Has put in place knew rules for prime institutional funds that get rid of the fixed dollar value. They will have net asset values that will reduce run risk. That aside to allow firms to impose fees something that could create Financial Stability risk that we need to watch. The so called Triparty Repo market which is a major source of shortterm wholesale funding, that contained great risks. We have taken steps important steps to mitigate. Central counterparties a thrust of reform has been to try to move as many derivative contracts as possible into central counterparties to have them. By central counterparties something that serves to reduce risk and complexity and enhance Financial Stability but when these entities themselves become systemic and clearly need supervision something that you have mentioned in imf work is that we have a major growth of open ended mutual funds where you have funds that are investing in highly illiquid assets. The industries are promised immediate liquidity.
Early investments in child health and nutrition are crucial. The time period from pregnancy through Early Childhood is one of rapid physical, cognitive emotional and social development and because of this this time period in a childs life can set the stage for a lifetime of good health and success in learning and relationships or it can be a time of toxic stress when physical, mental, and social health and learning are compromised. Micronutrients such as iron and folate have demonstrated effects on Brain Development but are commonly deficient in pregnant women and Young Children in the united states. These deficiency cans lead to delays in attention motor development, poor shortterm memory and lower i. Q. Scores. One of the most Effective Investments congress can make during the prenatal to school age period is to support the special Supplemental Nutrition Program for women, infants and children, or wic and i thank the committee for its strong bipartisan support for wic over the past f
Va must atone for its gross mismanagement. It should find cost savings in this program and other programs in any way it can. Ultimately congress does have an obligation to ensure va has the resources it needs to complete this project and additionally, further delay and funding uncertainty will only lead to higher costs overrides. Gl. There is no easy answer and i believe the that the facilities are necessary and must be completed. Where that money comes from is another question, but i think it was said its about veterans and veterans need to be cared for and Congress Needs to find the money somewhere to continue. Should never happen again. I think va should get out of the business of building hospitals. We would agree in regard to the construction and just more broadly, in and all cost overruns of va provide high risk of no provides the highest quality care to veterans. Whether for construction or anything else. Iva supports the secretarys budget request. We also support his request fo
Test new models of telehealth without regard to the geographic barriers and some of the other statutory restrictions. We have a number of very interesting telehealth models that are being tested currently including the health link model i mentioned in my testimony. Thank you very much. Senator moran . Mr. Chairman, thank you very much. Thank you for you and senator murray having this hearing. A very important one certainly from a senator from kansas. But really for the country. Let me start with mr. Morris. Tell me what statistics are there that demonstrate over a period of time how many rural hospitals are closing or being in addition to that are threatened to close. Ive seen an ap story just in the last few days indicating that 50 rural hospitals have closed that expectations for more a total of 50 hospitals in the rural u. S. Have closed since 2010 according to the ap. And the pace has been accelerating with more closures in the past two years than the past ten. This is according to
Section 215 authorizes metadata collection, the bowl collection or as densely authorizes because last week we found out that the Second District federal court agrees that the patriot act never really authorized this program that these programs are illegal. But the nsa would tell you that these programs were all the rise dissection to give teen and then the fisa court preceded to write a warrant that covered every american citizen. I think there rounding said Founding Fathers would be appalled. The policy is far from being up to date. We have policy that is woefully out of date. We have copyright policy from 1976. We have Electronic Communications privacy act which was done in 1986. I started working on email in 1989. We have email is a standard form of munication coming yet we still have a situation where a piece of paper in your desk drawer, Law Enforcement would need a warrant to access that information, but the email thats been stored in the cloud for 180 days or more not subject to