Good morning. The health labor on education and pension will come to order. This is another bipartisan hearings, which means senator murray and i have agreed on the subject and the witnesses. In falkt i would say every member in the committee would probably agree on the subject and Witnesses Today because this is a hearing entitled implementation of the cures act. The path forward to hear from dr. Frances collins, the National Institutes of health and dr. Gotlieb, the commissioner of food and drugs. Senator murphy will have a hearing wednesday on another reorganization which they played a major role in. We look forward to that. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then introduce our panel of witnesses. After, senators will have five minutes of questions. In 2007 doug oliver, who is in the front row i believe, a Computer Programmer began to have trouble, had his drivers license taken away and declared legally bliepd. It was a rare form of macular degeneration. He
Since it picked up the cryptocurrency. And as big tech races to control your living room, we will hear from the brain behind amazons alexa. First, to our lead. After Senate Republicans passed their version of tax reform in the u. S. , we spent the week exploring the ways the proposed legislation could affect the tech industry. Take a listen. It was a round of applause on capitol hill for gop senators as they passed their version of a tax bill. Pushing the Trump Administration closer to its first piece of signature legislation. Donald trump if they sent it to my desk, i promise all of the people in this room, my friends, so many friends in this room it is a great state i promise you i will sign it. I promise. I will not veto that bill. Reporter Tech Companies have spent big to make sure their interests are heard. Big tech stands to benefit from the legislation in a few ways. The latest bill would slash the corporate rate from 35 to 20 . Although according to goldman sachs, the tech sect
Cryptocurrency. And as big tech races to control your living room, we will hear from the brain behind amazons alexa. First, to our lead. After Senate Republicans passed their version of tax reform in the u. S. , we spent the week exploring the ways the proposed legislation could affect the tech industry. Take a listen. It was a round of applause on capitol hill for gop senators as they passed their version of a tax bill. Pushing the Trump Administration closer to its first piece of signature legislation. Donald trump if they sent it to my desk, i promise all of the people in this room, my friends, so many friends in this room it is a great state i promise you i will sign it. I promise. I will not veto that bill. Reporter Tech Companies have spent big to make sure their interests are heard. Big tech stands to benefit from the legislation in a few ways. The latest bill would slash the corporate rate from 35 to 20 . Although according to goldman sachs, the tech sector already benefits fro
We look forward to that. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then introduce our panel of witnesses. After, senators will have five minutes of questions. In 2007 doug oliver, who is in the front row i believe, a Computer Programmer began to have trouble, had his drivers license taken away and declared legally blind. It was a rare form of macular degeneration. He moved to nashville where they told him while there were no cures, he could Search Online for a trial. He found a regenerative Clinical Trial in florida, where doctors took cells out of the bone marrow in his hip, and then injected these into his eye. Three days later he began to see. His eye sight eventually improved enough to get his drivers license back and that he became an effective advocate for more support for Regenerative Medicine done the proper way, which we included in the 21st century cures act. Earlier this year he gave me the cane he used when he was blind, said i dont need it anymore. So i
Im Carl Quintanilla post 9, new york stock exchange. What a show. Very busy hour ahead on squawk alley. Exclusive ceos with sanjay mean stitch fix ceo white house preparing for vote on tax reform following yesterdays procedural snag. El ylan mui is on capitol hill. Right now lawmakers are debating and voting on proerm measures the real meat of that vote will not happen until roughly noon. Every republican in the senate overnight did vote to support the tax bill one of the last to get on board was jeff flake of arizona. He put out a statement just recently saying he would have written a different bill, that he does believe lowering the u. S. Corporate rate will help make america more globally competitive. One provision that didnt make it into the bill was president trumps pledge to end the preferential treatment for carried interest that pledge was the victim of the weve been trying to cut carried interest, weve probably tried 25 times. Why not we hit opposition in that big White Buildi