the director of the national institutes of health, dr. s collins said it has been forced to slash other institutions as well. >> might have imbt next breakthrough in cancer, the start of the next person's career to win the nobel prize shall-- we'll never know. oar are now prospective medical researchers may have to look elsewhere, even out of the country. >> this is not the only year. we will lose ginnations of tam -- generations of talent and research that will improve the lives of our american people and have an impact on our economy all because we can't come up with finding reductions in our public debt of $100 million a year. >> reporter: for jose, the sequester placed a price on the very research that saved his life, and that which could save throws who suffer from cancer, heart disease and other deadly diseases in the future. >> of all the diseases we talked about today, i don't know what the heck these people are thinking in washington. >> reporter: in east

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you went to the national institutes of health to do some research. tell us about that experience you had where you came face to face with assumptions that were made about you as a black male? >> you're describing an experience that i had in which i was subjected to an impromptu lineup. now, we all have these kind of experiences, and i am, i'm kind of reluctant to even talk about it publicly. these kinds of things, because you all could tell me your stories. but this particular story i was going, i was on the nih campus, national institute of health campus. it is the premier medical campus in the country. i was doing research for my dissertation, my ph.d. dissertation, and at the time i was so excited about some finding that i was getting in the lab. i had just come back from the bank, one of the bank buildings -- one building contained the bank, and my building was near the bank, and so i was walking towards my building. and two police officers, they were undercover police officers, were staring at me, and one black and one filipino. and i could not

. >> what's the nation institute of health? >> let me just say this,. >> did i give you just a figure he, $12,000 to $35,000 for the kind of surgery we're talking about. >> right. >> and insurance companies have >> they do cover some. they do cover some of it, yes, they do. >> fat --obesity s exploded over the last several decades, changed. people eat more food, they eat they don't have as much exercise. they don't continue exercise. they don't walk to places. they get transported one way or another. it's a change of lifestyle. it's not a disease. a lot of people yield to it. >> yield to what, the change? right a lot of people do that. a lot people are eating the kind of fo that accumulate the calories in your body. fat is the result of all of that. >> i'm not satisfied with this because i think we're talking about stigma here. and my exit question focuses on that. does the designation of obesity as a disease stigmatize obesity or does it de-stigmatize fatness? >> i think itde-stigmatizes it on some level because people it's no

but the national institutes of health fixed all that.ake the type bigger, increase contrast, even make it talk to you. just go to nihseniorhealth.gov and get the best medical information available anywhere. nih seniorhealth.gov. built with you in mind. >> in all of u.s. history, there's only one president who has served more than two terms. there's a special memorial to him in washington, and lauren gives us a tour. >> franklin delano roosevelt was the 32nd president of the united states. >> fdr is someone who totally changed the face of this country, totally changed the direction of this country. >> roosevelt was elected and re-elected an incredible four times. the fdr memorial has four rooms, one for each of his terms in office. when he became president in 1933, our country was suffering the worst financial crisis in our history -- the great depression. statues of soup lines and dust bowl farmers illustrate those hard times. but why the man listening to a radio? >> there was no television then. how did you communicate? the president co

i'm francis collins, director of the national institute its of health. hnih and i am proud to have the honor of welcoming you here to the east room of the white house for a very special scientific announcement. so without further ado, it is a great personal privilege and a high honor to introdeutz our scientist in chief, the president of the united states, barack obama. (applause) >> ideas are what power our economy. it's what set its us apart. we do innovation better than anybody else. and that makes our economy stronger. and every dollar we spend to map the human genome has returned a 140 dollars to our economy. one dollar of investments, $140 in return. so dr. collins help lead that genome effort, and that's why we thought it was appropriate to have him here to announce the next great american project and that's what we're calling the brain initiative. as humans we can identify galaxies light-years away.& we can study particles smaller than an a tomorrow but we still haven't unlocked the mystery of the three pounds of matter that sits between our ears

