Health and Human Services secretary took questions on the president s proposed budget for 2019. He was asked about funding for medicare and medicaid, combating the Opioid Epidemic and the cost of Prescription Drugs. He testified before the Senate Finance committee. The committee will come to order. I want to express the sadness we all feel in light of yesterdays events in florida. I was personally horrified as i watched the news unfold yesterday though i was also moved to hear some of the stories of the heroism displayed by some of the students and teachers at the school. Am praying for those who were affected. May they all find peace, healing, and a speedy recovery. I welcome everybody here to todays hearing which will be hearing on final the president s budget for fiscal year 2019. We have already had the treasury secretary and hearing acting i. R. S. Commissioner appear before us. Today well be talking with secretary aczar from the department of health and Human Services. I want to
Planning and autism. He talked to senator or in chairs the committee. The committee will come to order. Before i begin i wantto discuss on behalf of the committee how we all feel. In light of yesterdays events in florida. I was personally horrified as i watched the news unfold yesterday, that though i was also moved to hear some of the stories of the heroism displayed by some of the students and teachers at the school. In times like these i know that the thoughts expressed by those of us far away can sometimes seem empty and meaningless in the face of such a terrible tragedy. I will simply say i am praying for all those affected by these acts of senselessviolence. That of course includes a member of our committee will i know is mourning the loss in his own state. May they all find peace, healing and a speedy recovery. I welcome everybody here. And todays hearing which will be our third and final hearing on the fiscal year 2019. Currently, we already have the treasury secretary and the
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Welcome back. We have a few folks coming from lunch in a few minutes. So we wont make any noise until a few minutes in. Welcome to our conversation with facebook titled security versus security. Im dean of the Langston School university. And the head of counterterrorism at facebook. We were here last friday. There was a movie release called friend request. So were here to do a review of that movie. Because no news has broken since then in monicas orbit. When monica agreed or started thinking about it, our main focus was going to be on why when i post pictures no one ever says like or comments. But since then weve had a lot of things develop. So were going to get right into it. We will address some of the news of the day but i want to do that at the end because i want to make sure we spend a lot of time at the beginning talking about some of the really great incredible things that monica and facebook are doing in the counterterrorism space, which is the goal of this conference is to tal
Welcome back. We have a few folks coming from lunch in a few minutes. So we wont make any noise until a few minutes in. Welcome to our conversation with facebook titled security versus security. Im dean of the Langston School university. And the head of counterterrorism at facebook. We were here last friday. There was a movie release called friend request. So were here to do a review of that movie. Because no news has broken since then in monicas orbit. When monica agreed or started thinking about it, our main focus was going to be on why when i post pictures no one ever says like or comments. But since then weve had a lot of things develop. So were going to get right into it. We will address some of the news of the day but i want to do that at the end because i want to make sure we spend a lot of time at the beginning talking about some of the really great incredible things that monica and facebook are doing in the counterterrorism space, which is the goal of this conference is to tal