We take you live now to the house science, space, Technology Committee hearing featuring epa administrator Michael Regan. The hearing will review the Environmental Protection Agency Science and technical activities and their use he will order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. Before my Opening Statement i would also like to request unanimous consent to submit chairman lucas stopped Opening Statement to the bracket. I recognize myself for five minutes for Opening Statement. I would like to welcome everyone to this mornings hearing, science and technology at the Environmental Protection agency. Im pleased to welcome epa administrator Michael Regan for the first time in front of the Science Committee. In fact it is the first time any epa administrator has testified since 2019 and we have a lot to discuss. Thank you for coming. I appreciate you joining us today. I have to say her testimony was sent to the committee unacceptably la
The hearing is just under three hours. Committee on health, education, labor and pensions, and the appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, human services, appropriations will come to order. In march of this year, Public Health officials reported an outbreak of ebola virus in guinea. Unlike past Ebola Outbreaks that it have been efficiently and effect if there stopped, this outbreak has spread in ways that are potentially catastrophic for the world. Due to the gravity of the situation, the danger poses not only to the affected region but also to our country, i have taken the unusual step of calling together this joint hearing of both the authorizing committee i chair and the appropriations subcommittee which funds it, which i also chair. We have come togetherred to to learn what can so we can Work Together over the coming weeks to stop this daysly plague. The extent of this epidemic is tragic and grows more serious with each passing day. The death toll is already far greater than
Committee on health, education, labor and pensions, and the appropriations subcommittee on labor, health, human services, appropriations will come to order. In march of this year, Public Health officials reported an outbreak of ebola virus in guinea. Unlike past Ebola Outbreaks that it have been efficiently and effect if there stopped, this outbreak has spread in ways that are potentially catastrophic for the world. Due to the gravity of the situation, the danger poses not only to the affected region but also to our country, i have taken the unusual step of calling together this joint hearing of both the authorizing committee i chair and the appropriations subcommittee which funds it, which i also chair. We have come togetherred to to learn what can so we can Work Together over the coming weeks to stop this daysly plague. The extent of this epidemic is tragic and grows more serious with each passing day. The death toll is already far greater than all other previous Ebola Outbreaks comb
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And challenges to the fed independence and its a topic that many of the audience members are working on. Where do you think the greatest threat to Central Bank Independence comes from . Is it from the innovative policies on the macro prudential side and the dealing of Financial Institutions or aggregate Financial Sector or innovative policies on what i call the Monetary Policy side dealing with the stimulustype role. That is a political question and im not sure i can do it justice. Let me just say a preliminary thing, i dont think the central bank should be equally independent in all of its functions. There are good reasons to have independence in Monetary Policy making subject to a mandate or subject to objectives set by the Democratic Parliament or legislature and we understand those reasons having to do with avoiding shortrun political intervention in Monetary Policy and the like. But in many of its other activities, for example, as a bank regulator, while we believe Bank Regulators