has been slashed by millions of dollars at johns hopkins and by almost $2 billion at the national institutes of health. angering joel maldo nado. a stroke survivor who says that research is what saved his life. >> i don't know what these people are thinking. >> reporter: the experts warn, continuing losses that big can stall the advancement on cancer drugs. >> we're deeply troubled about the direction they're taking us as a nation. a nation that will be judged ultimately, by whether or not we have set our priorities in order to try to alleviate suffering. >> reporter: while some in congress believe the cuts are necessary for a federal government that is spending out of control, senator barbara mikulski says there are smatter way toss slice, getting rid of tax loopholes, instead of medical research grants upon. >> right now, our goal is to fund n.i.h. and cancel sequester so it is not the new normal. and most of all, we want to make sure that america continues to move ahead. >> if anybody wants to have a debate about whether sequester is good or not, you know, come and see me. >> reporter: and it's not

that is the national institutes of health. i think it is criminal that they cut 1.3 -- 1.6 billion dollars in the sequestration. i cannot get the republicans to understand in a bipartisan way to restore those cuts. federal cuts are to credit johns hopkins medical school. host: let's go to one less color. at in jackson, tennessee. , pat. last caller caller: good morning. i would like to see an investigation where were ,peaking of taxes being raised and one of the first scares mentioned getting rid of the iris, which i don't know how we would operate the country if we don't have the taxes. however, i have heard about -- foreigners purchasing businesses in america to my and they are ten years toto run the business tax-free. and then that same business, they turn it over to a brother, a cousin, and then they get it and run the business tax-free for another five to ten years, and they keep on extending it. can that be investigated? guest: i'm happy to hear from 70 from the home state, the volunteer state. i will ask my staff to loo

according to the national institutes of health, a person is born with more than two million sweat glandsone of them is working. much like they were for albert brooks in that hilarious scene from broadcast news. >> this is more than nixon ever sweated. >> just how noticeable is this? the weather has been nutty. on the east coast we broke records for the most rainfall in june. so add to that this crazy heat. most of us are dealing with sweat sensors that are on the fritz. according to m.i.t.'s patricia christy who teaches the chemistry of sports, on dry days when our bodies sweat, our pours open and release water and salt on to our skin. as the sweaty vap rates it france fers our body heat into the air. it happens pretty quickly and we cool down. but when the air is saturated with water, thick with humidity like it has been every day for what seems like years, that sweat has nowhere to go. it just sits there. and you can't cool down. it's a nightmare. ew! who was it that said horses sweat, men perspire and women glow? they were wrong. i'm so not glowing that the only way i'll socialize is

. >> we're going to look for sites that have big names, national institutes of health.they have an amazing site. it's part of the u.s. health and human services. you can really find comprehensive information here. also sites like web m.d. and mayo clinic are friendly encreditably easy and things like the cdc site. you can check exactly what's happening in your city, if there are any outbreaks. >> centers for disease control and prevention. >> exactly. you have to take everying with a grain of salt. i once had a park end come in. she explained to me she had stage 4 lymphoma had tons of printouts and had the radiation she wanted and wandted me to order up the tests. it turns out she had strep throat. >> lastly drugs.com. >> i think it's a great site. you can check interactions and side effects on the site very very easily and it's very accurate inform sthoogs what about social media. should you trust sites like that? >> that's my sticking point. i really don't like social media for symptom checking because anybody can post something on social media pretending to be a medi

president, i want to finish my remarks here about n.i.h., the national institutes of health, something incredibly important in my state. it's the home of mayo clinic, home of university of minnesota, where they are undertaking the simple task of mapping the brain, and talk about what these cuts mean.á i focused before on the stories of individual minnesotans but i also spoke about the cost if we don't do anything, the cost of inaction, the cost of not doing research. look at alzheimer's as an example. if we were able to delay the onset of alzheimer's by five years -- not curing it, mr. president. this is simply delaying the onset by five years, similar to the effect of anticholesterol drugs have on affecting heart disease, we would be able to cut government spending on alzheimer's cast by 2050. we're talking here about billions of dollars. the answer, of course, to delay the onset of alzheimer's by five years won't just drop from the sky. it needs dedicated scientists and doctors with the resources to conduct the experiments. i've seen what they are doing with mapping the brain. i met

