is there language in budget, or would you accept language to bring the national institute of minority and health disparity research on par withe and i do know that the research centers on minority institutions -- that program was transferred to the institute. and even funding with it. but even that funding was insufficient to support the research centers. so it remains underfunded under the institute. so i didn't -- is there language that would bring the national institute on minority and a health disparity research on par with the others, or woulouccept? >> well, again, congresswoman, i think you've identified that the transfer along with staff and budget actually has significantly enhanced this whole effort over where we were a few years ago. we would be happy to work with you around ideas and strategies for continuing improvement, but there has been kind of a big move forward i would say from where we were when we began this conversation. >> okay. but my understanding is it is still, you know -- it's still underfunded even -- even with moving the rcmin. so we appreciate your willin

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is there language in the budget or would you accept language to bring the national institute of minority and health disparity research on par with the other snu institu institutes? and i know that program was transferred to the institute but even if funding was not sufficient to support the research centers. so it remains under funded under the institute. so i -- is there language that would bring the national institute on minority and health disparity research on par with did others or would you be willing to accept that language? >> again, congress woman, i think you identified that the transfer with staff and budget has significantly enhanced this whole effort over where we were two years ago. it -- we would be happy to work with you around ideas and strategies for continuing improvement but there has been kind of a big move forward i would say from where we were when we began this conversation. >> okay. but my understanding is that it's still under

because the national institutes of health are really the national institutes of hope in alzheimer's, there's going to be a medical disaster coming. all the things that we have cured have us living so long, that we have a large amount of people in homes with alzheimer's. it will cost us a fortune. in the affordable care act, i was able to include language for an independence at home pilot project. and there are now more than three times as many applicants, that are medical institution that are applying for those slots in order to conduct this experiment. i would like to draw to your attention the fact that the va has already had a wildly successful program that handled 11,000 people in it that reduced hospital stays by 60% and nursing care days by 80%. and so, i appreciate all of your efforts in this area, but i think it could help us to telescope the timeframe that it will take us in order to put together a program to keep people at home, share it with the institutions that are working hard in partnership to keep them at home, making the patients and their families better able to dea

drugs we're doing right now here you know we're going to want to first for half a century the national institutes of health fund more than half of all the original research on pharmaceuticals me and i will go to it is true the united states cover the good people involved it is just like health care they're going to they're going to mess it all up i mean the american government has to like i'd like you know health care is doing a marvelous what i have a dozen other full innovation like you know people who put their let me for the line and let me lay this out as it is that i put every last penny on the line to invent things they have to be compensated for i agree if we're going to go backwards in time i agree i agree so the question is should they be compensated for ten years for twenty years for seventeen years of. patent was really suffer through your head of yours should be with you in the head of it is thomas jefferson says

as part of a memorandum of agreement with the national institute of standards and technology who became our partners in the discussing the design and the details of the design of this encasement, so it would both protect the document and look really fabulous on exhibit as it should. for more than a year, archives conservat conservators, scientists and exhibit staff met with nist engineers and we talked to every possible detail to make sure it was just right. that led to the design of the encasement you see here today, and i'm pleased now to introduce to you design engineer jay brandenburg. jay works for the national institute of standards and technology and he'll tell you about the nist side of this project. >> probably the biggest question i always get asked is how did nist get involved with such a project. we've had a tradition of working with some of the most important documents inside the beltway, basically preserving them for both the national archives and the library of congress. this encasement itself has some unique challenges. as you can see, the document comes out at you, so i

