"I give the president credit for identifying and recognizing the problem," Representative Jeb Hensarling, Republican of Texas and co-chairman of the deficit reduction committee, said in an interview.
This year in an effort to address the problem, Representative James C. Greenwood, Republican of Pennsylvania, and Senator John Ensign, Republican of Nevada, introduced legislation to cap financial awards to patients in malpractice cases.
"I think what we learned is they're working hard to fix the problems," Representative Sander Levin of Michigan, senior Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, said after Wednesday's briefing.
Once we know the scale of the problem elected representatives can design laws that account for the world in which the public works.
As the outcry by advertisers grows louder than the assurances from Google that click fraud is not a substantial problem, representatives from Google and Yahoo! publicly stated today that they would accept independent click fraud audits.
There's just one little problem: Representatives begin their terms by taking a pledge.
"It tries to put a carte blanche solution on the problem," said Representative Tim Moore, a Republican.
"We've had hearing after hearing after hearing on this, and we've really done nothing about the problem," said Representative Michael C. Burgess, Republican of Texas.
The problem is representative of a larger trend in Major League Baseball that has left people in the sport grasping for an explanation: the amount of time players were out with injuries increased 26percentt from 2006 to 2008.
We compare these four methods as applied to a parameter estimation problem representative of the target class of problems described above.
