Defenses. The first session for the evening is from pete and joyce giving Public Sector perspective on this topic. Pete was former cto for department of energy, currently a member of icit gala board and ceo of doths and bridges. Joyce Hunter Deputy cio policy and planning for u. S. Department of agriculture. So please help me welcome our first speakers. Great, thanks, parham. I appreciate the chance to be here. Two villanova grads, if youre wondering what the v stand for, pretty excited, it was a good year for us. Again, im only about nine, nine and a half, ten months removed from the federal government. Whats most exciting after 25 years and spending the last 7 1 2 or so at the department of energy was the opportunity to sort of take what i was doing in my role there. That was working inarguably the members us of the critical sectors, the 16 we know exist today but also on this panel or this conversation were going to talk a bit about how joyce at the usda and department of energy, co
It. To me its going to be really fun. Im going to be here a lot. Im going to be here so much in the next two weeks youre going to be sick of me. Youre going to say oh i cant stand him. I dont want to see him anymore. Trump is treating people in urbandale to a free movie while hes in town. He rented carmike cobblestone 9 theater on 86th street to show 13 hours the secret soldiers of benghazi tonight at 6. The movie depicts the terrorist raid on the Us Diplomatic compound. South carolina senator and former gop president ial candidate Lindsey Graham announced who has his vote for president. I have concluded without any hesitation without any doubt that jeb bush is ready on day one to be a commander in chief worthy of the sacrifices of the one percent who have been fighting this war. Last night, he said, i will have their graham dropped his bid for the presidency back in december after failing to gain traction in the race, but vowed to lend his campaigning efforts to another candidate. Dur
Thought about todays hearing as it relates to cdc, it is this. With the recent incidents, we recognize the pattern at cdc where we need to greatly improve the culture of safety and i am overseeing sweeping measures to improve that culture of safety. Cdc works 24 7 and our scientists protect americans from threats, including naturally occurring threats like ebola and mers and drug resistant bacteria such as anthrax. But we must do that work more safely and we will. Theres a recap of the recent incidents that summarized in our report which has been completed and were just at the outset of our investigation of the influenza contamination. Id be pleased to go through the two diagrams weve provided to the subcommittee which outlined what we know to date. But in brief, the anthrax incident shows deeply troubling problems. A lack of proper protocol, incorrect inactivation procedures. Failure to ensure that we were transferring materials that were sterile when we thought they were sterile. Use
Political participation as two of his principles while at the same time the president has kept afghanistans first lady hidden from the eyes of the world for the most part. Do you think he fears that its going to ignite the same protests and reactions from the tribal leaders in the conservative sections of the society . I will answer in the following way. The best solution would have been if the afghans could have solved this themselves. Clear in his immigration speech in 2009, karzai said i want to organize the process. That was after the interference trying to unseat him at the time. Now that didnt work. That didnt work and, therefore, i believe that the visit by john kerry. I admire and respect the fact that he went there, sat down and came to what for me is im going to say the only obvious solution when it comes to the counting. If you disagree on how much to count, count it all, huh . But kerrys handson diplomacy in this respect is admirable. I think its admirable. In 2009 when he
And good morning. You the subcommittee today and him and him and the subcommittee today examines the center for Disease Control anthrax incident last month that potentially exposed dozens of from you potentially exposed dozens of researchers to live and you and anthrax because established cdc policies were not followed. You last friday, the director and you and you announced corrective actions being taken. Are you corrective actions being taken. The review identified a fundamental flaw the agency had no written plan to ensure the safety of workers and proper handling of live biological you agents. The department of agriculture agriculturetment of the disinfectant they used was expired. This is troubling, and completely unacceptable. The center for Disease Control is supposed to be the Gold Standard of the u. S. Public health system, and it has been tarnished. We rely on cdc to protect us, but the recent anthrax event and incidents have raised serious questions about the cdc ability to