Where are we going to come up with paying for another Compliance Officer even though we have no exceptions. I want to ask do i have a minute . Chairman . Will you consider doddfranks plop sigss . Given that the grippa process is looking at rules that are unnecessary, most of the rules have never been itch leapted yet or have taken the fact. Soo it is not we feel, appropriate to look at those rules at this time. Is it fru we wont have another study for 19 years . If we deent include dod frank . Its part of our normal practice. We looked at on an on going basis whether rules are appropriate in terms of still relevant. And we will make changes. Thank you very much for being here. Senator . Thank you, mr. Chairman. I think youre getting a theme here that this is not a partisan issue. This is not something that theres a lot of disagreement on this skmit tee about. Were deeply concerned about the status of communitybase in this country. I look at this in kind of duodifferent ways. First youv
Unilateral war, which is the impression most people get from this current administration. Thank you. No question i guess. So well just move right on here. Maam. Yeah. Hi. Marisol morales. Followup question to the gridlock and the word compromise being a fourletter word in washington, d. C. How do you feel about term limits for congress . Ive always been an advocate for term limits. Its just my personal believes. Just as im for non partisan redistricting. I think people spend too long in politics. And i dont know what the number is. Let it be ten years or whatever it might be. I just think listen, if you look at my career, ive done 30 Different Things in my whole career. I just think its important always to try and recruit, get new blood, fresh blood involved, someone to come in with new ideas, and you can say doing something too long, you just dont have that same vigor that you had when you started. So ive always been an advocate for term limits. People need to move on do something els
System and the industries that are so much part of the United States economy. Thank you for doing that. And i apologize, mr. Chairman, for going so far over my time. No thats fine. Senator murray do you have any closing remarks. Dr. Murray, well stated. Thank you for both of your testimony. This was a good hearing. Senator alexander, i look forward to working with you on that. Thank you. And dr. Collins, do you know off hand, you mentioned the success rate has declined over the years. What about the absolute number of grants . Has that gone up . The absolute number of grants that we fund versus that we receive. It has bounced around, it was 10,000 30 years ago it was id have to get you the number. I was trying to compare that to the success rate. But the biomedical community has grown. It would be interested to see that. Thank you to both of you. Thank you for being here. Very important that you were here and we thank you for your six years of service at fda. And i hope youll accept ou
Invested in did not have open access to the distribution network, it would have been an entirely different story. This the difference this is what you can tell your constituents, that it is openness that is the core of creativity. Because there should be nobody acting as a gateway and saying mm, youre only going to get on my network if you do it on my terms. And the key then as we go to the previous discussion, what you want to do is make sure you have that gateway, not blocking the openness of entrepreneurs. At the same time that gateway, not being retail price regulated so that it can continue to invest, thats the kind of balance we were trying to do. But if i i would urge you to tell your constituents, the opportunity for innovation and the opportunity for the scaling that is required of innovation has never been greater because the networks are open. With all due respect, many people back in iowa would say youre trying to solve a problem that doesnt exist. Today. And i have a speci