Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. Let me say before i begin my Opening Statement that we welcome the secretary, good to see you. And we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. Theres so many of them and i wont the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so we wont come off any of your allotted time for your statement and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings arent necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself to be nominated for education secretary and was grilled pretty heavily, i thought, with my family sitting right behind me. I was accustomed to it, but they werent. But they got over it before very long. We welcome you here and were glad youre here. Yesterday i received a letter from senator murray asking me to delays todays hearings. I think the Committee Members know, i do my best to do what sen
Was not. It was so haphazardly tossed on top of this fence that we dont know what it was. School Officials Say theyre not sure who placed the rope there or why. However, they did have additional staff on hand to discuss the incident with students who brought it to their attention. The school stressed the rope was removed well before students arrived. One thing i do hope is that this situation is addressed accordingly and that my daughters dont have to worry about being in danger. What i would like is for us to have a real conversation, some kind of town hall so this should be addressed. The school plans a meeting next week and say Oakland School police and Oakland Police are visiting. In oakland, paul chambers, ktvu fox2 news. Two south bay lawmakers detailed their efforts to address hate crimes at the city and county levels. Santa clara county supervisor, cindy chavez and San Jose City councilwoman esparza talked about their new postal at city hall. It calls for a Regional Task force
See a doctor. They tell us they are afraid that they think when they get sick that ability might be taken away from the. These are real concerns and they deserve real solutions. So today we will examine liberal proposals that say they speak to these concerns. One proposal is called medicare for all. This is a proposal that would outlaw private coverage and put almost all of us on a government run plan. And it is a support, bill that would implement it is supported by almost half of all House Democrat members, 14 senators including four who are running for president. Another proposal which i will call medicare for all flight just for the sake of ease of reference is all americans the ability role in a new government run plan. And on the surface i think these ideas seem like they are easy solutions but and if any of what you look at we see slim majorities to majorities of americans saying theyre interested in them. Today we are going to learn more about what these proposals will do, whet
The committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she has asked me to proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you, and we want the senators to have a chance to ask questions of each of you. So patty should arrive about 10 00. When she comes, why, well interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and then we will resume the hearing. Good morning, senator murphy. Nearly a year ago dr. Brent james from the National Academies testified before our Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up to onehalf of what the American People spend on Health Care May be unnecessary. Let me repeat that. Up to half of the 3. 5 trillion the United States collectively spent on health care in 2017 was unnecessary according to dr. James, and many of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. Thats 1. 8 trillion, three times as much
This first portion is just under three hours. The Senate Committee on health education, labor, and pensions will come to order. Today is a busy day. Very important votes will be taking place. Democrats will be meeting in their caucuses, so people are going to be coming in and out. I also think that this hearing is important enough that we extend the time for questioning from the usual five minutes to seven minutes. Let me begin by welcoming the ceos of bristolmyers, chris verner, we thank you for being here. The ceo of merck, and the ceo of johnson and johnson for being with us this morning. Thank you very much. There is a lot of discussion in our nation about how divided our people are on many issues and that is absolutely true, but on one of the most important issues facing our country, the American People, whether they are democrats, republicans, independents, conservatives, progressives, could not be more united, and that is the need to substantially lower the outrageous prices of