The outgoing chairman, mike johnson from louisiana from indiana mike johnson from louisiana and jim thanks from indiana. Im going to do a quick interruption of them and then ask questions but we will take questions from the audience. If you would like to ask questions, please submit them to chris see hris. Gavin at a. Org. We will put them up. I have a bunch of my own questions as well so we will try to get to them as they come up. Representative jim thanks is chairman elect to the committee and representative thinks is inn his second term representative of the Third District covering the Northeast Corner of the date including four lane. Thanks service in the Armed Services committee on education and Labor Committee and Veterans Affairs committee. He is the father of Young Children so we always like to have, no about peoples families. Representative johnson is the outgoing chairman, the second term representing Fourth District of louisiana covering the northwest part of the state inclu
Continues Katherine Eban is next talking about generic drugs. Hello i am Katherine Eban my book is bottle of lies i am talking to you today from massachusetts usually based in brooklyn but we are hunkering down this summer. My book is a true crime expose of the generic drug industry to take the readers into the District Manufacturing plants and make most of americas low cost medicine. Over the course of ten years seeing a industry whistleblower as they begin to undercover widespread fraud in the manufacturing plants. What made me want to pursue this topic . I am investigative journalist but in 2000 day i got an unusual phone call for radio show host on npr he had a show called the Peoples Pharmacy and he called me with the tip that the listeners were calling into his Radio Program complaining about their generic drugs when he took those complaints to the fda the response he got back were psychosomatic and they were complaining because when they are switched they look different and he d
Sb Committee Comes to order. Good afternoon. And welcome to our witnesses and audience members. Let me thank you all of you, for coming, and for participating in this subcommittee hearing. Right here. I think were all pretty familiar with this new virtual setting. But because this is our First Virtual hearing of this subcommittee, i want to take a moment to provide members with a few reminders before we begin. We will proceed in the same fashion as this committee always has. We will begin with Opening Statements by the chair and Ranking Member. Followed by testimony from our witnesses, and an opportunity for every member to inquire for five minutes. We will dispense with our practice of the given and instead go in order of seniority for questioning alternating between minority and majority members. Members are advised that the clerk may mute those who are not speaking in order to limit background noise and feedback. However, all members are responsible for unmuting themselves when they
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Thought that was a little unfair given that i havent given the panel advanced warning of that. Thats right. So im joined here by olivier now at the peterson institute. Loretta loretta mester. And paul krugman, the economist at City University of new york and columnist for the new york times. Krugman is the guy who makes all journalists nervous because he seems to be more productive than the rest of us and thats kind of frightening given that he does all these other things on the side, but we ask discuss those things later. I wanted to start by asking each of the panelists what they took afwra the away from the conversation we had this morning. I want to start with olivier who makes the observation in the slide you see behind us thats been made about how the wage phillips curve behaves perhaps as one might have expected, but prices arent rising. So the question is what the hell is going on . Okay. So i had prepared a slide in anticipation. I think it has survived the previous three hour