i'm also frustrated by the hurt long covid sufferers indicate nih is not doing enough on the issue in their voices are not being heard. let me tell you what patient advocates tell me. nih is not concerned the input of those living with long covid design enrollment of clinical trials that nih is not as responsive as it should be to advocate outreach. that with recover being spread across multiple in situ answers lack of clear leadership in the initiative lacks a point person that told responsible for decision-making. there's a lack of transparency in the budget and future plans for the initiative. doctor, i know you are working the cancer institute is copied directly into the space. and so your knowledge of the inter- workings of the recovery initiative are limited at this time. but should she be confirmed as director ask you continue to work with me to address the concerns of those living with long covid including you commit to meeting with patient advocates to discuss these issues. et cetera cain thank you very much for that question. i can absolutely confirm i will work with you on

bertagnolli as the next director of the nih, national institute of health. today, the senate will hit a new milestone in our record of confirming president biden's diverse, well-qualified judicial nominees, when we confirm two more district judges -- kenly kiya kato to serve in the center district of california, and julia e. kobick to serve in the district of massachusetts. with the confirmations today, the senate will hit two exciting milestones -- 150 total judges confirmed under president biden and 100 female judges confirmed under president biden. two-thirds of the judges we have confirmed are women, redressing an imbalance that existed for centuries. we have 150 judges now who have brought integrity and impartiality to the bench. we have 150 judges who have expanded the diversity and dynamism of our courts. we have 150 judges who are restoring america's trust in the federal judiciary. then, after that, we'll finally advance -- finally, after that, we'll advance the nomination of ramon ernesto reyes, jr. to be a district judge in the eastern district of

fast forward a year he comes before my committee under and he says the nih has never unequivocally never ever funded gain of function research. now part the reason he can say that is they changed the definition of gain of function. they literally to the websit the day before the hearing and changed the definition. but even that isn't enough to out of this he's like, wel animal viruses can't be gain of function. they have to be human viruses. well, what if you take two different anim viruses? you put them together and now they infect humans? you don't know this in advance. so part of his definition was can't gain of function unless we know it's going to gain function. well, that's what the experiment is, is to see if it gains function. that's ridiculou but we do know that certain of the backbones of viruses are combining have ten, 20% lethality. we know that there are some viruses at labs are working on, such as ebola, nipah virus, marbg virus, that have 50% mortality. we quote a scientist inere who's a 30, 40 ye virologist who is in the trump administration, who says that he thinks this

take the nih, who's for 38 years, you think someone's going to be coming up the ranks that he didn't pick? you know, so i think the whole place is polluted. i think the fbi has got to be you've got to you would need to bring somebody from outside the fbi who has honesty and integrity. when i ask christopher wray whether or not a fisa warrant is constitutional the way a fourth of mean is when with probable cause, he says, oh yeah, there's no problem. there is a problem because a fisa warrant, you don't get informed of. you don't get to challenge with a lawyer. and it's probable cause that you're connected to a foreign country, not probable that you committed a crime. that's what's in the constitution. and so i think you got to clean, clean house from top to bottom. it won't happen unless we you know, we have a different president. but yeah, i think you got to clean house from top to bottom. thank you, senator paul. everything that you've been doing, i've been a bit concerned that for the most part, a lot of people have started to see that there was a cover up, but they said they're fe

the first place. then it was shipped to this nih lab in montana. let me add the kicker. this lab in montana, this government lab that was overseen by fauci still exists and has a history of infected animals escaping, people getting into the laboratory, unauthorized people getting into the lab and bio weapons development. yet nih is currently spending $125 million of covid relief funds to expand its bat labs. >> wait a second. we are using covid money to grow more bat labs? you've got to be kidding me? >> it's an accident waiting to happen and we are funding it. to add to all of that the nih nominee from the biden administration who was about to take over the nih told rand paul in a hearing that she supports a gain of function experiments on animals. she supports funding labs in china and other enemy nations that are completely unaccountable to american taxpayers. >> lock her up. lock fauci up. lock everybody up in montana. lock up the stupid zookeeper in maryland's. let's try to save as many lives as possible and keep everybody out of these labs. great work, great resear

