Milk producers would be happy to abide. Others would as well. We are a whole lot closer. Potatoes and beans and a whole range of things are available. Apples seem to be a delicacy at christmas time. I said, we can give you christmas every day. We have a lot of opportunities. Let me ask undersecretary scuse. There is an expression that says, the first step to achieving success is showing up. I think that is really true on trade. Also, our ability to market. You mentioned the Market Access program and the other tools at the department of agriculture. I wonder if you might speak more to what how would you envision the usdas programs going forward, creating opportunities and tools for american agriculture . Mr. Scuse again, if we were allowed to use our Marketing Programs, such as our Market Access program, it is an area where we work with operators to go in, to do the trade missions, to look at ways to develop markets and what the actual needs are through the market assistance program. He
Value of exports is far less than that in roughly 2950 million. U. S. Exporters see a tremendous market in cuba by the authorizations they seek from us though currently they only export a small fraction of that. Those exports go through the cuban import agency. So thrs no changes in our regulations on exports to cuba because thats limitted by the trade sanctions. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman thank you for your statement. Our next witness, johnny smith acting director, office of foreign assets control, the department of treasury. Mr. Smith serves as acting director of the department of Treasury Department of foreign assets. Control or opac is mr. Smiths acronym for which he works which is tasked with administrating economic trade sanctions to advance u. S. National security and Foreign Policy goals. Prior to joining opac he served as expert to the United Nations taliban and sanctions committee. As a Trial Attorney at the u. S. Department of justice. Welcome to your new job. Tha
Suggestions for early career scientists. How should we keep moving forward in these next couple of years . It is going to remain tough, even if we reach some sort of a deal. Are the voice that i am most concerned about. I am glad you are moving in science policy. We need expertise there. Many people in your situation would like to continue to do research and are finding it challenging to identify the path forward for them to do so. Nih, were doing everything we can to provide that kind of support. We are increasing the grants that are a bridge between a postdoctoral fellowship and an independent faculty position. We are making it possible for individuals that come in for their first nih Grant Application to only compete against each other instead of the established investigators that may have more of a track record. Trying to give firsttime investigators a leg up. Thatl have to recognize while this is a historic downturn, the case for nih support is so strong, support for nih is so str
Offer of help. The instituted that focuses on iabetes is the called the ational institute of diabetes, digestive disease. If you go to the web, im sure home page be on their for niddk an opportunity to send in a query. Please do. That your story sounds interesting indeed. Conclude on one final point because youve discussed the cutbacks youve because of sequestration. What about private medical research . Where is that president obama stph who is it and how does that impact what you do at nih . We depend on partnerships with private foundations swells industry. Ate this is an ecosystem where all he participants need to be fiftying usually healthy for the whole thing to work. Work ms of foundations we with many of those who are focused on particular diseases. Nih and s was here at we had an interesting day we overing new ways that we can together on h. I. V. Aids and ask a wide area of other things and certainly with the private sector if were going to success in developing new treatment
The major sticking points remain the same, Congressional Democrats want to raise taxes on the highest income earners while keeping the current lower tax rates in place for the middle class. Republicans want to extend tax breaks at all levels. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. We are going to be talking about the fiscal cliff, the statements the House Speaker made about being a stalemate and what the president said during his trip to a toy factory in pennsylvania. Here are the numbers. You can also reach out to us by email and twitter and facebook, all of the social media as. On twitter the addresses cspanwj, facebook. Com cspan. More from the article by jake sherman with the headline fiscal cliff. He writes lets go to the phones. The first call comes from debbie in flint, mich. On the line for democrats. Caller i think they need to pass a law that these guys did not get paid. If i go to work and did not do my job, they will not pay me. They have not done their jobs in the