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And so hopefully its obvious to everyone here this 30 billion the 80 billion are deeply intertwined. In order for the private sector to make those investments there has to be raw material coming out of the basic research. Weve talked a lot about that. In order for that investment in basic research to create new cures, it has to be that investment in private sector r d to develop those scientific discoveries into cures for patients. So talking about that 80 billion is important and its also the benefit of not being quite zerosum game that we have to come up with government funding in order to solve the problem. In order to enhance that investment, that 80 billion which hopefully is obvious if that goes up, all other things being equal will get more cures and more treatments coming out the other and. Well be saving more lives. We will be saving more lives. Including in china. And creating more jobs in this country as well as saving more lives. If that goes down 10 of course the opposite ....
Or working with darpa as we are doing and with fda on this toxicity chip. Working on the brain initiative, a new effort which isugoing to be focused between nih and nsf and darpa and a number of private industries and philanthropies trying to make sure these kind of interdisciplinary efforts that jim was talking about are tapped into in every way. We are always looking at that. We are even looking at our peer review system to ask whether while we claim its the best in the world, are we sure about that . And are we sure our peer review system is reflecting the scientific opportunities of 2014 and not some earlier stage, and do we these to rethink about the way in which those peer review panels are established as far as what disciplines they represent. And we have the tools now with various kinds of text mining to really look and see what is going on in science that we might want to make adjustments for. So were pretty bullish about that. Another thing we are doing, again, this reflects ....
Host and on the leadership side, who are the ones to watch . Guest we have a woman on the Budget Committee and of course, nancy pelosi on the house side. As you mentioned earlier, the new congressman from phoenix, ariz. , when she was growing up, she lived in such poverty that her family lived in an abandoned gas station for two years with no electric anything. By the way, this she is in her 30s. This was not 60 years ago. This was 30 years ago. These are some folks who have been through some life experiences. They know what people are going through. Get some solutions and that means getting our economic house in order and giving opportunity for folks to succeed in this country. Host in virginia, good morning. Caller good morning. I understand that your goal is to increase the number of women in government, but i have problems squaring up with not a a supporting republican women or women who are not prochoice. Are you quitting m ....