I think we better get it going. The committee will come to order. To this mornings hearing. Today, the committee will consider the nomination of alex to servee in the as the secretary of health and Human Services. I would like to welcome him this morning. I want to thank them for being here. Thisillingness to serve in capacity, as well. He has his work cut out for them. Health and Human Services is a massive, Sprawling Department that oversees trillions of dollars in spending and liabilities, encompassing all areas of our Nations Health care system. Confirmed, his decisions will impact the lives of every single american. Knowledge, experience, and most importantly, strong leadership. Our nominee brings all of this to the table after nearly do decades of experience after nearly two decades of experience. Hhs, mr. Azare at played key roles in implementing policies, including the Medicare Advantage program. He was also a leader in hhss response to the anthrax attacks shortly after 9 11, t
Drug prices and his experience as an executive at eli lilly. He was introduced by tommy. Hompson i think we better get it going. The committee will come to order. Order. To this mornings hearing. Today, the committee will consider the nomination of alex to servee in the as the secretary of health and Human Services. I would like to welcome him this morning. I want to thank them for being here. Thisillingness to serve in capacity, as well. He has his worcut out for them. Health and Human Services is a massive, Sprawling Department that oversees trillions of dollars in spending and liabilities, encompassing all areas of our Nations Health care system. Confirmed, his decisions will impact the lives of every single american. Knowledge, experience, and most importantly, strong leadership. Our nominee brings all of this to the table after nearly do decades of experience after nearly two decades of experience. Hhs, mr. Azare at played key roles in implementing policies, including the Medicare
I think we better get it going. The committee will come to order. To this mornings hearing. Today, the committee will consider the nomination of alex to servee in the as the secretary of health and Human Services. I would like to welcome him this morning. I want to thank them for being here. Thisillingness to serve in capacity, as well. He has his work cut out for them. Health and Human Services is a massive, Sprawling Department that oversees trillions of dollars in spending and liabilities, encompassing all areas of our Nations Health care system. Confirmed, his decisions will impact the lives of every single american. Knowledge, experience, and most importantly, strong leadership. Our nominee brings all of this to the table after nearly do decades of experience after nearly two decades of experience. Hhs, mr. Azare at played key roles in implementing policies, including the Medicare Advantage program. He was also a leader in hhss response to the anthrax attacks shortly after 9 11, t
Support their work product. And of course as senator mcconnell, our majority leader likes to point out, there is one indispensable person when it comes to legislation, and thats the person who signs it. All of us write the legislation, but the president is the one who ultimately decides p whether its going to become law. Thats a serious problem in terms of their plan to move forward with the socalled grahamdurbin proposal. And it was i guess last week i lose track of the days now where we met at the white house where majority leader mccarthy suggested that he and i as the majority whip in the senate, minority whip in the senate, senator durbin, for whom this has been a long, passionate cause, and also the minority leader in the house, mr. Hoyer, get together and schedule a tkpwraoufpl meetings to try a group of meetings to try to work out our differences and build consensus because nothing happens unless consensus is achieved, as we all know. So actually i think the belief, in my view,
Time to introduce myself and our next speaker. I mentioned who is not here, but in my brief introduction, i would like to share with you how i we, mcgraw hill education got here. At the third annual urban Superintendent Academy with asa and with the opportunity to address sour next keynote speaker, dr. Mark bedell. Our goal is to identify national alliances. For example, as we began four years ago, our transformation from a 125yearold Publishing Company to a learning science compa company. As a result of this alignment, we took a lead role and an active participation with our learning symposiums. So maybe its that part of me of being a proud and honored son of two cuban orphans, that instilled in me, the need of always wanting to do more and to do good. We continued our conversations with asa and our partner districts and recognize the significance and issue in addressing the needs of equity and accessing and we mcgrawhill education immediately said, yes, count us in, we want to work w