Research. Committee on oversight and government reform will come to order. Without obsession t chair is authorized to declare a recess at anytime. We have a very important hearing this morning. A federally funded Cancer Research in innovation. This one some hearings are more important than others. I wish it were the type of hearing that was on the headline at the top of the fold of every newspaper that we have. But it is cancer is something that statistically is going to touch every family in some way, shape, or form. And unfortunately ive had that personal experience myself and lost my mom to breast cancer. She fought it for some tenplus years and passed away in 1995. My dad who was old school, my dad was the kind of guy who never thought he had to have a checkup. Hed be just fine. He felt fine. He didnt need a checkup. Unfortunately he got colon cancer and doctors told me if he had any checkup in the eight or ten years preceding that hed probably with be us today. And i passed away a
The postcold war era, despite all of the headlines about it, unpleasant news, has been the most prosperous and the most stable in World History. And the basis of that has been peace in europe. The two greatest worlds that the wars in World History began in europe. And establishing nato shortly after world war ii provided the basis for building a global stability system, and that was a path to global prosperity. Im telling you this because our interests are in maintaining that. That is the vital interest of every american. And right now we have the worlds second greatest military power with one of the Worlds Largest economies changing borders in europe by force. Explicitly saying he wants to upend that security order. That is a vital threat to our interests. And part of the confusion in washington and globally on this is because we have a president who claimed that the crisis in europe was a regional crisis. He just didnt get it. Now, one of the reasons he didnt get it is because his pr
The postcold war era, despite all of the headlines about it, unpleasant news, has been the most prosperous and the most stable in World History. And the basis of that has been peace in europe. The two greatest worlds that the wars in World History began in europe. And establishing nato shortly after world war ii provided the basis for building a global stability system, and that was a path to global prosperity. Im telling you this because our interests are in maintaining that. That is the vital interest of every american. And right now we have the worlds second greatest military power with one of the Worlds Largest economies changing borders in europe by force. Explicitly saying he wants to upend that security order. That is a vital threat to our interests. And part of the confusion in washington and globally on this is because we have a president who claimed that the crisis in europe was a regional crisis. He just didnt get it. Now, one of the reasons he didnt get it is because his pr
The postcold war era, despite all of the headlines about it, unpleasant news, has been the most prosperous and the most stable in World History. And the basis of that has been peace in europe. The two greatest worlds that the wars in World History began in europe. And establishing nato shortly after world war ii provided the basis for building a global stability system, and that was a path to global prosperity. Im telling you this because our interests are in maintaining that. That is the vital interest of every american. And right now we have the worlds second greatest military power with one of the Worlds Largest economies changing borders in europe by force. Explicitly saying he wants to upend that security order. That is a vital threat to our interests. And part of the confusion in washington and globally on this is because we have a president who claimed that the crisis in europe was a regional crisis. He just didnt get it. Now, one of the reasons he didnt get it is because his pr
The postcold war era, despite all of the headlines about it, unpleasant news, has been the most prosperous and the most stable in World History. And the basis of that has been peace in europe. The two greatest worlds that the wars in World History began in europe. And establishing nato shortly after world war ii provided the basis for building a global stability system, and that was a path to global prosperity. Im telling you this because our interests are in maintaining that. That is the vital interest of every american. And right now we have the worlds second greatest military power with one of the Worlds Largest economies changing borders in europe by force. Explicitly saying he wants to upend that security order. That is a vital threat to our interests. And part of the confusion in washington and globally on this is because we have a president who claimed that the crisis in europe was a regional crisis. He just didnt get it. Now, one of the reasons he didnt get it is because his pr