the national institute of mental health, the national science foundation, the sociality program, the robert johnson foundation. forink it's very important grantmakers to courageously sponsor research in this area. all of you have been to the national mall and you have seen what a sobering sight it is to 58,000 names carved in a granite wall. that is the number of american military deaths in vietnam over approximately a 10-year period/ build awe were to memorial monument to commemorate all of the american to have died in the last 10 years as a result of a gunshot? if we were to build such a memorial, it would have to be five times larger than the vietnam memorial. i present that to you not only to show you something about the magnitude of the problem, but also to take it apart a little bit. it turned out 39% of those arehs are homicide that 57% suicide and 4% are other situations, law enforcement action or accidents. i have done some calculations and made some assumptions about the prevalence of mental illness of the attributable risks homicide and suicide that's associated with mental

the national institutes of health will be supporting the smallest number of research project grants this year in more than a decade. these cuts will have profound and lasting consequences for families, for students, for the scientific research. despite, the majority thinks the problem with sequestration, at least when it comes to domestic spending, is that the cuts were too small. they have been assembling a series of bills for 2014 that cut the resources for nondefense programs by a total f almost $47 billion below the 2013 postsequester level. that is not the right direction for the country. that is not what we ought to be doing. in total, the majority's 014 budget bills will bring -- 2014 budget bills will bring nondefense appropriations to the lowest level on record as a share of g.d.p. with records on this basis going back to 1976. in other words, the majority proposes to spend less relative to the economy on things like infrastructure, scientific research, education, environmental protection, the key investments that grow our economy than at anytime in nearly the last 40 years. wit

there's talk before of the national institutes of health. budgetve a $30 billion in which they would lose money. that would come directly out of research investigation and grants. we will have the lowest number of those grants that we have had in decades. it will have a real impact. the consequence of all of this, inas doing some research this affects economic growth. i look at international examples of that. gdp -- a bigof range goes from three countries under 28% -- japan, switzerland, the u.s. -- and two countries over 48%. huge variations and level of taxation. two of the three countries with the highest level of taxation where the fastest-growing of all of the countries. , japan, and sweden were on the bottom half -- i mean switzerland, were on the bottom half. you do not find a very big correlation between what portion of gdp is taken in taxes and what is spent. it seems to be somewhat negative. the thing i think is most ofortant is not the portion taxes began in gdp gdp, but how well we spend it. i do not think we can come up with a du

for somebody like the head of national institute of mental health who has never liked the dsm and would like to see it disappear, if it could, it was an opportunity to say, okay, we know this is true. now these things don't exist and would like all of you researchers to come over to us. we're divorcing the dsm and leaving it for a and your -- younger, sexier lover. >> what are the attributes? >> well, the lover is called neuroscience, and it is this tremendous the tempting idea that we can decode human behavior and experience and consciousness and understand it in terms of narrow circuitry. and other reason that is a very tempting idea is because that would really on locked the keys to who we are. you would no longer have to worry that your understanding of human nature was controlled by politics or, you know, point of view or prejudice or desire or any of these things. it would just be as true as a colony of streptococcus bacteria under a microscope. that is the dream. it is quite a dream. i am not particularly fond of it. if, indeed, that was the case then whenever there was suffering

we are cutting $1.6 billion from the national institutes of health and that's my defense department and your defense department because cancer and heart disease and stroke and diabetes and parkinsons and alzheimer's and aids that's the enemy that is going to get each one of us and we are cutting $1.6 billion, which is our defense department. i yield back. ms. kaptur: i yield back. the chair: the question is now on the amendment offered by the gentleman from tennessee. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. the amendment is not agreed to. mr. cohen: i request the yeas and nays. the chair: does the gentleman request a recorded vote? mr. cohen: that's exactly right. the chair: pursuant proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from tennessee will be postponed. the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? mr. broun: i have an amendment at the desk. number 53. the chair: the clerk will report the amendment 53. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. broun of georgia. in the item relating to department of energy, energy programs, rene