because i think that's one of the things that we is a lot of individuals they don't know that nih is ere. they don't know what any age does. they don't know that there's a project, their culture going through the age now for review. right and we want to make sure that they are aware of that and they have the information available. okay. speaking about nih grants, can you sell it to us? like how how difficult the process is, what the application windows are? and hi again. good to see you, madam secretary secretary. as a newbie to the group, it would be really helpful to account for us as new people and older people of. the adc to understand that any age process because it is a little scary. i agree. well i can i'll go through the basics of the process and then i want point out again jason who's here she said wave your hand if you have questions. even if you ask them to me and you call later, we're going to send you to jason anyway to answer other questions. so it is you know, there are a couple of steps. number one, you want to know who put what grants are, what we fund. we have six di

and it's only a matter of time until we have another pandemic it's, courtesy of the nih. >> so fauci grabs the virus from the wuhan h lab, grabs a bunch of egyptian bats from maryland and then mashes them t together in montantoa. montan not only that, but bat womana?yh from the wuhan lab and peter daszak from eco health were e cothe ones who went into the southern caves in southern china and found this bat virus in the first place. then it was shipped to this this nihth lab in montana. now, let me add the kicker is that this lab in montana,govn this government lab in montana that was overseen by she still exists, has a history of infected animals escaping, people getting into the laboratory, unauthorized people getting int o the labb an and bioweapons development. yet nih is about to spend currently spending $125 million of covid relief funds to expand its bat labs >> w >> wait a second. we're using covid money to growb more bat labs. yo you've got to be kidding meat . it's an accident waiting to happen and we're funding itao . a and then add tddo all of that that the nih nominee from

an event that the nih says is fatal nine times out of ten when it happens outside of a hospital. but, by a twist of fate, this time it was not fatal, because sitting next to him was a group of doctors who immediately sprung into action. >> we quickly checked the pulse. and as soon as there was identification that he had no pulse and he was in cardiac arrest, cpr was immediately initiated. >> reporter: dr. nicole brenner who also happens to be 35 weeks pregnant and three residents turning that dining room into an emergency room until paramedics arrived. >> the doctor called for emergency assistance, helped identify if there was any additional support in the area. both doctor alicia and dr. rivera were able to initiate cpr and take over for me, because of a little bit afof a challenge. >> reporter: montero's doctor says she's grateful the doctors werethere because they saved her father's life. [speaking in a global language] forever grateful for those doctors who stepped in and stepped up. [speaking in a global language] an incredible story of being in the right place at the right

the risk but this investment in medical research and i would say the other thing was investment young scientists in 30s, unfortunately at nihhat a person gets funded is about 43. when you look at most nobel prizes, most of the ideas are related to five years he in school we are funding more than 500 young scientists, changed the world probably a quarter are the to a third of every discovery in the last 30 years has come from these young people. you made a decisions, back in the day, that you wanted to fund those scientists, doctors who would share respectful because your ultimately goal to move needle on actual saving lives that is what you did when i first met in you prostate cancer center early days where you said no you are not going to come to my you know big event unless you share your research they shared research, and boom, you had massive, massive discoveries anyways what you are still doing. >> yes i would say that comment we told people if they couldn't share research, that they were so important they wouldn't need our money to be fund, yes, that is not only changed all cancers but changed much of the way research

we put a lot of money in the nih, not in the car in the 2000s.i think we double the budget of the nih but clearly cures haven't come out something quick to just do what all of you are saying, we thinkse what we're doing to see if there's something better we can do. i'm glad you're here because this is how we get things done, my people telling their stories. and so because of your story you can come up without you can try to solve it. dr. bhatnagar, can congress due to expedite the delays that you were saying? >> thank you, senator. firstly, i want to acknowledge florida is the epicenter of pws care in the world. the universe should afford as a physician byme the name of jennifer miller sees largest population of pws patients in th country. to answer your question, it's probably true that the fda already has the authority needed to provide regular flexibility in the circumstances that we are talking about. unfortunately, there is no consistent application of that flexibility. i don't know what tule takes but a think to mandate the consideration of

