Recognition that we still remain in the eye of the storm and we must be diligent. I would offer to say that we will not fall victim to the terrorists intent, and that is that we will not terrorist ourselves. We will be vigilant which i believe is extremely important, but we will be fair and adjust and we will recognize the Civil Liberties of all. But we are in some very challenging and difficult times, and so i want to thank the chair woman for allowing us and this committee in working with me and the full committee to be the very First Committee that is addressing the question of isis here in the United States congress upon our return. That is an important statement for Homeland Security Armed Services, the Intelligence Committee are the corner stone of defending this nation, and our collaboration and working together is key. And that, we are doing. This factfinding hearing will lay the ground work for many other hearings that will be necessary to expeditionly address this question. T
It was the eventful. It was tested in a different form. It is set up to be tested. In mali and other african countries. It came out in literally up a couple weeks ago. We are now setting up for testing again advanced trial using this. The other candidate is a virus into which has been inserted the ebola glycoprotein jean. It was full be enrolled and this in collaboration with the department of defense, we are doing at the nih, other than doing it from the medical institute, by the department of defense, the United States army again, now in collaboration also with merck, you will be hearing more about that from julie. The company did involved in originating the Public Health agency of canada as i mentioned, dod with naid, they are role. America is involved in the trial, was put on hold because of people get confused about that. Four individuals had clear inflammation. That doesnt mean the end of the vaccine by any means. My house ups are very common. We saw it in a significant proportio
Quorum call quorum call quorum call quorum call mr. Pryor mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from arkansas. Mr. Pryor mr. President ings, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to a period of morning business the presiding officer senate is in a quorum call. Mr. Pryor mr. President , i would ask that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Pryor i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Pryor mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the action of the senate with respect to the discharge of p. N. Numbers 2651279, 1280, and 2896 be vitiated for the information of the senate, these nominations were on the calendar on the privileged nominations list. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Pryor mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate c
Number three share some future looking ideas on how we can be better prepared in the future to handle situations like these and then i would be happy to discuss these will pocket into the qanda part. The phase one trial which has been completed and published satisfactory we also have the enrolled in cities in the uk, switzerland and then molly. I say this with precision because our perspective is that we need to define what is the best storage to use in phase two. We also are planning on starting to trials in africa when including almost 3,000 subjects and the other involving about 800 in the middle of january and then the phase three where we have a commitment with the nih to purchase a piece participate in the trial and see the leone. That is what we have planned and we also have tuesday and we can only have a good vaccine that can protect in the short term but have a sustained longrange by providing the booster vaccine by combining the vaccines that we are developing. So quite a com
Frameworks over time to help us address the issue of escalation in the more kinetic traditional role, cyber is in a different arena. Do you think you addressed sufficiently and for instance this event, are there others that give you concern that it leads us down a dangerous path, that everybodys looking for ways to deter, weve seen dangers, these attacks can cause, but you do want to raise the cost but you want to see the followon sort of cycle, are you comfortable we have a handle on how to deter americas adversaries from cyberattacks without creating a further problem . I think clearly the concepts of deterrence in the cyber domain are relatively immature. I dont think we are where we need to be, where we collectively need to be. This is still the early stages of cyber in many ways. So were going to have to work our way through this. Its one of the reasons why quite frankly im interested in forums like this because im interested in a broad set of perspectives, many of which are going