this is and as triathletes is that i have tissues anyway he sp from now at this anonymous cells are going to tell you about a person, no one can imagine that. but also just beyond that, there s a sticker issue of just people want to know what s being done with their dna and tissue there have been lawsuits over this and i talked to a lot of people involved in across-the-board this is the same thing, which is what the lacks family says as well. if they asked us, we would ve said yes. don t want to inhibit science. people understand this is important research. is that after the fact that this has been done with the tissues they don t have know about, they re being commercialized,, that s that they get angry and start yelling like something that is going on. the macarthur other henrietta lacks out there? in a lot of ways there s billions of them, we just don t know what their names are, what their stories are. one of the interesting things that happened since the book came out
thank you for being here. thank you mr. chairman. thank you for the patients. thank you mr. chairman and members. i have one amendment that has to do with comparative effectiveness. mr. chairman and members, i believe the american people have made it very clear that they do not support this health care proposal. among the many concerns they have faced one of the most serious is that a major expansion of the federal government s role in health care will inevitably lead to rationing. i would ask that the house has the opportunity to vote on my amendment members of congress can say whether they agree with the american people that the government should not be in the business of denying access to lifesaving medical treatments the senate bill contains a new initiative providing federal funding for comparative effectiveness research. while this research can be beneficial by providing patients and doctors with better information about which drugs and treatments work best it can
in their book, a day late and a dollar short , two former bureau chiefs for the washington post examine the progress toward the goal of achieving a post-racial america. busboys and poets here in washington, d.c., is the host of this hour 10-minute event. okay. my name is terry michael. i m director of the washington center for politics and journalism, which is very pleased to cosponsor this event tonight. i have the honor of having brought robert pierre to washington under the politics and journalism semester program he was in the very first inaugural class in the fall of 1989. we re now in our 22nd year with about 500 alumni. and robert actually represents all of our alumni on our operating board of directors. he joins a number of others to the board of directors of the center. robert came to our program from louisiana state university. he was a junior. and he went back to school and edited the school paper and then for a while he thought about getting a masters in bu