Researchers, not just serves working. I hesitate to do this because he represented the state that is the most affected but i would love to see if someone has the courage to question the scale of money we give the universities for administering this. You look at the percent are part gets percent harvard gets. Come on guys, cant work that go straight into research . Sen. Warren let me ask you the question on the funding part of this. Should we be doing Capital Budgeting as a way to increase the funding substantially for nih . In order to fund nih, do we have to cut shortterm spending . Speaker gingrich we dont have to. I would take it off budget and issue an alzheimers bond. The longterm tidal wave is so enormous the most fiscally prudent thing you can do is to find a way to undercut that wave through research. I and happy to defend that notion anywhere in the country in terms of talking with conservatives. There is no all are other alternative that works. If you look at how the navy bui
Looking at how do i put encryption and make it so no one can mess with the device other things that might have impact on People Living there. First off we noticed to make sure the government doesnt weaken encryption. Second of all we need to continue to see the growth in the kinds of research around encryption that is in some cases supported by the government. Anyone else . I share his comments. Also going back to the garage door opener. When that was introduced it was primitive, it was a fun thing to do to drive around the neighborhood and open up other peoples garage doors or similarly other peoples telephones. By todays standards it was relatively primitive even though novel then. As weve gotten more sophisticated, memory chips have grown, theres solutions and we dont hear about those problems anymore. It hasnt been an issue. Thank you. The reality is significant investment is made in innovating around privacy and security because its the right thing to do and consumers are demandin
Now that is 10 trillion. So there are not many places you can say i can take 10 trillion out of the spending stream to keep you healthier. Let me follow up on this now speaker gingrich. You are a conservative and as a result may have credibility than i do in some circumstances on the question on the role of government here. Why isnt it enough to count on private industry to do this . Why do we have to have a substantial investment from the federal government . Its a question about American History. [ inaudible ] and i are developing a project on why George Washington matters. And people dont often notice that the Founding Fathers wrote into the constitute a Patent Office because they so deeply believed in the future. They made investments. The First Federal highway was built during washingtons lifetime. They believed in improving things. They talked about them as improvements. Jefferson launched an expedition to the west and there was a Childrens Book on this called from sea to shining
Visitors to the hill. We have a few of them here today with us. Thank you for all the work that you do. We thank you. Now turning our attention to the hearing, we are joined by the 14th administrator of the epa scott pruitt. Congratulations on your confirmation. You have joined a distinguished group. We look forward to hearing your vision and working with you to provide the resources necessary to lead an agency. We are also joined by holly greaves. I believe this is your first time testifying before the subcommittee as well. Welcome to both of you. Before we dive into the specifics, administrator pruitt, you have a tough job here today. 54 billion for nondefense spending to defense side of the ledger. Those are tough lines to meet. And many tough choices were necessary in order to meet those targets. Earlier this morning i along with Ranking Member, miss mccollum and other members discussed the Defense Budget at the hearing with secretary mattis that conversation further underscored th
Epa administrator scott pruitt answered questions about his agencys budget request. It calls for major cuts and a reduction in the workforce of nearly 4000 employees. This hearing was held by a House Appropriations subcommittee. It ran just over two hours. The committee will come to order. Good morning. Good morning. Today we continue to keep all those affected by yesterdays events, including steve scalise, in our thoughts and prayers. We applaud the Capitol Police in being the first line of defense in protecting Public Service and visitors. We have a few of them here today. Thank you for all the work that you do. Turning our attention to the hearing, we are joined by the 14th administrator of the Environmental Protection agency, scott pruitt. Congratulations on your confirmation. You have joined a distinguished group. We look forward to hearing your vision and working with you to provide the resources necessary to manage an important agency. We are also joined by Senior Adviser to the