My father passed away about when i was just before my 15th birthday but i knew what i wanted to do the rest of my life and i didnt know how i was going to do it but i was on a mission to try to hook on to the news media somehow and become a part of photo journalism. And i was lucky enough to do that. I got out of the marine corps and had had applied. I think as the boss said to me up in new york, we got so tired of getting letters from you for new jobs with us that we finally just decided to turn the letters off and give you a staff job somewhere. And i ended up coming to austin, texas. And i worked on the american statesman here. That was the very beginning of my career. And upi had a unique set up. Where we had a contract to be their staff. So of course i got to know austin and the people here and i really grew very fond of austin. At the beginning i thought what a great gig, as we used to say to hook on to a lucky break like that. And so thats where i began my career here, in austin
My father passed away about when i was just before my 15th birthday but i knew what i wanted to do the rest of my life and i didnt know how i was going to do it but i was on a mission to try to hook on to the news media somehow and become a part of photo journalism. And i was lucky enough to do that. I got out of the marine corps and had had applied. I think as the boss said to me up in new york, we got so tired of getting letters from you for new jobs with us that we finally just decided to turn the letters off and give you a staff job somewhere. And i ended up coming to austin, texas. And i worked on the american statesman here. That was the very beginning of my career. And upi had a unique set up. Where we had a contract to be their staff. So of course i got to know austin and the people here and i really grew very fond of austin. At the beginning i thought what a great gig, as we used to say to hook on to a lucky break like that. And so thats where i began my career here, in austin
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
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