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Mr. President , thank you very much for coming today. I want to again thank you for your support of everything weve been doing in this obviously very important problem. First i would ask to have Francis Collins make a couple comments about the nih in general and then i will talk about some of the things you and i have been talking about for the past few weeks. Thank you. Welcome. Its wonderful to have you here. Even though we are in fact faced with a Serious Public Health situation we have a lot of people here working hard but are honored by the presence of the secretary. Starting over here the Deputy Director of the Vaccine Resource Center ancenter and that is whee right now. Next to him the frontline on the bench making this thing happen. You know doctor fauci of course and next to him, the director of the Vaccine Resource Center and next to him the principal Deputy Director of nih and we are all thrilled to have you here. I just want to say a word about nih because we havent had the
Finance committee will come to order today across Insurance Companies are excelling Mental Health coverage to our people worried about their Mental Health or that their loved ones. Unfortunately too often after these insurers take big premiums from our people. They let them down. The providers they advertise arent available. They can get appointments. The firm basically says we arent taking new patients which of course we not represented to theminitially in that way. The fact is these americans are being off e by what the government accounting process as described as a goat network. Not my language, the of accountability. The, was a Ghost Network is all about is essentially selling Health Coverage under false pretenses. Because the providers who can advertise avarent picking up the phone. They arent seeing patients in business product or service doesnt meet expectations consumers get a refund. In my view is a breach of contract for Insurance Companies to sell their plans for thousands
very real sandy hook mass massacre, calling it a fake. they today a texas jury ordered him to pay more than $4 million in damages to parents of six-year-old jesse lewis, one of the 20 young children and six teachers murdered in that shooting. jessie s parents wanted at least 150 million for defamation. this afternoon their lawyer said the next step in this case is the real name of the game. the jury just returned a verdict for damages exceeding $4 million. that s a darn good start. we now have the punishment phase. it s perfectly expect-able that we are going to see an over nine figure judgment against mr. jones. that punishment phase of the trial begins tomorrow. jurors have already heard about the damage done by alex jones s lies. i can t even describe last night i have nightmares of the living hell that i and others have had to endure because of the negligence and the recklessness of alex jones. jones may soon face even more legal jeopardy. yesterday the lawyer for
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone and welcome. E. This is a joint hearing of two subcommittees a committee on oversight and accountability. The subcommittee i chair the subcommittee on Cybersecurity Information Technology and government innovation at the others a subcommittee on Economic Growth and Energy Policy and regulatoryh, affairs. Its chaired by my esteemed colleague from texas. We will have Opening Statements from the chairng and Ranking Member of both subcommittees. Thats a total of four Opening Statements so ill keep mine brief. Cybersecurity has beenor a major focus of power since i became the subcommittee chair and im concerned that we are not prepared for the increased sophisticated cyberattacks that will be fueled by ai. Businesses and Government Entities in my district and across the country cafe cyberattacks and were forced to pay a huge sum of money and ransom for the federal government itself sets of data tens of millions of dollars its decades older t