[ banging gavel ] this hearing will come to order. Good morning. We are meeting today to consider the nomination of kirstjen m. Nielsen to be the next secretary of the United States in Homeland Security. I want to thank her, her family. Our senators making introductions later on. I certainly want to call out mrs. Karen kelly, general kellys wife. Shes here also. Showing her support for the nominee. And i know ms. Nielsen will introduce her family in her Opening Statement. Americas facing enormous challenges. Our National Debt exceeds 20 trillion and theres no serious effort being made by either party to significantly reduce the 30year projected deficits that are currently expected to exceed over 100 trillion. Our enemies are on the rise. Russia continues to destabilize its neighbors and is partnering with iran to increase both countries influence in the middle east. The Iranian Nuclear agreement did modify irans behavior. For the worse. North Korea Remains determined to develop the cap
So heres the private sector given the money after arduous work to create a contemporary matter. That was one. The very day before sequestered they announced they had lowered cancer rates in this country 12 . Instead of pinning medals on people we were getting ready to hand out pink slips. I dont think thats the right way to govern. Thank you, senator mikulski. Senator isakson. Thank you mr. Chairman. This is my first time publicly to be able to acknowledge the great contribution of senator mikulski to Public Health in america enter service. I just want to publicly thank her for all shes done. Its a pleasure to serve with you on this committee. [inaudible] dr. Hamburg, i dont want to be putting on but senator burr is right on target. This is a long lead up to the question and i apologize for that but its a very important question that needs to be answered. You made a reference in your statement that some blame the lack of investment in biotechnology on the fda and you refuted that. But
System and the industries that are so much part of the United States economy. Thank you for doing that. And i apologize, mr. Chairman, for going so far over my time. No thats fine. Senator murray do you have any closing remarks. Dr. Murray, well stated. Thank you for both of your testimony. This was a good hearing. Senator alexander, i look forward to working with you on that. Thank you. And dr. Collins, do you know off hand, you mentioned the success rate has declined over the years. What about the absolute number of grants . Has that gone up . The absolute number of grants that we fund versus that we receive. It has bounced around, it was 10,000 30 years ago it was id have to get you the number. I was trying to compare that to the success rate. But the biomedical community has grown. It would be interested to see that. Thank you to both of you. Thank you for being here. Very important that you were here and we thank you for your six years of service at fda. And i hope youll accept ou
Can happen regularly. If an officer will come in and say im not concerned about whether you filled tout the form. I think there might be a prostitute in room 3 and use it for criminal law. Mr. Goldstein, i thought an equally important purpose behind this law is, as you said earlier, prevent harassment. I dont like this hotel owner. I want to drive this hotel out of business. Im going to be showing number his lobby every day. Thats part of whats going on here, right . In fact the principal thing this courts precedence has pointed to look whats missing in this ordinance. Every time they say we identify specifically the records. The question isnt what the records are. Its the loss of sense of tranquility provided by the Fourth Amendment. We dont know how frequently and harassing purpose and what reasons at all if Police Officer will come in over and over again. Have we used that phrase before . Which one . Tranquility . I dont think that word is. Talk about privacy and all that. Im not su
Research tract faculty. There are jobs in industry, journalist, many where needed and we want to be sure people find the right match for themselves. We have started new programs, an early independence award which im excited about which allows a talented phd to skip the post doc and go to an independent position. I go to the presentations each year and its the most exciting day of the year because of their vision and their ideas. Similarly we have this new award where you cant apply if youve previously had a grant and your valentines day has to be out of the box, a little wacky for you to be allowed to apply for that proposal mechanism. And when we look at the output it has been truly impressive. All that is great but of course it doesnt solve the main problem we have which is this loss in purchasing power for research. We can try to balance things as best we can, protect those young investigators. We can only go so far. I appreciate that. And resources are obviously key to this as well