On a Food Stamp Program is the right thing to do at all. Bill you know, unless they fix some of the things like that i do not know exactly what is going to happen, but i have heard the price of a gallon of milk could double or triple, and this is the wrong time for stuff like this to be going on. Reality think that the about the welfare system and welfare spending is that anytime a program is ostensibly cut, we have a huge amount of controversy about it, but when those programs are enlarged, nobody actually knows about it, and as a result of that, we have expanded, after adjusting for inflation, assistance for the poor, 20 fold since the beginning of the war on poverty. When we started the war on poverty, if you took all the antipoverty programs and added them together, . 50 was spent for every dollar that would be needed to eliminate poverty, and today we are spending close to 5. 50 for every dollar that is needed to eliminate poverty. The system is very large. When we talk about the
I wish that we had time to take all of the questions that we dont and so now i just want to introduce the third member its great to be back here. We felt the warm invite from when we came especially alex and the team and at the Kennedy School. Go to the digital riptide if you cant remember that short url, go to the shorenstein site. You dont have to read it all. I promise you if you let these people speak for themselves, you will be engaged and you will learn and if you are having insomnia trouble there are a couple that will put you to sleep, but im not going to tell you which ones those are. You have to hunt for those results. A nice discussion with riptide is meant to be back. But it wasnt a testament of the discussion and its not a testament of the conclusion that we are not pessimistic about the future of news. So, certainly as we look back and think to people, we found that the truism that was the most true of course is what has already happened in the past. And we interviewed an
Epa Administrator Gina Mccarthy said earlier this month that Environmental Policies and regulations that affect the lives of americans need to be grounded in quality and transparent science. She testified before the House Science Committee which is chaired by congressman lamar smith of texas. [inaudible conversations] the committee on Science Space Technology will come to order. Welcome everyone to todays hearing entitled strengthening transparency and accountability within the Environmental Protection agency. Im going to recognize myself for five minutes for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for hers. The Environmental Protection agency like every other Governmental Institution should answer to the American People. Everyone agrees that we need to protect the environment but we should do so in a way that is open and honest. Democracy requires transparency and accountability. Yet the epas justifications for its regulations are cloaked in secret science. I
Quarter of a million times already. Nobody wants to be a burden. I think thats so at any age. Dr. Baldwin . One of the innovations i want to bring forward is something that weve been charged with at cdc. That is to think about the connection between clinical medicine and Public Health. In early september, all the cdc leadership was sent a note saying, how can we improve prevention in health care . He outlined four specific areas that i think crosswalk nicely with transportation. The first was to reduce practice variability. An opportunity in this space is as we get better and better about understanding driver fitness and how to evaluate it, reducing practice variability across Health Care Settings is going to be critically important. The secondary was engaging the entire health care team. So assisting with these screenings, understanding these transitions, engaging allied health, Occupational Therapists and others and importantly having those Professionals Connect with these transporta
Were looking at some other questions that have been raised ability what else we should do and looking at those issues. Again, working in cone cert with other agencies as well as states and local communities. So while hydrofracking has raised concern about whether it can be done or is being done safe and responsibly. Ep is working with states, local government, and the industry to make sure that we understand how to answer those issues effective from a science perspective, and in a way that continues to maintain the availability of inexpensive natural gas that strengths the economy as well as help us reduce air emission. I appreciate that. I think it seems like a reasonable response. Someone who asked you environmental law far long time. Please, do what you can to work with the administration. So we dont have overlapping of potentially inconsistent regulations. Very frustrating for the public. We want it to be done responsibly and in a way people can understand. Thank you for being here