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we are delighted you re here today. this committee has jurisdiction over the department of energy s vitally important science and energy research and development activities. the laboratories and facilities , so i hope we see you more frequently and i look forward to working with you throughout this congress. with the budget season mostly behind us, i d like to bring just a few minutes and a few items to your attention. i ll start with the good news which is that despite the administration s best effort to make cuts across the board to deo research and development programs most faired well in the house of representatives. i m particularly pleased to see the increases to the budget for arpae and the long programs office both of which have yielded truly transformative results for energy technologies of all types. i m also quite happy that the house supported a substantial increase in the international fusion project which i advocated for as well. i went to visit that proje ....
new year to the first part of the world to begin 2022. we begin with a glimmer of hope on the horizon when it comes to fighting covid in kids. right now more children have been admitted to the hospital than any other time in the entire pandemic, many of them unvaccinated or unable to get vaccinated right now. cnn has confirmed the fda is expected to broaden the eligibility of pfizer s shot to children in the coming days. i think some parents were holding off, waiting to see how things went. there was a recent report out today from the cdc talking about the experience so far with children who have had the vaccine, ages 5-11, reinforcing this has been a safe and effective vaccine. so if you re a parent on the fence, i would say talk to your pediatrician, look to reputable sources for information, because i think the time is now. we want to make sure your kids stay healthy and safe. it s always important to keep kids healthy and safe, but particularly as millions hea ....
another sobering record set overnight, more than 3,700 american lives lost to coronavirus the second day in a row. we ve said that s the same scale as 9/11 each day, which is really hard to wrap your mind around. here s a sense of what s ahead. this chart of cases looks bad. looks terrible. that was the spring. zoom out for a chilling view of the virus s escalation, bad now, and getting worse as we head into the colder indoor months. the u.s. toll far outpacing other countries, the cdc now projects up to 434,000 deaths in this country by january 23rd. that s 4,000 americans every single day. the vaccine rollout still behind expectations. officials now admit it has been too slow. medical experts are concerned about longer term strategy now. it s over promising in the first place. it s also not having a national strategy but instead throwing up our hands and basically saying now the federal government has done their job, it s just with the production and initially distr ....
effects that illegal immigration is having on our country is absolutely staggering. now, the pew research center estimates that over 11 million illegal immigrants now live in this country, not respecting our laws and sovereignty. the federation for american immigration reform calculates the u.s. spends get this over $113 billion per year on illegal immigration. states and local governments, they re feeling the brunt of that cost and are shelling out over $84 billion per year. now this includes over $49 billion for education, $10.8 billion for medical care, $9.6 billion on general expenses, $8.7 billion on justice expenditures, and $5.3 billion on welfare-related costs. now, illegal immigrants make up 5.1% of the u.s. labor force. over 8 million illegals now are working or looking for work. by the way, we have 95 million americans out of the labor force right now. the migration policy institute, they have an estimate that says of the 11 million illegal immigrants now ....
effects that illegal immigration is having on our country is absolutely staggering. now, the pew research center estimates that over 11 million illegal immigrants now live in this country, not respecting our laws and sovereignty. the federation for american immigration reform calculates the u.s. spends get this over $113 billion per year on illegal immigration. states and local governments, they re feeling the brunt of that cost and are shelling out over $84 billion per year. now this includes over $49 billion for education, $10.8 billion for medical care, $9.6 billion on general expenses, $8.7 billion on justice expenditures, and $5.3 billion on welfare-related costs. now, illegal immigrants make up 5.1% of the u.s. labor force. over 8 million illegals now are working or looking for work. by the way, we have 95 million americans out of the labor force right now. the migration policy institute, they have an estimate that says of the 11 million illegal immigrants now ....