think what you have described captures very well the empty sis and priority that the national institute of mental health really places now on research. if you listened to the directors it sounds very much like let's really you know solve this problem by understanding brain circuitry and let's understand these neuro mechanisms and then let's have better treatments. and i think that is important. i agree with you to an extent, but i also would say this. even we understood that and we have the magic molecule to vastly improv our treatment, we still have so many people all over this country who suffer from serious, disabling mental health conditions and can't receive the treatment even that we know works now, because they are addicted or they are omeless or they are in prison. or they don't believe they are mentally ill and don't want treatment. so until the great here after when we have these solutions, i still think we need to focus not only on research and point t public resources on better interventions and service delivery systems and to have a system that is not so fragmented and ineffective, so i wou

things likee -- the national institute of health and thinking you guys are going to cut. we have to think about long- term. guest: those are great comments. even a wealthy nation like the united states has a limitation of resources. where close to a $17 trillion national debt. medicare will run out of money in 10 years. years security in 22 unless we reform them. obama care removes money from medicare to help fund it along with other financing mechanisms, including $1 trillion in new taxes. there is a limit in what we can do to that. medicaremedicare like and they should like medicare. for every dollar you put into medicare, you're getting three dollars back. the taxpayers and the health care providers themselves -- as we have more people on medicare, as the cost of the program continues to grow, we are getting to a point where that is no longer sustainable. it is a huge subsidy program. we are all about subsidizing the health care for the elderly. many of the elderly are wealthy people and we are subsidizing their health care as well. wouldf the budget program provide for

because of drastic cuts to national institutes of health, the sequester could also cut into the curefor aids, parkinson's, or alzheimer's. all they need to do is work with us. we can't do it alone. we need republicans' help. and the cost of reducing the deficit with a meat ax today is missing out on the next polio vaccine tomorrow and the price is simply way too high. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican leader is recognized. mr. mcconnell: i, too, want to welcome the new senator from massachusetts to the senate. you will find presiding over the senate an enlightening experience, and if tradition is followed, you'll get to do it a lot. mr. president, there are many overused expressions huer in washington -- game changer comes to mind. but i think the worst may be the so-called pivot. i say this not just because it's used too much to really mean anything but also because it is a troubling frame of mind. i mean, the idea that the white house can simply pivot to jobs for day or two, then abandon it for a few weeks or months, anden this pivot back for a cou

i understand that you already mentioned the fact of what's happening at the national institutes of health and the fact that because of these sequestration cuts, the number of grants that will be given out this year, contracts with young scientists to do research are going to be cut by the hundreds. now, we don't know which one of these researchers would have come up with an advancement on a major breakthrough, but there would have been some, and they're going to be denied. they may get discouraged, the people who would have received these grants, and they may go into other fields. we may lose them forever as far as scientific researchers. they may go to other professions, they may go to other countries, but we know that they're not doing the work that they are trained to do, and we know that they had a proposal that went through the most difficult vetting process and was selected for funding and should have been funded but is not being funded because of these sequestration cuts. that we know. that much we know for sure. we also know that it's not just that researcher who's been hurt by th

today to highlight the benefits of cancer research and the importance of funding for the national institutes of health. in my home state of iowa alone, 17,480 people will be diagnosed with cancer this year. 6,240 will lose their battle with this disease. like every state, iowa receives essential funding from the n.i.h. n.i.h. funds lifesaving medical research that is leading to the development of new and better ways to diagnose and treat cancer. the research takes place at thousands of universities, hospitals, cancer centers and laboratories across the country including the university of iowa's holden comprehensive cancer center. mr. loebsack: in addition to the obvious benefits of combating cancer and so many other diseases, n.i.h. funding supports economic activity and job. in 2012, n.i.h. funding supported 3,940 jobs in iowa alone. funding for cancer research in the n.i.h. i believe must be a top priority. i urge congress to support this life-saving research and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expire. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from indiana seek recognitio

