this year even newt gingrich opposed the plans to cut nih funding.ig pharma generally does not do basic scientific research. they look to the nih to do that. which, of course, creates jobs and growth. stock market trends support the pro-growth effect. bill clinton raised taxes, but also helped to usher in new competition. other, george w. bush cut taxes, deregulated financial markets, and much of the economy. what was the result is it clinton presided over the longest economic expansion in history with a budget surplus. president bush bloated the deficit and left the office with the worse recession in post-war history. do the math. progressivism is the most pro-growth political philosophy around. i can't get republicans to change their tune, but i do wish that democrats would stop trying to imitate conservatives. they instead should promote pro-growth progressivism. >> david, thank you so much, a beautiful rant as always. david goodfriend visiting with us. thank you. i am going to be off for the next couple of days. thank you, david. i'm going to be

in other well-defined projects and the nih has a particular model and one of the things the nih has overtime been relatively successful in doing with the emphasis on the culture of peer review and the like is maintaining some degree of insulation from politics and that is a crucial part of it. that has not been the experience of all that is done in the name of, in the name of promoting technology. and so basically i think we are basically in agreement that the genome project was good, that there is a market failure rationale, that there are real risks of public failure and that you have to apply, that you have to apply a lot of discipline to it. >> i would like to ask actually, pushback on both of you on a broader question which is that threat. to challenge this premise of this event as an innovation problem. i'm not a scientist so i look at the data to try to found out what is is the innovation problem. [laughter] we are not looking at my data. if innovation is going to matter to growth it should show productivity but productivity looks pretty good. toward activity which is intrinsic re

in other well-defined projects and the nih has a particular model and one of the things the nih has overtime been relatively successful in doing with the emphasis on the culture of peer review and the like is maintaining some degree of insulation from politics and that is a crucial part of it. that has not been the experience of all that is done in the name of, in the name of promoting technology. and so basically i think we are basically in agreement that the genome project was good, that there is a market failure rationale, that there are real risks of public failure and that you have to apply, that you have to apply a lot of discipline to it. >> i would like to ask actually, pushback on both of you on a broader question which is that threat. to challenge this premise of this event as an innovation problem. i'm not a scientist so i look at the data to try to found out what is is the innovation problem. [laughter] we are not looking at my data. if innovation is going to matter to growth it should show productivity but productivity looks pretty good. toward activity which is intrinsic re

at nih, we are the major funder of biomedical research in the world. the likelihood of a grant as an early stage investigator was about one in three that that grant would get funded. that was availability of funds versus the request for them. some might have argued that we would've done better if we had funded one into, but one in three was the experience. in the last few years since 2003, says the budgets have flattened out and now this year, seeing a real decrease in real dollars, that success rate has gradually been trimmed back. it is now about one in five and it is heading to one in six later this year. a lot of early stage investigators trying to get starters who are often the engines of these bright, creative ideas are having difficulty getting their laboratories going, because they depend upon that grants support for starting. we try to do everything we can especially with early-stage investigators to give them a special leg up to compete against each other and not the more established investigators. we have done everything we can to free up en

president's personal sniper as well as an employee from the european press photo agency photographers at the nih the allegations the arrests came as nine other people were jailed for fourteen years spying for russia told in a position spy claims they tended to whip up until moscow styria to boost a presence are concerned his control. for suckers surely writes novels these. are sure and. see the main basis for. the most. and mean. that line he should care in power because the suction was second carol oh which we were. going through all his terror an. explanation for european partners and why george is all democratic country why do. you always bombs the start. of georgia and now go we should but he's going to be used to so-called russian agents or russian spies or i do know. more well news they sell for you now syria is accusing washington of interfering it's a threat to us and dancing with the country flashpoints. but for the travel to the city where protesters are facing a security crackdown after weeks of anti-government demonstrations tanks remain outside the area more than twenty. thousand in

. >> 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 affectsour 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 be

britain's government is the nih it was too close to or murdoch's media empire as it scrambles to distance itself from the firm that's mired in phone hacking claims but records show prime minister david cameron held more than twenty meetings with murder executives in the past year has spanned the past forty eight hours apologizing with full page ads in british newspapers and meeting the family of a young murder victim whose voicemail was intercepted the media moguls now deployed p.r. gurus to rescue news corp's reputation before facing scrutiny from m.p.'s about his papers on ethical methods there is a gaffe on britain's news shelves this sunday after murdoch hastily axed the best selling news of the world as claims swirled of illegally tapping the phones of crime victims and dead soldiers' families as laura emma reports it's a watershed moment for any of the easy relationship between britain's politicians and press. but every media outlet in town t.v. radio even the screenwriter when art imitates life a long running simpsons takes a shot at its owner rupert murdoch aka montgomery burns in

tiger woods baseball star alex rodriguez they admit to being treated by a canadian physician but the nih receiving performance enhancing drugs from him clear will be sentenced on october nineteenth and could be jailed for up to eighteen months. on a day of crashes britain's not cavendish survive to take his first stage win in this year's tour de france many riders hit the deck including defending tour de france champion alberto contador he threw his bike down in disgust but still managed to finish then one of the most worrying crashes thought you can sell and get knocked off by a race mounted by luckily he was thrown clear in the motorcyclist was sacked from this year's race while tom bowden who is fancying his chances of a stage when came a cropper to. cavendish though survived the h t c rider. cues in white on the far left here powering his way past the usual bare. have six being staged on the tall shopkeeper the yellow jersey though finishing safely in the pack to remain a second ahead of canel evans in the overall standings. but then i saw cage dream teams carson petersburg have appo

