That unless, quote, an agency has adopted a general policy thats so extreme as to amount to an abdomen occasion of its statutory responsibilities. Neither are regulatory delays implementing the employer mandate an affront to the constitution. I think we should take a look at the text of the take care clause. Particularly, the words faithfully and even more striking phrase, take care. The framers could have prescribed simply that the president execute the laws and the legislative history of the constitution shows that they deliberately chose not to do this. Why did they add the words faithfully and especially take care . Defining the president s obligation in this fashion seems to me incorporates that the concept that the president s duty is to execute laws in good faith and to exercise reasonable care in doing so. Scholars concur that this phrasing is that exercise judgment and handle his enforcement duties with fidelity to all laws and the entire law that hes enforcing, the entire aca
Make the clock radio wakes you up and you hear the news being reported about the slim losses by republicans in iowa. You wanted to lay there and think to yourself, if i had only done a little bit more. If i had only put aside some of my personal pursuits for that 110 days, and put my state first, put my country first, just for 110 days, if id done that, maybe wed have had a different result. Governor branstad would have had a legislature who would have been moving fully in the direction of his bid for iowas future. Maybe we would have a Republican United States Senate and bigger majority in the house of representatives that would pressure the president of the United States to finally start leading and acting in this country, and not being a bystander in the oval office. [ applause ] but we didnt do it. We came up short. Well have that feeling of regret. And those pangs of guilt. Scenario number two. Its much better. You wake up on november 5th. The clock radio goes off. Youre hearing t
And good morning. You the subcommittee today and him and him and the subcommittee today examines the center for Disease Control anthrax incident last month that potentially exposed dozens of from you potentially exposed dozens of researchers to live and you and anthrax because established cdc policies were not followed. You last friday, the director and you and you announced corrective actions being taken. Are you corrective actions being taken. The review identified a fundamental flaw the agency had no written plan to ensure the safety of workers and proper handling of live biological you agents. The department of agriculture agriculturetment of the disinfectant they used was expired. This is troubling, and completely unacceptable. The center for Disease Control is supposed to be the Gold Standard of the u. S. Public health system, and it has been tarnished. We rely on cdc to protect us, but the recent anthrax event and incidents have raised serious questions about the cdc ability to
I have a question also relating to financing. I want to know what you consider the role and impact of the new Bricks Development bank will be Going Forward as it starts in south africa and other countries can then apply to be part of this new development. Thank you. Ill let them talk about the brics bank because, ive heard about it, they set it up a few months ago and what it is, im not sure. Measurability, now we talk a lot about revolution in africa that we dont know. The problem has been a lot of things have happened in mdgs, but we dont have the instruments to measure them. We have 80 of kids in school. With 90 of this or that, but how do we measure them . Sometimes were rely on numbers given by multinational and multilateral, but sometimes by ngos who have an interest in keeping numbers as they are. Thats what they get their funding from. We have to be aware that. The finance minister has had a meeting. When the president first talked about the cap, it was at a meeting with the mi
That lets people know when thers been a problem there . There are multiple alarm systems within cdc. In this case, it was a crosscontamination of a culture. So somehow, and we havent figured out how yet, a relatively low virulence Avian Influenza was crosscontaminated with the highly pathogenic h5n1. Is there any evidence of cover up here from employees not wanting to let someone else know that no. Weve seen at this point no evidence of a cover up, but we do see the need to strengthen the culture of safety that encourages reporting. Anytime theres a problem or potential problem so we can assess it and take rapid and prompt action. Thank you. I now recognize ms. Degette for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Dr. Kingsbury, let me just make sure i heard your testimony right. You testified that theres an increasing number of labs that are handling these bioagents, correct . Correct. And you said theres really no one agency in charge. Is that correct . Correct. Now, in you said that to