National Defense Authorization act, and a measure ealing with the boeing max 737 crashes. Requested votes will take place after 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Live coverage of the house here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by chaplain father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving and gracious lord of mercy, we give you thanks for giving us another day. In this single week, after a Long Campaign season and before breaking once again for thanksgiving, bless the members of the peoples house with focus and purpose on the issues facing them. We ask your blessing as well on those newly elected who will be joining this assembly for the 117th congress. May their transition into office be smooth and marked by the civility of Democratic Change of government which is the rightful pride of the United States of america. Lord, our nation continues to be besieged by the plague of the coronavirus. Send your spirit of peace that our people might be bro
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
This is just under two hours. Cooks healthcare issues that must be addressed. First, the major need for more black latino native american and secondly the alarming rate of Maternal Deaths in america thats disproportionately impacting black latino native american women. They are in the midst of a Healthcare System that in my view is largely broken and dysfunctional. Where we spent almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as the people in any other country. A 5 million americans today are uninsured or underinsured. We dont have enough doctors, nurses, Mental Health specialist, or pharmacist we have another crisis on top of all of that. That is, that problem lack of medical personnel is extremely, especially acute in latino and native american commutes which is the subject of the hearing today. Despite making up almost 14 of our population just 5 of all doctors in our country are black. Less than 4 of all dentists to default nurses in america are africanamerican. Despite making up ov
Your screen when you hit play on select videos. This timeline told makes it easy to quickly get an idea of what was debated and decided in washington. Scroll through and spend a few minutes on cspans points of interest. Pecks next Senate Health Committee Discusses a shortage of Minority Health care professionals. The risk of Maternal Mortality among minority women. Beutler her republican congressman Michael Burgess speak on their experiences in advocacy on addressing the issue. How ethnic representation and healthcare bills of trust in minority communities. This is just under two hours. Cooks healthcare issues that must be addressed. First, the major need for more black latino native american and secondly the alarming rate of Maternal Deaths in america thats disproportionately impacting black latino native american women. They are in the midst of a Healthcare System that in my view is largely broken and dysfunctional. Where we spent almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as the
This is just under two hours. Cooks healthcare issues that must be addressed. First, the major need for more black latino native american and secondly the alarming rate of Maternal Deaths in america thats disproportionately impacting black latino native american women. They are in the midst of a Healthcare System that in my view is largely broken and dysfunctional. Where we spent almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as the people in any other country. A 5 million americans today are uninsured or underinsured. We dont have enough doctors, nurses, Mental Health specialist, or pharmacist we have another crisis on top of all of that. That is, that problem lack of medical personnel is extremely, especially acute in latino and native american commutes which is the subject of the hearing today. Despite making up almost 14 of our population just 5 of all doctors in our country are black. Less than 4 of all dentists to default nurses in america are africanamerican. Despite making up ov