[inaudible conversations] thank you all for being here in the Senate Committee on health education, labor and pensions. We will come to order. This morning we will be considering the nomination of doctor Monica Bertagnolli to serve as the National Institutes of health director. Let me begin by welcoming doctor bertagnolli to the committee. We look forward to hearing from you and we thank you for being here today. I see you brought along a fellow from wyoming and we welcome senator barrasso as well. The nih with a budget of more than 47 billion is the largest funder of medical research in the world. This research has led to new treatments and Prescription Drugs that are significantly improved the lives of americans and people throughout the entire world and i think all of us every single american should be very proud of those accomplishments. Having said that, let me say a few words about my concerns. I dont have to tell any american that the Healthcare System in our country is broken a
This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. A live picture of the u. S. Capitol where the hughes of representative where the house of representatives remains in recess with efforts to find a new speaker. The latest is jim jordan is planning what would be a third shot to take the gavel plans to go to the house floor to get the votes and win the race and in particular he wants to speak with the 20 people who voted against him. House republican has been gathered behind closed doors today to consider interim speaker Patrick Mchenry should stay in power until a permanent speaker is elected. For theest updates on speaker election,atch our continuous live coverage on cspan. Visit cspan got oregon and use our mobile app, cspan now. President bidens nominee to be at the institutes of health testified before the Senate Health committee on covid19 and Prescription Drug costs and if confirmed would become the second woman to lead the n. I. H. Since october 2022, the doctor has been
[inaudible conversations] thank you all for being here in the Senate Committee on health education, labor and pensions. We will come to order. This morning we will be considering the nomination of doctor Monica Bertagnolli to serve as the National Institutes of health director. Let me begin by welcoming doctor bertagnolli to the committee. We look forward to hearing from you and we thank you for being here today. I see you brought along a fellow from wyoming and we welcome senator barrasso as well. The nih with a budget of more than 47 billion is the largest funder of medical research in the world. This research has led to new treatments and Prescription Drugs that are significantly improved the lives of americans and people throughout the entire world and i think all of us every single american should be very proud of those accomplishments. Having said that, let me say a few words about my concerns. I dont have to tell any american that the Healthcare System in our country is broken a
Haidi you are watching daybreak asia coming to live from new york, sydney, and hong kong. Annabelle we are counting down to asias major market opens. Shery australia has just come online. President biden wraps up his trip to tel aviv signaling full backing for israel and supporting its claimed that Palestinian Militants were to blame for the gaza hospital blast, but fails to come concerns of a wider conflict with asian stocks falling the slide on wall street and investors digesting big earnings with netflix surging after posting the best quarterly subscriber growth in years, while tesla dipping after missing estimates. Annabelle this set of earnings, geopolitics are the two main things we will be tracking through the session today but we have the open of the asx 200 and you can see the direction in the early moments is clear with the drop in futures pointing to losses of 1. 2 so we will wait a few more minutes for it to come fully online in the session but really what we are monitoring
Public services that would be impacted. [indiscernible] thank you for meeting with us we have really gone about the work that i think is an incredible foundation. I said publicly many times and i will say once more, no other administration in American History has given so much to so quickly. It was a clear vision and one that you did well. We want to applaud this administration for that work. And but includes 3. 6 billion during the pandemic. It was critical mass. 1. 6 million with infrastructure concerns. 45 public and private benefited from that. Another 1. 5 billion. And another 12 million which may not sound like a lot, but we really do appreciate it. And it protects us we had a terroristic retinol not so long ago. To give you a sense of that commitment we have framed our recommendations from around president biden, Vice President harris who have worked funding this. One must continue to work with infrastructure. And that relates to physical infrastructure and technological infrast