Epa Administrator Gina Mccarthy said earlier this month that Environmental Policies and regulations that affect the lives of americans need to be grounded in quality and transparent science. She testified before the House Science Committee which is chaired by congressman lamar smith of texas. [inaudible conversations] the committee on Science Space Technology will come to order. Welcome everyone to todays hearing entitled strengthening transparency and accountability within the Environmental Protection agency. Im going to recognize myself for five minutes for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for hers. The Environmental Protection agency like every other Governmental Institution should answer to the American People. Everyone agrees that we need to protect the environment but we should do so in a way that is open and honest. Democracy requires transparency and accountability. Yet the epas justifications for its regulations are cloaked in secret science. I
Quarter of a million times already. Nobody wants to be a burden. I think thats so at any age. Dr. Baldwin . One of the innovations i want to bring forward is something that weve been charged with at cdc. That is to think about the connection between clinical medicine and Public Health. In early september, all the cdc leadership was sent a note saying, how can we improve prevention in health care . He outlined four specific areas that i think crosswalk nicely with transportation. The first was to reduce practice variability. An opportunity in this space is as we get better and better about understanding driver fitness and how to evaluate it, reducing practice variability across Health Care Settings is going to be critically important. The secondary was engaging the entire health care team. So assisting with these screenings, understanding these transitions, engaging allied health, Occupational Therapists and others and importantly having those Professionals Connect with these transporta
Technologies available to it today so it continues to have a path forward. But we dont tend use Research Funds for things that are already been determined adequately demonstrated . Were using Research Funds to try to prove this up youre using it as an example adequately demonstrated. It doesnt make sense. We are coordinating closely with d. O. E. And if you have listened and heard from the d. O. E. Folks today, you will know they share our opinion about its availability and been demonstrated. Its exciting to think that we could make it more costeffective moving forward, and that you could expand the range of sequestration opportunities. So they are actually working very hard with the industry to continue to move that technology forward. That is only good news, sir. Thats not bad news. But we still dont know whether its adequately demonstrated. Gentlemans time is expired. Pursuant to the discussion about the efficiency of the relating to the subpoena. I ask unanimous con stoant enter to
Making pink the gold stone of marking. Some make hefty donations to Breast Cancer charities, but many businesses are accused of pink washing, companies that use Breast Cancer awareness to improvele bottom line and lack of transparency in their fundraising. Our executive producer, we asked that question to our viewers. Has pink become so widespread that it has lost its meaning . You know, our community is really divided on that and what it means so as always, its a live conversation, so feel free to joining us. By logging on. Joining us onset with a critical eye all of this is gayle, the founder of the Breast Cancer consortium, and author of pink ribbon blues. And shes a prominent arthur of Breast Cancer research, one the top Womens Health specialists in the u. S. And lisa, a blogger, and shes fighting stage four Breast Cancer. Thank you for all of u. And weve really been looking forward to this conversation tonight. Dr. Love, where was Breast Cancer awareness before the pink ribbon cam
Nothing more than pick among winners and losers by region and industry. At its core, its the purest of Wealth Distribution programs. My amendment would eliminate funding for the e. D. A. , totaling 247 million. S bied on current levels, this will save over 2. 5 billion over the next decade. Even though i ran two Small Businesses for 16 years, i had never heard of the Economic Development administration before coming to congress. I suspect many of my colleagues are similarly situated. So first let me describe what the e. D. A. Does. It takes dollars from across the country. That money comes to washington, from the e. D. A. Takes about 20 of it off the top. Thats cost of the administrationive Administrative Burden of running the Economic Development administration. It then asks companies and communities to apply for free money from the federal government to renovate a Movie Theater or bill a new industrial park. While many of these projects are not necessarily bad, some are ridiculous. T