. >> gretchen: the national institute of health says this, melatonin should not be used in most childrenssibly unsafe because of its effects on other hormones. it might interfere with development. exactly what you have just said this morning. >> that's accurate. >> gretchen: all right. you're probably helping a lot of parents out there who maybe did reach for that knee-jerk reaction. >> thank you. >> gretchen: coming up, a big interview here. the man who broke the story of ed snowden, glenn greenwald is here with us live. a lot of women say david beckham is the perfect man. but the survey says it's brian and eric? look, they don't even flinch over there. they don't even flinch. i just called you guys the perfect men, you don't even flinch. i'm going to add dr. samati to the mix. >> brian: we're used to hearing it. >> eric: stop rolling my video. >> gretchen: so if it's not dr. samati, brian or eric, who is it? right back so then the little tiny chipmunks go all the way up... ♪ [ female announcer ] when your swapportunity comes, take it. ♪ what? what? what? [ female announcer ] yoplait. i

the floor today to talk about the benefits of cancer research and the importance of the national institutes of health, n.i.h. in my home state of ohio, 66,000 people will be diagnosed with a cancer this year and over 25,000 will lose their battle with this devastating disease. ohio receives essential funding from n.i.h. each year. it funds life-saving medical esearch that is is preventing, diagnosis cancers. this takes place at universities, hospitals, labs across my case, including the cancer center and the james cancer center at the ohio state university. mr. gibbs: in addition to combating cancer and so many other diseases, they provide tens of millions of dollars. every dollar invest to biomedical cancer research translates to $2.21 investment in the local economy. in 2012 alone, ohio received over $800 million of n.i.h. funding. cancer disease does not discriminate against age, race or many people, friends or loved ones that have been affected by this terrible disease. i urge my colleagues to support cancer research. thank you. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does

fighting washington doesn't provide the national institute of health the things to do to provide women's health and mayo research in order for us to better the health of the united states of america. fighting washington makes for a great talking point. might even make for a great fundraising. might make for a good bumper sticker. but it is far from a serious strategy, to actually make this country better. a better title would be -- than fighting washington for americans would be washington fighting for americans. now, this do-nothing congress, i've been here 21 years, it's given new meaning to do nothing. and all of this repealing things didn't just start this year. next week we'll be back here on the floor talking more repeal. we're going to have something called the reins act. we're real good up here at naming things. reins. we're going to be doing some more repeal. but in the 112th congress, i looked back, we had 137 votes to block actions to prevent pollution. we had 55 votes targeted at the department of energy. we had 57 votes to defund or repeal clean energy initiatives. we had 47

in fact, according to the national institutes of health, 8 out of 10 people will have back pain at somellion each year in search of relief. but buyer beware. a new study suggests less is more and cautions consumers, be careful what the doctor ordered. more often than not, doctors are turning to prescription drugs instead of over the counter medicines to treat back pain but the american college of physicians says in many cases prescription drugs are not necessary. let's get some perspective from a sports medicine specialist at the hospital for special surgery here in new york. he is also the author of the athlete's book of home remedies. you're the perfect person to talk to about this. apparently this study has a couple of headlines and one is that the narcotics are being overprescribed when something over the counter might work for back pain. >> that's right. i was really interested to see this study and that jumped out at me as well. these are dangerous medicines so we're very careful about giving those and should be. people taking these, it's definitely user beware. they're dangerous

national cancer institute the tools it needed to tackle this lethal disease. but the sequester is taking back our promise. the sequester cut funding to the national institutes of health which does most of our country's research into this form of cancer by 5%. that 5% cut eliminated $250 million worth of funding for cancer research. talk about sending mixed messages. mr. president, one moment we're telling lee and her mom that we're fighting cancer for them, the next moment we're telling them is that they're on their own. just last we're, the senate appropriations committee restored funding that was cut by sequestration so the n.i.h. could beat pancreatic cancer. this was my first year as a member of the subcommittee that funds n.i.h. it has been an honor to work with chairman harkin to ensure that n.i.h. and medical research all over the country is well funded by this bill. with this measure, which i wholeheartedly support, has a long way to go before it gets into law. mr. president, we need to rein in our spending. we do need to get our budget in order. but we cannot hurt our neighbors in the process. we owe that to the people like lee and ed and deborah. for their

