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You know, china has demonstrated some advanced capabilities on cyber. They havent conducted anything that might resemble warfare, per se, but they have stolen military secrets from the United States. That starts to see an area thats moving closer to offense than mere security and espionage. Russia has devil straighted a real cyber offense capability if you look at the war in georgia. There was a demonstrated capability to go on that kind of offense. And another looking to do a good job of that, if they want to is israel. If you look at the joint effort of the United States and israel to create the stuxnet worm that went after the Iranian Nuclear capabilities thats another major area. There might be some terrorist organizations interested in developing that. But those are the big players on the international scenes, the na ....
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 tha ....
That question. You dont have a personal my sense is that the service has the cooperation has been enhanced by being within the same agency. I guess id like to add that i think the panels conclusion was, we identified a substantial number of issues that needed reform at the service. For those issues, we didnt think moving them from one agency to another would address really any of the issues that we identified. And so while we understand that that was a serious debate, we thought that the focus really needed to be on solving the problems that we found. If i could say one more thing. I think one interesting piece on treasury was that, being an older guy, i remember well a lot of the discussion back in those days from within the service about, you know, gosh, treasury officials, wall street guys, finance guys, they really dont understand the Enforcement Mission well. So over time, youve had complaints about, you know, wherever t ....
Choice. As you work on these issues in louisiana, some folks probably try to offer kevins argument in the opposite form saying, look, the School Choice stuff might have some possibilities downstream, but right now youre taking dollars away from schools that are struggling with kids. How do you justify that and how do you make those numbers work . Thank you. Id also like to thank senator scott for putting this forum on. It truly is very important, and its very important for us to hear not only the issues but also some solutions. So you know it was really funny. When i became an elected official, i didnt think it was my job to or my position to deal with the Public School system and the things that were going on at the local level. I was a lawmaker. You know, i was a state senator. That was for the local government to deal with. You know, it became evident to me rather quickly wh ....