. >> now, you know that nih, national institutes for health or of health. >> national institutes of metal. >> they -- of health. >> they just had within summary past couple of weeks they had a big meeting and they talked about how your mental state actually affects your physical health, correct? >> yes. >> were you there? >> i wasn't at that one, no. i was out of town, in europe. >> do you know whether they discovered anything new or were they just kind of ventilating this in the interest of public education? >> not having been there, i wouldn't want to declare anything, but it sounded like it was a group of people together to bring us up to date to where we stand on this. this is a valuable thing to do. >> are they sa saying that age doesn't mean the same thing today that it meant 20, 30, 40 years ago? >> it's absolutely different. look at the way -- you see people in their 80's -- in fact, anthony store the other day, famous british psychologist who died at age 80 was giving a lecture at oxford at the university there. he was one of the fellows. he was 80 years old and has continued to

i led the fight for national institute of health funding. and these earmarks are not bad if the direction is for something which is useful. so my role in the senate was pretty much independent. i opposed. the republicans got very mad at me. we're having a 25-year retrospective next month on bourque, and i'm going to be speaking there. so when i voted for the stimulus, and irreconcilable differences, i made the switch. and i have no regrets. >> all right. debbie, a democrat in kansas city, missouri. go ahead. >> caller: yes, senator specter. >> hello, debbie. >> caller: hi. i have a question. there is a bill in the republican house i believe that says that everybody should be paying taxes across the board. that means even people on welfare should be paying something. and i can't see why our country cannot allow every single person whether if it's small, you pay a tax. and if you're on relief, you would still pay a tax across the board. everybody has a stake in the game. i'm on limited funds because i work part-time. but i still file income ta

to which israel drives us foreign policy and earlier mass blumenthal writing fellow with the nation institute stopped by our studios to give us his perspective. with respect to iran it's driving it right now but it's not driving it to its as far as it wants to it's not able to move the red lines to where it wants to go we heard benjamin netanyahu tell barack obama you're you and your us i mean it's a bizarre statement but it means we're basically our interests are the same that is not true with respect to iran iran poses no threat to the united states militarily and four and the obama administration is acting on assessments from the cia from the military and intelligence apparatus that tell him that that a war with iran would be disastrous israel is seeking to use the u.s. as its proxy to attack iran through a pac and what a pac is doing in congress right now is it's given congress an ask meaning they're asking congress to authorize a resolution declaring that the red lines should move meaning that the u.s. will go to war if iran crosses these red lines and the red lines will be that iran has

and the reality today and how to do that i'm joined by max cleland all writing fellow with the nation institute and that's what's going to break this down i know there have been many instances since president obama came into office that people would say you know israel says jump and the u.s. says how high that's the perspective of someone other people say you know president obama is you know not trying to do everything that he's been told by israel what's going on here i mean do you think that israel does in fact drive u.s. foreign policy with respect to iran it's driving it right now but it's not driving it to its is as far as it wants to it's not able to move the red lines to where it wants to go we heard benjamin netanyahu tell barack obama you're you and your us i mean it's a bizarre statement but it means we're basically our interests are the same that is not true with respect to iran iran poses no threat to the united states militarily and four and the obama administration is acting on assessments from the cia from the military and intelligence apparatus that tell him that that a war with

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> hello again, and thank you for coming along. i promise two exceptional minds. guy caruso, who used to be head of the energy information administration, a separate, isolated but very important part of the department of energy that keeps track of oil data and now is with the center for strategic and international studies. and one of the more dynamic people in washington government, robert atkinson, who heads the information technology and innovation foundation. i want to begin by looking at this problem of what people say about oil. seeing very high oil prices. $5 for gasoline in many places. and suddenly politicians are saying, there is plenty of oil, it is all the government's fault we do not have it. guy caruso, is there plenty of oil? >> potentially, yes, but it is not that simple. there is a lot of up-front investment required. there is adoption of new technology, innovating with that technology. >> talking about new technology with oil -- oil is in the ground. what is this new technology? >> two things. one, the seism

