Good afternoon everyone. We were with the attorney general, let me just make a couple of points, first he enjoys overwhelming support under conference and will think he is doing an outstanding job. Barr is. We have the expiring intelligence and provisions, some of them have generated some degree of bipartisan controversy in the past and the attorney general is willing to underscore the importance of these provisions in the wake of the 911 attacks. They are still relevant. To go after terrorists today is like they were after 911. Its intense he was for these measures, to lose support. They been so successful. We had minimal attacks here at home from foreigners. These tools have been overwhelmingly useful according to our intelligence advisors. Then i hope that when the senate deals with these expiring provisions of the couple of weeks, we will be able to continue to have them in law, which will then of course provide maximum protection of the american people. This afternoon that it in o
Marissa mayer is she was hired to be a coder at google. She was hired to be someone who literally makes the programs. Her first big project was supposed to be like googles first ad delivery system, you know . Google makes billions and billions of dollars off of ads, and she was going to make the first one. And it was taking her months and monthses and months to do. Google went out and hired someone named jeff dean and this sort of shocked the industry because jeff dean is a superstar. Hes really known for being one of the best coders on the planet. And he did the project that meyer had been work on in a matter of weeks. And mayer, you know, to her credit sort of looked at this and said is, you know, she loved working at google and she said im not going to make my mark at this company by being a coder. Is so she said what else can i do. So she sort of threw herself at whatever problems the company had. You know she actually got involved in pr and marketing and all sorts of strange thing
Took all of the medical research amendments and all of the democrats and republicans and said lets put everything in one amendment, susan went along with it and she said that she had the alzheimers amendment specifically. And we had 42 or 43 that had cosponsored amendments when it came to medical research. Now we were all together and that is the way this works in the way that you build the coalition. When you look at heart disease, alzheimers has got the largest footprint out there in the costs are the highest as i understand them of all of these. But the level of Research Dollars that the federal government spends is really a pathetic third or less of what you see going into similar rates. Im interested structurally what you think is happening in this field that has made it difficult to step those numbers up. Thats a good question. I am asked about it as long as i have been in the house and the than it how do you pick your research projects. And it is a deadly disease, it affects chi
What importable care act and the social contract, as you feel it between the government and Civil Society and those People Living with those disease, you have talked about research which may not help many of those within it. And as that come in discussion. If youre friends with a sick child that didnt have Health Insurance, you will never forget it as long as he lived. I was a student a few blocks from here brandnew wife and baby and no Health Insurance and my daughter had a problem and i said that i would leave the Law School Classes and wait to see who walked through the door. And i was hoping whoever came through the door was a competent medical professional and its a basic right that we should establish in america. It shouldnt just be this. When we get into this conversation about the role of government, thats where i come from. The Affordable Care act, most important thing ive ever cast. Down by 30 , the rate of growth of Health Care Costs is still an incline but planning just eno
He gave 2 billion to nih, which is more than 5 . Its 5 plus inflation. Pretty darn good, better than the house, but better than the president and he did it at the expense of a lot of other good things in the bill. Dont get me wrong. Im not happy with the way he approached it, but he was sensitized by the researchers in st. Louis. Washington university to the need for medical research. And i believe this crosses the spectrum. We have to reach the point where we take the research and innovation and say this is a special consideration of the United States and the future. Its not going to be to the same budget control rules as z other expenditures. Last night Steve Kornacki showed an interview about how you and he were gym buddies and turned marco rubio around on immigration and used the gym as a Hunting Ground to turn people over. Who are some of your targets that you might like to was Chuck Schumer lying . I go to the senate gym daily. He said that republicans go early and democrats go l