[ no audio ] [ no audio ] [ no audio ] Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. This morning were holding a confirmation hearing on Alexander Acosta to serve as secretary of labor. We will have an Opening Statement. Then we will introduce our witness. We are delighted to have senator rubio. Senator cruz is coming. After our witness testimony, senators will each have two fiveminute rounds of questions. Just ten years ago in 2007, steve jobs announced that apple reinvented the mobile phone. Just ten years ago. A micro blogging Company Named twitter gained its own separate platform and started to scale globally. Amazon released something called kindle. All that in 2007, just ten years ago. The same year ibm began to build a computer called watson that within a few years defeated human contestants in the jeopardy tv show and in 2007 the cost of sequencing a genome started falling from 100 million in 2001 to 1,000 in 2015 and a new book New York Times co
The proposed rule is based on the early hundreds of studies that demonstrate the current standard is not protected. The studies employed multiple scientific methods and models as mentioned by previous speakers but the data are clear. The current ozone standard is not productive, protective of Public Health and the epa must issue a more protective standard. Thank you. Thank you very much doctor. Let me ask a few questions and let me start with dr. Weil nas. You have done some impressive work in rhode island studying heat related deaths and hospitalizations. Is ozone formulation, is ozone formation exacerbated by Climate Change in your view and what is the linkage between added heat and added ozone . Thank you senator for that question. At a local question in rhode island. In rhode island but we have looked at is the relationship between warm temperatures and extreme heat and the number of Emergency Department visits and deaths in the state of rhode rhode island and we have found a Stron
Politico is reporting today that jeb bush has been preparing for a potential president ial run since leaving the Florida Governors Office eight years ago. Part of the strategy was to downplay the decision. Politeco says a sudden burst of fundraising now is part of that plan. In addition the former Florida Governor has head lined more than 50 events around the country and helped to raise an estimated 10 million for other republican and conservative causes. Today jeb bush will head to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and hell share his thoughts on the challenges and opportunities facing the nation both here and abroad. Cspan will have live coverage of that at 12 30 eastern. A couple of other live events today. Cspan will have coverage of president obama and Homeland Security second jeh johnson. Hell be speaking at a white house summit on combatting violent extremism. The threeday event is looking into radicalization and recruiting for isis and other such groups. And then at 3 00 eas
The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , october 2, 2013. I hereby appoint the honorable Glen Thompson to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john the a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip imited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Mcclintock, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Yesterday, the president charged that the Government Shutdown is the result of a, quote, ideological crusade to deny Affordable Health care for millions of americans. Id begged the president to read his cor
Principle facts behind it refused to let me give you no matter what. Even coming home, when my case got accepted. It was like, im going home. It still didnt happen. Im thinking in 60 days the court will, im telling everybody im going home and there is people all the time up in there educating myself about the law, i know is fast to get in there, but when the wheels are turned to come home, its slow. I couldnt accept it. People are like they are going to do this to time. I said no, this is clear. This was what was supposed to have been done from the beginning. Even my families, my loved wupz ones that lost. That made me fight more. I never gate gave up my fate. My hope is restored. With that i would like to thank all of our panelist. Thank you. [ applause ] and we are now going to move to our second panel. While they take their seats, this idea of forced treatment versus Constitutional Rights has always been a tension that weve had in our criminal justice system. There is an issue that