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> hello again, and thank you for coming along. i promise two exceptional minds. guy caruso, who used to be head of the energy information administration, a separate, isolated but very important part of the department of energy that keeps track of oil data and now is with the center for strategic and international studies. and one of the more dynamic people in washington government, robert atkinson, who heads the information technology and innovation foundation. i want to begin by looking at this problem of what people say about oil. seeing very high oil prices. $5 for gasoline in many places. and suddenly politicians are saying, there is plenty of oil, it is all the government's fault we do not have it. guy caruso, is there plenty of oil? >> potentially, yes, but it is not that simple. there is a lot of up-front investment required. there is adoption of new technology, innovating with that technology. >> talking about new technology with oil -- oil is in the ground. what is this new technology? >> two things. one, the seism

and well and america i'm joined now by max blumenthal journalist and writing fellow for the nation institute welcome to the show max so while both of these stories are tragic only one of them seems to be capturing the attention of the u.s. media and that is the case of trayvon martin and why isn't this case in california of the iraqi woman nearly as it has talked about that's a good question and i was following the trayvon martin case from the beginning after he was murdered by vigilante. this year is. and it was actually the. groups of the calls that george zimmerman vigilante killer placed to the police the release of those calls several days later that led to this flurry of media coverage where you know the this killing was confirmed as kind of a vigilante assassination and other facts around shame other wadi have not been confirmed yet although it looks pretty clearly like a hate crime this note go back to your country you terrorist was found on her door a week before the killing and then again it was found by her dead body and another reason that we haven't seen so much outrage about he

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captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor elsbernd: good morning. welcome to the city operations in neighborhood services committee meeting. we start the meeting with a motion to excuse supervisor chu. >> move to excuse supervisor chu. supervisor elsbernd: taken of that objection. madam clerk, please read item number one. >> item number one. hearing to consider that the issuance of a type 20 off-sale beer and wine license to 1749 union street, to lorrie hoel for wine's about you, will serve the public convenience and necessity of the people of the city and county of san francisco. supervisor elsbernd: thank you, madam clerk. inspector, welcome. >> i am ready. good morning. the african has applied for an application with the department of africa -- department of of all and beverage control for 1749 union st., located between octavia and gulf of st.. the applicant originally applied for a type 42 on sale beer and wine permit any type 20 off sale beer and wine. after receiving multiple complaints, the wrist -- they withdrew the application for type 22

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> straight ahead you could feel the effects later this morning. good morning to you, washington. i am is in a sense and. >> we began with your traffic and weather every 10 minutes. first thought, meteorologist atom passkey. >> 4:30 a.m. and already we are warmer than our average afternoon. partly cloudy, warm and breezy. definitely will noticed the wind today. gusting at times in excess of 30 miles per hour. a cold front will drop in later this evening in tonight. that could trigger a few areas of light rain. tomorrow, cooler. partly cloudy. a little breezy at times. lisa. >> pretty smoothly around the beltway. interstate travel will be working in your favor. overnight construction is out of the way. 270 southbound pretty good if you are getting into clarksburg right now. we would take you live to the geico traffic center picture that 121 where things are moving quite well. at the american legion bridge no worries. no worries across the wilson bridge. we take you to springfield virginia. off to a good start this thursda

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cause of the explosion and internal review team to determine the actions and a team from the national institute of okay pay nation safety and health after examining 1,000 pieces of evidence, last december the report documents three events and a build of methane gas caused an explosion. coal dust fueled the fire that quickly spread throughout the mine. while this explains the physical cause of the disaster, its real genesis and the reckless disregard and bearing responsibility for the miners. the investigation revealed numerous safety violations and keeping two sets of books and inspectors were on site and disabling multigas detectors that could alert miners to the methane gas that would contain the fire before it consumed the mine. federal prosecutors are bringing justice to those engaged in criminal activity cecil roberts, whom we will hear from shortly, they are trying to do the right thing. bad actors continue to jeopardize the miner's safety. that's why we have the mine safety and health and administration when workers are needlessly put in harm's way, corrective sacks required to hold the

