Secretary, it finance committee receives his paperwork and will vote hon the nomination. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then former secretary and governor of utah whom we welcome today. Mike, good to see you and have you back. And senator young, whos a member of this committee, will introduce him after mr. Azars testimony, senators will each have five minutes of questions. We already have a good turnout so i anticipate a good vigorous questioning period. Confirmed to leave the department of health and Human Services, youll be leading a 1. 11 trillion budget. That almost equals the totals of the Appropriations Bills that Congress Passes each year to Fund Everything from National Defense to national laboratories. Medicare and medicaid. Our nations government run Insurance Programs for it poor and elderly. Mental hilth health and Substance Abuse. The National Institutes of health, where, with francish collins excellent leadership, the leading efforts to disco
Vote on the nomination. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then former secretary and former governor Michael Leavitt who we welcome today good to see you and have you back and senator young, a member of this committee will introduce mr. Azar. After his testimony, each will have five minutes of questions. I anticipate a good, vigorous questioning time. Azar, you will be running a 1. 1 trillion organization. That almost equals the total of the 12 appropriation Bills Congress passes each year to find everything from National Parks to National Defense to national laboratories. You would be overseeing medicare and medicaid, our nations Insurance Programs for the poor and elderly. Mental health and substance abuse, where you will have to address the europe your crisis other issues. The National Institutes of health where with Francis Collins excellent leadership the United States is leading efforts to develop a cure for new treatmentd for cancer. The fda, where Scot
To officially recognize jerusalem as israels capital. Host good morning. Its thursday, december 7, 2017. Pearl harbor Remembrance Day across the country. It marks the 76th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor. Flags have been lowered to halfstaff at the u. S. Capitol. The house and senate will both reconvene at 10 00 a. M. Today. At some point this morning on the senate floor, minnesota democrat al franken is expected to make an announcement about his political future, one day after new allegations of inappropriate behavior emerged and after over 30 of his fellow Democratic Senators called for him to resign. Thats where we begin this morning on the washington journal, as we take your calls and hear your thoughts. Phone lines republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. A special line this morning for minnesota residents, 2027488003. You can also catch up with us on social media. On twitter, cspanwj. On facebook, its facebook. Com cspan. A very good thu
Levels through december 22. An update now on negotiations. At roll call. Walk us through the next 48 hours in terms of government funding and efforts to stave that off by members of the house and senate. Guest well, good morning. It seems like the crisis is going to be averted, at least for about two weeks. The house is going to move forward, already gone through the rules committee, as i understand it, and theyre going to move forward on a twoweek continuing resolution. It wouldnt do much except for change the date of the expiration of the government funding. And also make sure that they dont run out of money for Childrens Health Insurance Programs between now and then, making a little bit of a technical change there. Which really pushes the whole issue off until december 22. All indications are that pretty much as soon as the bill arrives from the house, that the senate will ask to pass it as well, and thats if they dont ask before they move. Sometimes the senate will come up an agre
Guiding principles. You might think of it as a framework for National Security rather than a blueprint for action host one of the headlines we are seeing this morning on the speech coming up today at 2 00 p. M. Eastern is that trump will discuss trading borders and ignore Climate Change and announce a new strategy. What are some of the notable elements in the strategy that you are hearing of guest one thing you just mentioned that i think is correct, there will perhaps be an unusual amount of emphasis on Border Control and also it appears that there will be more of a change in the way, in some cases semantic or terminology in the way that major powers like russia and china are described. One interesting aspect of this is although this is going to be presented as a new strategy and in some ways its very much in line with what previous president s have followed, in fact, when it comes to russia for example, russia and china both will be copresented in the context of a new great power str