I am asking a question to the chair if you would agree with my observation. One reason i think statements have been made over there is they never believed we will get past a six year highway reauthorization bill over here. I am going to make it a deal so we can have the vote to take place and get on with the last and final vote so we would have that ready while the house is still in session. Whether individuals are facing themselves in the corner or that is not going to happen i dont know. Isnt it worth a try . That is my question. Let me respond to my colleague from oklahoma and thank him for his bipartisan leadership. You and senator boxer set a standard of bipartisanship when it comes to this issue. You have produced a sixyear authorization bill. Though i may not agree with the particulars thank you for that leadership on your bipartisan bases side. As far as the effort to speed up the senate so we can catch the house colleagues before they leave, i would support it completely but y
It is nothing more than an advertisement for the realtors to sell the mountains off to people that live a broad and are ruining it for the locals. There are lobbyists pushing down in raleigh to get funds for projects to help develop which is actually destroying our state because we dont have any jobs anymore because they were all off short to china. Offshored to china. Guest obviously you have a disagreement with the way that your tax dollars are being spent. That is why we have elections, to elect people that are responsive to the people that they serve. Host scott in maine. An independent caller. Caller back when the stimulus thing was going to rebuild bridges and highways. For this fella that is on right now, wanting to raise taxes another quarter on gas. Gas is cheap right now because of all the fracking and whatnot. People are catching on to fracking. So gas aint going to be cheap forever. That quarter you are talking about is just going to add to the burden of people who already
It is normal for cdc to do investigative work on its own before it would refer a matter to us and that actually helps us because the evidence is more developed when he receive it. So you think 60 days is reasonable before youre notified to do your investigation . Yes. Okay. And as a part of that theyre doing their investigations and so forth. But dont you think its kind of interesting that you got notified yesterday . Do you think that our hearing might have sped that time up a little bit . I have no information about that. But when you filed your testimony, you said to date oig has not received a referral for any more recent potential violations involving dugway which was in reference to the 2008 and 2010 incidents. Thats right. We submitted the testimony on friday. At that time we had not received it. I would say my opinion is that yor sight by this committee is a very effective way at spurring attention to this matter within the government. Just wish we didnt have to do it so often.
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