The committee on health, education, pensions and labor will please come to order. Senator murray and i will each have a statement and we will introduce witnesses. After the testimony senators will have five minutes of questions. There is a vote scheduled for 10 30. I think we will continue right 10 45. Until 10 4 and then we will alternate going back to vote. I think we will have time for all the witnesses testimony before we have to leave for the vote. We are holding the second in a series on Prescription Drug costs in response to a bipartisan request led by senators cassidy, senator franken, along with senators sanders,white house, and warren, as well as other senators who are interested in this object. Not only was the request for these hearings bipartisan, but both his hearing and the first hearing on drug prices were bipartisan, which means senator murray and i agreed on the witnesses. Despite this, our first hearing in june went so far off track that i delayed this hearing , inst
Sions and labor will please come to order. Senator murray and i will each have a statement and we will introduce witnesses. After the testimony senators will have five minutes of questions. There is a vote scheduled for 10 30. I think we will continue right 10 45. Until 10 4 and then we will alternate going back to vote. I think we will have time for all the witnesses testimony before we have to leave for the vote. We are holding the second in a series on Prescription Drug costs in response to a bipartisan request led by senators cassidy, senator franken, along with senators sanders,white house, and warren, as well as other senators who are interested in this object. Not only was the request for these hearings bipartisan, but both his hearing and the first hearing on drug prices were bipartisan, which means senator murray and i agreed on the witnesses. Despite this, our first hearing in june went so far off track that i delayed this hearing , instead oftors talking about drug prices, w
European law consumers get to know what the factors were that made that determination. I think we need to move to that approach. The make companies more accountable than decisions about American Consumers fairer and more transparent. You do have requirements that when you take adverse action based on Consumer Report you notify the consumer. And were Credit Scores used you have to have key factors that affected the score. One more question and i apologize. If the bill were kept liabilities in the past how much would hundred 45 million americans, how much would those victims of equifax problem been entitled to . First, heres to me there are be a cause of action and right now based on news reports thered be no cause of action under the fair credit reporting act because it was an credit report. Were there to be a breach of a Consumer Reporting database, i believe the figure was a million. The cap was either 500,000 are million. Was consistent with the other Consumer Protection statutes. It
Senator murray and i will be to have an opening statement, and then we will introduce the witnesses. After witness testimony, senators will each have five minutes of questions. Theres a vote scheduled for 10 30. I think what we will do is continue right on through of about 10 45, and then we will alternate going back and forth to vote. I think we will have time to all of us here witness testimony before we have to leave for the vote. We are holding a hearing, which is the second in a series on Prescription Drug costs in response to a bipartisan request, led by senators cassidy, senator franken, along with senators collins, baldwin, murkowski, war and as well as other senators interested in the subject. Not only was the request for these hearings bipartisan, but both this hearing and the first hearing on drug prices were a partisan, which means senator murray and i agreed on the witnesses. Despite this, our first hearing in june when so far off track that i delayed this hearing because
Of betsy devos. We know at least two republican senators intend to vote against the nominee, meaning that Vice President mike pence would need to come to capitol hill to cast the tiebreaking vote and that would be the first time that Vice President broke a tie in a cabinet confirmation. President trump tweeted about the devos nomination earlier today saying, senate dems protest keep the failed status quo. Betsy devos is a reformer. She will be a great education secretary for our kids. That Senate Confirmation vote will take place at noon eastern time today and you can watch it live on our companion network cspan2. And from here we go to House Armed Services committee with a state on the military. This started just a short time ago. They watched our fighting and theyre preparing their forces. We need to me pair to fight any adversary. Were extremely good today and are ready to fight in the middle east. Against violent extremists but we need to fight against any adversary. We need more f