Commissioner bridges and commissioner servais is not in attendance today. We do have a quorum right. Thank you. Can i ask you, madam secretary, to turn your volume up a little . Can you do that . Its sort of. Is that better . Better better. Item number two, communications. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment periods. There will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at this meeting after closed session and there will be an opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. Each item each comment is limited to two minutes. Public comment will be taken both in person and remotely by calling for each item, the board will take Public Comment first. People attending the meeting in person and then from people attending the meeting remotely. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available by phone by calling. 56550001. Access. Code 26605203021. Then pound, then pound again when connected you will hear the meet
Before meeting of august 17, 2023. At this time. Hey, just give me one second here. Get me organized. Im doing my survey. All right. Okay welcome, everyone. Thank you for all the participation on the board level and im madam secretary. Do you want to call the roll, please . Thank you, commissioner. Commissioner connor. Present mr. Thomas. Present. Present. Helfen. Present mr. Driscoll. Here mr. Gandhi. Present commissioner bridges and commissioner servais is not in attendance today. We do have a quorum right. Thank you. Can i ask you, madam secretary, to turn your volume up a little . Can you do that . Its sort of. Is that better . Better better. Item number two, communications. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment periods. There will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at this meeting after closed session and there will be an opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. Each item each comment is limited to two minutes. Public c
Logically say they probably require ratification. And if they require ratification, one could make an argument that they perhaps were not proper. Okay. Ill allow a colleague to pursue this, because if they choose because im out of time and for the record will ask mr. Williamson what is noble about the cost of purchasing this care without contract 7 billion do we know it or is it noble . But i realize i dont have time now. Well ask this question for the record and yield back to the chair. Thank you, mr. Orourke. Now five minutes. Thank you mr. Chairman. I am aiming this in the direction of mr. Murray and boyle. Not sure which. Theres a business in my district that supplies specialized shoes. Diabetic shoes and to vets through the va. However this business didnt have a contract. In november of 2014 11 notified them that the custom orthotic appliance and related Service Released a request for proposals. The business filled out the paperwork, denied for not meeting minimum technical requir
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