doctors who we hire, the nurses that we hire at the v.a., the scientists that we have at the national institutes of health and the e.p.a., lawyers we have at the department of justice, financial analysts that we have at the cftc and fdic as well as the other banking industries, the s.e.c., those are more professionalized employees. so naturally if you look at a retail clerk, compare their lary to a scientist, there will be a drastic disparity. between what an attorney is making or a financial analyst is making versus a secretary in the private sector, so that's a very crude way of comparison. one way of comparison is required in the federal pay comparblet act. that's a -- comparibility act. that's a statute we passed in congress. we compare the federal doctors versus private doctors. federal scientists versus private sector scientists. finance analysts at the s.e.c. versus those at goldman sachs so we compare job to job, and at the end of that analysis, the studies showed that federal employees are making 26% less, 26% less than their comparable job in the private sector. just a point i wanted to raise, a

amendments put -- forlready to address example, they take aliens of dollars out of the national institutes of health. every family, everyone of you is one phone call, one diagnosis diagnosis, one accident away from needing the institute of health. the answer to our prayers, cut grade not only health and well- being, but also cut investments and innovations to keep america number one. simply building upon the gloom of the ryan budget, which also vouch arises medicare. seniors pay more. as the president said, one step we can take to advance the economy and the middle class is to raise the minimum wage. as those of you who keep track of these things, yesterday was the four-year anniversary since the last increase in the minimum wage. we have put forth legislation to rate -- to raise the min wage and keep sure that it -- make sure that it keeps pace with the cost of living. securing a living wage is part of our agenda i talk to you womenlast week. when succeed, it america succeeds, and agenda for women and families. it is about valuing work, pay equity, and lifting the minimum wage is one part of that.

francis collins, the head of the national institutes of health, the kind of impact sequestration is something on our abilities to invest in all kinds of health-related areas, in pharmaceutical areas and medical areas. we're finding -- they're finding it difficult to make the kinds of investments we need to make. part of what we need to do is to invest in research and development that can be commercialized and turned into goods and services and products we can sell all over the world. in my view, in the end, how do we strengthen our economy? how do we grow the economic pie for our country and citizens? going back to the first item i mentioned is the world-class workforce. it doesn't just start when people graduate from high school or go off to college, whether junior college or a certificate program. it is what they do before they go to first grade. the kind of investments that are made before kids ever go into kindergarten at the age of five in most states. today's debate is on college loans. i'll focus on that. but let me just remind us, the investments we don't make in the lives of children

we have people at n.i.h., national institutes of health, doing ground breaking research as far as people's health and safety and perhaps they not themselveses are risking their lives but tomorrow if they were at work could make a discovery that could improve or prolong someone's life and i think it's a very difficult proposition to begin to make those distinctions between various federal employees. i absolutely share the gentleman's concern as to what is happening with the federal work force. i have mentioned in committee and on this floor more than once today thyme apalled that for four years we hold federal employees in so little regard, we have not given any of them a raise in four years. we scurry, scurry to the fort because people were going to be inconvenienced on the house floor, not the house floor, at airports, because of potential slowdowns at the f.a.a. federal employees actually do things for air safety, like make sure when we leave the ground in an airplane, we're safe. so again, i'm very concerned here. the fact is allowing exceptions for one agency i do think is unfair for o

the national institute of mental health, the national science foundation, the sociality program, the bert johnson foundation. i think it's very important for grantmakers to courageously sponsor research in this area. all of you have been to the national mall and you have seen what a sobering sight it is to contemplate 58,000 names carved in a granite wall. that is the number of american military deaths in vietnam over approximately a 10-year period/ what if we were to build a memorial monument to commemorate all of the american to have died in the last 10 years as a result of a gunshot? a we were to build such memorial, it would have to be five times larger than the vietnam memorial. i present that to you not only to show you something about the magnitude of the problem, but also to take it apart a little bit. it turned out 39% of those deaths are homicide that 57% are suicide and 4% are other situations, law enforcement action or accidents. i have done some calculations and made some assumptions about the prevalence of mental illness and the attributable risks of homicide and suicide

