[inaudible conversations] id like to call this hearing to order. This hearing will be a little bit different. It is perhaps the first congressional hearing held during the extenuating circumstances of the pandemic. We have a sparse crowd and expanded bias the committees hearings to the guidelines put forth by the rules committee and attending physician. Id like to thank our members and staff for their patience and understanding as we work through the logistics in holding this hearing a part of the eversight of Intelligence Community. Members will be joining us on a rotating basis throughout the morning. And again this afternoon, as we move to a closed session. Their absence now is not a reflection of the importance they place on this matter. We have asked members to watch as much of the hearings as they can from their offices, only coming into the hearing room to ask questions. Id also like to thank the press corps for your accommodation of the restrictions were facing as we seek to fu
Concerns. It would be hard to pinpoint. Theres generalities and theyre related to the point in which they ran their meetings and how i think u. S. Soccer would be like to have a greater influence but being one of 35 voting nations and mind you mr. Warner came from the caribbean and 25 of those 35 votes are from the caribbean. It gave me a level of discomfort that we werent going to make progress in terms of transparency and some things i would have preferred as to how u. S. Soccer operates. Did you express those concerns to mr. Blazer . I did not. Any reason you might not have confronted him or asked why hes doing what hes doing . Generally speaking we have the potential to opt out and with mr. Blazer i just felt we had other things to do that could help build our sport as well and there was some concern that if i brought it to mr. Blazers attention i may feel a level of discomfort in other ways. Did you see peers feel discomfort in other ways in order to confront mr. Blazer . It would
The potential to opt out and with mr. Blazer i just felt we had other things to do that could help build our sport as well and there was some concern that if i brought it to mr. Blazers attention i may feel a level of discomfort in other ways. Did you see peers feel discomfort in other ways in order to confront mr. Blazer . It would be hard to categorize it that way. When we reached out to talk to other National Associations, other federations once again we were one of 41 or 35 voting members and there wasnt anybody else that had the same level i did as an organization. Once again were in concacaf by virtue of being a member of fifa. We felt we had to find a way to participate and work our way through. Fortunately by a close vote, 18 to 17 he was elected to the seat in april of 2013 and we think that was a step in the right direction and a step ward reform. And that is the model that we felt was in the best interest of moving our sport forward in a very difficult and tricky environment
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
Next, House Assistant minority leader James Clyburn of South Carolina talks about the midterm elections, then David Cameron discusses the u. K. s relationship with scotland. After that, alex salmon gives his final speech as first minister of scotland. House assistant minority leader James Clyburn says democrats lost the midterm elections because they spent the time apologizing for being a democrat. During a speech at the National Press club, he said democrats should be proud to be the party of the little guy. He also said he supports president obamas use of executive action on immigration, comparing it to lincolns emancipation proclamation. Hes the third democratic member in the house, a primary liaison to the white house, and the highest ranking africanamerican in congress. This is about 25 minutes. Not going to compare to when i knocked the sign down. Okay, lets do it. Okay, so were going to start now. Hi, im bob wiener, im the news Makers Committee of the National Press clubs Event