And also one of the things that excites me is developing computer simulations and models so that you can actually study some of these devices in that context instead of in animal models or people in the early stages so that you can really number one manipulate things and play with it more but also reduce costs and potential risks to patients but still really get import information to again moved things that have promise into the marketplace and making a difference in peoples lives. So i think its a wonderful public credit partnership. Thank you for your leadership in helping to make it possible and we are very committed to working with it read we are seeing the benefits already and we see more importantly a foundation for lots more progress. Well thank you for your role in that and for your excitement about it. Senator enzi. Thank you mr. Chairman. I would like to revisit the goals you immediately identified when he took the helm at the fda modernizing how the agency considers new ther
I think that the growth can be exponential. We see some months where it goes up by 15 or 20 in sales. April is a big month because there was a big 4 20 smoke out. On april 20, every year, people come and smoke marijuana in public. It is a huge sales day. It is like christmas for marijuana. The lines outside are huge. April may have been a spike. There are four months of tax data in this program. We cannot draw a trend we know that every month it is getting bigger. Host as far as public smoking, does the new law address that at all . Guest yes. It is in the constitution that you cannot smoke in public. That is the one thing that is difficult for people who are new. They come to colorado to smoke marijuana. That may be the most surprising aspects for them. This is not an amsterdam type of environment here. There are smoke clubs where you can buy marijuana and sit down and smoke it. In denver, the king of marijuana in colorado with 89 recreational dispensaries, 200 medical dispensaries. T
Example of the bureaucracy of the government. So many levels of management and no one does anything. President obama is requesting a nearly 4 billion of emergency funding from congress to address the influx of children coming across the u. S. Border. Heres more about that. The administration has requested 3. 7 billion of emergency funding from congress for stopping some of the influx of children dealing with the situation along the southern border with mexico. Laura is with the wall street journal and writing about the story, what is in the administration request to congress . A lot of the money is to house the children and families crossing the border. That is where the crisis has been. A huge influx created children traveling alone and adult traveling have come across the border. And in each of those cases there are sort of special needs for housing them and the administration is not able to handle right now and that is what a lot of the money would go to work. The white house propos
We remain to work in a bipartisan manner to achefer these objects. Thank you to both of you for your testimony. Mr. Hochstein, you talked about the things that ukraine needs to do in order to reform its energy markets. This is the most energy inefficient country in the entire region and ill direct the question to you but happy to have mr. Yee respond as well. The reforms they need to need take are dramatic and the effective of those reforms done too precipitously is perhaps too destabilizing in a country that doesnt need much more instability. The vector between what gas prices are today and what they would be without the subsidy is enormous. The amount of money they have to spend on reengineering this wildly inefficient soviet Energy Architecture is essentially almost a rip down and build back up proposition. So, how do we ask ukraine to do this without requiring them to spend money they dont have, and impose price increases on citizens who are right now looking for reasons to be conf
And principles. So, we have that frank dialogue. We are able to do that with a very strong embassy team there. I think we need to continue to do that. It helps when members of congress visit the capitals to reinforce the message that we take corruption very seriously, not only as a matter of economics, or of moral principle, but as a matter of National Security. And until an ambassador is appointed, has the administration considered reappointing or asking mr. Butcher to stay on . Hell complete the tenure this summer. Theres another sar shay affair and take over by the end of the summer. Okay. Im sure senator murphy agrees with me we dont want to see a void there in romania. It is important we dont do that. Mr. Hochstein, you were talking about developing shale gas in europe. Do you have or does the u. S. Have any estimates or europe in terms of the oil and gas potential is if they were willing to exploit it . Yes, senator. We work with country that is are interested. And as chairman mu