fourr 66 hours in a warm incubator room, the in activation process continues.hat remains can only do good. provide humans from protection from paralytic polio. a chapter ends. the enemy of man is now ready to become his servant. at every step of the way, checks and double checks. this technician is working on a tissue culture safety test double checking the complete inactivation of the virus. four such tissue tests are conducted on every batch of vaccine. behind this door, the final phase of production. it calls for a giant tank, into it will go the three different types of inactivated polio solution, combined for the first time. the solutions are filtered into the pooling tank and twice later. additional chemicals complete and preserve the vaccine. then the preparation is mixed for five hours. at the end of that time, the polio vaccine is complete. but testing is not. two animal tests are performed. one on white mice injected with vaccine is called the lcm test. and the live monkey potency test. monkeys receive polio vaccine, then are observed and examined to

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the chair now royces fourr five minutes the gentleman from delaware, mr. kearney. you want to try the one next to you, mr. carney? >> there we go. we've got a live one. >> me or the snik. >> both of you. >> i hope this doesn't mean i have to sound as smart as mr. foster. mr. chairman, ranking members, thank you for the opportunity to answer a few questions. mr. director welcome back to the committee. we certainly miss your common sense and straight talk here. and personally i miss your north carolina drawl over my right shoulder during the hearings. you have said several times you're not going to comment on the specifics of gse reform. that's a legislative responsibility. you have made public comments on whether it's necessary or not. could you comment for us now about the sustainability of the current situation what we should be concerned about and your thoughts on that without going into specifics about what we should do? >> well, there's nothing worse i have found in this area of the market than uncertainty and and the longer this drags out, the more uncertainty

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