Would advance in the century and a half that followed, or how complex it would become. Within these walls, Congress Still passes our laws, but today this is only the beginning. Determining how the laws are made workable is not the job of congress. This task falls to a powerful but littleknown group of bureaucrats known as regulators. To some, they are more powerful than many of the lawmakers themselves. What they do affects nearly every part of our daily lives and has become one of the hotly debated aspects of government. Our story begins in 1980, the last year of the carter administration. In a residential section of the nations capital, David Hawkins begins his daily commute. Hawkins is a federal regulator for the Environmental Protection agency. His job, like the everchanging face of the city, is the result of the relentless growth of our government. A century ago, it was relatively simple. Under the great capitol dome, laws were passed and the nation followed. But today, our laws a
Up the project and run with it. Great. Please, yes. Give her the mike. Please stand up so they can see you to give you the mike. Im the executive director of the u. S. Afghans council at georgetown university. We are so grateful you are here and id like to publicly thank you for staying up in the middle of the night. Very quietly, i dont think people know this. And you have been sending us support and at times when you dont have the staff to do it. Were so grateful for reaching out to us here in washington, d. C. Id like to ask specifically if you could talk further about one of the myths that you brought up. The myth of the afghan male, the afghan man as being uncivilized. Part of why i the about that, in my work, what i found is with all of these successful, beautiful, talented afghan women that you talk about, there is always usually a strong and supportive and feminist and wonderful father, husband, brother, cousin, uncle. That i think we dont always hear about. So if you could tal
That hawkish image that he wished cheney had not had as much influence. Dick cheney should have had his own state department. All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by bnsf railway. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Carnegie corporation of new york. A foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. At carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan the crash of a russian jetliner in egypt morphed into an international dispute today, on whether a bomb was behind it. All 224 people on board were killed when the plane broke up saturday, just 23 minutes after taking off from Sharm Elsheikh. Now, the leaders
Thought about todays hearing as it relates to cdc, it is this. With the recent incidents, we recognize the pattern at cdc where we need to greatly improve the culture of safety and i am overseeing sweeping measures to improve that culture of safety. Cdc works 24 7 and our scientists protect americans from threats, including naturally occurring threats like ebola and mers and drug resistant bacteria such as anthrax. But we must do that work more safely and we will. Theres a recap of the recent incidents that summarized in our report which has been completed and were just at the outset of our investigation of the influenza contamination. Id be pleased to go through the two diagrams weve provided to the subcommittee which outlined what we know to date. But in brief, the anthrax incident shows deeply troubling problems. A lack of proper protocol, incorrect inactivation procedures. Failure to ensure that we were transferring materials that were sterile when we thought they were sterile. Use
Solve, but we think it would be worth spending some time even at a theoretical strategic level to address the issue and think through how we go about doing it in the future. Dr. Frieden, what are your views here in terms of the growing numbers of of the labs and just what how to move forward with the activity here in the u. S. . I do think this is a complicated topic for which theres probably not a quick and simple solution, but just logically, the more places with dangerous pathogens goes on, the more possibility there is of accidents or accidental releases. So ensuring that the work that happens is happening in a safe environment is critical and the key concept i think we have to apply is riskbenefit. I dont think we can ever guarantee zero risk for some of the things that are done that we can do everything humanly possible to get that risk as low as possible, but we have to ensure that the benefit is something thats reasonably likely to occur. Thank you. Thank you very much. With th