Acknowledge your sovereignty over all events and times. Renew america in confident faith and deepen our commitment to seek peace. Help us to work sovereignty over all events and times. Together when whom we find se it difficult to trust, but with a m we must try to forge Common Future of security and prosperity. This peoples house with your that all might seek to find first areas of agreement and openness to Honest Exchange where it is not. May all that is done within the peoples house be for your honor and glory, amen. E speaker pro tempore the 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 pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from. Llinois, i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The speaker pro tempore the up
Tumor that represents an approach to the immunity. Fred hutchins focus is just a few notes before i turn the floor over to our first speaker, dr. Gilliland. Turn your cell phone to mute or off any other noise making devices. Once dr. Maloney made his remarks, we will open it up to questions. When you are called on to pose a question, identify yourself by name and organization. Dr. Gilliland . Thank you very much david for that fantastic introduction. I think you covered most of my talking points. I am gary gilliland, the president and director of the fred hutch. My colleague, dr. David maloney and i are excited to be here for an important announcement. Ill start with what david alluded to, which is the fred hutch has been in existence for about 41 years. Its the place where bone marrow transplantation was invented by dr. Don thomas. He went on to win the nobel prize for that work where patients with leukemias are treated with chemotherapy and radiation. Such high doses they would die f
Indiana. Also the cato institutes ian vasquez looks at the future of u. S. cuban relations in a trump administration. Postfidel castro. And Boston University assistant professor linda spraug martinez looks at a new report looking at the safety of young people of color and what impact the lack of access to overall support and opportunity has on them. Cspans washington journal. Live beginning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern saturday morning. Join the discussion. At a pentagon briefing today, Afghanistan Military Operations Commander general John Nicholson wrapped up 2016s military operations and counterterror efforts in the country. This is about an hour. Folks, weve got about 45 minutes and ten minutes of opening comments. Ill be calling questions for general nicholson. Sir, all yours. Thanks, jeff. Good morning, everyone. Great to be back with you all again. Want to thank you for covering our mission in afghanistan. What id like to do this time since my last update in september is review 2016 an
Services generated as a result. We support 400,000 jobs directly across the country in all 50 states on basis of the grants given out. Those are high quality jobs. You asked about global competitiveness. We were the up question leader of the world in the research until recently. Thats not longer to be taken for granted. When you see our losing ground, and we see countries like china, india india, singapore, and south korea upping their investments sometimes in double digits, we are losing that. Quick question on that. When they make increases in investments, do they have an eye on us as a target to beat us . You bet they do. Or doing it in a regime way . Its a little of both. They read our playbook from 20 years ago, and they saw what it did for americas economy and for the spinning off of Small Businesses that come out of this effort, and they want to do what we did, and so i dont know if youd say they are gunning for us, but they are basically trying to learn from our experience and
Back on track on its funding . Well, first, let me say we were thrilled, also to see whats in the 211st century cure, its the 2 billion a year of mandatory, gave a great jolt of excitement and some relief to a community thats. Really quite stressed over the last 12 years as we lost ground but to get back on a stable trajectory that would result in a healthy Biomedical Research ecosystem, which our country depended on with Great Success over 50 years, i estimate in my professional judgment, we need to be in the space of inflation plus 4 or 5 a year. Thats pretty much that dotted line plus inflation plus 3. 7 i guess, a healthy way to make sure all the talent and capabilities of this country in terms of Biomedical Research, where we led the world for decades, would be sustained, encouraged, and innovation going forth in the ways we want it to. Thank you, dr. Collins. it 2 billion a year for five years is better than nothing, but not pretend that a small temporary investment billions of d