The nuclear deal and those who do not to introduce an act you can watch the rest of this program on our website cspan. Org. Leaving it here as health and Human Services dr. Tom price testifies on the president s 2018 budget request. The budget could cut funding by 18 or 15 billion. Good morning, mr. Secretary, its genuinely my pleasure to welcome you to the subcommittee on labor, health and Human Services and education. Were looking forward to hearing your testimony. Mr. Secretary, your responsibilities are many. Your departments responsible for insuring proper payment, overseeing medical search, helping families break the cycle of poverty and protecting our nation against bioterror and pandemic events. The cuts proposed in the budget blueprint are extensive and span the reach of your agency. I believe theres always fat that can be trimmed and priorities that can be reordered. But i will ask you some questions this morning about whether this budget leaves america sufficiently prepared
You to the subdmooit committee. Were looking forward to hearing your testimony. Mr. Secretary, your responsibilities are many. Your departments responsible for ensure properly payments of medicare and medicaid dollars for overseeing buy kbroe medical research that could save millions of lives, for helping families break the cycle of poverty and protecting our nation against bioterror and pandemic events. The cuts promodes this month are extensive and span the reach of your agency. I believe theres always fat that can be trimmed and priorities that can be reordered, but i will ask you some questions this morning about whether this budget leaves america sufficiently prepared to respond to a pan demmic, a new disease like zika or bioterrorism event. Ill ask questions about how youll fulfill your mission of enhancing the health and wellbeing of americans at these levels of funding and ill ask how you will work to solve some of the challenges in your agency including those related to the In
Generally my pleasure to welcome you to the subdmooit committee. Were looking forward to hearing your testimony. Mr. Secretary, your responsibilities are many. Your departments responsible for ensure properly payments of medicare and medicaid dollars for overseeing buy kbroe medical research that could save millions of lives, for helping families break the cycle of poverty and protecting our nation against bioterror and pandemic events. The cuts promodes this month are extensive and span the reach of your agency. I believe theres always fat that can be trimmed and priorities that can be reordered, but i will ask you some questions this morning about whether this budget leaves america sufficiently prepared to respond to a pan demmic, a new disease like zika or bioterrorism event. Ill ask questions about how youll fulfill your mission of enhancing the health and wellbeing of americans at these levels of funding and ill ask how you will work to solve some of the challenges in your agency
Generally my pleasure to welcome you to the subdmooit committee. Were looking forward to hearing your testimony. Mr. Secretary, your responsibilities are many. Your departments responsible for ensure properly payments of medicare and medicaid dollars for overseeing buy kbroe medical research that could save millions of lives, for helping families break the cycle of poverty and protecting our nation against bioterror and pandemic events. The cuts promodes this month are extensive and span the reach of your agency. I believe theres always fat that can be trimmed and priorities that can be reordered, but i will ask you some questions this morning about whether this budget leaves america sufficiently prepared to respond to a pan demmic, a new disease like zika or bioterrorism event. Ill ask questions about how youll fulfill your mission of enhancing the health and wellbeing of americans at these levels of funding and ill ask how you will work to solve some of the challenges in your agency
Achieve that balance in the budgets that you crafted, and in some cases, i think with appropriate balance between entitlement spending and discretionary spending. I think thats probably one of the committees chief concerns. I think the president is absolutely correct that we need to spend more on defense. I dont have any doubt about it at all, and i think hes absolutely correct as well that it needs to be done in a fiscally responsible way with offsetting reductions elsewhere in the budget. Where we would disagree, and i cut the administration considerable latitude because this had little time to craft a budget. Were operating off a skinny budget. We may see Something Different in may and may see Something Different in the years ahead, but my personal view, these are focused too tightly on nondefense discretionary offsets, particularly with respect to your agency. I take considerable pride in the fact, and i know my colleagues on both sides of the aisle do, that in the late 90s and ear