I thought this happened. Good afternoon everybody i want to welcome everyone to the finance Committee Oversight hearing the fda foreign drug manufacturing inspection process. And the taxpayers whether medicare or medicaid and second and the jurisdiction under trade with the responsibility that only Quality Pharmaceuticals that responsibility is heightened now that we are living through the covid pandemic whether were in the midst of a pandemic the supplychain and starting june of last year on this issue to secretary as are in the commissioner. I ask a series of questions related to manufacturing facilities overseas to file dosages for drugs and pharmaceutical ingredients and throughout the day also with the fda managing its inspection regime that says the fda does conduct some unannounced inspections on the frequency but the gao and 2019 that they estimated they generally provided 12 weeks of notice before the inspection for them to do their jobs and 12 weeks common sense tells me ther
Capacity, some states requiring that visitors and residents who are returning from other states selfquarantine before they actually enter that state. Joining me now to talk about the reopening of america and the real and permanent changes to the country that we can expect is the chairman and ceo of the Starwood Capital group, barry, always a pleasure to see you. Thanks for joining us this weekend. Great to be with you. Maria so now weve got all 50 states open in some capacity. I know you were out and about this weekend. What can you tell us . Assess this first week of the reopening. How do you see it . You know, i was on tv march 13th, and i was fairly bullish on the speed of the recovery. And everything ive seen only reinforces that. So ive been taking weekend drives im in miami right now where ive spent my covid quarantine [laughter] but ive driven to naples, and i was up in georgia the weekend before last, and ive been in northern palm beach. The island of palm beach only has, like,