Ms. Compton former governor of South Carolina, jim hodges. [applause] former majority leader of the u. S. House of representatives, virginias own eric cantor. [applause] ms. Comes in and finally a , former Senior Adviser and deputy chief of staff in the white house for george w. Bush, the amazing karl rove. Carl grove. [applause] ms. Compton doesnt it always seem that the moment we are living in is the most chaotic, the most dysfunctional that we have ever seen in american politics . Except we know looking back at american politics, it is really not. What you all to explore what it is at the federal level and at the state level that has made this government so dysfunctional and so problematic, and how, looking forward, are there ways that all of you can help get past that . When i graduated from college in virginia, i went right into my first job. I covered the Virginia State legislature for Wdbj Television in roanoke. And talk about dysfunctional. The first republican governor had jus
Of misdemeanor hate crimes. Meeting the house is both the house and senate are meeting every three days in these sessions while most members of congress are on their summer break. Numbers return on september 9. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms. Washington, d. C. August 27, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable donald s. Buyer jr. To act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer today will be offered by our guest chaplain, monsignor stephen j. Rossetti here in washington, d. C. The chaplain good and gracious god, as the days of summer come to a close, and as we look forward to the busy days of fall, we pray that you would cast out the darkness of discord in our country and in this place. May your holy spirit descend upon us and usher in a new time of unity, Mutual Respect and peace. Ma
The highest award that you can receive. We have the president ial medal of freedom and the congressional medal of honor, for military, and it is great to be with you. We are grateful to be joined by senator joe mansion, his wife, and joe called me up a while ago and suggested this idea, and id like if you would maybe go to the mic and say a good a few words about your relationship with bob. Had manchin thank you, i the great pleasure of meeting this legend many years ago through my dear friend andy and johnny per della and their family. Danny and i have been friends for a long time. He started talking about bob cousy. And i was asking are you talking about the bob cousy. He said i had grown up with him and he was a friend of the family. We knew each other forever. I met him, we stop we started talking, and bobs friend said this is something that he was inspired for. We were having a meeting on something else. We were back having lunch and you were talking, and your personal fashion, an
And, what i plan to do today is have dr. Griffin give opening remarks about his priorities and things that may or may not have changed since the last time we spoke and had a conversation. He and i will engage in backandforth and talk about what he mentioned in his opening remarks, and it is my hope to allow time for questions. Without further ado, dr. Griffin. Dr. Griffin it is a pleasure to be here. The last time i was here was in april of 2018. After i was two months was confirmed as the undersecretary, and it was still three months before i was the head of an actual Legal Organization within the department of defense. We were still working on establishing a charter and all of the bureaucratic things one does to convert legislation into executive branch institutions. Months since i have been here, we have been busy. We have filled out the senior bank levels of our organ senior levels of our organization. Porter you know dr. Lisa as well as our directors for Defense Research and engin
[inaudible conversations] the committee on Health Education and labor and pensions will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she is asked me too proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure we hear from each of you and we want the senators to has questions of each of you. So patty should arrive at about ten. When she comes we will interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and we will resume the hearing. Good morning senator murphy. Nearly a year ago doctor brent james from the National Academy testify before Senate Health committee with a startling statistic up to one half of the American People spend on healthcare may be unnecessary. Let me repeat that, up to half of the 3. 5 trillion, the United States collectively spent on healthcare in 2017 was unnecessary according to doctor james and many of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. That is 1. 8 trillion, three times as much as we spen