Secretary, it finance committee receives his paperwork and will vote hon the nomination. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then former secretary and governor of utah whom we welcome today. Mike, good to see you and have you back. And senator young, whos a member of this committee, will introduce him after mr. Azars testimony, senators will each have five minutes of questions. We already have a good turnout so i anticipate a good vigorous questioning period. Confirmed to leave the department of health and Human Services, youll be leading a 1. 11 trillion budget. That almost equals the totals of the Appropriations Bills that Congress Passes each year to Fund Everything from National Defense to national laboratories. Medicare and medicaid. Our nations government run Insurance Programs for it poor and elderly. Mental hilth health and Substance Abuse. The National Institutes of health, where, with francish collins excellent leadership, the leading efforts to disco
Information technology and Intergovernment Affairs will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. I recognize myself for five minutes for my opening statement. Good afternoon. Thanks for being here, and its been over 240 years since our forefathers declared independence and a democratic experiment began. Throughout the entirety of our existence, our adversaries, both internal and external, have sought to suppress our democratic process. Our existence as a democracy depends on free, fair and accurate elections. Today, were here to talk about the best way to protect our integrity of our Voting Systems. There are over 10,000 election jurisdictions nationwide that administer elections, and even within states, counties use different systems to conduct elections. A year ago, last september, Ranking Member kelly and i held a hearing ensuring the integrity of the ballot box to discuss potential issues with the upcoming election. It was an issue
Online. Go to www. Cspan. Org, and you will see the icon to click on our live coverage. The Supreme Court oral argument having today. We have been getting protesters and speakers outside all morning. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Eternal god we give you thanks for giving us another day. Once again we come to ask wisdom, patience, peace and understanding for the members of this peoples house. Give them the generosity of heart and the courage of true leadership to work toward a common solution to the many issues facing our nation. As true states men and women, may they find the fortitude to make judgments to benefit all americans in their time of need. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal st
He continues with the Florida House speaker Richard Corcoran who discusses the impact of Hurricane Irma on the states finances. Host good morning. It is wednesday, december 6, 2017. The house and senate returning today as they were to stave off a Government Shutdown that would begin just after midnight on friday. Unless a spending deal of is reached, we will talk about where negotiations stand in this morning, but we are less than a week away away from a december 12 special election in alabama. Republican congressional leaders split on whether to support republican roy moore and after steve bannon rallied support last night for the former judge who has been accused of Sexual Misconduct, we are opening phone lines to republicans only in this first hour to hear from you about your support or opposition to roy moore. Phone lines are open and republicans who support roy moore, 202 7488000 is your number. Those who oppose, 202 7488001. Alabama republicans with any opinion on roy moore, 202
This continues now with the focus on Foreign Policy options in dealing with russias interference in the 2016 u. S. Elections. Good morning. Good late morning, everyone. This is im going to venture to be bold and say this is going to be the most exciting anel of the day. Because were all about solving the problems youve been hear about this morning. Im very happy to have an International Panel. Unfortunately it shrunk by one individual because professor angela sent it is ill. So she couldnt join us. I will try to channel her as best i can with my own personal twists. But we, again, have an International Panel that im very excited about because they have thought long and hard about how to counter this information. Ms. Farkas especially in the context of dealing with russia. So to my right, to my immediate right, i have ambassador rene nyberg. He is a very distinguished former finnish ambassador russia, which of course rel vanlt here. And former chief executive of east consulting. Hes als