Please turn to the exhibits beginning with the two. This is the Procurement Company brochure handed out at National Conferences where Abortion Clinic managers were in attendance. Notice it says financially profitable. Fiscally rewarding. Financial benefit to your clinic. Look at exhibit b3. Which is a website grew grab of the procurement business. Once again, financially profitable. While also providing a financial benefit to your own plenty. Evidently the procurement business is not familiar with the waxman prohibition. Turn the page and look at exhibits before and five. The procurement business target in 2010 with three clinics in two years it was up to 30 and in 30 years it had nearly 100. Further, they were negotiating a contract to have over 250 clinics by this year. But the comarketing negotiations with the National Abortion trade organization fell apart just about the time the videos came out last year. You do not have to be a lawyer to see whats going on here. You put up a webs
Website. And so, i think your words need to be taken down. Accusing staff our staff of leaking that is not true. Those words should be taken down. Madam chair . Blackburn the staff had asked for the documents to be shared. Before thehared website, released to the entity. In order to take comments down, they have to be personal in nature. So with that, let us begin with our opening statement. And then, we will receive our first panel of witnesses. As i was beginning earlier, i want to welcome all of our witnesses who are here today. Im going to introduce each of you later. As we move forward with our testimony on the pricing of fetal tissue, as part of my opening statement, i will present a narrative about the exhibits that todays hearing will discuss. I have said many times that my hope is that both parties can Work Together on some things. And todays subject matter should be an opportunity to do so for a couple of reasons. First, at our initial hearing on bioethics and fetal tissue, a
Subcommittee hearing is two hours and 15 minutes. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the subcommittee on health and Human Services and education to discuss the fiscal year 2017 National Institutes of Health Budget request. We are looking forward to hearing the testimony of dr. Whoins and his colleagues will be brought in for questions along the way. I would like to publicly thank dr. Collins and the staff at the nih for hosting me and other subcommittee members for a briefing at a tour at the nih campus a few weeks ago. I hope it will become an annual trek. Withinleft nih appreciation of the exciting work your staff to every day to find ways to save lives. I am proud than last year this congress was able to increase nih funding by 2 billion a night in confident that through these efforts one day we will find cures for diseases like cancer and alzheimers. Fore disappointed is the proposed budget cut to the. Ih this year the proposal to divert one billion dollars of Biomedical Research
Population. And when we try to strengthen the population. Respect tobama with libya, i want to be very clear, i continue to believe that it was the right thing to do for us to intervene as part of a u. N. Mandated International Coalition to prevent some of the behaviorly murderous that gadhafi was talking about. That it was important for us to properly plan, prepare, and resource what came next. Was possible for us to do that effectively, i think that we didnt do it as effectively as we should have. Negate theot importance of us all now investing in making sure that there is a functioning libyan government. The fact that we now have a court,ent and national fragile as it is, requires us to do everything we can to encourage it. And this is a conversation i have had throughout my meetings during this trip, whether in london or now here. The partnership negotiations, what you are saying is differences continually narrowing, and i think it is up to the try to findto compromises and solutio
Offenses, corporate internal investigations, and compliance matters. Mr. Michael norton served as u. S. Attorney for colorado from 198093. He was appointed by president reagan and we appointed by president george h. W. Bush. Mr. Norton has been practicing law since 1976 and is admitted to the bars in the states of colorado and virginia. As well as washington, d. C. Trenton as a scholar with the institute which offers Research Papers on science, medicine and research in the service of human life. She was an attorney with the Alliance Defending freedom and is a graduate of Georgetown University law school. Mr. Sukhia was appointed u. S. Attorney for the Northern District of florida. He has also served as law clerk at the Florida Supreme Court and the u. S. Court of appeals and as a senior partner in one of floridas oldest and largest statewide firms. He began his own firm in the Florida State capital in 2008. You are aware that the select Investigative Panel is holding an investigative h