This is a hearing about the pat, Patient Involvement in fda drug approvals, and i think we can agree they deserve a seat at the table. When companies are developing drugs and medical devices within the Clinical Trial process. I have long been a supporter of the department of defenses congressionallydirected medical Research Program known as the cdmrp. It funds peerreviewed research into Breast Cancer, autism, ovarian cancer, Prostate Cancer and other diseases. And since 1993 the patients have been involved and have been attar of cdmrp, and they have a consumer reviewer as part of the peerreviewed possible to represent the stakeholder community. And its been very successful in combining Patient Perspectives and needs with Scientific Research and bringing those perspectives together. Has fda, as you begin to consider improving Patient Involvement, have you looked at cdrmp to see if theres anything you can borrow from that in the drug approval process . Uhhuh. We have not, and thats a goo
Vote the presiding officer are there any senators looking to vote or to change their votes . If not, the ayes are 54, the nays are 36. The motion is agreed to. Pursuant to the provisions of s. Res. 15 of the 113th congress, there will now be up to eight hours of postcloture consideration of the nomination, equally divided in the usual form. Mr. Reid mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid it is hard to believe that tomorrow will be the anniversary of the deaths of 20 little boys and girls in newtown, connecticut. Not only those little boys and girls, but six educators whose lives were taken by an unspeakable tragedy at sandy hook, elementary school. The names allison, aviel, charlotte, daniel, olivia, josephini, anna, dylan, madeline, katherine, james, chase, jesse, grace, noah, jack, emily, carol, jessica and benjamin. These little boys and girls were 6 and 7 years old. They were murdered. Although their years were few, their lives have touched and will con
Why not just put that in place in writing now so that its clear what the consequences will be for them to continue in the course there on. Thank you for that. Let me say that we have been absolutely clear and not diplomatic conversation and quite specific including at the level of the president and his conversations with president putin about the kinds of additional sanctions were considering including in the hightechnology area. As i said before you came in, we are also working intensively with europe on these kinds of measures because it is not just American Companies but so the european companies. Remove in the direction of those kinds of sanctions it will be stronger and more effective. It is very much on the docket and in the conversations with russians and the European Union as the kind of thing that we are looking at moving toward. Two aspects. Will we see in terms of other countries in the region. On the one and if we deny u. S. Companies, only an effective sanction. And i unde
Grabs for the democrats. We expect Bernie Sanders to speak in columbus, later this hour. Big question, could Hillary Clinton and tuesday with an insurmountable delegate lead or could Bernie Sanders prove to be our prize win just like he showedness michigan. Beginning of a revolt, if you will. We have every angle of this covered. Mark preston is live for us at the site of tonights town hall. Also with us, washington correspondent for the new yorker, ryan lizza and jeff zeleny on the trail with Bernie Sanders. Jeff, let me begin with you. When you look at this, sanders is in the middle of this faceoff, who would have thought frankly a faceoff with donald trump right now both of them going at each other on the state of the union, republican frontrunner placing the blame squarely on sanders supporters for the violence and the uprisings we have seen at the present protests tweeted this morning. Sanders is lying when he says, they arent told to good to my events, careful bernie or my support