chairman for his tireless efforts on behalf of the weekend vulnerable. week and vulnerable. i like to thank my good friend for pulling today s hearing together amid the escalating outbreak of ebola across west africa, countries including liberia, sierra leone, guinea, and now nigeria. although i am not a member of the foreign relations committee, i do serve on the state and foreign operations appropriations subcommittee which funds the state department and foreign aid programs. i would also say to the witnesses that if you need extra money, ask for reprogramming. you should not wait for september, october you should ask for it immediately and him confident the appropriate committees will allow it. but if there is any doubt, there should be request for reprogramming. the current ebola epidemic has claimed over 900 people. it was detected earlier this year and is proving to be the world s worst outbreak of the virus ever recorded. it now appears this alarming, contagious
or was discovered in 1976 and has killed 90% of its victims in some past outbreaks. since march of this year, there have been more than 1700 cases of ebola, including more than 900 fatalities in guinea, liberia, sierra leone, and nigeria. this time, the average fertility rate in this outbreak is fromated at 55%, ranging 74% in guinea 242% in sierra leone. ratessparity in mortality are partially linked to the capacity of governments to treat and contain the disease and capita health expending by effective governments. there is also concern giving given modern air travel and the latency time of the disease that the virus will jump borders and threat lies elsewhere in africa and even here in the united states. ,n my own state of new jersey and a hospital just a few hundred yards from my district office, precautions were taken. a person who had traveled from west africa begin manifesting symptoms including a high fever. he was put in isolation. thankfully it was not ebola and t
we are glad it s over. i think i know why. there are so many voters in our primary. one, the people of tennessee to the governor how proud they are of his hard work, and i want to congratulate him. [applause] secondly, those who voted in the republican primary wanted to send a different redge, that we re not happy, that we re disappointed with the direction of our country, and we re hopeful of having a new republican majority in the nited states senate. there was another message in this primary tonight. in a large primary, in one of the most conservative states in the country, tennessee voters nominated a get it done republican governor and a get it done republican senator. let me tell you what i mean by that. what i mean is that both governor haslem and i are conservative republicans. both of us know when we finish our speech, we re not done. in fact, we ought to just be starting to work together with others and try to solve the problems that face our country. that s h
estimated 280,000 of our residents are going to be 65 and older. you said a couple years ago that the answer to saving medicare was obamacare. rocky rollout, highly unpopular. the one thing that we have not enforced is the provision of obamacare that is 3601, and that is the statement that says any savings that is generated from medicare shall be reinvested into medicare and shall go to the reduction of premiums for the elderly and also for the provision of service. if you remember the election both mitt romney and president obama agreed to was there was a 700 billion savings attributed to medicare. but what happened to that money? people tend to put it into deficit reduction versus what it was intended to. so on the specific issue of medicare if we can hold people s feet to the fire and make them follow the law yes the savings will then keep medicare alive. how do we do that? the $700 billion instead of looking at it for deficit reduction, if they followed the law the
states that will fully repeal the obama health law. a president who will reign in the power and cost and size of this behemoth federal government. we should eliminate the department of energy, environmental protection, education, and most importantly, let s get rid of the department of the interior. the land belongs to us not the federal government. that s right. and we will elect a president that takes seriously his or her oath to defend the constitution of the united states, the greatest document created by mankind. the fight of our lifetimes. this is a fight we must win because you and i know one thing for sure. freedom isn t free. it s up to you and me. thank you. thank you. we can do this. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you so much. recentr today, a discussion with the former secretary of state, madeleine albright, and condoleezza rice, along with robert gates. russialk about u.s. and relations another foreign-policy issues, including ukraine, iraq, a