Posted on 10/24/2014 6:22:15 AM PDT by maggief
OCTOBER 24, 2014 House Oversight Committee Ebola Response Hearing The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee holds a hearing on the federal multi-agency response to the Ebola outbreak in Africa, as well as its spread into the U.S.
Airing LIVE Friday, Oct 24 9:30am EDT on C-SPAN 2
Thank you!
EXEMPT Issa (IRS controlled failure) leads.
This will be kabuki and useless.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/house-panel-to-convene-ebola-hearing-1414153953
The Republican-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hear testimony from two Defense Department officials, as well as Rabih Torbay, the senior vice president for international operations of International Medical Corps, a nonprofit group caring for Ebola patients in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
In the hearing, which was scheduled last week, lawmakers are expected to sharply question officials over the U.S. response to Ebola as the administration is seeking to reassure the public that it has solid procedures to deal with the disease. Those efforts were complicated by the news Thursday night that Craig Spencer was found to have the disease in New York. The 33-year-old living in Upper Manhattan had returned to the U.S. 10 days ago after treating Ebola patients in West Africa with Doctors Without Borders.
On Friday, questions to the defense officials, Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Lumpkin and Major General James Lariviere, deputy director of political-military affairs for Africa, are expected to center on the safety of U.S. troops.
EXEMPT Issa calls the disease which is being
imported by the EXEMPT Congress and their
undocumented King, “Eboli”.
EXEMPT Issa: “We are not out of the woods, yet”.
He claims there was a “response ... to Eboli”.
Does EXEMPT Issa take commecial jets?
Does his EXEMPT staff?
Again Issa has invited to many people to testify! This panel should exist of 2 or 3 people at most.
Could this thread be placed on the sidebar? Thanks!
Please do your part to stop the insanity.
It has gone on long enough.
We need a travel ban from the Ebola countries.
Call your repsNOW:
Call the DC offices, or their local offices....but CALL!
The insanity of a doctor returning from a hot zone, breezing through the so-called enhanced screening process at the airport and then potentially exposing thousands of people to Ebola is the height of insanity.
We are ten days out from a nationwide electionthe pols need to hear from you.
The family you save may be your own.
Dr. Nicole Lurie ...
The Ron Perelman Scandal
There are a few interesting things about the scandal Lurie was embroiled in years ago. You canand shouldread all about it in the Los Angeles Times excellent front-page expose from November 2011, headlined: Cost, need questioned in $433-million smallpox drug deal: A company controlled by a longtime political donor gets a no-bid contract to supply an experimental remedy for a threat that may not exist. This Forbes piece is also interesting.
The donor is billionaire Ron Perelman, who was controlling shareholder of Siga. Hes a huge Democratic donor but he also gets Republicans to play for his team, of course. Siga was under scrutiny even back in October 2010 when The Huffington Post reported that it had named labor leader Andy Stern to its board and compensated him with stock options that would become dramatically more valuable if the company managed to win the contract it sought with HHSan agency where Stern has deep connections, having helped lead the year-plus fight for health care reform as then head of the Service Employees International Union.
The award was controversial from almost every angleincluding disputes about need, efficacy, and extremely high costs. There were also complaints about awarding a company of its size and structure a small business award as well as the negotiations involved in granting the award. It was so controversial that even Democrats in tight election races were calling for investigations.
Last month, Siga filed for bankruptcy after it was found liable for breaching a licensing contract. The drug its been trying to develop, which was projected to have limited utility, has not really panned outyet the feds have continued to give valuable funds to the company even though the law would permit them to recoup some of their costs or to simply stop any further funding.
The Los Angeles Times revealed that, during the fight over the grant, Lurie wrote to Sigas chief executive, Dr. Eric A. Rose, to tell him that someone new would be taking over the negotiations with the company. She wrote, I trust this will be satisfactory to you. Later she denied that shed had any contact with Rose regarding the contract, saying such contact would have been inappropriate.
Thanks - Knew she had a history, but couldn’t find the info.
Mr. Turner (OH) is asking good questions about the deployment of troops to Africa and the return to US.
re. Burial of bodies
Cremation Fears Leave Beds Empty At Ebola Treatment Centers In Liberia
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) Even as Liberians fall ill and die of Ebola, many beds in treatment centers are empty because of the government’s order that the bodies of all suspected Ebola victims in the capital be cremated, authorities have determined.
Cremation violates values and cultural practices in the western African country. The order has so disturbed people that the sick are often kept at home and, if they die, are being secretly buried, increasing the risk of more infections.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia decreed in August that the bodies of Ebola victims in the Monrovia area be cremated. The government brought in a crematorium and hired experts. The order came after people in neighborhoods of the capital resisted burials of hundreds of Ebola victims near their homes.
A recent analysis of bed space at Ebola treatment units concluded that out of 742 spaces, 351 were occupied and 391 were vacant, said Assistant Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah, who heads the government’s Ebola response.
“For fear of cremation, do not stay home to die,” Nyenswah urged Liberians at a news conference.
Cummings is asking the Mr. Rabih Torbay from International Medical corps about resources needed in Africa.
Issa: CDC gave out false information. ie. Less protection is sometimes more, cannot get Ebola on a bus...
Issa so politically correct in his remarks - sickening! This is his last hearing - he should show a little more outrage.
He mentioned this committee looks at waste fraud, etc,
He did mention his constituents are more concerned with situation in US.
He brings it around to failure of being prepared and Lurie responds with an excuse - she’s the assistant secretary for preparedness and response.
http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ASPR-HOGR-testimony-10.24.14.pdf
Kudos to NYC for response:
Watch NYPD Officers who responded to NYC Doctor with Ebola toss protective suits in the garbage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvtU1KJiSJg
Twitter: Ebola patient Nina Pham is now free of the virus; will be discharged today, NIH says
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