This morning were Holding Hearing on continuing americas leadership realizing the promise of Precision Medicine. Well have an Opening Statement then introduce our witnesses, who are getting to be very familiar to us. Were very grateful to you for coming. After that, we will have time to ask five minute rounds of questions or two, depending how many senators are here. We are here today to discuss exciting new direction in our health care called Precision Medicine. What does that mean . Well, those of us in the room a good representation of the population, they estimate one in ten of us would have diabetes. If doctors could use Precision Medicine, that is if they could look at our individual dna and genetic, molecular makeup of disease, perhaps they could tailor treatments to each individual rather than to more general category of diabetes. I was visited this morning by the head of philadelphia Childrens Hospital who talked about their work in identifying a defective gene, mutated geneti
Challenges we face as a country, they are pretty stark challenges and our politics are terrible. But i would think you would rather have our challenges than any major emerging economy around the world. Watch that entire event from the milken institutes global conference tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Here are some of our featureded programs for this weekend on the cspan networks. On cspan, saturday starting at noon. Politicians, white house officials and Business Leaders offer advise and encouragement to the class of 2015. Speakers include former president , george w. Bush and chair of dreamworks animation. At 9 15. Former Staff Members reflect on the presidency of george h. W. Bush. And sunday afternoon more commencement speeches from across the country with former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and madeline albright. On cspan 2 saturday morning book tv is in new york city with events from book expo america beginning at 10 00 and live callin segments throughout the day
Postpone. We all here are unwilling to postpone. And unwilling to postpone another minute, another day, in doing what we know is within our grasp. It shows the government at its best, mr. President , and shows our politics can still come together to do big, consequential things for the American People. I see my friend, senator hatch, who i worked with for years and years, stood up. All junior senators, senior senators, everyone came together. So, jill and i are proud to stand beside you, mr. President , as you sign this last law of our administration. Proud to have served with you, mr. President and your absolute commitment to changing the way in which we deal with our Health Care System. Its making its going to make a big difference. And this particular bill is going to allow people to live, live longer and live healthier. And, so, most of all, mr. President , i think it gives people hope. So, ladies and gentlemen, i always kid the president that when he asks me when he asks me to joi
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will revolutionize human mind. when i sign this into law will give researchers new resources to help identify ways to treat, cure, and potentially prevent brain disorders like alzheimer s and epilepsy, traumatic brain injury and more. and we re also going to support what we ve called our position our precision medicine initiative. an effort we started to use data to help modernize research and accelerate discoveries so that treatment and health care can be tailored specifically to individual patients. this spring with the help of this legislation, the national institutes of health, plans to launch a ground-breaking research cohort inviting americans from across the country to participate to support the scientific breakthroughs of tomorrow. number three, the cures act improoufs mental health care. [ applause ]