16. Im happy to. Nkats, now just three years old, was the first new center at nih again, quite a long time and was focused in trying to identify the bottle necks from going from basic science discoveries to benefits. In collaboration with our partners in the private sector. I think initially there were some concerns that nih is becoming a drug company, that really was never the plan and is not happening now. Instead, we are identifying areas of Technology Development that no Single Company could undertake, but working with them, we can give you just one example. The effort to try to figure out when youre developing a new drug, whether its going to be safe in humans or not. Has been a real difficult one. We use animal studies, small animals, large animals. Its not that accurate. Its slow, its expensive. We probably lose drugs along the way because some mouse got a slight liver issue and it probably would have had no relevance to humans but we sort of lose the drug at that point. Wouldnt
Cancer, what we can do about it. But the other component which is a longterm ambitious to be sure effort is this cohort of a million or more americans, which we could be studying for virtually all diseases and knowing that you are a dentist i would certainly include in that such things as periodontal disease. We know the environment and genetic risk are involved in those conditions. But we really havent had a sufficiently large study with appropriate patient participation to be able to get those answers. This should be a way to go there. So thats true for diabetes, for Heart Disease, for alzheimers disease, for virtually every common condition with a million people, youre going to have enough events you should really be able to dissect, what were the biomarkers that warned this would happen what were the environmental factors that played a role. We never had that power before we aim to get it. Thats fascinating stuff, and could really advance the advancement of diseases and cure diseas
Icy. Our headlines for today, we will have a calm day. We some sunshine with High Temperatures in the mid to upper 30 poss. There will tonight be a significant icing event. We do have warnings and advisories posted that i will show you in just a moment. We will have some wintry weather before the weekend is over. We are in a very active weather pattern. More details from the Weather Center in just a few minutes. Let us hope we have a good commute this morning. We will get at least one good commute in. We do have dry roadways. We will start off with a live shot. This was of rain coming down. You can see heading into the Douglas Bridge that it is absolute butyl conditions. Dry and light traffic through that stretch. We also have construction on university boulevard. That is in wheaton, virginia. Lanes closed. Be careful for some moderate slowdowns. It is not too bad otherwise. 295 is moving in quite nicely. 95 in virginia, we had major problems on 95 starting early and throughout the mor
30 years, may not be from russias strength, but weakness. That, i think, should inform serious policy thinking about russia and our approach to it. We know that the reset of relations, that the Obama Administration attempted to ork state with moscow in the last four years is, well, not as healthy as it could be, i would say today; right . The reset has been a failure. We know now that the white house is at least beginning to think about what comes next. What this is intended to do is to give them a little bit of food for thought about where russia is headed because knowing where russias heading is determinative to figuring out what our policy towards it should be, so, thank you, guys, ill stop there. [applause] well take questions, be kind to wait for the microphone to be passed to you, and state your name and affiliation if you care to as a curtesy to the guest, and im going to take the prerogative of reading one of the questions we received online, and ill change it a little bit. How
Millions of American Youth is upon us. May our appreciation as a nation of the value of education among those who are our future be incentive enough to guarantee its importance in our Public Policy consideration. May all that is done within the peoples house this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The gentleman from connecticut. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, i demand a vote on the speakers approval of the journal. The speaker the question is on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The gentleman from connecticut. Mr. Courtney thank you, mr. Speaker, i request the yeas and nays. The speaker pro tempore the yeas and nays are requested the speaker the yeas and nays are