Been exposed to live anthrax apples are you confident as to whether or not we would have had proper vaccines and therapeutics in place to save lives . Am confident that we do. Are you confident, doctor hassell . Okay. Are you confident that we have enough proper vaccines and therapeutics in place to save lives . I do not have sufficient information to answer that question. Nor do i. Would that be for the workers that are being exposed or how about with respect to the Committee Building on the congressmans questions about one of these individuals if you have been exposed to presented to any our . Can you explain to me what your view is if you have one . Thank you for that question. The Strategic National stockpile did provide vaccine for the states that have workers while receiving prophylaxis. I am confident we have the ability to do it the vast supply of countermeasures for anthrax,anthrax, the nature of the events you might be trying to prepare for always determines whether you have
That means the facility, as an appropriate facility has Good Laboratory practice and appropriate rules. It includes the fbi review of personnel reliability on all of those who we will be using it includes a set of requirements elevate biosafety and security inventory management, Access Control and it includes a process and ability to detect and respond including the notification of jurisdictions that have these facilities including but we did with the anthrax response being able to go in investigate, identify whether people are at risk and whether they are and this involves private sector as well as Public Sector institutions; is that correct . Thats correct. Where you find the best practices going from . Doctor hassell was talking about going to the private sector. Where are we finding the best practices today . Private or Public Sector . It is a combination of both. We will look at the private sector. That often does not happen as a 1st reaction. The department of defense my centers
With media organizations from the early caucus and primary states are sponsoring this forum and following the live forum, you can provide your input by joining our callin program and adding comments on facebook and twieter on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. On tuesday federal Communications Chair tom wheeler and commissioner aji pay testified before the communications and technology. They discussed rural access to broadband and over the top Video Services. This is almost three hours. Well call to order the subcommittee communications and technology and i want to welcome everyone here today and wish a very good morning to chairman wheeler and commissioner pay, delighted to have you back before the subcommittee again this year. We appreciate the work youre doing at the fcc and i look forward to your testimony and our opportunities to pursue some issues. At the risk of sounding a bit like a broken record, however i continue to be concerned with the commissionys failure to adhere to sou
Secondary sanctions on foreign entities doing businesses with entities remain listed with terrorism and human rights issues. The problem is the laudable positions have not been made public and they are only effective if they are aggressively publicized and equally enforced. The fact is as u. S. Officials will concede in private conversations that the administration suffers from a trust deficit. Whether one believes this is deserved or not. It is there. And the fact is that not only are none of the positions listed just listed clear within the deal, the deal could easily be read as prohibiting each and every one of them. Failing to make these positions public not only undermines the utility, it makes people question whether the administrations intention is to act on those positions moving forward. Those are Critical Issues not open to interpretation under the iran deal. The task force issued the last statement identifying iran with a region which poses risk to the Financial System. They
The Senate Health committee continues hearings on individual Insurance Markets. Today experts are testifying to increase flexibility. This is the third of four hearings and then the committee hopes to have a bill in the senate shortly. Insurance companies have until september 27 to file rates for next year and federal contributions are due at the end of that day this is live coverage on cspan. Mr. Bragdon to all high value providers. Thank you. I encourage the committee to consider these two recommendations. Senator alexander thank you, mr. Bragdon. Mr. Tyson. Mr. Tyson to the chair and Ranking Member murray, members of the committee, its an honor to be here this morning to speak to you about this important issue. There are two important laws for the health and wellbeing of the American People who are not covered by an employer and or has the personal wealth to buy their own coverage. I think about this very often. They are, of course, the Social Security act that brought us medicare a