I this hearing is an hour. I want to thank everybody for getting here sort of in a rush. Were going to have to vote a little after 3 00. I think theres like six votes and there may not be a rezmption of the hearing. So were going to get to it and have a good discussion. Today were going to look at the federal governments role in funding research. Im concerned that government system of supporting research have inefficient and often incents haves the wrong thing which leads to wasted taxpayer dollars. Weve posted examples like this National Science Foundation Study which had money being spent on ugandan gambling habits and we do it year after year. Senator langford found investigating if kids dont like food that has been sneezed on. Are you more or less likely to eat the food in the buffet line if someone sneezes on it. And who could forget the shrimp found on the treadmill. I remember as a kid in the 1970s seeing senator william describe wastes such as this as he gave his Golden Fleece
Get to it and have a good discussion. Today we are going to look at the federal governments role in funding research. I am concerned the government system of supporting research and is inefficient and often incentivizes the wrong things which leads to bad science and wasted taxpayer dollars. Weve posted examples like this National Science Foundation Study which had money being spent on ugandan gambling habits and we do it year after year. Senator langford found investigating if kids dont like food that has been sneezed on. Are you more or less likely to eat the food in the buffet line if someone sneezes on it. And who could forget the shrimp found on the treadmill. I remember as a kid in the 1970s seeing senator william describe wastes such as this as he gave his Golden Fleece awards and here we are still with the same kind of questions 40 years later. Part of the problem is the old addage, public or perish. Researchers that publish are more likely to get funding. So how do unique proj
Once they walk in the door, drink from the fire hose. Whether democrat or republican really doesnt make much differ. 45 trillion Dollar Agency to run and a lot going on. Big issue of repeal and replace, what do we do, nothing like that i saw in aviator 2001 one of the top National Issues. Im not sure where they are going with it but secretary price who i have known for years, these guys have, too, new administrator going to be they are way ahead of the game. What are they talking about now, my experience 88 transition a long time ago. Im actually 106 years old. We didnt do anything. We got people confirmed. Nobody sat around anderson talked about health care policies. I talked to Tommy Thompson, president bush, wanted to do it, privatizing medicare, medicaid in may. Gave a list of things to do, changed the name of the agency just to make people mad. Through part d maybe in may. December ive never seen anything like this. This is way out of the normal time schedule in my experience. Do
Avenue in southeast. ,here are several road closures as you can imagine. As part of the mlk national day of service, president obama and the first family will help out with the family shelter girlsd the obama old swingset, which you can see right there. If youre planning to be outside, you can see all the preps getting ready for the inauguration on friday. Live froman tell alexandria, belle haven country club, it is going to be steel gray skies. Moisture locked in place, but we do not expect any rain. Chilly temperatures in the 40s at the moment. Check out the numbers across the area. 36 in hagerstown. 42 degrees in fredericksburg. Temperatures probably will not go up all that much more. It will stay seasonable. The stray showern south of washington as it develops. A cool day, the wind is light. Bundle up and you will be just fine. But changes are coming. That will be coming with a warm front. Doppler radar shows showers south of harrisonburg, northeast of charlottesville. A sprinkle i
That is the discussion we need to be having. Is it fair to say most of the people who are in the waiting list who are develop mentally disabled traumatic brain injured people and those with serious Mental Illness are on medicaid, a different type of population and what has been your findings with the governors with respect to how most of them would like to take care of this population if there are consensus among governors, what is the governor, the legislature to deal with respect to the population. I will say there are exceptions to that rule. How did they do it. And they are focused on those that are the most needy and made that a priority in their state and their waitlist. We need to explore the states that found ways with little or no wait lists. And the application to cms for medicaid waiver to continue suyears. And outstanding program, it is a way to save and help, it can be replicated. It is an incredible model that can work, we have a waiting list in indiana. I hope the new no