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emily: tell me about ithaca. scooter: i never talk about this.elieve there is power in numbers and power in collaboration. i believe that managers and creative's should come together and work together in alliance. at the together a group of my friends and it is simply that. it is an alliance of guys who get together and meet and try and help each other build their businesses. there is more than enough to go around. emily: so this is a fund. scooter: there is a fund aspect when we are together. we have ideas and we want to go after things together, we can. emily: what is the next big trend in music? what is coming? scooter: voices. emily: you mean someone who can actually sing? scooter: people fell in love with justin bieber because he was raw on the street playing his guitar and singing his head off. emily: how much potential does youtube have to make more? scooter: when i did it with justin, there were so many people who said you cannot sign acts off youtube. now if you ask any a&r at every record label about an artist and they will say to send

emily: tell me about ithaca. scooter: ooh, i never talk about this. there is power in numbers and power in collaboration. so i believe that managers and creatives and everyone should come together and work together in an alliance. and i put together a group of my friends, and it is simply that. it is just an alliance of guys who get together and meet and try and help each other build their businesses. because there is more than enough to go around. emily: so this is a fund. scooter: there is a fund aspect that i put together. that when we have ideas and we want to go after things together, we can. emily: what is the next big trend in music? what is coming? scooter: voices. that is what i am seeing right now. emily: you mean someone who can actually sing? scooter: i love the fact that i think everyone we have signed can really sing. you know, like, justin got discovered because people fell in love with the fact that he was just raw on the street playing his guitar and singing his butt off. emily: justin is one of very few, if not the only real star, wh

host: next call for jeremy jacobs comes from jim in ithaca new york, jim, you are on the "washington journal." caller: thank you so much for mr. jacobs answering my question. you hear a lot in the media about -- but the association of commissions for the environment has maintained for the past several years that driving an automobile is the worst thing that you can do for the environment. we never hear anything about that in the media. as a dedicated pedestrian, i have to say that it just seems like the air is heavily polluted so just from automobiles. guest: i sympathize, as i would consider myself a dedicated pedestrian as well, and a bicyclist, but you are right. a lot of reason you do not hear much about car emissions is we have already done a lot, as far as cleaning up cars, car emissions. there have been several tailpipe standards, including an acceleration of them during the obama administration that was promulgated in his first term between epa and the department of transportation. they have already taken steps to start curtailing auto emissions and of course, these play out

what's more, maki has now completed a triathlon, landed her dream job as a biology professor at ithaca college, and welcomed a healthy baby girl. maki is the face of scientific innovation, made possible by sustained investments in biomedical research. with your support, we can realize the vision of accelerating discovery across the vast landscape of biomedicine, from basic science inquiries to more precise personalized approaches to treatments and cures. so thank you, mr. chairman. my colleagues and i welcome your questions. senator alexander: thank you dr. collins. dr. hamburg? dr. hamburg: thank you, mr. chairman, and members of the committee. i'm very pleased to be here today to discuss our shared goal of speeding innovative treatment to patients. i look forward to working with you on this important effort. as you have noted, this will be my last appearance before the committee, as i'm stepping down. but i want to thank you for your support over the years, and our constructive engagement with this committee to advance fda's public health mission. i came to the agency at a time of co

the extra time provided by this approach, she completed a triathlon, became a biology professor at ithaca college, come to healthy baby girl. clearly, we need many more stories like hers. that is our dream and i am sure it is yours as well. with your support, we can realize our goal of developing more scientific inquiry to precise are several approaches for treatments and cures. and you, mr. chairman. my colleagues and i welcome your questions. mr. cole: thank you, dr. collins. mr. chairman, you are recognized for what ever since you care to pose. mr. rogers: thank you. thank you both for your special interest in prescription drug abuse. as you know, every day, about 105 americans die from overdose mostly prescription medicine. sadly, as we have taken strides to address the challenge, we have also seen a wise -- rise in heroin use. those people addicted to pain pills are graduating to drugs that are cheaper. i have long advocated a multipronged approach to addressing this unique challenge. of course, research is one of the main prongs of that approach. i am particularly interested in the