it's funded by the national institute of health. >>> spring break in baltimore.harp seal is normally found in the waters of the arctic. today, it was seen in edge mere. it's rare to find the seal in the chesapeake bay. they will be sure to monitor it to make sure it's safe. >> maybe there's a second one in the water somewhere. >>> coming up, a flight attendant to the ground. >>> police in hot pursuit. see how this ends up. >>> fighting for visible children. the story is taken by storm. the viral video's staggering impact, next. >>> a chilly start but a warm end to the weekend. i'm bob turk with the complete forecast coming up next. complete coverage continues with denise koch, vic carter, kai jackson, and first warning weather with bob turk and sports with mark viviano. it's wjz, maryland's news station. i was shocked to find out how many couples don't sleep in the same bedroom. but in the sleep number store, we hear it all the time. nine out of ten couples disagree on the firmness they want in a mattress. i sleep on the couch. with our bed, the sleep number sett

so that national institute on aging at nih, of the u.s.alth and human services, created go4life. bud: i now excercise three times a week. narrator: featuring exercises you can do anywhere. irene: i can really go. narrator: find our more, visit nia.hih.gov/go4life. >>> this 29-year-old is preparing for the challenge of a lifetime. donald is our slice of life. ♪ >>> donald lawson is a very clear goal in life. to be a black superstar in sailing. >> i grew up watching michael jordan, tiger woods, if he can win 14 championships why can't i? >> a champion sailer with an unusual introduction to the sport. >> six years old my mother got me in sailing. she tricked me as a kid i didn't like boats, water. i was afraid to go out there. so summer camp she sent me out there, i walked on the boat, and first if thing i thought the boat didn't sink, hey, good, this is fun, i will be safe. >> got his first taste of danger crewing a trip for bruce schwab. >> when we left a hail storm, waves smashing through them, and i steered the boat for four hours and he

you can also go to the national institutes of health's website. >>> you're at the grocery store. you're trying to make some smart healthy choices and you read the labels and you're in a hurry. how many of the numbers do you actually digest? labels show us how many nutrients are in the food. they're based on a 2,000 calorie diet for healthy adults. even if that doesn't describe your diet. >> get small percentages like sugar, salt and cholesterol but higher percentages of things like fiber and aim for 20% or more of that. >> also, look at the types of fat, transfat versus transfat. >>> caramel color, that's been added to coke and pep ti for year -- pepsi for years. the group cites several types of cancer to a chemical found in the caramel color. the american beverage association is questioning the science of these studies. got lots of great interesting stories on our website at abc2news.com. that's the place for all the health needs. >>> a scare at an area school as an odor takes over. hazmat was called in but not before some people got sick. jeff hager has more. >>> plus, for some

he tests therapies for the national institute on drug abuse. >> you don't think there's anything special this combination of drugs? >> so far, the evidence would suggest no. >> mendelson says none of the drugs used in prometa appears to affect addiction. >> terren peizer says he wants to make prometa the standard of care. >> that is his goal. he wants to be-- he wants to make it the standard without any evidence. and he's spending money to recruit the treaters and to recruit the insurance payers, but not to prove that the treatment works. >> proving that it works would require what scientists call a double blind placebo controlled study. that's a human trial in which half the patients get a placebo, or sugar pill, and neither the doctors nor the patients know who got the real drugs until the end. peizer went to market without that kind of study and without asking the fda to approve his methods or his marketing. so if you don't ask the fda for approval... >> that's right. >> you can say anything you want? >> that's pretty much the damn truth. >> i think people would be shocked by that. >>

[captions performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> here's a look at what congress is up to next week. the house is out of session, returning to washington monday, march 19, at 2:00 p.m. eastern with votes after 6:30. live house coverage as always here on c-span. the senate is in town next week. aty'll return monday 2:00 p.m. eastern for general speeches before returning to work on the surface bill.ortation that legislation sets policy for road, bridge and transit programs for the next two years. no votes on monday, but several amendment votes are expected on tuesday. the senate, live on c-span 2. in his weekly address, president obama talked about how u.s. manufacturing companies are contributing to job creation. he also discussed the need to invest in clean energy technologies to reduce u.s. dependency on foreign oil. he gave the address from an automobile factory in virginia. following the president is republican north dakota governor jack dalrymple. he talked about economic policies in his state while expressing why he be