that's going to cost at least from a scientific standpoint of the nih hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to do it. when you look at the trillions of dollars that were spent in healthcare throughout the world it is like pencil dust compared to what we've had to deal with. that is the thing i keep encouraging and it gets into the concept of corporate memory. if you do that right now you'll be much better prepared because it might not be a coronavirus. it might be a variety or other viruses that we are concerned about. we cannot just drop back and say we've gotten this behind us. now let's move on to the next problem of the day because the next problem of the day may not happen tomorrow or the next day but it is going to happen because history is told us that. of emerging infections. i could always tell the story before we had recorded history of pandemics we did with the pathogen is. influenza was not the same. in our own lifetime with a 1957 , 68, 2009, and now covid. i think the shot across the bow in 2002 was the first covid to say a coronavirus can actually evolve into a dea

it's going to cost at least from the scientific standpoint at the nih, hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to do it. when you look at the trillions of dollars that was spent in health care throughout the world, it's like pencil dust compared to what we've had to deal with. so that's the thing that i keep encouraging and it gets into the concept of corporate memory, if you do that right now, that you would be much better prepared, because it might not be a coronavirus. it might be a variety of an nipa virus or one of the other viruses that we're concerned about. we can't drop back and say we've gotten this behind us, now let's move on to the next problem of the day because the next problem of the day may not happen tomorrow or the next day, but it's going to happen. because history has told us that. we are living in an arena of emerging infections. historically, before recorded history, i always tell the story, you know, before recorded history we had pandemics that we didn't know what the pathogen is. we didn't know what the passage was with the 1918 pandemic. everyone thinks we

they have amendments, we want to make the nih director $1 salary, department of education that gives money for special needs kids $1 salary. that the democrats lm think it's so ridiculous we don't need to argue against it, but we need to let the american people know what's at stake, particularly in 2024. you have a republican party that wants to cut science, that wants to cut cancer research, that wants to cut education, that wants to make cuts in social security, that wants to make cuts in medicare, and you have a democratic party that is standing up to fund the basic social safety net that this country has had since the new deal. that's the choice in this election. >> let me play for you matt gaetz who started all this by doing the motion to vacate against kevin mccarthy before. here he is plaining why it's different for mike johnson. >> there's a fundamental difference here between johnson and mccarthy. mccarthy had seven months. johnson only had a few weeks. mike johnson and kevin mccarthy both promised us a path to single subject spending bills. and seven months of kevin mccarthy

she's the recipient of fellowships from the guggenheim foundation, the nih, harvard university and the whiting foundation. she was a fellow here, the common center in 2018 to 2019. we owe her i owe her a special debt of gratitude for serving really wonderfully for two years as the interim director of the common center. until last month. please help me. welcome back to the center martha hodes and stacy schiff. thank you, salvator martha, i'm so delighted to join you here. no one. what? no one tells you about the cullman center is that when you have the feeling that you have been expelled from paradise. so i'm very, very happy to be back. it's very bittersweet, but i'm thrilled to be back with you. this book, happy, is about what happened to you in 1970, but it's also about how you retrieved those that 50 year old history. so i just thought we should start with an overview of what actually happened before we get into the reconstructing, what actually happened. do you want to just describe the hijacking with a little bit of context? do and i will. i also just want to say very quickly, tha

