[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] and. A leg to welcome everyone to do this mornings hearing for tom price to be the next department of health and Human Services. With his willingness to serve in this magnitude with obamacare was pushed through republicans in congress was warned the new Health Care Law would harm patients and families not to put too fine a point on it but the next hhs secretary as we work to repeal obamacare replacing with patients under reforms this is an important endeavor this should not be the sole purpose of the next hhs secretary. Having an annual budget of 1 trillion. I will be pete that. Blood department 1 trillion this centers for Disease Control and prevention is no exaggerations to say to affect the daily life in any other parts of u. S. Government. Dr. Price has the experience and quali
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] and. A leg to welcome everyone to do this mornings hearing for tom price to be the next department of health and Human Services. With his willingness to serve in this magnitude with obamacare was pushed through republicans in congress was warned the new Health Care Law would harm patients and families not to put too fine a point on it but the next hhs secretary as we work to repeal obamacare replacing with patients under reforms this is an important endeavor this should not be the sole purpose of the next hhs secretary. Having an annual budget of 1 trillion. I will be pete that. Blood department 1 trillion this centers for Disease Control and prevention is no exaggerations to say to affect the daily life in any other parts of u. S. Government. Dr. Price has the experience and quali
1930s. By some estimates, 60 of those deported u. S. Citizens. What was an injustice theyve done to us, being an american citizen, for them to send us to mexico when we were not mexicans. Amy we will speak with professor francisco balderrama, coauthor of the Landmark Book decade of betrayal mexican repatriation in the 1930s. And we will be joined by and exwife. S son when they recently flew back into the country from jamaica, immigration authorities asked them if they were muslim. When muhammad ali, jr. , said yes, authorities detained and questioned him and his mother for two hours. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President trump is heading to capitol hill tonight for his first president ial address to congress, where hes expected to lay out part of his budget plan. On monday, trump proposed increasing the military budget to just over 600 billion, a 54 billion increase, while deeply slashing the budge
Mr. Pallone well, mr. Chairman, just so you know because i dont think i mentioned before we decided in our Democratic Caucus that we would have vice rankers i know you have vice chairs but we have vice rankers and ms. Castor was elected unanimously by the democrats on the energy and Commerce Committee to be our vice ranking member. She has unanimous consent request. Mr. Walden all right. Whats the gentleladys request . Castor thank you. Health care is so important to our families all across the country and the republican bill makes such drastic sorry. Ms. Castor i know you limited our [inaudible] because this is so important that you allow us to take three minutes as the leaders have. Rei will mr. Burgess i object. No walden we heard objections back. This is new. Look, we are going to have plenty of time to discuss these issues. I recognize the gentleman from new jersey, mr. Pallone. Mr. Chairman, unanimous consent request . Mr. Walden i recognize the gentleman from new jersey for an o
Firestorm, though. Hes been at the center of the Health Care Debate on the republican side at least since coming to congress in 2005. Represented georgias 6th district in the house since 2005 until just this year. Before that, you were a Georgia State legislator. And before that, for two decades and more, a practicing physician. An orthopedic surgeon, professor of orthopedic surgery at emory. You bring to bear what it takes to know about the Health Care Debate and thats what we want to talk about today. So we can hardly ask for a better guide to where things stand for a better guide to a sense of where the debate is. Everybody, i think, dr. Price, naturally would like to start with just whats going on with the bill, where does it stand, where are things on the hill . Maybe the place to start is really with the nature of the problem to be solved. How do we think about it before we get to what the legislation is, entering the position youre entering with the enormous experience that you