Todays conversation comes at a very crucial time for afghanistan, afghanistan sits at a very key Inflection Point with peace negotiations currently ongoing between the taliban and the afghan government, though these talks give hope for an inch of decades of war in afghanistan, they also do raise certain concerns, it is truly vital that we remain vigilant in protecting the goals and gains that have been made on behalf of women and girls rights in afghanistan as well as those marginalized voices more generally, and the last two decades particularly as the negotiations have been underway the peace talks represent a major opportunity to really ensure that these gains are cemented. Id like to mention that back in september when these talks began and got underway, at the time initiated by former secretary of state madeleine albright, the Atlantic Council of the advisory board, she initiated a statement, over 100 former heads of states, prime ministers, Foreign Ministers among many others iss
Thank you for his service to you and country. Lord, were also grateful for all of our military men and women who back their words with courageous deeds. In this season that brings tidings of a coming dawn, guide our lawmakers through the darkness that precedes the breaking of day. You have guided this nation through stormy places, and we have felt the winds and have been tossed by troubled seas. May our senators, amid the tumult, hear the whisper of your promise to never forsake us. Remind us of lifes brevity so that we will number our days and have hearts of wisdom. We pray in your marvelous name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington d. C. , december 15, 2014. To th
Ask unanimous consent the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Barrasso thank you, mr. President. Mr. President , i rise today to oppose the nomination of dr. Dr. Vivek murthy to be Surgeon General of the United States. Surgeon general is known as americas doctor. Americans have Great Respect for this important position. They expect their Surgeon General to be someone who has substantial experience in helping patients, helping them improve their health and in helping them reduce their risk of illness and injury. This important position has been vacant since july of 2013, so about a year and a half. Its far too long, and its been completely avoidable. Now, we have seen how the Obama Administration has struggled in response to Important Health issues like the ebola crisis. America should have had an experienced doctor in the job as Surgeon General to lead our fight against ebola. And to take on other Serious Health challenges as well. Dr. Murthy is a smar
When we are doing automatic adjustments . With that said i think it would be an improvement however we did it so if we to indexing when it came to when it came to individual parameters that would make sense as well. One thing i would notice we should be sure to index both the benefit side and the revenue side as in fact Peter Diamond suggests. To be critical of such an automatic mechanism would not simply be solvency. Our Current System would probably be made solvent. Congress will just get around to it later and focus changes on later generations. So the idea here is to spread the adjustment of properly and especially to share risk across generations but i also dont mean to suggest this is the way we will get to solvency from where we are today. Right now congress and the president do need to agree eventually a compromise. The point is we can build on these kinds of mechanisms and to compromise legislation so as to preserve the dealer has made an spread risks across generations rather
Against most cancers. There are many viruses being utilized to try to take advantage of differences in cancer cells versus normal cells , that viruses may replicate in cancer cells versus not replicating. This provides opportunities to really disrupt those cancer cells and lead to death of the , but as francis mentioned, this is not as effective as one would imagine on the basis of that particular approach and paradigm. However, those viruses that are new antigens, when combined with immune modulation may provide significant opportunities to train the immune system to recognize not only viral particles but bystander mutations that are occurring in the cancer cell, so it may really prime the immune system further. There is exciting work going on with a particular engineered virus and brain cancer, which is showing impressive result that of patients. We need to understand why some patients are responding versus not. Those are exciting opportunities. I think that estimate is going to need