Thank you all very much. We have three knowledgeable guests on prescription drugs and pricing, the director to the public assistance and advocating for Strong Public Health and around the world. Members of the committee, thank you. Public citizens a Public Citizen organization, 500,000 numbers for the years advocated with success. Drug prices are high because of monopoly power leading to rationing of treatment and traffic suffering. Diabetes drugs i cant afford it with social security. Theyre trying to before, why do we have to pay so much . We are on social security, does anyone care . What you . I ration so i can eat and pay rent. Affordable drugs compiled 34000 such stories for people struggling to afford and thats a tiny fraction, a sample of the problems other. It can cost lives, impossible family positions. Whether we are patients are not that outofpocket or higher insurance premiums and wasted tax bills, 200 billing on prescription drugs. Americans pay the highest times when oth
Ranking soldiers after the abuses were committed. But unfortunately, we didnt see any officers held accountable under the command of doctrine as kilometers onto which is something that the us has failed to do. And unfortunately, unfortunately, we also havent seen prosecutions, of perpetrators coupled with repressed their fixed this to the Vote Associated legal pause in texas has declared a state of emergency following a surge of migrants from mexico and 89000 people crossed into the us and such as a mexico and the us have agreed the migrants will be devoted to that home countries. The man about plastic says the city is overwhelmed. Oh, corresponding to hardy, joe castro is in eagle task. And when they get finally, to this point, were at the river separating here the us from mexico on the other side, this is the final barrier. And thats why people are taking these risks to bring their families this far. Now youre seeing this just successfully waited across the water. Theyre now slowly m
Rail. Cause new rep hello has moved from mexico city. We should know that this is a crisis thats not only playing out along mexicos border with the United States. The situation seems just as dire along mexico southern border with guatemala, over the course of the last few days, weve seen very dramatic images of migrant. So trying to make their way in to refugee shelters, their mexican immigration policy experts have been calling on the government of mexico to do more to establish more Processing Centers for migrant. But there was simply too many people. And what were seeing here is that there isnt a single reason or a single factor contributing to this latest surgeon migration that were seeing along mexicos board with United States police in somalia. As a truck almost killed at least 18 people, economic checkpoint, and a central town of blood when a at least 40 others, including soldiers and civilians. The engine, the desktop, was expected to rise. Spinning where at least 34 people wer
Protesting long because the ease really uh, borders. Uh now at least 2 people where uh, injured in those uh, air strikes and artillery shells on those uh military or on those observation points as well as Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. Says his government is on the verge of making a peace deal. The saudi arabia, speaking at the Un General Assembly and yahoo said palestinians will also benefit from this effects. Ive long sought to make peace with the palestinians. But i also believe that we must not give the palestinians a veto over new peace treaties with arab states. The palace digits could greatly benefit from a broader please. They should be part of that process, but they should not have a veto over the process. And i also believe that making piece was more arab states would actually increase the prospect. Im making peace between those well and the palestinians. See the problem statement is the only 2 percent of the i will must go says ukrainian missiles of target at the headqua
Judiciary subcommittee on privacy, technology and the law is about 2 hours and 20 minutes. The hearing of our subcommittee on privacy, technology, and the law will come to order. I want to welcome our witnesses, the audience who are here, and say a particular thanks to senator schumer who has been very supportive and interested in what we are doing here and also to chairman durbin whose support has been invaluable in encouraging us to go forward here. I have been grateful to my partner in this effort, senator hawley and i produced a framework basically, a blueprint for a path forward to achieve legislation. Our interest is in legislation. This hearing along with the two previous ones has to be seen as a means to that end. We are very result oriented. I know you are from your testimony. I have been enormously encouraged and emboldened by the response so far, just in the past few days and my conversations with leaders in the industry like mr. Smith, there is a deep appetite, hunger for r