Good morning. The cynic in me to help education letter pensions will please come to order. This is another bipartisan hearing which is what most of our hearings are which means senator murray and ive agreed on the subject and on the witnesses. In fact, i would say every member of this committee would probably agree on the subject and a witnesses today. Because this is hearing entitled implementation of the 21st century cures act, progress and the path forward for medical innovation to from dr. Francis collins, the director of the National Institutes of health, and dr. Scott gottlieb, the commission of food and drugs. Well have some mention as senator murphy will have a hearing next wednesday on another important part of the cures act which was the first reorganization of our Mental Health laws in a decade which senator cassidy and senator murphy played a major role in. We look forward to that. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then well introduce our panel of
Wire both sides saying lets just get this done and take this problem off of the table . I do not know. Anybody else there must be some insight regarding the reliability of the grid is reliable. I had no idea why they would go along with that. And from it is the lawyers. Doctor . I think as we look at the bigger picture, and the substances that are being used by athletes, we talked earlier about the supplement you can buy on the internet and in Health Food Stores that may or may not contain illegal substances. I think a lot of athletes that i talk with who have gotten caught in drug testing, they say that all i did was go to gnc and by a protein powder or a muscle product and i didnt know that it had anabolic steroids and and or whatever it was that broke the rule. I think there is some concern that this is the bigger issue in i think some athletes may be concerned that they are going to do the right thing, but also get caught doing something could be wrong. I think as we look at this,
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