Theres more road to the whos coverage this evening on the cspan networks. Donald trump is speaking in florida at the Trump National doral miami. A golf resort he owns. Thats at 7 00 eastern on cspan. And at k 30 here on cspan, texas senator ted cruz hold as town hall meeting in council bluffs, iowa. A house energy and commerce subcommittee held a hearing earlier today on protecting Senior Citizens from fraud. Texas congressman Michael Burgess chaired the hearing. Its two hours and 15 minutes. Mr. Burgess the subcommittee will now come to order. And the chair recognizes himself for five minutes for the purpose of an opening statement. This morning, first let me welcome our witnesses. This morning we will receive an update on the Consumer Protection efforts in place to address the fraud risk for americas seniors. As of july, 2013, there are over 44 million americans who are older than 65, thats lmost 14 of the population. The people 65 and older projects to outnumber the people younger t
Compounding center or necc. I want to accept and my deepest condolences to anyone who has lost a loved one in this tragedy. Thirtytwo people have died. Including three with in my congressional district, one of the persons who lived right up the street from me. Well over 400 people have been sickened for making this one of the worst Public Health disasters ever caused by a contaminated drug. Before this outbreak, with the fda had conducted three separate inductions of inspections with necc. But history is even more expensive with necc, involving at least 12 separate complaints involving necc or its pharmacists. Since necc opened in 1998, over the course of these inspections, regulators noted the same kinds of problems at issue in the current outbreak. Problems with serialization and in violation of its own license. Back in 2002, several adverse events were reported to fda involving patients who had received steroid injections made by the necc. Fda followed up and inspected it. Just six
Good morning. In 2014 National Conference participants. Please welcome president of an allamerica. [applause] hello. Good morning, everyone. Morning and welcome. The First National in Rural America conference. Giving america it coverage. Excited to have you here today. [applause] you know, when we first started planning this conference months and months ago our hope was to bring together enrollment leaders from across the country to reflect back on the historic first open enrollment time and share best practices for the future. We thought maybe a few couple hundred of our friends would come to d. C. For this, but we never expected that more than 900 attendees would join as from communities in 48 states [applause] yes, and credible. Not just that, including the District Of Columbia and as far away as qualm. Pretty amazing. So thank you all for being here and a thankyou for our generous sponsors, many of whom are in the room today. Especially those that help make this conference possible
And for those of us who have been working on expanding Health Care Access and awareness for year, we know weve reached an incredibly important milestone. Thanks to the exceptional work of the people in this room, more than 14 million americans and counting have received Health Coverage through the marketplace,head cade, and chip. Medicaid, etplace, and chip. Give yourselves a round of applause. Despite an unexpectly rocky start, you all made history by powering through some negative news cycles and keeping your eye on the ball. You stayed focused on educating consumers because they were hungry for the facts about how the law could benefit them and their familiesful you connected consumers with free, inperson help from persons in their communities. You made sure they knew about the opportunities for Financial Assistance, which finally made Health Insurance a reality for millions who couldnt afford it in the past and you stood ready to handle the surge in signups as the deadline approach
Sticking point for the russians. Spent thank you very much, ambassador. I think we want to quickly get to your questions and comments so get ready. Before we do that id like to give ambassador issued your an opportunity to respond to dr. Brzezinskis remarks. First, in the way, and i mean this half cynical, we can say thank you to Vladimir Putin for reminding us that at least a good reason for having nato. Nato was in the process of getting off the radar screen a little bit of the major european and transatlantic debate. Now its back on the radar screen. Thats good. Second, president putin has also, by doing what he did, reminded europeans that there is an overwhelmingly good reason for trying to get our act together in terms of speaking with one voice for the eu to be a political actor that can exercise a significant role, as it should, from dissenting 500 Million People. And third, i think the events are in the process, are already re energizing the debate about how best european coun