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You can see the schedule for this term plus a list of all current justices and search all their appearances on cspan. With video on demand, you can watch all the oral arguments weve aired at cspan. Org supreme court. Health and Human Services secretary nominee alex azor testified yesterday at his confirmation hearing about Prescription Drug prices, medicaid and medicare and experience at eli lilly. Tommy thompson and mike leavitt, former Health Secretaries under george w. Bush introduced him to the Senate Finance committee. [inaudible conversations] i think we better get it going. This meeting will come to order. Welcome everybody to this mornings hearing. Today the committeeg. Will consider and examine the nomination of alex azor to save as serve as the secretary of health, one of the most important jobs anywhere in the world. Like to welcome him to the finance committee this morning. Thank you for being here and for your willingness to serve in this important capacity. He certainly h
The committee will come to order. Welcome everybody to this mornings hearing. Today the committee will consider and examine the nomination of vista alex cesar to serve as a sect of health and Human Services, one of the most aboard jobs in any government anywhere in the world. Id like to welcome mr. Azar to the finance committee this morning. Thank you for being here and for your willingness to serve in this important capacity. Mr. Azar certainly has his work cut out for him. Health and Human Services is a massive, Sprawling Department that oversees trillions of dollars in spending and liabilities and encompasses all areas of our Nations Health care system. As a result, if confirmed, mr. Azars work will impact the lives of every single american. Thats a big job. It requires knowledge, experience, and, most important, strong leadership. Fortunately, our nominee brings all of this to the table, having nearly two decades of experience in the health care sector, including about six years wo
Least for the past month this home on west 20th correctly across the street from the high schoolhoused an illegal brothel. Its such a close community. To see theres a brothel right across from campus saddle scary. This is where i hang out with my friends. Reporter police say neighbors and other members of the community tipped investigators off about suspicious activity going on at this house earlier this month. This can happen in any community. It doesnt happen too often in san ma day o. Reporter Sergeant Amanda says police served a search warrant at the home monday. Two men were arrested on felony drug and other charges related to running the brothel. A 25yearold and a 27yearold both booked into the San Mateo County jail. She said the brothel was confirmed after Police Conducted an undercover decoy operation. The illegal activity can bring drugs as well as an array of different criminal behavior and violence because it is a legal location that does make has the potential of making a l
In the charlotte area. A lot of you are in the teens so its 19. Hickory statesville 21 in charlotte. And 13 in boone right now. Yesterday evening if you get weather aall right on your phone you may have found theres a winter storm watch weather alerts. Some areas have winter storm warning. We do have slight changes to the storm forecast. So well talk about that in a few minutes. New this morning president obama says he will seek to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of antonio scalia. It will likely charge no a fight with republicans in congress. Just last night he said a nomination was bigger than any one big party with half a dozen of major cases before the court obama plans to fulfill his lee responsibility to nominate a successor in due time. Scalia died on a weekend trip to texas. He was 79 years old. Sparks fly. The ninth republican event took before the primary that could help decide who becomes the republican nominee for president. The republican president ial