Submitted to the fda came from hundreds of patients. If you had used ten patients, its like studying twins in a way because its all the same disease. So if they had used ten patients and given a kind of conditional approval, then everyone would have gotten the drug a lot faster possibly. So things like that, you know, could be in the are in the works. But its difficult to get them working. Jessica, youve outlined the fda is coming up with a new designation, a breakthrough designation status which really fast tracks drugs perfectly. It puts the companies in contact with the data and helps them shepherd it through very quickly. But these Breakthrough Status are for these targeted drugs meaning with cml the package actually is about a thousand patients. But the response we got in the first hundred was the same we got in the last hundred. And so the reality is if we could have taken that first hundred and had a breakthrough designation status, we could have had this on the market in a year
We already have laws like that. And i think would be extremely effective in our struggle to stop immigration fraud. Thank you my time has expired the can two of the witnesses answer the question . Ms. Vaughan . Thank you for addressing this problem. It was cold one of biggest frauds ever perpetrated on the trade government and i know theyre still cleaning up a lot of the fraud like programs that were passed in the 90s. We know a fair amount about the benefit of fraud that occurs from programs that were built into uscis on the Quality Control programs, assessments. Theres doubledigit fraud in some of our Legal Immigration programs now, and we have to have a system that has integrity to have the confidence to go forward. I agree with a lot of what my colleagues said, which would add there needs to be and interview process at a certain point in the system. We can talk about way that best fits in but we cant have a system that is an honor system or people are just taken at their word. And
With broad Economic Trends but also has to do with culture and the social breakdown we are seeing in this country where you have seen the breakdown of family and you are seeing the breakdown of the work ethic. You are saying the breakdown of individual responsibility. So i think it behooves conservatives to consider what is the program that will increase mobility in the society and i believe it goes back to what is a trinity that lincoln supported, a dynamic economy, education and a return to those very basic laws of virtues. This is an bible thumping stuff. It doesnt have to be moralistic at the things that make it easier to get ahead. Marriage, work and discipline. So, i will just leave you with one last passage from lincoln. Long before anyone had heard him he gave what was called the lyceum speech as a young man in springfield and it talked about how even then this week, amateur country that we are invulnerable to military assault. He said he can take all the armies of the world an
Mcdonalds parking lot, police gathered crews of a different shooting. In that Incident Police say two suspects pulled up alongside this sedan at an intersection and fired into the car. They sped we were and came to this mcton nadals at east palo alto. The victim vehicle was occupied by fire five adults and one child. There were tw people that were hit. One adult, who is a 24yearold female, and a child, twoyearold male. Reporter police say the child was sitting on the mothers lap in the car when they were hit. They both suffered gunshot wounds to their legs, and the twoyearold suffered a grazing wound to his head. They were rushed to Stanford University hospital. Investigators are trying to determine if the shooting was gangrelated. Right now police say, again, theres trying to determine exactly how these two situations happened within such a close proximity of each other and also a time frame, a close time frame. But they do not believe they are connected. Police here in east palo alto
Frame. But they do not believe they are connected. Police here in east palo alto, detectivetives have just arrived at the scene so theyre trying to piece together the basic information in this incident. Reporting live in east palo alto. Abc7 news. A long night for everybody involved. Thank you, sergio. The nationwide tug of war over gun control played across the country today. A gun buybacks in san mateo brought in 680 firearms, including 24 assault weapons. Some people waited in line for two hours at the san mat teo event center. The crowd so big, organizers opened up an hour hour early. A congresswoman wondered over the weapons turned in. Our highcapacity magazines, this one is 100 rounds. Theres in purpose for this kind of a magazine in a civilized society. More than 63,000 was paid out into n todays buyback. Meantime, there are gun control activists marching in washington, dc while gun buyers lined up to buy weapons they worry may soon be banned. Reporter thousands of gun control a