The committee will come to order. Welcome everybody to this mornings hearing. Today the committee will consider and examine the nomination of vista alex cesar to serve as a sect of health and Human Services, one of the most aboard jobs in any government anywhere in the world. Id like to welcome mr. Azar to the finance committee this morning. Thank you for being here and for your willingness to serve in this important capacity. Mr. Azar certainly has his work cut out for him. Health and Human Services is a massive, Sprawling Department that oversees trillions of dollars in spending and liabilities and encompasses all areas of our Nations Health care system. As a result, if confirmed, mr. Azars work will impact the lives of every single american. Thats a big job. It requires knowledge, experience, and, most important, strong leadership. Fortunately, our nominee brings all of this to the table, having nearly two decades of experience in the health care sector, including about six years wo
Theres body parts, you will have prices. Mr. Duffy i now yield to the gentleman from North Carolina, mr. Walker. Mr. Walker thank you, representative duffy, for your leadership in this matter. Tonight i join my colleagues in speaking out against the barbaric and heinous actions we witnessed where planned parenthood was caught selling body parted of a parts of aborted children. In 2013, planned parenthood performed 3, 350,000 abortions. Ironically it was in 2013 that president obama became the only sitting president tover address this organization. It was at this address that the president desaied to invoke gods blessing on this hideous organization. The mask is coming off this organization that barters the body parts of a baby. So many of us here are parents. We have watched in awe the ultra sound images of our children. We have seen their hearts beat and marveled at gods creation, how fearfully and wonderfully theyre made. How can we not stand idly and not speak out for these lives, t
Real. We sometimes duplicate and cause campuses to spend more time filling out forms and working with students to have a session in forming incoming freshmen about what the responsibilities are. But each of you be willing to give us specific suggestions about how you see title ix and its rules and regulations clearly the knew regulations allow they can be improved, where the conflict how they can be made more clear so that campuses have the flexibility you talk about. Ill call you present. Would you be willing to do that and to give it to us and has specific a form as you could. Welcome the opportunity to do that. And i no you are so large and it is such a good system that you are bound to have plenty of people waiting through rules and regulations. We dont know what this means and this duplicates this and you have been in so many different positions that you know exactly what im talking about a particularly when he that by around september in order to included in the reauthorization a
We have encouraged all schools have am confident they will produce there own results as well. Ii would like to offer specific comments. The 1st has to do with Response Rates, an issue you raised and it is an important issue. Colleges wantissue. Colleges want to ensure the Response Rate for particularly with the survey of this nature. Unfortunately schools have the Legal Authority to compel students to participate. Having said that there are number of strategiesa number of strategies the schools can employ if the survey is locally administered. The school administers the survey versus the department of education administering the survey which is one of our concerns. They have control over a host of issues. Who promotes it, how is promoted baldwin, how long commanders a solid researchbased group of evidence that can bolster Response Rates. That is an area we know more about and it can be a great resource moving forward. If. If i have another minute i will stop theyre. Her answer illustra
I know a woman being accused and she said she is accused wrongly and her entire career is in jeopardy because of this and she feels as if she has not been given rights. Thats about how we address that issue. Ms. Napolitano we are actually looking into that right now. Had we make sure the system is fair to both sides. When i look at the litigation that has been filed against the university of california about half of the cases have been filed by survivors and half by respondents who say they were not treated fairly. There is a lot of controversy in this area. One of the issues we are looking at is do we provide or what kind of support do we provide to a respondent in addition to a complaint . Right now, we provide support to the complainttant. Sen. Cassidy it should leave the University System and go to a civil court because that is the only way you ensure you get fair treatment for both parties as i understand. I am looking at 41 if that is true, it tells me that for a sizable minority