Need of the Financial Assistance to us. I appreciate your answers. We are ready and willing to do whatever we can from the side of the capital to be helpful in your efforts there. Thank you. Thank you, senator menend. How much i appreciate your accessibility, your willingness to work to solve problems. Appreciate everything youve done for us. Youre on the Moon Shot Task force for cancer cures. I am. Ive got a homework assignment. The Surgeon General in 2014 said skin cancer was the fastest killing cancer of all cancers. As one who survived two melanomas in my life, i took that on as a call to action. And found out there was a 13 year backlog of ingredients submitted to fda approval in sunscreen that had been delayed. So we passed the sunscreen innovation act out of the Health Education labor committee. 14 months later, none of those ingredients have been approved. Nothing has moved forward. As one to quote the president , hes asked you to identify and address any unnecessary barriers.
Mr. President , honored guests, its a great honor for me to be here this evening with all of you. Some of you may recognize me from television, but most of you probably recognize my voice and not my face from National Public radio. We are assembled here at the embassy of israel in washington, d. C. To award medals and certificates of honor of the righteous among the nations to the late Master Sergeant Roddy Edmunds and to the late valerie sveski of poland who risked their lives to rescue jews. The Holocaust Remembrance Authority was created by the state of israel in order to gather all information about the holocaust to commemorate, document, preserve, research and educate. When it was established, the jewish people did not forget the nonjews who stood by their side in it the darkest hours of history, struggling with the enormity of the loss and grappling with the impact of the total abandonment and betrayal of europes jews, the state of israel made a point of remembering the rescuers.
That they currently exist in, were just going to have weaker product delivered later. I think we need to have some reform as the next round. And i think theres enormous potential there, not just in the military departments but between the military departments and osd, within osd, and further out into the headquarters in the field. Well, i thank you for that. And you are uniquely situated now to play a key role. And i agree with you. Just flatout reductions is just the first step. You have to its a little bit like sequestration in that its a meat ax when we need a scalpel and so i would look forward to having you play a role there given your unique background. Finally, the source of great frustration this committee, all of us members, is this continued cost overruns on weapons systems. Weve made some reforms. Were putting the Service Chiefs more involved. You are aware. But it still seems to go on. And every time we really need something, we use that expedited process, which we used for
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In 2000, Rabbi Marvin Hier held a dinner in Los Angeles for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the anti-Semitism monitor and Jewish advocacy group he leads. As the evening drew to a close, Hier handed out baseball caps with “Winnick Institute” written on the front: the name of the tolerance museum the SWC was planning in Jerusalem’s French Hill neighborhood.
Unlike the Los Angeles Tolerance Museum, Hier said, the Jerusalem one would not touch on the Holocaust, but would look to the future.
“In the 20th century, the biggest issue was the external threat,” Hier told the Los Angeles Times at the time. “There were wars, there was the Holocaust. But most historians and philosophers think that in the 21st century, the most important question will be: ‘Can we live with each other?’ The Winnick Institute Jerusalem will focus on the great internal question.”