[ gavel bangs ] good afternoon, everybody. The full committee of the Appropriations Committee will come to order. The purpose of todays hearing is on the United States government response to fighting ebola and protecting the United States of america. Today, we will hear what we are doing and we will hear what resources are needed to do that fight. First of all, the congratulations are in order to some of our checks who have won we want to acknowledge senator reid and senator cons victory and on this side, we want to acknowledge the victory of senator cochran and senator collins and we want to congratulate them and note the note their victory. Today is a day where we really have to Pay Attention to an international and National Challenge that we are examining. A look at an infectious horrific disease that is wasting a key continent in west africa and also threatening the United States of america. But for me, this will be the last full Committee Hearing that i will chair. Before we go in
National standards for not only the equipment but the training so that we have a National Response regardless of whether where someone might appear that needs help . Could you share with us and did you respond or did the president respond to the National Nurses united request . So, with regard to the issue of make something you are that our Health Care Workers were prepared, i think we need to think about it in a number of different levels. The first is in that screening and monitoring and thats what state and local Health Care Workers are doing, with then checking on the people who have come from these countries. Second is that that initial front line worker, in a Health Care Institution that needs to be able to detect and isolate, ask the right question. If off fever what is your travel history . The next is the level where treatment will occur and as we describe in our submission, this will be in a more state by state basis and where the cases are in terms of treatment. The question
The question was, should the United States for the first time in history attempt prior restraint publication . Someone who believes he has good civil liberties, my instinct was absolutely not. I looked at what was going to be published. We had what we called tickets. I would not have had clearance for this kind of stuff and thermonuclear weapons and it was going to come out in a magazine. We knew how long it took the french to go from fission diffusion. Fission to fusion. This was an arms important. This was enormously important. Thermonuclear weapons was put out in the open literature. Hear thats whenever i hear that a country has claimed that it has successfully detonated a thermonuclear weapon and you read that our judgment is, no, not really. Im happy about that. Because the level of destruction damaging, ith more makes a difference. In the terms of deterrence theory, i would say not much. Not much. Thank you all very much. [applause] today begins the open enrollment for those want