of the health-care overhaul. the roadblocks in congress. whis back-checking the roads? >> already one accident of note on the j.f.x. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> you're watching wbal-tv 11. live, local, late-breaking. this is 11 news today at 5:00 a.m. tragedy.as been a coming from the tragedy has been the movement. now is not just a few people in stamford --sanford that know about it. >> how the nation is reacting. >> as a mother, i was disheartened that this guy would walk. display emotion to the case. kim dacey is live with more. >> i just wish the person would turn themselves in. it just makes it harder every day not knowing. >> family members of a teenager are looking for answers. good morning. i'm stan stovall. >> i'm mindy basara. thank you for joining us this morning. >> 5:01. time for traffic and weather together on the 1's. >> most of the summer we have been pretty lucky. this will be our first heat wave with temperatures in the 90's. it is in the low 70's at the airport. 70.dew point is also high temperature near 94. the heat index will be up around 100 this afternoon. we will talk about the extended forecast i

>> when you have described capture jury well and the emphasis and priority that the national institute of mental healthnds 3 much like-it sounds very much like let's solve this problem and then let's have better treatment. i think that is important. i agree with you to an extent i would say this. even if we understood that and we had the magic molecule now to vastly improve our treatment. we still have we still have many people who suffer from serious, disabling mental health conditions and cannot receive the trigger we know works now. there are evicted or they're homeless or they're in prison or they do not believe they are mentally ill and they do not want treatment. until the great hereafter we need to focus on research and policy. and have a system that is not so fragmented and ineffective. >> i'm going to let some other people talk. >> the problem you're describing here i would describe the political problem as a complete distinction between the discussions around that problem. every person counts as one whether there is a suicide or their kids in the inner city. whether there were killed in a sin

a gentleman that was formerly with the harvard school of the health rep of public the national institutes of science. they will claim benefits when thescience would show benefits do not exist. they are costing jobs, using science that scientists say is wrong. host: if you're legislation passes and they are required to prove that it would not have an economic cost of $1 billion, with the research be done in- house? would do thee research. they have a surplus of $2 billion. it is not as if they can not this with existing resources. by the way, i will also say that 5000 -- 5400y jobs, there is a cost to that. there is a cost to the family that cannot send their kid to college. let's keep in mind that cost. host: democratic line. ell in westlow virginia. caller: good morning. guest: good morning. producesississippi enough energy that we do not coal.il or electricity at 10% of the cost that we are presently paying. all you have to do is look at the hoover dam. 90% of our electrical bill goes to wall street. wall street. $200 electric bill, you are only getting $20 worth of electricity. wells a

federal funding to continue that has been slashed by millions of dollars at johns hopkins and by almost $2 billion at the national institutes for healthng joe maldonado, a stroke survivor, who says that crucial research is why he's alive. >> haven't have to be up here. i don't know what the heck these people are thinking. >> reporter: the institution warns continuing losses that big could stall progress on cancer drugs and the treatment of rare diseases. >> they're deeply troubled about the direction they taking us as a nation am a nation that will be judged, hult matily, -- ultimately, on whether or not we have set our priorities to trying to alleve suffering. >> reporter: while it is necessary for a government spending out of control, senator barbara mikulski says there are smarter ways to slice, getting rid of tax loopholes, instead of medical research grants. >> right now, our goal is to fund n.i.h. and cancer sequester so that it is not the new normal. and most of all, we want to make sure that america continues to move ahead. >> if anybody wants to have a debate about whether there sequester is good or not, you know, come and se

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mental health and primary care channeling the national institute for health they would say the model is a collaborative care model and to look at the impact work of a few years ago, that's the work that has the research. so i would just suggest that to you. >> here is a question about young people who have an opportunity for coverage under the pca -- aca. while many are covered under their parents' insurance enticing the group seeking treatment is difficult. what type of services and activities are you pursuing to help reach out to this age group? and i will say this is beyond the group of people that are eligible under their parents' insurance there are coverage opportunities of course for all each groups under the law and l. autrey general it is that the critical element to the success of the affordable care act and people with mental illness and others might be difficult as well to get into coverage. the question perhaps is what can we do in the field to help reach out to and enroll people into coverage. anybody want to take that one? >> i will start with it. others probably have ideas. part of what we know we need to do is to have a fairly ag