it's going to cost at least from the scientific standpoint at the nih, hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to do it. when you look at the trillions of dollars that was spent in health care throughout the world, it's like pencil dust compared to what we've had to deal with. so that's the thing that i keep encouraging and it gets into the concept of corporate memory, if you do that right now, that you would be much better prepared, because it might not be a coronavirus. it might be a variety of an nipa virus or one of the other viruses that we're concerned about. we can't drop back and say we've gotten this behind us, now let's move on to the next problem of the day because the next problem of the day may not happen tomorrow or the next day, but it's going to happen. because history has told us that. we are living in an arena of emerging infections. historically, before recorded history, i always tell the story, you know, before recorded history we had pandemics that we didn't know what the pathogen is. we didn't know what the passage was with the 1918 pandemic. everyone thinks we

with the senate, which would never get 60 votes on any of these bills, labor hhs with deep cuts to the nihg we're not going to vote for that. so they pulled the bill. so meanwhile, we're now into the last week because it starts next monday when the congress comes back, but they have until friday. they got to have a bill that goes back and forth. it's got to get 60 votes. who knows how this is going to end next week. >> the white house has a plan to shorten the meeting and they've already moved it up. at least they did that a couple of months ago. the meeting in san francisco next week, it's a big summit. the president may have to come back early. he's going to front end. >> he's got a phone. >> importantly, it's the first face-to-face with president xi, so that has been moved up to be, you know, one after the other. >> there's going to be a lot of negotiation next week as they try to get this thing done to avoid a shutdown. meanwhile, you got all of these federal employees, here you go again, very similar to what we had back in september, who's essential, who's not? you still have car paym

. >> i think the gentlelady and with regard to mosquitoes it's not your jurisdiction but the nih and fda are working on that. i look forward to hearing your five minutes of questioning. >> madam chair optimism about the fda for a separate discussion. obviously it's her first time before this committee is her role and cdc director but not your first time before this committee. your role in previous congresses. we all share the goal of rebuilding the faith and the trust of the cdc. most of us recognize we need a well-functioning and respected cdc in order to protect the american people. you shared some of your visions with us on how we travel that road but one thing missing is the degree that there has been self-reflection and decisions made as far as governance and how things work internally for the cdc. are you free to speak on them quick >> what you've done internally to modify the culture and improve the culture. >> this is work i want to give credit that started before he i came on board a cdc director. they have changed the structure of the agency to make sure it's more operationa

so if you believe that, how are you going to go in there and hold the fda accountable or hold the nih or cdc? of course, he's not going to do that. so i will do that. i lived through it. part of the reason my state's doing so well is because we backed all those people and actually followed the real science and also commonsense and also an appreciation for people's freedom and right to make their own decisions. but you never know what's going to happen going forward. and my fear is with no, they're going to run the same playbook again in the future and that's going to be bad for this country. we cannot let that. anybody else. yeah. or get get the right way. we want you to feel like we're taking the right from them. that's my biggest thing with my family. i deal with it. it feels right. you take the problems that make them want to push the other way, but yet they don't like all that over there too. so what do you what i would say is iowa in the legislature, i mean, his enacted enacted pro-life protect the governor. the governor signed that. and so but i also think looking at all these d

nih. we meet at least twice yearly. the leads the institute and i are in regular communication. ollaborate. >> yes. i'm a one person this a lot of nih institutes i'm going to have to open up my calendar. i would love to meet with them more regularly. certainly have the senior program manager than our office that estate liaison to leaderships we collaborate having clinical research infrastructure to conduct clinical trial progressive nationwide database of their working very close to the national institute on aging. >> mr. chairman, may i indulge for an extra minute? you learned of a disease that affected one out of four elderly veterans, anea epidemic, that cause significant harm and hospitalization and often death what i'm referring to is false. it is an epidemic among seniors in our country. certainly among veterans. my concern is we don't know enough about it and become at once we learn more we learn how to prevent it is a preventable at least to some extent. my frustration is a medicare will pay for hip brick pleasant but they will not pay for grab bars in your shower. i woul

