Group recommended that cdc develop agencywide policies to provide clear and consistent requirements for biosafety for all agency laboratories. In response, cdc developed a specimen transport policy but has not developed other agencywide policies such as requirements for Laboratory Documentation and emergency protocols. As i stated at the outset the incidents you are examining today are part of a long series of safety lapses. Since 2007 gao has reported on these issues and has made multiple recommendations to improve federal oversight of highcontainment laboratories. The federal departments agreed with our recommendations and have conducted some activities to respond but have not implemented our key recommendation, to establish a single federal entity with responsibility for oversight of all highcontainment laboratories. We recommended the establishment of a single federal entity to, one, conduct governmentwide Strategic Planning for requirements for highcontainment lab rotorys, includi
Like . What i dont want people to believe is if we produce all of the oil the countries around the world now benefiting from it will produce less of it. The truth is every day hundreds of thousands of day people join the middle class they buy cars and use airplanes. It has a benefit to the United States. To have Domestic Energy resources at our disposal, it lowers the cost of doing business in america which will strengthen our economy and allow us to have a manufacturing renaissance but there will be oil and some will be siphoned and used by terrorist groups. Isis themselves sell oil in the Global Market because they have seized refinery that assad has refused to destroy because he hopes to seize them and capture them again. Geopolitically it will allow us to help break the strangle hold that putin has on europe. Europe today relies on natural gas that they get from russia and if the russians can threaten to cut that off, it makes them vulnerable to pressure from putin and the russian
Cspans road to the white house is providing coverage on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. The New Hampshire leader along with media organizations are sponsoring the forum. Following the forum, you can provide your input by calling our callin program. Road to the white house 2016, cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. On tuesday, officials from the defense department, cdc and health and Human Services testified on capitol hill in regard to shipments of live sports of anthrax. Received live anthrax. This is a live interview. It is just over two hours. Two hour hearing. Good morning, welcome to our hearing dealing with anthrax once again. The subcommittee examines continue concerns over the federal agent select program with the focus on shipments of live anthrax from the department of Defense Laboratory that occurred over a ten year period. As last year we held a similar hearing that proposed dozens of cdc researchers to live anthrax due to safety procedures not being followed. The cdc dire
Officials testify about protecting the Energy Sector from cybersecurity threats attacks here and abroad. Looking at ways federal Research Facilities and private concerns can help Companies Operating the electrical grid, Pipeline System and infrastructure. This hearing is an hour and 35 minutes. Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I apologize. A little later start than i had hoped. Over the years, we have conducted a number of hearings designed to examine the vulnerabilities of our nations electric grid system. This congress we held hearings focused on cybersecurity, electromagnetic pulse at both the full and subcommittee levels. We will add to that by looking at advanced and emerging cyber technologies developed in our National Labs and private sectors. These are technological improvements and sometimes breakthroughs that could be used to protect the grid as well as other future sectors from future Cyber Attacks. I have mentioned outside the committee around the c
Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I apologize. A little later start than i had hoped. Over the years, we have conducted a number of hearings designed to examine the vulnerabilities of our nations electric grid system. This congress we held hearings focused on cybersecurity, electromagnetic pulse at both the full and subcommittee levels. We will add to that by looking at advanced and emerging cyber technologies developed in our National Labs and private sectors. These are technological improvements and sometimes breakthroughs that could be used to protect the grid as well as other future sectors from future Cyber Attacks. I have mentioned outside the committee around the country, sometimes we get the sense that folks believe in this Immaculate Conception theory of energy, that it just happens. We all recognize, i think, there is a lot more to this than that. A related question is what happens what happens when the lights dont turn on . When you flip that switch a