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sense, it s also true that lawyers for the agencies that those responders work for also play a very, very important role. and we re privileged today to have an outstanding panel of lawyers from various agencies at the federal and local level, some now in private practice, who have served in those important roles or do so today. and to give us some insights about the role of a lawyer in emergency preparedness and response. and with that i d like to introduce the panel by having them introduce themselves to you and then we ll get right into it. good afternoon, i m adrian sevier. i m the chief county of the emergency management agency. i ve been with fema for 15 years. i ve had a variety of positions at the agency starting what we called then a field attorney. so i deployed to the joint field offices that fema sets up when the president declares a major disaster or emergency. i ve held a variety of positions at fema. and again i ve been the chief council since for about a ye
house conveniences for business at 2:00 p.m. eastern. the house is expected to take up energy legislation that week. live coverage of the house of representatives is on c-span. on c-span2, the senate comes back monday at 3:00 p.m. later that day the senate begins debate on the nomination of gail smith to be administrator of the u.s. agency for international development. coming up next, a subcommittee looks at policing and the role of the civil rights division. they heard members from that division. this is about three hours. this hearing will come to order. welcome to everyone here. welcome to the witnesses in the first panel and welcome to those who have come to participate in this hearing. the purpose of this hearing is to look at the challenges facing the brave men and women of law enforcement. a great many of us have been growing more and more concerned at seeing police officers the subject of public vilification. seeing police officers being undermined and hearing fr
it and it sort of became a status symbol to know what they what they care quality and care enough about your health that you are checking your smart phone every hour to see how the numbers clocked in. this has become a very present political issue for the leadership. i think because it isn t so much about the care quality and it really is about the bargain, the underlining bargain whether the government is fulfilling its obligations to people. and you talk to people that have no interest in being overtly political because being political in china is dangerous and costly. but they don t see it as a political jester did you get interested interested as a health issue because you are worried about your kids. so i think you saw there is a reason why he earlier in the year they primarily declared a war on air pollution and that is because this is not that they woke up and decided that that is an inherent good it s because they realized that there is a fundamental political appeare
you re going to get funded. what is the chance the grant is going to get funded? it s about one in six. traditionally it has been one in three. in the cancer institute it is one in 10. it s even lower. you might say we were funding too much stuff before, and we weren t putting a tight enough filter on this. the filter is rigorous peer review by experts in the field. went back and looked. this was in heart disease research, but i imagine it s true across the board. i can 2001 we were funding a third of the grants back in 2000 when we were funding a third of the grants. does a grant in the 10th percentile turnout more productive than a grant funded in the 25th percentile? it is. viewed, so is one better than the other? what happened? peer-reviewed, so is it better than the other? there is not a difference anyone can tell between the 10th percentile and the 25th percentile. they are both great. that shows we are living have to grade science on the table right now. just at this