This is about 30 minutes. Brodi fontenot good afternoon. My name is Brodi Fontenot, and i am the assistant secretary for management here at the Treasury Department. Thank you all for being here today. Those of you joining us virtually as well. It is a tremendous privilege to come to work here at the Treasury Department every day in this historic building, knowing that for more than a century, decisions made in this building have impacted the lives of our fellow citizens. I am honored to work for secretary lew, a tireless leader and advocate for the cause of Financial Inclusion. Often times in the day to day routine, it is easy to forget the historic significance of the institution we work for, the legacy that we are a small part of, and the people we serve. Today, we take a small step in preserving the history of the building and the legacy of service and inclusion at treasury. I want to start off by recognizing john brian. It was his idea that we name the Treasury Annex the freedmans
Throughnd went on progressively more responsible positions to become chief of staff of the army and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Few men have played such a significant role and the developments leading to our current involvement in vietnam. For the last five years, general taylor has been associated intimately with the making of vietnamese policy decisions. As personal military representative of president kennedy and 1961 and 1962, as chairman of the joint chief of staff, and as our ambassador to South Vietnam in 1964 and 1965. He is now special consultant to the president , and accompanied him to the recent conference in honolulu. General taylor, we are very pleased to have you. We have had you often before and are very familiar with you. We welcome you to make whatever statement you choose. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, i want to thank you mr. Chairman and the members of the committee for your willingness to hear my views on the situation in South Vietnam. I am afraid they wi
Our responses, and all the science and so forth throughout all of them, thats a great deal of work that also has to be done. So any further elements that are introduced where we are to prioritize this or that are other opportunities just like the r. E. M. S. To delay things where things are fair. We need to respond to directions from some other body. Most of generics are still decreasing in price. So this is a problem for a small area. The report shows that for the medicaid spending, prices for generics went down for 64 of the drugs over the last several years. That silver slice you were talking about, thats really what you were the silver slice is the innovator drugs dont have any generic competition. And no submission. And no submission, yeah. Nobody waiting. Nobody waiting. Or things are complex drugs, they might be ones that dont have a bioequivalence test. Orphans, the market space may just be too small. If you have four or five other entrants into that space, then they are not go
Located on the National Mall in washington, d. C. , the National Gallery of art was a gift to the American People from andrew mellon, who served as treasury secretary from 1920 to 1932. We visit the museum to learn about early american portrait paintings. In this program we feature the work of Gilbert Stuart. His unfinished portrait of George Washington is the image on the one dollar bill. Dianne hello, i am Dianne Stephens from the National Gallery of art. John is an artist who is well known for his history paintings in america, not as much portraiture. He aspired to be a history painter, then he eventually went to england and spent a couple of years with Benjamin West. West was an amazing figure who welcomed almost every painter that we are going to talk about today. They learned the art of history painting, came back to the colonies this is his portrait of Alexander Hamilton who was washingtons aid to camp. It is interesting that here , Alexander Hamilton is hanging next to Gilbert
Postwar. Although he is now in private industry, he has remade of thoughtful observer and commentator on military strategy in the nuclear age. Gavin has served his country barrel well very well and has a right to enjoy his retirement. But we need his advice, for there are very few people in his experience. Elieve we are constructed confronted with momentous decisions in the near future, and i need not tell you general gavin, with the subject matter of these decisions involves very this committee is trying to explore certain aspects of our policies come upon which you can throw some light. So that the judgment of our people in this committee may be as wise as possible. Not a novel or new approach, it is a traditional role which are systematized to the senate, and the senate is dedicated to this. To be reviewed by the senate as a whole and by the country. We have many precedents for this inquiry, one of the most effective and listing which leaders of the senate. That the center has ever