Of our Host Institution for today, the Georgetown Center for business and public policy. I will tell you that we are delighted today to have a discussion on something very important and near and dear to the Georgetown Center. That is the subject of trade policy. In particular, we are going to examine the issue of whether remedy unfair trade practices or are they themselves simply protectionist policies . Todays panel is going to be moderated by my colleague. Bob is a senior industry fellow at the center. Wonderfully in promoting and advancing the georgetown hill series that has clearly gotten so popular over the years. I will say that we are glad to have you here. I will not steal bob steiner, but in terms of introducing the panelists, i will some police say that its an extraordinarily blueribbon group of people that will be talking today. I will also say that when we looked at the list of registrants for today, we saw a number of experts in the audience. We won to make sure to have am
Ordered. Id like to welcome everyone to this mornings hearing. Today, we will consider the nomination of dr. Tom price to be the secretary of the department of health and Human Services. And want to welcome dr. Price to the finance committee. I appreciate his willingness to in a position of this magnitude, especially at this particularly crucial time. Republicans in Congress Warned that the new health care law, basically, would harm patients, emilys and businesses. Too fine apine point on it, but we were right. That will address costs among other things. This will be an important endeavor. One that will and should get a lot of attention here today. But it should not be the sole focus of the next hhs soap secretary. Hhs has an annual budget of over 1 trillion. Let me repeat that. One department, 1 trillion. Hhs and purposes encompasses medicare and medicaid. Disease control and prevention, the National Institutes of whole, the federal Drug Administration and many others. This is no exag
Ordered. Id like to welcome everyone to this mornings hearing. Today, we will consider the nomination of dr. Tom price to be the secretary of the department of health and Human Services. And want to welcome dr. Price to the finance committee. I appreciate his willingness to in a position of this magnitude, especially at this particularly crucial time. Republicans in Congress Warned that the new health care law, basically, would harm patients, emilys and businesses. Too fine apine point on it, but we were right. That will address costs among other things. This will be an important endeavor. One that will and should get a lot of attention here today. But it should not be the sole focus of the next hhs soap secretary. Hhs has an annual budget of over 1 trillion. Let me repeat that. One department, 1 trillion. Hhs and purposes encompasses medicare and medicaid. Disease control and prevention, the National Institutes of whole, the federal Drug Administration and many others. This is no exag
You have described to a degree, but if you could elaborate can you describe how you will prioritize and oversee the larger range of issues for which you will be responsible. Tell us, what in your history has prepared you to lead the department of health and Human Services. Tom price thank you. As you and members know the mission of the department of health insert health and Human Services is to improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of the American People. In order to do that, i am committed to that mission. In order to do that you have to put together teams of individuals in east each sector of health and Human Services. My history of where ever i was or the work i did in communities was just to bring forward greatest quality of talent that we could assemble. The second is to understand the scope and the issues. Clearly having the experience both in the clinical arena as well as the legislative arena you can understand the scope of issues. Finally, focusing on results. Often times
Dying city, dined with sinatra, spent five years in a federally funded gated community, and lived to tell the tale. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to present mayor vincent buddy cianci. [applause] Vincent Cianci thank you very much, andrea. Thank you. Thank you all very much for coming. Andrea, you left an awful lot out of the introduction, ill tell you. Ive been introduced many different ways. Think about introductions, i remember being introduced one time, i used to be mayor and hen i stopped being mayor. Then i became mayor again. In 1990 i got reelected and ill never forget before the inauguration but after the election i was invited to go to a dinner i think at the biltmore hotel. A lot of people were there. Ill never forget walking in and the person at the podium was excited to see me there. And he got on the microphone and he said, oh, ladies and gentlemen, i want everyone to welcome the two timing mayor of the city of providence. Right . [laughter] Vincent Cianci