Christopher ford is the assistant secretary of state for International Security and nonproliferation. He talked about Nuclear Security policy at the Stimson Center. Some other of the topics included Nuclear Terrorism prevention, efforts to denuclearize north korea, and chinas role in fostering Nuclear Security in the region. Well, ladies and gentlemen, a very good afternoon to all of you and welcome to the Stimson Center. My name is brian finlay. Im president and ceo here at the Stimson Center. For those attending this very event for the very second time, many apologies. It was not, as you may have assumed, our speakers agenda that caused the cancellation, but an exploding manhole. We started paying our bills yet the Stimson Center again and were back in business and very pleased to be welcoming dr. Christopher ford back to the stage. Chris, for those of you in the know, is of course the assistant secretary of state for International Student and nonproliferation. Chris previously has d
Speaker pelosi good morning, good morning. How are you . Did you have a good thanksgiving . Reporter are we going to have a good christmas . [laughter] Speaker Pelosi we will see. Christmas, hanukkah, kwanzaa. Holidays. Our House Democrats came back from thanksgiving having listened to our constituents and again, working on our for the people agenda. During the election a year of a year ago, we promised for the people agenda. And part one of that was to lower the cost of health care for all americans by lowering the cost of prescription drugs. This week we will be bringing, next week, we will be bringing to the floor h. R. 3. It is a transformative legislation to affect medicare, the most transformative since medicare was founded. It helps all people. American seniors and families wont have to pay more for medicine. As you probably know it gives the secretary the authority to negotiate for lower drug prices. It does so in a way that also enables prices in america to be more commensurat
Mr. Mccarthy this morning i listened to Speaker Pelosi give us historical references. The one that she skipped was Alexander Hamilton when he wrote, there will always be the greatest danger that the decision to use the impeachment power would be driven by partisan animosity instead of real demonstrations of incense of innocence or guilt. Today is the day that hamilton warned us. Today, with the speakers announcement, she has weakened this nation. It was not new news. They always had this prewritten timeline from the day they got sworn in. Lets go through their timeline. After winning the majority they had to decide who would become the chairs of their committees. Impeachment committee, judiciary, had a campaign for it. Nadler campaigned on the theme that he would be the best for impeachment, and he won the position. On the very first day of swearingin by their new freshmen that got them the majority, after holding their hand up and swearing to the constitution in celebration that night
Hastings center. Good morning. Guest good morning. Great to be here. Host tell us about drug shortages in the United States. What drugs are we talking about. What drugs are we short on . Guest in the United States of america, we have a shortage of really important medicines. This has been going on 20 years. Andave had hundreds hundreds. One of the medicines and shortage right now is a really important blood thinner that hospitals use every single day. There was an article in a local newspaper about a boston physician saying i do not know if we can do cardiac surgery two weeks from now if we do not have this product. We are walking on a very thin line. We have had shortages of chemotherapy to treat cancer in children and adults. We have had shortages and right now, there is a shortage of a really important antibiotic to treat a lifethreatening infection. These are life and death medicine. Sometimes, we cannot get them, and we are rationing. In therationing medicine United States of amer
Join us, mr. Brown who is behind me, and to participate in the questions and there is a formal ask unanimous consent that we allow him to participate in todays hearing after all of the subCommittee Members have had an opportunity to ask questions. Is there an objection. There being none. The nuns of kim subcommittee member is recognized at an appropriate time for fiveminute questions. And more okay with that, kemeny will come to order. Ladies and gentlemen, i call the committee to order and assent many in the Armed Services Committee Presents february of this year, the subcommittee has been conducting oversight of the privatized military housing program. We first heard about this systemic failures in the privatized military Family Housing program from a panel of courageous military spouses who provided graphic and disturbing testimony about lead and mold exposure and rodent infestations, rude and dismissive House Management in an effective oversight of the program by the services. And