Nh hold a hearing on the nation partial roads. This is an hour and 20 minute portion. You can watch the entire hearing on cspan. Org. I want to welcome our witnesses in particular. To todays hearing as we are looking at the need to reauthorize not the cities our cities and counties are looking to us. A the focus has been on revenue especially since it is the most difficult thing we have had to do. And people are using other methods to bring us into the 21t century on transportation. So we are looking at some of those questions and the nuances of federal polling policy on congestion pricing and Technology Solutions to address congestion. So while congress. But to negatively attack never before but not to mention the quality of the air that we breathe and the failure to deal with climate change. This was not even discussed at the time of the last reauthorization to indicate just how far time has moved and to catch up. The urban mobility report and you might want to look at what it says f
Youre welcome to the program called the new experiment with genetically modified whisky to be the solution to eradicating malaria lets fight some progress that is easily means one of the well they get. Currently about more than 200000000. 00 cases of the mosquito Borne Disease each year and nearly half a 1000000 of those line fact die most of them children the 6 countries with the highest rates of malaria while the wide all in subsaharan africa. Is one of them now your team of scientists here have started on the experiments with. Would using the spread of the disease. Its part of daily life for many in the cane a fast here at the local clinic this young boy presents with a high fever he tests positive for malaria and must stay at home in bed until he recovers but it may not always be this way. The International Research consortium target malaria wants to rid the country of the disease and its focused its efforts on this village in bana heading the project is abdul idea but today a scie
Innovation panel. Weber honored to have dr. Anne schuchat, the center for Disease Control and prevention, and our second panelist is dr. Daniel salmon, Bloomberg School of public school. We are very honored to have the help and security interface from the World Health Organization joint joined us and he is going above and beyond the call of duty as he is alone in from australia through los angeles and took the redeye to be here this afternoon. He has come really above and beyond the call of duty. And then a final panelist is doctor irene koek, acting assistant administered for Global Health United States agency for international development. We will have a similar format of our last panel, and i would also maybe encourage the panelists if they feel the urge to ask one of their copanelist a question that just interrupt me and do it. Ask a wrong question, they just restate the question you would rather answer and go for it. What we are way behind so well probably go to audience q a much
Good morning everyone. The committee will come to order we are meeting to examine an issue that effectively weve been at a stalemate for quite some time. What we should do with used nuclear fuel accumulating at the Nuclear Reactors. At a starting point we should recognize that Nuclear Energy is an important part of our countrys electric generation. I believe its a vital part of our mix. The large reactors not landscape provide reliable admissions free power to communities across our country. Our Nations Nuclear industry is critically important but it also faces a number of challenges and one that impacted the first reactors began operation and Nuclear Waste disposition. Beginning with the passage of the Nuclear Waste policy act of 1982 congress attempted several times to address the backend of the fuel cycle. In an effort to resolve an earlier stalemate the federal government was supposed to begin taking title to use fuel and moving it to a repository at Yucca Mountain in nevada beginn
Panel of speakers for panel two. Additionally this represents more of an institutional leadership and innovation and we have both were honored to have the center for Disease Control and prevention and our second panelist is doctor daniel professor of International Health and director of the institute of safety at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. We have or very honored to have doctor maurice are busy of the health and security interface and he is definitely gone above and beyond the call of duty as he has flown in from australia to los angeles and took the redeye to be here this afternoon. He has come above and beyond the call of duty. And then our final panelist is doctor irene coates, acting assistant and minister for Global Health agency for International Development. We will have a similar format of our last panel and i would also encourage the panelists if they feel the urge to ask a co panelist a question that just interrupts me and do it and if i asked the wrong question t