Senate appropriations subcommittee. This is 40 minutes. Hearing will come to order. I would like to thank the members for being here. Ranking member merkley and certainly want to welcome fda administrator gottlieb. Thank you for being here this morning, we appreciate it. Todays hearing will focus on the food and drug administrations fiscal year 2018 budget request. Thank you again for being here, dr. Gottlieb and obviously this is a Good Opportunity to talk about fdas priorities for the upcoming year. Congratulations on your confirmation. We certainly want to welcome you in your first appearance before the subcommittee and we look forward to working with you. The agency you head has authority over approximately 20 cents of every dollar spent in america. Americans expect that the food they eat and the drugs they take will be safe and effective. Fdas reach is vast. The agency has authority over more than 300,000 foreign establishments, and 185,000 domestic establishments ranging from Foo
All of the judges below concluded that plaintiff s core mory is by eight ball and they had the merger theer of liability, promising liability on the alleged decision of attorney general ashcroft to merge the new york list of detainees which had not been fully vetted by the ins list and continue to hold until cleared policy for detainees on both lists. The liability does not attach here for at least three reasons. First, the bivins remedy should not be extended to National Security and immigration policy decisions by senior officials in the wake of the september 11th attacks. In the damage remedy is to be impose side for not congress to do so. The list merger theory suffers from the same pleading deficiencies that the court identified in it ball itself. Among other thing, there is an alternative and a list merger decision. Given the uncertainty about the status of detainees on the new york list, the list merger was undertaken to avoid the inadvertent or premature release of a dangerous
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[chanting] [cheering] ms. Handel thank you. I have to start first of all i saying thank you. [cheering] ms. Handel there are literally hundreds of people to thank and scores of elected officials and gop leaders who put their confidence in me right from the very beginning, and i will probably miss a few but there were several who stepped up right from day one, including my very good friend, bob ott, joanne burrow, joe lockwood, mo my hometown mayor, jerry wood. On aprilo thank 18, i said to everyone that this was going to be a very, very tight race. It was going to be contentious, and it was going to require all hands on deck. That is exactly what we had. From [cheering] ms. Handel from all of the others who were the gop competitors in the primary, including several who are here tonight. I see bob gray. Thank you for your help. [cheering] ms. Handel every Single Member of the republican georgia congressional delegation, our constitutional officers, the legislators, the governor and firs
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