the most secretive organization in our government is the dhhs and nih. we pay for all of the grants. none of their stuff is classified and they won't give us the stuff. my guess is your people knew where to look and i asked are there other grants like the grant from dharma that was denied that you can point us to? so we were either given them in wuhan, denied them in wuhan, maybe given to another country somewhere around the world. what worries us as there was circumstantial evidence leading us to the conclusion. those things should be easy. they are not classified. we have seen them, we just want you to help us because it needs to be public because our concern is this could happen again. there are legitimate, pedigreed biologist at major universities who believed not only that this came from the lab, but that what if there is an aerosol icing ebola virus? this is as dangerous as nuclear weapons but we have only one site interested in this so far. if more information were revealed, maybe we can get both sides interested and eventually do something to prev

at a minimum, continue current levels of appropriations for the nih and cdc but appropriate more. ass by supporting or scaling up training folks that do the work. finally, help our country have hope by demonstrating collaborative action as you have done before. we are turning into a nation of traumatized survivors. i have story after story of public health collaborations between gun owners and non-gun owners, hospital workers and community violence interrupters, state leaders and survivors. we have shown we can reduce the risk of a shooting long before someone picks up a gun with intent to harm. through your bipartisan commitment to this public health approach, our country can reduce firearm injury and death for all. thank you. >> i will start with five minutes of questions and turn it over to my colleague who will have the same opportunity. i listen to those who are critical of having this hearing and talking about this. there is so many more important things we can talk about and yet i wonder if there is anything more important than life or death in your average neighborhood. is

is that we actively collaborate as i was mentioning previously with -- with the primary extra mural funding agencies like nih, dod -- >> let me stop you at that. we've had a lot of success with our military service, with putting -- with the finder program, senator rosen did a lot of work on this and allowed active duty to partner with engineers and our research institutions, we have had the program in vanderbilt and it has been very successful. and dr. hastings was talking about surgery and biopsy process is. it just seems that when you're doing this, you would have a portion of that funding that would allow you to partner with research institutions in hopes of getting to a faster resolution on this. we have put so much work in dealing with toxics exposure, big part of that is what happens with the respiratory system, so if we need to look at that allowance, we should do that, mr. chairman, and allow them to use some of those funds. before my time runs out, i do want to ask you about the data security efforts for the million veteran program and we want our veterans to fill safe, knowing that their data, thei

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of and try to get the grants from government for three years the most secretive organization are governed with regard in covid is hhs and nih we pay for the grants none of the stuff is classified they will not give us the stuff. but in your review my guess is your people knew where to look and i asked if there are other grants like the diffusing grant that was denied that you can point as to four or five other grants it's given to them and wuhan, denied to them and wuhan may be given to another country somewhere around the world but circumstantial evidence leading us to the conclusion. those things should be easy their nonclassified if you've seen them we want you to help us because it needs to be public because our concern is this could happen again. there are scientists legitimate pedigreed virologist at major universities who believe that when this came from the lab at the next one could kill five -- 50%. what if there error sliding ebola virus or netbook virus? this is as dangerous as nuclear weapons and we've all had one site interested in this so far. if more information were revealed maybe we could get both sides to

the antibody studies. it was a total failure of c.d.c., nih. f.d.a. and all the agencies and the problem they act like they've done a good job with this. they did not do a good job. if it wasn't for states like florida, iowa, georgia, dragging this country out of lockdown, you would have had even more damage that was done, but we have communities in this country that have not recovered from the lockdowns to this day. san francisco has not recovered. there's others that have not recovered. i don't think you would have had the blm riots happen the way they did if you didn't have the lockdowns. i think that created a lot of pentup energy to just kind of act out and then you think ever the public health bureaucrats. they're telling me they yelled at me in florida, there's people on the beach, the governor is killing people because they're on the beach. people are playing golf in florida, how awful and they basically said you should isolate in your house and not do anything and then you have the blm riots, the same bureaucrats were asked, wait a minute, you

