The presiding officer without objection. The senate will proceed to the measure. Mr. Cassidy i ask unanimous consent the bill be read a third time and the senate proceed to vote on passage. The presiding officer without objection. If there is no further debate, all those in favor say aye. All those opposed say no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The bill is passed. Mr. Cassidy i ask unanimous consent the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cassidy i ask unanimous consent that the Armed Services committee be discharged from further consideration and that the senate now proceed to s. Res. 136. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk Senate Resolution 136, expressing support for the designation of may 1 2015, as Silver Star Service banner day. The presiding officer without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed to the me
Those are 2 520 for the home that is venting. This is one of those regulations that is too expensive to afford. The cost is as trom call and d. O. E. Seas the cogs to the American Consumer is 12 billion to install these furnarnses. You are going to save. An amendment. I think this is one of those areas where you look at how much it is going to cost. It is why this amendment is so widely supported and i encourage support for the blackburn amendment. I yield back. Opinion of the chair mblingt of. The amendment is agreed to. For twap of frappe. Mrs. Blackburn i have an amendment. The clerk amendment number 12 offered by mrs. Blackburn of tennessee. The chair the gentlelady from tennessee and member of will trl. Mrs. Blackburn this is and amendment i bring every year and i told the chairman that he was delighted to see me back on the floor again on theier with the one . And this is important to not that the proposed funding amendment is 3. Billion be low. But i got to say with the situatio
Between basic research and Clinical Research all the way from the time of concept to the time of actually getting in the marketplace what are the key factors that you see thats increasing the cost more than anything else . And i know its not only one thing but if you can give me a couple things here what we should watch for. A lot of it is the high failure rate and that is in fact very troubling when you consider how rarely an idea about a new drug makes it all the way through to f. D. A. Approval its less than 1 of the time. So all that cost of the failures has to be added into the overall enterprise. One of the things were doin is the formation for the National Center for translation sciencings which aims to identify some of the places where failure happens, where bottlenecks occur and develop new technologies in concert with the private sect tor see what with k be done about that. I mentioned this idea of human cells on a chip as a way of testing drug toxicety instead of using anima
Seek the democratic nomination. He spoke to reporters about his Campaign Agenda from capital here capitol hill. Sen. Sanders let me make a brief comment, and i will take a few questions. We dont have an endless amount of time. Let me say that, this country in my view has more serious crises than at any time since the Great Depression of the 1930s. For most americans, their reality is that theyre working longer hours for lower wages and inflationadjusted income, theyre earning less money than they used to years ago despite a huge increase in technology and productivity. So all over this country ive been talking to people. They say, how does it happen . Im producing more, working longer hours for low wages. My kid cant afford to go to college. Im having a hard time affording health care. How does that happen . At exactly the same time, 99 of all new income generated in this country is going to the top 1 . How does it happen that the top 1 owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 . My
Ranging from buckley very chalet hoe, to Citizens United to the recent mcchurch con case, have reheat repeatedly argued disclosure advances Public Interest and the court rejected the arguments put forward by senator mcconnell and justice thomas. The courts have put forward three main arguments in favor of disclosure. One, the Public Interest in knowing who is spending money to try to influence their votes. Two, that transparency serves an important anticorruption interest, and, three, that disclosure helps to enforce other Campaign Finance laws like the prohibition on foreigners or foreign owned corporations spending money in u. S. Elections. Heres what the sprem court said in buckley with respect to disclosure of both direct contributions to campaigns and independent expenditures. I quote Disclosure Requirements deter actual corruption and avoid the appearance of corruption by exposing large contributions and expenditures to the light of publicity. A public armed with information abou