she cares so much about national institutes of health, not just because the national institutes of health is located in maryland but because it matters so much for scientific research, for curing a whole host of diseases and preventing a whole host of diseases, and the work that -- the number of jobs n.i.h. creates, not just government jobs but the jobs that come out of commercialization of scientific research. my state is one of the leaders in whether these jobs come out of cincinnati children's hospital, southwest ohio or case western reserve university and its medicals, and the medical center around cleveland, we see that kind of commercialization. she is also -- i call barbara mikulski often coach b. because she -- as someone who has been around here a long time, she is always willing to advise newer and younger members. she has been following her especially in my state for what's important in my state, in addition to health care. and my state is one of the leading -- has some of the leading health care institutions in the united states of america. also what she has done with the spac

in response, these idea movements in america sought to privilege national institutions such as the family and the community. and to protect them from artificial, artificial structures, such as the great corporation of the state. he emphasizes this new idea especially flourished in the german-speaking areas of america, where romantic notions of on on ganic society composed of people enveloped by groups took root. german-american, roman catholics drew encouragement from the pope. and from the irish-american advocate of the family wage ideal, father john ryan. german-american protestants showed a similar turn for humanitarian thought. among lutherans and the conservative missouri set, the theological leadership of c.f.w. emphasized the priority of the congregation and the family over the individual and state. indeed, he said the family was the foundation not only of the church but also of the state. meanwhile, many dutch and german calvinists in america embraced the anti-liberal thought of abraham piper who characteristically wrote, the home, wonderful creation of god. for the individual the

and an expert and the national institute of drug abuse calls the study ground breaking but says more research needs to be done. >>> today is the start of national youth violence prevention week. several organizations have put together more than 70 activities for kids to do all around baltimore. like basketball, game nights andrap sessions. goal is to help make kids make school and communities safer. mayor stephanie rawlings blake is announcing today the winning proposal to add a third safe viets baltimore site. >>> and around the nation, firefighters are making progress on a large wind fueled grass fire in northeastern colorado. the fire is about 50% contained. the blaze which started sunday south of yuma quickly spread forcing people of a rural town to evacuate. at least two homes destroyed and three firefighters have been hurt battling the flames. >>> time is 6:34. a lesson in poetry is turning into a classroom controversy in virginia. a high school teacher is now under investigation for comments she made to the only african american student in the class. jordan says it was the way

we have since the passage of the national institution and protection act, infrastructure pr protection in 2006 we have been working critical infrastructure. it's a lot of names. what it basically means is we have a process in place for dealing with the private sector and for exchanging some information on a voluntary basis. but that doesn't mean we get all of the information we get from core critical infrastructure. that's one of the problems the bill addresses. >> thank you very much. my time is up. senator collins? >> thank you, mr. chairman. madam secretary, to follow up on a question that theked you. it's my understanding that dhs expertise in the area of industrial control systecate other government agency. is that correct? >> yes. >> and that's important because industrial control systems are a key part of critical infrastructure like the electric grid, water treatment plants. is that also correct? >> yes, and when you think about it, if you have the ability to interrupt the control system, you can take down an entire protective network. you can interfere with all of the activiti

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- supervisor mar: the meeting will come to order. good impact afternoon, everyone. it is monday, march 5, this is the land use and economic development committee. our clerk is of the similar period >> please make sure to silence all sell pounds and electronic devices. biodiesel minute to the clerk. these items will appear on the board of supervisors agenda must otherwise stated. supervisor mar: please call item no. 2. >> item number two. ordinance amending the san francisco planning code section 429 to provide that developers currently required to spend 1% of construction costs for public artwork on any new development. supervisor chiu: i wanted to ask the deputy city attorney when we should appropriately notice this. >> thank you. this is a fee that is being imposed. it needs to have 14 days. when the legislation went from 75 down to the trigger, that aspect of it has not been noted. i recommend that this be continued and that an additional motives be issued for the lower trigger. given that there are a number of different