similarly, i don't know if any biopharmaceutical companies will challenge the white race if a card to by nihfda but to say we are studying the moderna vexing, we have to make sure you have enough hispanics or were not going to let her vaccine come to market which exempt would happen to moderna. this is completely, forget strict scrutiny. there's no rational basis. hispanic value genetic classification where you expect that there will be any scientific results that will make any sense, multiracial, multiethnic for middle and world just like americans. we need more americans before we we say this is valid. it depends, my line with classification is always if you want to know whether our race is using race, if you want to know what you're doing, what is is being used for? doesn't make any sense? if he use classifications it's going to be hard. if used proxies for classification a lot is going to depend on whether you are considering race as one aspect of a broader looking at public policy or if the truly do complete driving factor to get around supreme court precedent. the last thing i want to

similarly i don't know if any biopharmaceutical companies will actually challenge the way race is required to be used by nihfda, but to say we are studying the moderna vaccine, you have to make sure you have enough hispanics or we are not going to let your vaccine come to market which is exactly what happened to moderna. forget scrutiny, there's no rational basis, hispanic is not a genetic classification where you expect that there will be any scientific results that will make any sense, hispanic is a multiracial classification, it can be from anywhere in the world, just like americans. we need more americans before we can say this is valid. it depends, if you want to know whether race is using race, so i know what you're doing, say does this make any sense? if you use classifications, it is going to be a lot harder, if you use proxies, a lot is going to depend on whether you are considering race as one aspect of a broader looking at public policy or if it's really the complete driving factor to get around supreme court precedents. the last thing i want to say about this, that some people, a lot of the medi

they did not have the tools to identify this for there not an antibiotic study. who is a total failure of cdc nih all these agencies. the problem is, that act like they have done a good job with this. they did not do a good job if it wasn't for states like florida, iowa, georgia dragging this country out of lockdown you would have had even more damage done. we have communities in this country that have not recovered from the lockdown to this day. francisco has not but there's others have not recovered i don't think you would've had the blm riots happen the way they did if you did not have the lockdown it's a lot of pent up energyd to act out too. you think of these public health bureaucrats. they are telling you, their people on the beach the governors killing people by letting people on the beach. people are playing golf in florida how awful and they would do that. they basically said you have to isolate in your house you should not be doing anything. then have blm riots. these same public health bureaucrats were asked, wait a minute. you have been saying people should stay-at-home are you sayin

and similarly, i don't know of any biopharmaceutical companies who will challenge the way races mo required to be used by nih or fda, but to say that oh, we are studying the moderna vaccine, we have to make sure we have enough hispanics are weird going to let your vaccine come to market, which is exactly what happened to moderna. this is completely, forget strict scrutiny, there's no rational basis for this. hispanic is not a genetic classification where you would expect that there will be any scientific results that will make any sense. hispanic is a multiracial classification, multiethnic, you can be from anywhere in the world, just like americans missing we need more americans before we say this is valid. my line with classifications is if you want to know -- or using race community to say what is this being used for, and does this make any sense. if you actually use classifications, is going to be a lot harder. if you use proxies for classifications, a lot is going to depend on whether you are considering races one at aspect of a broader, looking at public policy, or if it's really the complete driving f

the vax. yet no one has been held accountable. i want to see accountability. cdc, nihfda, we will bring a reckoning and will ensure that this never happens to our country again. i am the only one that will do that in this entire race. i am the only one that will do that. you have to look and say how bad it was. donald says he did everything right during covid. really? turning the country over to found cheap? -- over to fauci? he gave fauci an award his last day in office. fauci should have been fired. he was doing things that were destructive and it was obvious as we got two and three months into covid that what he was doing was not accurate from what the data was showing. people can come at me, but literally schools are open in florida. we get interviews in florida criticizing the stuff we are doing, it's wrong to have restaurants open. well why have people elevated this guy and put him in that position? my fear is biden does not want to do anything with any of that, but trump does not want to open that up and in fact he says the mrna shot saved 100 million people's l