Days take on a life of their own. I want to say good morning. Good morning, dr. Collins, welcome back to hhs to the appropriations subcommittee. Let me just say a thank you on behalf of the on behalf of the sub come they for hosting members of the subcommittee for the site visit at the nih campus last week. We had a real wonderful opportunity to learn more about nihs work. We met with the researchers who were working to cure Sickle Cell Disease and develop treatments for major depression and shrink cancer tumors in children. We heard from participants whose lives have been changed by Clinical Trials and it was a moving and informative, but a very moving experience, as well. Let me welcome our witnesses including the five institute and senate directors who join us today and in addition, and always a great addition, dr. Francis collins and joined us many times director of the National Institutes of health today joined by dr. Bruce tromberg director of biomedical engineer, the director of
The subcommittee will come to order. Thank you all very, very much and, again, we apologize for being late. Days take on a life of their own. But i wanted to say good morning, dr. Collins. Welcome back to labor hhs, the appropriations subcommittee. Let me just say thank you on behalf of the of the subcommittee for hosting members of the subcommittee for the site visit at the nih campus last week. We had a wonderful opportunity to learn more about nihs work. We met with the researchers who were working to cure Sickle Cell Disease, to develop treatments for major depression, shrink and treat cancer tumors in children. We heard from participants whose lives have been changed by Clinical Trials. So it was a moving an informative but a very moving experience as well. Let me welcome our witnesses, including the five institute and Center Directors who join us today and in addition, and always a great addition, dr. Francis collins whos joined us many times, director of the National Institutes
Same. Were were going to keep fighting until e we get him back. Reporter following the protest, students were taken into the auditorium where the principal tried to answer some questions. This is video from inside that meeting. Students tell me they didnt get the answers they were looking for, but they wont stop until they do. We sat there had for a b hour and learned nothing about our safety, about our education, about what hes going to do to help us. Were not to stop until we get school security. Reporter after the walkout, there was an assembly inside the school where students were able to talk to the principal but they told me a lot of the questions about what happened to their teacher, those were not answered. I tried to reach out to the principal. He did not return my phone call or email. I did get a hold of someone from the School District and say they sent me a link to a statement they had saying while they support the right for students to speak out and express concerns, they
Speech on the grounds of public speech, then think of gary trudeau and carson on the tonight show. The watergate case from all the president s men. These two were assigned to it. These two were apointed to the case. Burglars have their own counsel . Thats right. Thats kind of unusual, isnt it . For burglars its unusual. Do you know the name of the counsel . And the loving story about the case invaldating the laws prohibiting interracial marriage. We pinch ourselves and say were handling a major civil rights case. Im not going to vote. That is the right of richard and milton loving to wake up in the morning or go to sleep at night knowing the sheriff will not be knocking on their door. Supreme court cases that played a role in popular movies. Listen to cspan radio at 90. 1 fm in the washington, d. C. Area, online at cspan. Org or download our cspan radio app. Next, a discussion on a recent state Department Report which rates countries across the world on efforts to combat Human Traffick
Twoyear school. And the Graduation Rates are extremely low. They get automatic guarantee to get into unc chapel hill. It has been phenomenal. And if you meet some of those students, you would be blown away. One of them i met grew up in nigeria from a very poor family, wartorn area. Saw is a poster of unc and dreamed about being at unc. How she ever made it i cant tell you. Went to unc, head of her class in nursing, going to medical school. So we have to keep remembering not all students will do the traditional path. But if were going to make accessibility, affordability the brand for our nation, we need to do this. We need to start before. We need to give the support they need. We need the advising on the ground. And we need to continue to draw from such a broad range that we dont miss so many students who are out there. If we start doing that and we have programs that can help universities do this and we have programs that can do it in places where graduation is what they do, i think