Our second panel. I am very excited for this actually. I have my good friend, janet woodcock, who is the principal fda commissioner and has been there for a number of years and helped reorganize and restructure offices. And is probably one of the best investors i know in the public and private sector. She has always been willing to do the hard work that others are unwilling to do and make hard decisions. And continuing our brain traps, we have dr. Mark mcclellan who ran two federal agencies including serving as the fda commissioner area i am an eternal pragmatist so this is fun for me because you are going to spend time talking about how to fix agencies and organizations. During the pandemic, the biomedical innovation complex works pretty well. We got vaccines, had therapeutics, and it took time to happen and in record time. All of us are probably sitting here today because these things actually happened. We got them out community. The Public Health infrastructure unfortunately offerin
Our second panel. I am very excited for this actually. I have my good friend, janet woodcock, who is the principal fda commissioner and has been there for a number of years and helped reorganize and restructure offices. And is probably one of the best investors i know in the public and private sector. She has always been willing to do the hard work that others are unwilling to do and make hard decisions. And continuing our brain traps, we have dr. Mark mcclellan who ran two federal agencies including serving as the fda commissioner area i am an eternal pragmatist so this is fun for me because you are going to spend time talking about how to fix agencies and organizations. During the pandemic, the biomedical innovation complex works pretty well. We got vaccines, had therapeutics, and it took time to happen and in record time. All of us are probably sitting here today because these things actually happened. We got them out community. The Public Health infrastructure unfortunately offerin
Our second panel. I am very excited for this actually. I have my good friend, janet woodcock, who is the principal fda commissioner and has been there for a number of years and helped reorganize and restructure offices. And is probably one of the best investors i know in the public and private sector. She has always been willing to do the hard work that others are unwilling to do and make hard decisions. And continuing our brain traps, we have dr. Mark mcclellan who ran two federal agencies including serving as the fda commissioner area i am an eternal pragmatist so this is fun for me because you are going to spend time talking about how to fix agencies and organizations. During the pandemic, the biomedical innovation complex works pretty well. We got vaccines, had therapeutics, and it took time to happen and in record time. All of us are probably sitting here today because these things actually happened. We got them out community. The Public Health infrastructure unfortunately offerin
A really historic day for Public Health in the united states. You know, were, were finally having the top Environmental Protection agency here in this country. Announcing enforceable Drinking Water limits for eating some chemicals that are incredibly toxic persisted by a cumulative summer carcinogenic and its taking decades to get here. But we finally have these rules going into effect. Um, you know, unfortunately this information was covered up in withheld from scientists, from regulators from the public for decades. And over many, many years. There were a lot of folks that, that spent a lot of time trying to get this story out and get it to the scientific community, the regulators in lawmakers and were seeing the result of that today. It took us way too long to get here. I think i 1st notified us cpa in 2001 about this problem yet. Here we are, but never the less. This is a great day for Public Health in the united states. These are federally enforceable Drinking Water standards. Now
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the cynic in me to help education labor and pensions will please come at order. Im usually on time, especially for an education hearing and excuse me for being late. This is the first in his his appearance as we finished our consideration of proposals to reauthorize the Higher Education act. Today we look at ways to simplify the free application for student aid, or fafsa, to make it easier for students to apply for federal Financial Aid. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then well introduce the witnesses, and after your testimony senators will have five minutes of questions. A lot going on today so senators may be coming and going because of the tax bill. Nearly four years ago, in a hearing before this committee, an unusual thing happened. For witnesses from diverse backgrounds agreed that almost all of the 108 questions on the free application for federal student aid, or fafsa, are