a second very exciting initiative is the national institute of child health and development. interested in child injury. and i -- i applaud leadership for their interest in this. the society for the advancement of violence and injury research under the direction of the president, dr. fred rivera, tapped into experts in the field and enumerated important next steps in child injury research. and i recommend you get ahold of that as well. so from a personal perspective, there's a range, at de need to . but i think that we can prioritize and we should. >> of all right. thank you very much. let me ask -- i know we're running out of time again. but dr. ashley, in your testimony, i'm struck by the continuing care that's needed for people with traumatic brain injury. and you stated for those americans who experience moderate to severe traumatic brain injury, the recovery often extends beyond hospitalization and requires rehab. you also testified it's the start of a disease -- causative and disease excel active process. can you elaborate the extent they're lifelong conditions? >> yes,

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- thank you. -- supervisor wiener: thank you, great. i want to invite jason elliott from the mayor's office. >> thank you, supervisor, chairman. jason elliott, from the mayor's office. stole my thunder. this is a phenomenal study and i think that the numbers are staggering. 80 million paying customers, billions in economic impact. it is shockingly amazing, how big these numbers are. there is a direct economic impact, and then there is the fact that this is what makes san francisco san francisco. technology companies want to be here for a number of reasons, predominantly because the talent is here. the talent is here, predominantly, because it is fun to live here. would love to my home town, this is what -- with love to my home town, this is what makes sense francisco the place. firms are expanding, they want to be here. that is not what is qualified so much as it is impact fall. the mayor, in recent days, has spoken of this topic and the reason to have targeted staff, like we did with local manufacturing. we're going to focu

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captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- -- supervisor wiener: thank you for your comments. i know that you do a lot of work with staffing issues, and i know that there has been a backlog. has there been any improvement in terms of abc processing? >> it changed overnight. i have pretty good connections, and i could not get an appointment in four months for a transfer allocation. as soon as it hit, it went down to one week. i told someone today that they were buying in the rent water hotel and i told them that this morning. it is true. supervisor wiener: glad to hear that. thank you. >> thank you. i would like to, as everyone else has, really thank supervisor wiener for his leadership on this issue. you have been an incredible advocate to the nightlife industry. i have been to night clubs in both of your districts. i think that you do do good work, supporting entrepreneurs there. i am currently a dj promoter in that my life. before that i had a nonprofit background and i wanted to speak to the impact that nonprofit has on that sector in the city. it was not inc

we see the private sector dividends paid by the research if a till taited by for example the national institutes of health, the national science foundation and the department of energy. these investments are more important than ever. we know we cannot drill our way out of the international oil market, but we can invent our way out. we've made exciting advancements in recent years in the area of green and renewable energy. solar, wind and even wave energy technologies will all have critical roles to play on our road to energy independence. and as these technologies continue to develop, we must continue to invest in and improve upon our workforce development initiatives. community colleges play an important role in expanding access to higher education and workforce development opportunities. in oregon, for example, we've seen exciting partnerships develop between green energy, technology manufacturers and community colleges. these partnerships have been proven to be wonderful complements to renewable technology academic programs at the colleges providing students with the opportunity to see what t

as the president mentioned, i am chairman of the board of the other democratic national institute. you cannot impose democracy. that is an oxymoron. what you can do is support those who want to learn the skills of democracy. through the national democratic institute, we train people in terms of how did you form a coalition, how you create campaigns, supporting women candidates. it allows people to work on behalf of those who need help i love teaching because i think it is a way to talk about what the opportunities are for you all in terms of giving back. my whole life has been about giving back. i was not born in this country. i came here when i was 11-years old in order to escape communism and i have been grateful ever since. public service is an amazing way to give back. i will forever be grateful to this wonderful president who allow me to be able to use the goodness of american power to make a difference for an awful lot of people, to end ethnic cleansing, to make sure people have an opportunity to live a free life. i took those skills now in a way to give back, i am particularl

