Use the hashtag artist places. Fire up your smart phones if you get a chance. I am mark muro, senior fellow at the metropolitan policy program and my privilege to kick off todays auspicious event. I say our event today is auspicious for several reasons. It is always auspicious to welcome and help launch a book into the world, given it is a red letter day for fred bacher whose excellent book the smartest places on earth is just out and if i do say so, rush to pick up a copy, we have some out beyond the back, on the way out please do that. Also two experienced economic observers focusing not on the standard inside the beltway with spin cycles, and at brookings, the most fundamental elements of national wellbeing, r d and stem worker advanced industries from aerospace, Regional Technology clusters, Regional Technology ecosystems, critical, that is part of their focus, and collaborations they accelerate. The fact that cities and regions themselves can become incubators of growth. They trav
Employees that looked pornography on their work computer and a third accessed child pornography at work. The Inspector General found another employee made unwelcomed advances between female. Utah congressman is chair of the House Oversight committee. Weve come to order, without objection the chair has authorized a recess at any time. Todays hearing is entitled kmming employee misconduct at the epa. Its a topic weve addressed a few times but it doesnt seem to be getting better. We will continue to highlight this as long as it takes because in my opinion the epa is one of the most toxic places in the federal government to work and if you dont get rid of the toxicity of the employees there at the epa, were doing a great disservice to this country. Most of them are good hardworking, they care, work hard, but you have some bad apples at the epa and theyre not being dealt with and not being addressed. Well look forward to talking about this. The Inspector General has done some good quality w
Research and quality has found the reduction in nursing staffing has a direct relationship to negative Patient Outcomes with regard to the treatment of their conditions. So the more resources that have to be dedicated to the nonuse of up to date technology, calls from that pool of talent that is not being directed to patient care. And i dont think thats something we want to do as a nation. My time has expired. Ia ill hand it over to mr. Nelson. Im going to defer my questions until later. I want to introduce a thought. The law says its illegal robo calls callsen cell phones. Yet consumers receive millions of those robo calls on cell phones. Can you imagine if we made it legal what would happen . Im going to defer and let our members ask their questions first. Senator blount. Im sorry, thats right. Well keep it even. Blumenthal not here. Senator mccaskill. So this is not that complicated. All you have to have is the permission of the person youre calling and call them. I mean you guys ma
I do have a couple of suggestions that you may find useful as you go out there and conquer the world. Point number 1 when you hear someone longing for the good old days, take it with a grain of salt. Take it with a grain of salt. We live in a great nation and we are rightly proud of our history. We are beneficiaries of the labor and the grit and the courage of generations who came before you. I guess its part of human nature, especially in times of change and uncertainty to want to look backwards and long for some imaginary path where everything worked and the economy hummed and all politics was wise and every child was well mannered and america did whatever it wanted around the world. Guess what . It aint so. The good old days were not all that good. Yes, there have been some stretches in our history where the economy grew much faster or when government ran more smoothly. There were moments when immediately after world war ii, for example, or the end of the cold war, when the world be
Allegations. Theres also testimony from the assistant epa Inspector General, who spoke about some of policy changes that were being and lamented. This hang was held by the House Oversight committee. His just under two hours. The chairs authorize to the current recession anytime. Todays hearing is entitled examining appointment misconduct and epa. Weve addressed this a few times. It doesnt seem to be getting better. We will continue to highlight this as long as a tank. In my opinion, the epa is one of the most toxic places in the feller government tort. If you dont get rid of the employees, wee are doing a great disservice to this country. Most of them are good, hard working people. You have some bad apples at the epa, and they are not being dealt with. They are not being addressed. I look for to talking about this. The Inspector General has done some good, quality work. He and his team. Will continue to do this until the epa has taken care of the problem. Today, the committee is explor