Is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. The white house has requested 1. 1 trillion for the department of health and Human Services. Of the budget request includes cuts in Public Health and Biomedical Research took hhs secretary tom price talked at a Senate Finance committee the twohour hearing begins with opening remarks by the chair of the committee, lauren hatch of utah. Of the committee will come to order. We will first listen to the senator from oregon who has to go to another committee hearing, so i welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on the president s proposed budget for fiscal year 2018 with specific attention to the department of health and Human Services. I want to thank secretary price for being here. These hearings are an annual event for the finance committee and secretary price, since this is your first time around i will warn you these hearings can be a little grueling. Of course, you already know that that the president and hhs are eager to w
Who has to go to another committee hearing. But i welcome everybody to this mornings hearing on the president s proposed budget for fiscal year 2018 with specific intention to the department of health and Human Services. So let me and i want to thank secretary price for being here. These hearings are an annual event for the finance committee. Secretary price, since this is your first time around, ill just warn you that these hearings can be a little grueling. So of course you already know that. Im grateful that the president and h. H. S. Are eager to work with congress to fix our Health Care System in order to ensure americans are able to access Affordable Health coverage. And with that i am going to turn to the Ranking Member who needs to get to another hearing and well show that deference. Senator wyden mr. Chairman, thank you very much for this courtesy. I know this is a businessy morning and im grateful for you doing this. I want to say thank you to senator stabenow who in my absen
Senator hatch ok. The committee will call to order. Well first listen to the senator from oregon. Who has to go to another committee hearing. But i welcome everybody to this mornings hearing on the president s proposed budget for fiscal year 2018 with specific intention to the department of health and Human Services. So let me and i want to thank secretary price for being here. These hearings are an annual event for the finance committee. Secretary price, since this is your first time around, ill just warn you that these hearings can be a little grueling. So of course you already know that. Im grateful that the president and h. H. S. Are eager to work with congress to fix our Health Care System in order to ensure americans are able to access Affordable Health coverage. And with that i am going to turn to the Ranking Member who needs to get to another hearing and well show that deference. Senator wyden mr. Chairman, thank you very much for this courtesy. I know this is a busy morning an
Sessions testified before the Senate Intelligence committee. He called suggestions that he colluded an appalling and detestable lie. He engaged in a Heated Exchange with senator ron wyden. Senator sessions, you are not answering the question. What is the question . Mr. Comey said they were matters with respect to the recruit so recusal that were problematic and he couldnt talk about them. What are they . Why dont you tell me . They are none, senator wyden. There are none, i can tell you that first absolute certainty. This is a secret innuendo being leaked out there about me, and i and i triediate it, to give my best and truthful answers to any committee i have appeared before. People are suggesting through innuendo that i have been not honest about matters, and i have honest. Be david senator wyden joins me from washington. Russia, which is a little different. Russia sent worries some signals about the war in syria, that it was now treating american planes as aerial targets after the u
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