[inaudible conversations] the committee on oversight and government reform will come to order. Without objection the chairs offer is to declare recess at any time. We have a very important hearing this morning. The federally funded Cancer Research coordination and innovation. This one, some hearings are more important than others. I wish it was the type of hearing that was at the top of the fold of every newspaper we have bought cancer is something that typically affects every family in some way, shape or form in an orchard my ipad a personal experience myself. My mom had breast cancer. She fought it for 10 plus years beginning in 1990 feis she passed away in 1995. My dad was a tough guy and everybody had to have a check up he felt fine and didnt need a checkup. Unfortunately he got colon cancer. Doctors elise told me if he had any sort of check up an eight or 10 years preceding his death he would probably be with us here today. He passed away two years ago and we miss them both. Havin
Bit differently this time. Well start with pat, pat, good morning. Im curious to know in your institution in burglar, and all institutions across the country, the ratio of people in the classrooms to other employees, by administrators, researchers, whatever. And how that has changed over time and what percentage of the tuition costs will be paid. Actually its to pay the salary of nonteaching employees of the university. So the university of michigan has about 3,000 fulltime tenure scre stream faculty that teach our students. We have clinical faculty that help train future physicians and residents and interns in our hospitals. We probably have on the order of 2,000 or so of teaching faculty. The total number of employees of the university is approaching 40,000. We have a very Large Health Care system, were a major provider of Health Health care in the state. If you put aside the Health Care System, we probably have two or three fold the number of employees providing all the Services Nec
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Hints that in fact there could be a military aspect to this program. The fact that assuage International Concerns about possible military uses of technology that the iranians have been developing ask they have been sending inspection teams in 20 check up on all aspects of the program. China and germany is the plus one. A big group on our side. Their issues have to do with really trying to get a handle on these big visible signs that iran may be heading towards a military program. I talked about enrichment capacity and trying to get the enrichment capacity shrunk way down and looking at the heavy water reactor that they have been using to produce Nuclear Weapons. Lots of questions of those kinds. Its not a negotiation im in charge of, but it has been run by sec ter kerry has wrestled with the negotiation. And there a lot of heavy hitters trying to get progress. The big of heavy lifting is on the political side. Will they take the political decisions to bring the negotiation home. We wil
Governor, we in chicago and the council hugely appreciate your time and the opportunity to take your principles from your remarks and to have a conversation with all of us around those principles. And we are truly pleased and privileged to have the first opportunity to do so. Thank you. [applause] former defense secretary William Cohen next on cspan. Business leaders talk about the effect inovations have in the workforce. Cspan2, follow officials on violent extremists. Now, William Cohen on security challenges. He was defense secretary under clinton. Rudy good morning, and welcome to the center of American Progress for our program, a look at the future of defense, a conversation with former secretary of defense William Cohen. Last year with a turbulent one for National Security russias aggression in ukraine, extremists, boko haram, the collapse of libya, and yemen and then ebola in the pandemic crisis. Domestically, the fractious political order make tough choices on defense difficult