not only saving lives, but lowering costs and improving strategies so the leadership at the national institutes of health led by dr. francis collins, i think, have reorganized the resources at that very critical institution so that we anticipate with this budget funding 672 new research grants. new research grants will be funded. about a 7.7%, almost an 8% increase in current grant funding. there is a new center for translation al science thanks to the work that congress focused on with the most promising areas. a cure acceleration network. moving resources to the most promising strategies. yes, funding is flat. this is about 40% of our discretionary budget in the nih. we found ways to make sure the critical programs go on. i think the administrative costs are diminished and work toward the research that needs to go forward. >> thank you. >> i thank the gentle lady. i recognize mr. whitfield from kentucky for five minutes. >> madam secretary, in the health care act 2010-2011, it provided $150 million for the prevention fund. under the fund, you have the authority to move that money into various

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cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> actor and activist clooney clooney testified as a senate foreign relations committee on zanan. you can watch it sunday at 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> this week on "the communicators," west virginia senator jay rockefeller, chair of the commerce science transportation and subcommittee. he talks about cybersecurity legislation and the nature of cyberthreats. >> senator jay rockefeller, chairman of the commerce committee, you said that cybersecurity is necessary now and that citizens are at risk. why do you say that? >> do you view cybersecurity or cyber attacks as terrorism? >> i do. i view it as war. i like to discipline myself in that thinking because it really is. if you are hacking into the pentagon three, four or five million times a day, and every senator's office, virtually all corporate america, something has to wake us up. we are not awakened to it. we started this cybersecurity bill. i am impatient about it. we started this thing really the day before obama was inaugu

dividends paid by the research, facilitated by, for example, the national institutes of atioth and the department of energy. esr. we know we cannot drill our way out of the international oil market out. we've made some exciting advancements in recent years in the area of green and renewabl energy. solar, win, and even wave energy technologies will all have criticolroad to energy independ. and as these technologies continue to develop, we must improve upon our workforce development initiatives. community colleg expanding access to education and workforce development opportunities. in oregon, for exciting partne develop between green energy, technology manufacturers, and community colleges. these partnerships have to be a complement to technology academic programs at the colleges, providing students with the opportunity to seeha a skills relevant to local businesses. and to quality education must start well mmunies.dren reach are the we have an obligation to ensure th funding necessary to deliver the type of quality education that all of our children desy reach college it's important tha

when i'm doing my research, i look for investors, whether it's the nih, national institutes of health a pharmaceutical company, and i know they also expect a return on investment. but i also know when i'm sitting across from that patient and i am getting her history and i understand her risk profile for a certain disease, i want her to be able to have access to that test the it's available and i don't want anything standing in the way of that. what i think we got to do, sanjay, is have a balance between the innovation of discovery and then also a balance between making these tests available to people. at an affordable cost. >> and we're talking about this with respect to this particular issue, but what you just said, i think it could apply to science overall. fascinating stuff. thanks for being back. i always learn something when you're on the show. >> thanks for having me. i appreciate it. >> thank you so much, dr. rice. >>> still ahead, chasing life to 100. i got a tip for you that i follow myself. it's called horahachi boo. >>> and we are back with sgmd. something i want you to rem

the national institute of digestive and diabetes research network is another example that embraces the systematic or whole body approach. in conclusion, as a scientist i'm encouraged by opportunities for progress that research conditions, i've experienced treating patients with pain, i support the shift to treating pain as a complex of itself own. to take full advantage of what medical science can provide now and in the future the report called for transformation of how we as a nation approach pain mth and prevention. the committee will begin the work to skput the transformation within the community. thank you and i would be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you very much, very much and thank you again for your leadership on this issue. i just have a few questions, i want to go into the department's sfraj with respect to coordination on pain management, can you tell us what steps the federal agencies are taking to put in place the iom report and the timeframe for it being completed? >> first step in this process, of course, was the establishment of the inter agency pain coordinat