encouraged the investment through the chips and science act and now we have enormous investment in the united states. over $200 billion in long-term investment in semiconductors. and rebuilding the economy of the united states with those semiconductors. it s not designed to hurt china. the only thing i did say with regard to china, there are certain extremely sophisticated semiconductors that we have built that are useful for nuclear and/or other weapon systems. those we are not selling, we are not exporting to china or anyone else. and so that s the context in which this has all occurred. in the meantime, creating thousands of jobs and bringing back a sense of pride and dignity to so many towns in the country where all of a sudden over the last three decades we found out that factory had 600 people shut down. and the soul of the community was lost and so i made sure when the semiconductors were coming back that they were not just going to go to the coast, they would be all
to the cdc operational strategy regarding school closures or reopenings? did you suggest revisions to their operational strategy? what we suggested, sir, was ideas. ok. your letter to the your letter to the subcommittee said the aft proposed a handful of edits to the operational strategy, is that right? we what happened was there was one particular edit that they accepted. there were several different ideas that we proposed. the edit that they accepted was in the if i may explain or no? yeah, go ahead. they asked us in the january 29th meeting and you from your document request as you know we provided documents including all the emails back and forth between and among staff, our staff, they asked us for i want to get to the point i
guess. we know two of the proposed changes. right. work from home options for teachers with high risk conditions, and that if a new variant arose the guidance may need to be changed. so with that and again, yes or no. were these proposals accepted by the cdc? well, the one proposal that was accepted, during if i may explain. during the the meeting of the 29th, we raised several different issues. we did not we had seen all the former were there it s no question. when you made the proposals, the two i suggested, were they accepted by the cdc. the proposal to have at risk the second proposal was not made on january 29th. i didn t say that. sorry. the first proposal about at risk immunocompromised workers and not that simply that they would