what's more, maki has now completed a triathlon, landed her dream job as a biology professor at ithaca college, and welcomed a healthy baby girl. maki is the face of scientific innovation, made possible by sustained investments in biomedical research. with your support, we can realize the vision of accelerating discovery across the vast landscape of biomedicine, from basic science inquiries to more precise personalized approaches to treatments and cures. so thank you, mr. chairman. my colleagues and i welcome your questions. senator alexander: thank you dr. collins. dr. hamburg? dr. hamburg: thank you, mr. chairman, and members of the committee. i'm very pleased to be here today to discuss our shared goal of speeding innovative treatment to patients. i look forward to working with you on this important effort. as you have noted, this will be my last appearance before the committee, as i'm stepping down. but i want to thank you for your support over the years, and our constructive engagement with this committee to advance fda's public health mission. i came to the agency at a time of co

what's more, she has now completed a triathlon landed her dream job as a biology professor at ithaca college, and welcomed a healthy baby girl. maki is the face of scientific innovation, made possible by sustained investments in biomedical research. with your support we can realize the vision of accelerating discovery across the vast landscape of biomedicine from basic science inquiries to more precise personalized approaches to treatments and cures. so thank you mr. chairman my colleagues and i welcome your questions. >> thank you, dr. collins. dr. hamburg? >> thank you mr. chairman, and members of the committee. i'm very --. thank you mr. chairman and members of the committee. i'm very pleased to be here today to discuss our shared goal of speeding innovative treatment to patients. and fda looks 2350rd to working with you on this important effort. as you have noted, this will be my last appearance before the committee, as i'm stepping down. but i want to thank you for your support over the years, and our constructive engagement with this committee to advance fda's public health mis

provided by this approach, maki completed a triathlon, landed her dream job as a biology professor at ithaca college, and welcomed a healthy baby girl. clearly, we need many more stories like maki's. that is our dream, and i'm sure it's yours, too. with your support, we can realize our vision of invigorating discovery from basic scientific inquiry to more precise personalized approaches to treatments and cures. so, thank you, mr. chairman. my colleagues and i now welcome your questions. >> thank you very much, dr. collins. and just for the members of the committee, we're going to go first to our chairman and our ranking member and then we'll go through our normal order in terms of questions. so, mr. chairman, you're recognized for whatever questions you care to pose. >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. collins, dr. volkow, thank you both for your special interest in prescription drug abuse. as you know, every day, about 105 americans die from overdose, mostly prescription medicine. sadly, as we've taken strides to address that challenge, we've also seen a rise in heroin use, and as a consequence

host: next call for jeremy jacobs comes from jim in ithaca new york, jim, you are on the "washington journal." caller: thank you so much for mr. jacobs answering my question. you hear a lot in the media about -- but the association of commissions for the environment has maintained for the past several years that driving an automobile is the worst thing that you can do for the environment. we never hear anything about that in the media. as a dedicated pedestrian, i have to say that it just seems like the air is heavily polluted so just from automobiles. guest: i sympathize, as i would consider myself a dedicated pedestrian as well, and a bicyclist, but you are right. a lot of reason you do not hear much about car emissions is we have already done a lot, as far as cleaning up cars, car emissions. there have been several tailpipe standards, including an acceleration of them during the obama administration that was promulgated in his first term between epa and the department of transportation. they have already taken steps to start curtailing auto emissions and of course, these play out

by the way, did you all see that ithaca, new york put on their tourist website that their weather was so bad, everybody should just go to florida? >> my fiance i think would love that with this temperature. i won't tell her that offer. during the '14 cycle you were attached and you talked about education a little bit, and you won. you were attacked, i think more than almost any other governor on education and education reform and school choice -- >> on anything. >> i didn't pick the easiest state. i could have years ago moved to a state that would have been easier but i didn't. >> do you have lessons that other folks, other governors, other republicans, can take from what you did in florida, even though it's a fairly red state it's still a swing state, especially in a presidential year, that they could take from your message and how you prevailed? >> we went after everybody. we've got a significant hispanic population. i do spend -- my spanish is not perfect, but i practice spanish every day. [ speaking spanish ] i do spanish radio, spanish tv. we put a lot of effort into the hispanic