areas given the slope  the nation needs an agency that can provide the data needed for citizens and communities to adapt to these changes and mitigate them as much as possible there's only one agency that is providing a leadership role but it is not structured and this committee expects you and your administrator dr jane with genco to ensure the creation of a national climate service analogous to the national weather service within us to do everything in your power to fund it commensurate with its mission this includes all of those line offices not just the end because the agency is uniquely suited to research monitor regulate produce and archive the data and collaborate with other federal and internet agencies states and local governments in combating these enormous challenges however in order to ensure that both the n c s and the n w s receive all the data they depend on you and your new minister will have to first fix the national polar orbiting satellite system and  the agency appears to have had somewhat more success with the next generation of those are all the still found some can cause for concern and this committee will rely on you and dr lubchenco to ensure it does not depend upon as we all know we have not yet received the president's complete budget submission accordingly we don't know many of the details of the request will be details when the budget is submitted and we are s have additional questions at that time the hearing transcript will remain open for two weeks after the budget submission members an opportunity submit any budget related question at this time mr secretary i invite you to make complete the two thousand and ten census affectively and on time counting everyone once only once and in the right place the allocation combined with the one billion dollars that congress provided in the recovery act will enable us to hire nearly one and a half million temporary workers we've also instituted numerous management oversight in response to findings by the g a o and our own inspector general the request includes more than one point three billion dollars for the national oceanic and atmospheric administration satellite programs that capture weather forecasting and climate data as well as resources to advance climate and ocean research as well as to support implementation of the magnus and steven s our weather satellite programs have been the focus of much concern by the congress and a variety of oversight agencies progress is being made to implement recommendations by g a o and the inspector general office and to apply those lessons particularly with respect to the n posed programs into the goes our program but there still are significant challenges with respect to the end post program the president's plan includes doubling the funding over ten years for the national institute of standards and technology research activities that are critical to the nation's technology infrastructure as well as one hundred twenty five million dollars for the hollings manufacturing extension partnership program and seventy million dollars for the technology program the economic development will provide some fifty million dollars in grants for the creation of regional innovation clusters and use fifty million dollars to create a nationwide network of public private business incubator to promote entrepreneurial act in distressed areas it's also our intent to really lead an effort with respect to bringing back manufacturing and stabilizing manufacturing in the united states the president's budget also supports the international trade administration's efforts to promote exports and eliminate barriers to the sale of u s products and goods abroad but also continue to give the united states and trademark office full access to its collections i want to thank you for entrusting the department with nearly eight billion dollars in recovery act we've provided our proposed plans and w keep you informed of our progress the national telecommunications and information administration will have the biggest challenge administering some four point seven billion dollars to broadband deployment throughout america besides planning for next year and making sure that we use current resources effectively i'm focused on addressing the key management issues facing the part of commerce including conducting a successful two thousand and ten census improving the patent process we need to substantially reduce the backlog and the timeframe by which patent and trademark are approved we need to manage our satellite development and acquisition programs and we need to strengthen our overall information technology infrastructure within the your support has been and will be critical to our efforts and i appreciate the chance to hear your views on the subject i thank you for the opportunity to come before you today and i look forward to your comments and questions not just today but over the weeks and months to  seventy by consolidating programs across the government consolidation was accomplished under an executive reorganization plan leading programmes original authorizing laws in place recently several no ocean programs were that its structure is consistent with its primary functions of management prediction research and education the joint commission initiative calls for congress to codify and strengthen your hands its mission improve its structure and priorities cities and states across the nation are looking for information to help them make decisions on where to build what type of construction because transportation wildlife hoarders and the myriad of other choices that will be as governor of the state of washington we had to deal with the prospect of overfishing and setting limits on catches and understanding the significant economic impact it had on the entire fishing industry and the businesses that depend on the fishing industry and the families of the country along our coastal communities so it's either pay now or face the prospect of no fishing in the future i do believe that one limits that we need to be mindful of the economic impact and therefore it's important that we also have economic programs to help the fishing industry cope with those changes whether it's by out of their financial assistance to move into other fields or engaging the fishing industry to  something that you may know but others in the room might not know we built cars in alabama there's been a big debate in our nation about the state of the american automobile industry and well and in the last ten years we've created more than thirty five thousand new jobs for americans in the state of alabama and we are now the sixth largest automobile producing state in the nation companies that have come to alabama with names like mercedes and honda airbus austin we believe we are poised to recover from this economic downturn perhaps more quickly than some of our sister states and yet this whole debate on buy american has come to congress in the last weeks and months to me by american mean just that they were buying products that put americans to work  states like alabama and washington where you lead and successful agenda to sell american products overseas we think that when you're creating jobs in america and creating products that can be sold overseas that that has international trade war so my question is what are your thoughts on the term by america in terms of what we're trying to accomplish and also what we want to do in terms of putting our focus on promote american companies and as we try to stimulate our national economy that we do not engage in protection and the line now between getting very blurred between this the proper way you know this is a very interesting situation even individuals in congress who are i would say harsh on the issue of immigration and documented immigration don't really want these folks not to be counted  the challenges that we face in terms of international competition that we have really lost lost our way in terms of international competition with other developed countries or wealthy countries we really at the bottom and in terms of international education disparities in that this is in the words of the report has that economic effect of a states maintains its technological we are all strong supporters of the space program and as concerned i know as you are in the administration is in the declining number of young people going into the engineering profession going into the been become familiar with over the last several years working on the committee that the chinese have about two hundred thousand people working in their space program we've only got about ninety thousand and they graduate about three hundred thousand recession what we did was not to raise taxes but what we call the priorities of government approach which has been adopted by many of the republican governors democratic governors it's been written up in a variety of different the orbiting system for continuity and numerous critical planet observations the ensuing implementation has proved to be disappointing in the extreme with cost overruns that have jeopardized the overall