Mk mk nowhere is that more evident than our commitment to the most dangerous and urgent threat to peace and security, the regime in north korea. Since 1992, the United States and our allies have stood together to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. We hope to achieve this through peaceful means that all options are on the table. In the past few weeks the world witnessed the strength and resolve of our new president and actions taken in syria and afghanistan blues north korea would do well not to test his resolve or the strength of the armed forces of the United States in this region. We will deploy the Missile Defense system as a defensive measure called for by the alliance and for the alliance which we will involve a comprehensive set of capabilities to assure this capability of south korea and as our secretary of defense made clear in south korea not long ago we will defeat any attack and meet any use of conventional or Nuclear Weapons with an overwhelming and effective response. [spe
Of drugs for severe illnesses and as a result of this work that i was doing on drug pricing in the United States looking at these issues, i eventually began to get more aware of the International Discussions about the u. S. Could do and what was happening in the countries in 1994, i was invited to argentina and brazil by people that have picked up my name as someone working on these issues and i really became aware for the first time the extent to which the United States and the state department and through the trade office and the whole apparatus of the Foreign Policy was putting pressure on the developing countries to extend and put in place monopolies on pharmaceutical drugs so wha a lf developing companies have excluded the pharmaceutical drugs from the patent system and you could buy drugs from argentina and others and at that point also from brazil and the u. S. Was pushing all these countries to put those in place but also going way beyond that. And i remember when i was at arge
Im lisa loy, Vice President for programs here and privileged to direct the Prevention Network which is part of our comprehensive health program. We are delighted to host this event with American Cancer Network and thrilled to be joined by three secretaries from hhs Whose Service has spanned multiple administrations from parties both democratic and republican. For those new to bpc, our mission is to drive principled, actionable policy solutions that combine the best ideas from both political parties. Today were here to talk about health and in particular to talk about ways to promote health and prevent disease, specifically cancer for ourselves, our families and our communities. From individual behavior changes to changes in our environments to policy changes at the state and federal level, theres a lot we can do to prevent cancer. For many of us, cancer is personal, some of us personally or affected someone we care about. Theres a tremendous amount of good work happening to better unde
All right. Senator klobuchar, were delighted to have a good prosecutor. Okay. Well, good. Well, thats a good way to begin. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman, and thank you to all of you for working on this issue. Senator durbin and i have been long involved in this issue, and also senator franken and i represent a state that has a lot of refugees and are a big part of the fabric of life in our state, leading businesses, teaching our students, on our police forces. So i think i would start with this issue with you, director rodriguez, on the Security Check. As you state in your testimony, refugees are subject to the highest level of Security Check of any category of traveler to the u. S. I believe we need to uphold these stringent Security Standards which require extensive by graphic and biometric checks, information vetting. Do you agree with me that refugees are the most carefully vetted of all travelers, and what has uscis done to ensure that the high security requirements for refuge
Rounds of changes of profound impact without having a lasting view of institutions, particularly institutions that have strong democratic roots. So this is what we are doing. It is very simple. It is very complex. And the president promised to deliver many things. And i will say, not first, even nine months, the First Six Months of argentina, the First Six Months of this administration. It proved that what he promised is what he did. And we have reopened the, particularly in economic terms, to the world. We have eliminated all of the hurdles that existed to business with argentina. The president has taken many bold decisions in this regard and one of the ones that clearly has had a huge impact is the agreement with the holdouts, that was there for many, many years and cost our country a lot in terms of opportunities. We are now working on the hardest part which is to translate all the policy decision, all the framework decisions, into things that impact the lives of each one of the arg