My career as a political scientist. And this has been amongst if not the most satisfying intellectually to work with john and work with all the authors who are all crs analysts and experts who in addition to their regular duties i want to emphasize that in addition to answering the requests that come in from members of congress and their staffs, in addition to that sat down and found the time oftentimes outside of regular work hours on the weekends and in the evenings to write these very insightful chapters. And i think its im very proud to be part of the institution of the Congressional Research service at the library of congress, also a terrific institution. And were very happy every day coming to work to help serve members of congress and with the goal of an informed national legislature. So as long as were we continue to be funded, as long as Congress Wants us to be there and help them, well keep showing up for work. And producing hopefully more documents like the one we produced f
That abortion ruined think chanf me giving birth. As a result, ive had five miscarriages. Three of them have been tubal pregnancies requiring emergency surgery and were very near death experiences. I have suffered from bouts of depression and attempted suicide, selfmutilation. My experience of Emotional Trauma after abortion is the same as millions of other women and their families. I havebe 317 statements i are 317 statements, each as powerful as that in terms of the human consequences of what this legislation would produce. Thank you, mr. Chair. Thank you. Ms. Northrup, would this legislation prohibit the use of ultrasound when a patient requests them . Oh, no, not at all. This law, again, is just very focused on those underhanded type of restrictions that are treating abortion not like similarlysituated medical practices that dont advance health and safety and are harming access to services. Ins sense, it would be irrelevant to the instance that senate be cruz has just described. Ye
That said we really want to take a chunk of the i]budget, go over it and see whether we could do ataq things more effectively whether we could do emphasize some priorities better. I dont think you could do the owhole budget. You certainly couldnt do it every other year. ut you could set up a mechanism the budget say every three years or five years to see if the money could be spent better and the priorities were what congress reallyco wanted them to be. Bob . Can i just ask you a quick question . So is what alice describes on the domestic side, is the military really any different . Isnt there a certain amount of the air force, the navy, the marines, everybody has to get their share of the cuts . Broadly, the budget shares havent changed a lot. Thats a fair statement. Within those shares theyve changed a lot. Let me try to respond. First off i think its way too harsh that suggest that ovq all only 1 of Government Spending has any effect. I will offer just a couple examples. One obvious
Is so key, i would like you in your very eloquent way explain to us why certainty is so critical. And if you didnt have the certainty of this federal bill, how it could impact you back home. Again, i know its repetitious, but its important. Thats the message i would like to see go out of this hearing. Again, let me say, i think certainty is the most important thing that we have to deal with. And over the last five or six years, we have not had that certainty obviously. And so we need it to plan. I mean if we dont have we need five six, ten years whatever the number of years that you decide, we just need to know what those are and we need to plan accordingly. And, this program that i have put in place and was able to actually put in place without legislation because the people of alabama had allowed us to borrow the garvey bonds. So were using future federal dollars. And so the certainty is so important for me because i signed a billion dollars in bonds and i want to make sure we pay it
Has only 40 inspectors. West virginia has 56,000 active wells and as of 2011 just 20 inspectors. Pollution of Drinking Water whether from fracking or flawed construction of the well, or from surface waste from the site moving into aquifers has occurred 248 times between 2008 and 2014 in pennsylvania. We actually do not know how many incidents in total there have been because the state did not start collecting statistics on incidents until 2014. If we had more transparency, more accountable and more oversight, local communities would be able to make well wellinformed choices. However, building an oversight hearing around Public Relations campaigns to dismiss those concerns of local communities not only does a disservice to members of this committee, it also does nothing to increase the trust of the fracking industry in those communities. In closing, i would argue that it is not some hypocritical Smear Campaign by. The federal government, but rather repeated attacks against epa and campa