As I look back to Hurricane Katrina, to make a long and complicated story too short, first off, we had an extraordinary natural disaster eve...
As I understand it, we have more than 100 existing monitors along the West Coast----
I want to express my appreciation to you for holding this hearing on this occasion, on the 1-year anniversary to the Health Care Reform Law.
We have developed extra capacities that FEMA can bring to bear.
Will current funding be able to address that backlog? You have got $8 million in this CR.
I think it is important to note for the record that irreversibly this disease destroys the small airways in the lungs.
I think otherwise it would be quite a patchwork here.
So my question is, what is OSHA doing to address the risk of workers handling natural gas.
shouldn't we move to ensure that workers are not put at risk during this inherently dangerous practice?
I believe it could have been avoided with certain specific safety standards in place to deal with natural gas.
H.R. 1, the 2011 appropriations bill passed by the House in February would have cut OSHA's budget almost $100 million.
Black lung is preventable, but you also talked about the increasing incidences, the new cases of black lung in young miners.
Should miners die while waiting for litigation to be concluded at mines which are chronic violators?
I would just say about Head Start... there are many, many studies on Head Start, and there are many recent studies.
Are we currently providing sufficient appropriations to the Department for program evaluation?
But what would be useful is to understand how effective each of these programs is.
You didn't find duplication among the education programs we are discussing here today?
You didn't find waste, as I understood.