nih supports a lot of the trading. we need to see if we're doing it right in terms of quality and quantity. is our training program well matched to the needs? i think she will get interesting answers. >> you have both highlighted the enormous potential of strategic investments in research. aarp is running ads about spending on medicare against picul research. how do we convince policymakers it is not a choice? >> we have economic arguments to bring to bear. longevity has improved by about one year every six years in this country. if you add a book that has added to the economy since 1970, it is estimated to be about $95 trillion. if you asked about what has happened in terms of disabilities, we have reduced disabilities in individuals over 65 by 30% since 1970 through advances that allow people to be more functional and able to perform life activities. those are all pretty good return on investment. we have seen heart attacks dropped by more than 70%. we see cancer going down. for the last 10 years, it has been going d

funding, but researchers have written letters to federal appropriators asking them to keep funding nih grants and leave politics out of the review process. kids will get more than a toy surprise in happy meals come january. mcdonald's will be putting in a half order of apples in every child's meal along with a half order of french fries, as part of a broader health push. customers will still be able to order a full portion of either item, but the fast food giant says only about 11% were ordering apples on their own. and mcdonald's insists it's not buckling to pressure, even as the restaurant industry takes some of the blame for skyrocketing childhood obesity rates. first lady michelle obama praised the changes as continued progress. mrs. obama can count the happy meal change as a victory, but the rest of the white house is lagging in a program to collect healthy food for the needy. the feds feed families campaign has a goal of collecting 2 million pounds of food from federal workers for area food banks. however, the executive office of the president ranks 27th out of 36 agencies, it ha

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genius to keep america and the lead economically.et and the conrad budget allows usn to continue the nihore jobs for the people of this t nation. the budget also deals with iolitary spending. nat i think the people in this nation should understand. america spends as much in entir defense that is almost theof th. entire amount spent for other nations of the world. want it's difficult to see our nation continue to grow the way he wanted to be so much of our budget tied up in the defense, the national defense. we need to figure out a way to do this in a better way than we can save money and are spending between 1997 and 2011. the defense budget of our country grew from $254 billion . year to $688 billion a year. doh so what is the republican budget due?he they just increase those numbers schematically over the next year, five years, 10 years.l the democratic raposo recognizei the reality that we can bring our combat troops home fromex afghanistan, that we can expect the international community to do more than we can bring about savings on the military side. let me talk about the last major

not everything is cut, somethings are increased in this plan, like medical research for drugs, the nih. there's a debate about taxes going on, and we propose eliminating $1 trillion of wasteful tax spending. people who call this a tax increase art defending earmarks for ethanol, earmarks for movie producers, eskimo whaling taxes and deductions for vacation homes at a time when we are near bankruptcy. called this plan attacks increase it ignores the massive amount of waste that we have identified. it cut spending outside the tax code versus inside the tax code by 7.5 to win. for some groups, ration of 1000 to one would not fit. in the real world a tax increase is any government policy that takes away your wealth. that's exactly what's getting rid to happen in our country. the assets that you have will be diminished in value as the government creates fiat money to pay for spending. tax expenditures are not tax cuts. tax expenditures are socialism and corporate welfarism. tax expenditures are increases on anyone who does not receive the benefit or can't hire a lobbyist or special interest

is anyone else conducting completely separate independent testing, nih, cdc, anyone like that? >> right after it occurred that we identified where it occurred, we get industrial hygiene testing of the period that was a place within several hours of the time we knew we had in issue to deal with. that did not show any particular issues from an air standpoint, but we did put that in place right away. as the unified command was in place, we try to work activities to the unified command so we alignment with the epa and the montana deq. >> thank you: mr. chairman. >> senator lautenberg. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i ask consent that my full statement -- opening statement be entered into the record. >> no objections. >> mr. pruessing, i want to ask you, how many times has phmsa com2 axon and asked about problems with what the pipeline? >> inspections of our integrity program. they did a very detailed assessment of this particular silvertip line in june of this year. >> werther -- had you been notified of any problems that they saw over? let's talk about it. from 202003 on. >> the last

some things are increase in this plan, like medical research for drugs, nih. there is a debate about tax is going on, and we propose eliminating $1 trillion of wasteful tax spending. people who call this a tax increase are defending earmarks for ethanol, tax earmarked for movie producers, stimulus tax breaks, tax breaks for eskimo whaling captains at a time when we are near bankruptcy. calling this a tax increase ignores the massive amount of waste we have identified at the government. it cuts spending outside the tax code versus inside the tax code by 7.5-1. for some groups, a ratio of 1000-one would not fit. a tax increase is any government policy that takes away your wealth -- that is what is getting ready to happen to our country through financial repression. the assets you have will be diminished in value as the government creates fiat money to pay for our profligate spending. tax expenditures are not tax cuts. expenditures are socialism and corporate welfare-ism. increases on anyone who does not receive the benefit or cannot hire a lobbyist for a special