Were doing. Could you comment, please, sir . Yes, sir. The observations that we made, and this is in the report and certainly not allconclusive. These werent six guys in the mess hall who dreamed these things up. These were based on comments we got from Security Experts who were with obo on a daily basis. I would tell you for one, if you can build a beautiful embassy under Design Excellence and you can do it as fast, and it doesnt cost any more, im all for it. I dont care. I dont care what we build. But what i am concerned with, its just not logical to the people we talk to and, frankly, to me that you can build under Design Excellence as quickly and as costeffectively as we did under standard Embassy Design. You pull a design off the shelf and build it and adopt the facade in a way that is fitting with the local the country as opposed to going through a design bid build with architects and builders, it just doesnt make sense. Now, if you can show me with facts and figures that it does
Agree more. We hope the congress will enact a new authorization based upon the principles that we are outlining here today. I want to thank you mr. President , and i hope that our colleagues will take this seriously and hopefully we can turn this mess around. With that, i suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call mr. Hatch mr. President. The presiding officer the senator from utah. Mr. Hatch i suggest the quorum call be suspended. The presiding officer without objection. Morning business is closed. Under the previous order the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nomination which the clerk will report. The clerk nomination. Executive office of the president , michael p. Botticelli of the District Of Columbia to be director of the National Drug control policy. The presiding officer under the previous order, there will be 30 minutes of debate equally divided. Mr. Hatch i notice the absence of a quorum. T
Could do to advance to us policy proposals. I also think it is an issue that members of this committee could well take up and ask the basic questions, what role do we want them to play is it strictly housing, is it liquidity. Are there other ways it can be constituted given the way that the whole world but thats not really my question. I do have a question. My question relates to the approved merger which i dont believe will be the last. I have communicated to you in correspondence deep concerns held by people in the region about the continued commitment of the merged bank to invest in housing. Also communicated to you concerns about govern nans. After all, this is a fivetime zone Federal Home Loan Bank region now. And weve repeatedly asked for the letter setting forth the terms and conditions. Weve been repeatedly told we cannot have it. I want you to know that as that relates to sensitive financial matters, i completely understand. But i do not know what the compelling public good wh
But for the an inconvenience. But for the little guy these new requirements are killers. They dont have the 100,000 they can drop into this, keeping better books over here or getting hold of all these people or exposing anybody who has invested in their patent. This also enables nested shell companies, which have few assets, but can infringe on patents while the inventor is unable to sue their customers. Who are free to continue infringing. So they set up well just do all of our business with this technology through that company, so if we get sued, they cant get at us. No way. The First Court Case they are going to were going to shield these big guys who are stealing. This process could keep an infringing process in place for a decade or more while the inventer is trying to find ways of getting inventor is trying to find ways of stopping that infringement. This authorizes the Patent Office director to create a patent troll database and create a strategy to teach Small Business how to d
That is surrounding vaccine safety. To prevent against future outbreaks, i think it is vital that we continue to invest in our nations vaccine production capacity, support cuttingedge science, and enhance the accreditation surrounding vaccine safety. So i have a number of questions, especially around our production. Over 20 years ago, partially in response to a Measles Outbreak, congress recognized the critically Important Role of vaccines by passing and creating the cdc vaccine for Children Program, which provides recommended pediatric vaccines to low income children. The cdc also maintains a stockpile for pediatric vaccines, so, dr. , could you tell us the current state of our National Pediatric vaccine stockpile, and is the measles vaccine included in that supply and can you elaborate on the role of the stockpile in addressing outbreaks, as well as how cdc works to maintain it . Yes. Be vaccines for Children Program includes a stockpile that is approximately 50 enough vaccine for 50