Chairman for his tireless efforts on behalf of the weekend vulnerable. Week and vulnerable. I like to thank my good friend for pulling todays hearing together amid the escalating outbreak of ebola across west africa, countries including liberia, sierra leone, guinea, and now nigeria. Although i am not a member of the Foreign Relations committee, i do serve on the state and foreign operations appropriations subcommittee which funds the state department and foreign aid programs. I would also say to the witnesses that if you need extra money, ask for reprogramming. You should not wait for september, october you should ask for it immediately and him confident the appropriate committees will allow it. But if there is any doubt, there should be request for reprogramming. The current ebola epidemic has claimed over 900 people. It was detected earlier this year and is proving to be the worlds worst outbreak of the virus ever recorded. It now appears this alarming, contagious disease could be o
All of this is at the feet of president obama. Next question. I and j t mansion from michigan. What is your position on the Global Warming debate . The notice, they had to change the name of that. They call it Climate Change. We used to call that the four seasons. [laughter] you know, theyre running into problems with this warming phenomenon because the globe is not warned in 15 years. The massive panic is a problem. I am afraid a lot of this Global Warming talk goes back to where i started. Produced my natural gas but who has been stopping that for years and continues to . The same people who want to get more control of our lives with his Climate Change phenomena on so i think we need to be all his conservatives in agreement that our environment is precious and we need to protect it and make it better but frankly a lot of good moves of the left in this area have hurt the environment more than they have helped. A lot of the additives in fuels that were supposed to make it less pollutin
We are glad its over. I think i know why. There are so many voters in our primary. One, the people of tennessee to the governor how proud they are of his hard work, and i want to congratulate him. [applause] secondly, those who voted in the republican primary wanted to send a different redge, that were not happy, that were disappointed with the direction of our country, and were hopeful of having a new republican majority in the nited states senate. There was another message in this primary tonight. In a large primary, in one of the most conservative states in the country, tennessee voters nominated a get it done republican governor and a get it done republican senator. Let me tell you what i mean by that. What i mean is that both governor haslem and i are conservative republicans. Both of us know when we finish our speech, were not done. In fact, we ought to just be starting to Work Together with others and try to solve the problems that face our country. Thats how tennessee has led t
Or was discovered in 1976 and has killed 90 of its victims in some past outbreaks. Since march of this year, there have been more than 1700 cases of ebola, including more than 900 fatalities in guinea, liberia, sierra leone, and nigeria. This time, the average fertility rate in this outbreak is fromated at 55 , ranging 74 in guinea 242 in sierra leone. Ratessparity in mortality are partially linked to the capacity of governments to treat and contain the disease and Capita Health expending by effective governments. There is also concern giving given modern air travel and the latency time of the disease that the virus will jump borders and threat lies elsewhere in africa and even here in the United States. ,n my own state of new jersey and a hospital just a few hundred yards from my district office, precautions were taken. A person who had traveled from west africa Begin Manifesting symptoms including a high fever. He was put in isolation. Thankfully it was not ebola and the patient has
It is the renaming of a post office. You dont want to talk about your record in the congress when it comes to protecting the elderly because you were one of the very few democrats to vote to nund mine Social Security by raising the retirement age and reducing the cost of living adjustment. This is an example of the way, colleen, you have been operating which is to try to talk about every single thing that you can come up with except your record in the congress and except my record in the senate. Brian, ill talk to you any day about my record especially in the areas where it comes to preserving jobs and creating jobs. Lets be also very clear about your problem. You keep saying i opposed this governor. He never did. Brian, i read every single testimony that was given and you never opposed the governor. You actually stood with him. I cant bring my picture in here, but people remember my picture and you said we have to do hard things. The bottom line is, you are always willing to balance t