Agencies as well. This is our first hearing on the president s fiscal year 2021 budget request. However, i want to start with a matter of urgency. The coronavirus, covert 19, cases are growing as is alarm, this is both domestically and internationally. The u. S. Government has responded to the covert 19 outbreak with aggressive measures, significant travel restrictions, mandatory 14day quarantine for individuals returning to the u. S. From province. Mr. Secretary, i support your declaration of a Public Health emergency, we are dealing with the likelihood of a global pandemic, interesting to note yesterday from the cdc that commented that with regard to the United States its not a question of if but a question of when we will face the issue seriously here. That said, i have serious concerns about the administrations responsiveness with respect to funding, i understand senators of both parties expressed a similar concern to you at their hearing yesterday. I have repeatedly asked for info
Governor advocating on behalf of the people. Were sitting in the first studio of frank lloyd wright. Wright was actually born in Richland Center in wisconsin which is not too far from here. And he was, his family took him first to massachusetts for a time, and then they returned to madison. And he grew up in madison, spent his teenage years there and attended some of, very briefly, a few years, at the university of wisconsin before he decided to take off and find his fortune in chicago. Decided he should come out to this part of the country which is where her family was, the lloyd jones, welsh pioneers, and spent his summers here. So he spent his teenage summers in this valley and on these hills, and thats where he got two things. He got his love of nature and his understanding of nature, and he also got his understanding of the topography of these hills. Watch all of our events from madison saturday at noon eastern on cspan2s booktv and sunday afternoon at two on American History tv o
Because the matching is really a big deal. Its going to help them save money and i its going to help them get a better quality outcome. Very much so. Youre going to have to get that data down in such a way its more consumer global so people make the right choices. Sometimes you get, present us with the best choice but to cant drive us there. Thats a big chunk. Thats something that employees are also a bit concerned about is privacy as well, as we get more data and start using it more as the nsa incident has shown. Were all very vulnerable having that data out there. I would like to follow up on the point youre making. When you think about quality and cost, the two are related and if are going to attack the underlying challenges of making health care both affordable and high in quality you cant just took out the health care level. Have to go down to what hospitals and doctors are doing. We are seeing some encouraging results. One of our ncos, their physicians have understood the economi
The ambassador wants a bigger latrine in his office, or we want 50 consular windows instead of five. That changes all the time. I mean, we saw it here today. It changed with Papua New Guinea. You had a plan to do something, all of a sudden the department says, no, we need more, for whatever reason. Theres right sizing that goes on constantly within the department. Theres the muchpublicized but im not sure how much its occurring, the pivot to asia. What does that mean for those embassies in asia . More people. Well, you know, five years from now it might be a pivot somewhere else. I dont know that were ever going to reach the perfect solution to say that we could build something thats good today and it will be good even ten years from now. Thank you. And mr. Chairman, i think the point that your research and what water hearing today is all about is that as you standardize and drive down the cost per square foot, the ability to build that few extra square feet and the flexibility is inhe
And a discussion about mexico opening its oil and gas industry to foreign investment. At a House Budget Committee hearing advocates for the poor discussed what governments and charities are doing to raise people out of poverty and how they can be more economically selfsufficient. Congressman paul ryan of wisconsin chairs this two hour hearing. Committee will come to order. A number of our members on our side aisle will be a little late our conference is still ongoing but in the interest of time i want to get started. Welcome everybody. Good to see you. A great full capacity crowd. This is our fifth hearing on the war on poverty. Over the past year weve heard from a number of voice, policy voices, Community Groups and today well hear from people in the middle. People in the privatesector who work with the Public Sector. People who coordinate state programs with private charity. Were also going to hear from an especially important voice, miss tianna gainesturner. I was happy to meet tian