Testified before this committee the same thing, no single Government Agency was responsible for tracking all of these labs. That is correct. That is correct too. Frieden, are you aware of this finding by the g. A. O. Going back all the way to 2007 . Yes, i am. And do you agree with dr. Kingsbury there are an increasing number of labs handling these bioagents . Yes. If we look back over the last 10 years, there is a increasing number. Do you agree with her there has never been one agency in charge despite the red flags going up all of these years . There is a Clear Division of responsibilities between cdc and aphis inspection and , enforcement. Several years ago at my direction, we turned over some buthe inspections to aphis, the issue of lab safety touches many parts of both the Public Sector and nongovernmental sector. So are you saying that aphis is in charge now since you put that into effect the last few years . In terms of the inspection of laboratories which are working with sele
Into the plan to how they will yearve the goals by the two thousand 30. 2030. D row the second rule would have a personal changes that increase the plant maximum achievable hourly rate of the missions and those that replace component to such an extent that the new haveainants components an entirely new comparable facility. Hearing is one of four public hearings around the country this week on the two proposed rules. We have had tremendous interest. I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to join us and share your comments. Signed a lot of people up to speak and we want to hear from all of them. I will go through a few ground rules that will help make hearing runs smoothly. Make sure you check in at the respiration desk even if youre not then this is the. If youre signed to speak online or at phone, please step out to the Registration Desk and let them know that you have arrived. If you are a beaker, we were given a letter when you checked in. This is room a. If youre lookin
Bring an advisor and have them tell us every way what about the National Science Advisory Board . That is not the current planned. That is not the current plan. They purged half their members from the board. I was inquisitive whether you knew about this. Why the administration took this action. Whether an ih consultant nih consulted. You will have to do for to them. That eliminates one question. In light of the anthrax incident they recently completed you think inspections were sufficient . I do. The protocols were in place because of the primary cause of the incident, which was the the bacteria was not inactivated, it was transferred to a laboratory that would not this is early have to have a locked cabinet. When we provide a report on select agents, as indicated earlier, we report on those laboratories where the select agent went. In this case not deactivated. That concludes my questions. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker week recognizes mr. Long. Thank you. Docrtor, a
Traditional Privacy Protect it, shouldnt be that difficult of an intuition that when people disclose intimate information to one party, they often dont expect it is going to be given to another party. Whether that is disclosing it to the cloud, whatever that, versus your partner, it seems the more obvious way to look at this would be dont we have some senseof contextual integrity for privacy and qut when you go to your doctor and tell him about your symptoms can expect your doctor will not tell anybody else but your symptoms are sureor instance the pictures of your medical exams. We have plenty of situations where we think about it not related to the charged issue of womens bodies and all the ways we expect our information should be kept confidential within a certain relationship come even if we have voluntarily given it to one party or other parties. When we consider it that way, is helpful to think about what we do in other contexts. Do we protect peoples credit card information . We
Newspapers and see iing this wi respect to the u. S. Firms, the mortgage problems, libor, forex issues. You cant just been telling yourself a few bad apples. Theres something about the structure of incentives and expectations within firms that needs to be addressed and i think a lot of boards and management know it needs to be b addressed, but this is almost surely the classic case of needing to take some changes that in some instances, are not going to manifest themselves immediately. Thank you so much for coming on a rainy saturday morning. Thanks, tim. And president obamas in china today and announce tad u. S. And china would begin granting visas to each others citizens that would be value itd for up to ten years. P president arrived in beijing today and is also pursuing a trade pact. This is part of a week long foreign trip for the trip. Hell meet wednesday with the chinese president. On thursday and friday, hell been b in myanmar and the trip will wrap up in australia for the g20