This i wont do it here. Normally, i would ask you to raise your hands. Do feel that with respect to yourself, your family, your pets, your community . How many of you raise your hand how many of you feel prepared for a major disaster in your community . How many . Ive spoken to all kinds of audiences you if i get more than two or three hands i test them. Who is taking care of your mom in the nursing home . What are you doing with important papers . What is happening . Yes, you could follow the guidelines with food and water. Nice job. [laughter] if you cannot define it, how can you fund it . Lets put that aside. Lets say it is lingering out there. The first is, the federal system we live under. In many ways that serves our country and our people very well. The point is that decision is decentralized. By design, the government decision is made by levels of government as close as possible to the people being served. It is a fundamental tenet of our society. The problem is it doesnt work
Founded just north of us here in tulsa, in berlin bartlesville oklahoma. It became the headquarters of phillips 66. And you still see the phillips 66 shield today. It has become esther lee are too many people out here as a coke bottle it has become as familiar to many people out here as a coke bottle. He was part of that flamboyant loyal fraternity that came out of the late 19th century into the 20th century and flourished. These were men, a very macho industry, who had solidly goes. They were very sure of themselves. That was very important. But he was human. That is all part of the story the good, the bad, and the ugly. He was many things, but always first and foremost, an auto man. Watched all of our events from tulsa today at noon eastern on cspan two on cspan2s book tv. Collects the blueribbon study panel on bio defense held meeting this week on biological and chemical threat preparedness. The cap the panel is considering changes to u. S. Policy and laws that would strengthen Nati
Compounding center or necc. I want to accept and my deepest condolences to anyone who has lost a loved one in this tragedy. Thirtytwo people have died. Including three with in my congressional district, one of the persons who lived right up the street from me. Well over 400 people have been sickened for making this one of the worst Public Health disasters ever caused by a contaminated drug. Before this outbreak, with the fda had conducted three separate inductions of inspections with necc. But history is even more expensive with necc, involving at least 12 separate complaints involving necc or its pharmacists. Since necc opened in 1998, over the course of these inspections, regulators noted the same kinds of problems at issue in the current outbreak. Problems with serialization and in violation of its own license. Back in 2002, several adverse events were reported to fda involving patients who had received steroid injections made by the necc. Fda followed up and inspected it. Just six
Globally, countries, the United States has had the capability, and even in this period of time, but secondly, it is the United States that has taken the responsibility and stepped forward. I cannot point to another country that has been willing to take that responsibility. Having said that, david refers to how we are modifying some of our approaches in dealing with that response ability in maybe a more costeffective way. But also, having said that, i would argue that i think there is going to be a big debate over this issue because there are many different ways of advancing strategic interests. Let me with that go to the first question on diplomacy, development and defense. I think any of you may know and certainly our members of congress here would get the question from many americans, they think there is an extraordinary sizable amount of foreign aid we spend abroad, when the fact is it is less than 1 . That investment is a form of leadership. It is an investment in safeguarding othe
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