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
At Rutgers University in newark. And mark, whose breath of work in Higher Education and the humanities in new york include serving as the director of the alexander Price Institute on at the city, culture and modern experience. The author of a recent book on new work and the rebellion of 1967. Please join me in welcoming michael fletcher, junius williams, and Linda Caldwell apps to the stage. [applause] i should interject that at the end of the Panel Discussion there will be a few moments for questions and answers. Members of the panel will take those questions and we will conclude this panel and move on to our next presentation. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. What i hope to do here is just have a conversation and talk about what newark was like before 1967, and how it came to be that way. Also, talk about what has transpired since. Like political empowerment, what has resulted from those developments. I thought i would start with talk a little bit to us about the black population
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] a group of former e. P. A. Administrators testified before the senate about the dangers posed by Climate Change and the government to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions and said Global Warming is indisputeable. This begins with Sheldon White house introducing the witnesses. And as the former attorney germ of rhode island, i welcome dr. Endowed professor of banking. So i welcome our panel. Contribution rather than simply sitting back and accepting. If anything, new reports have made that needed to act even more urgent. It is hard to believe theres ny question of that. The ipcc report validates to the strongest terms of the science of Climate Change and projected impacts. The National Climate assessment documents impacts occurring in this country right now. And a report from the Cna Corporation made up of retired igh military officers n
Governor Christine Todd whitman under governors bush. Rightly isle william an epa administrator under the president george h. W. Bush and worked to amend the clean air. Ct to control acid rain dr. Daniel botkin. The honorable louvre strange Luther Strange is alabamas attorney general. I welcome a colleague here. And dr. Joseph mason is a junior louisiana bancorps association in doubt professor of banking at Louisiana State university and senior fellow at the wharton school. I welcome our panel. We will begin with the honorable dr. Thank you, senator whitehouse and other members of the subcommittee for convening this panel on the matter of enormous importance. I am pleased to be here and reassure some of you i am still alive. It is several months ago after speaking to former epa administrator sitting in front of you, we were convinced by the overwhelming verdict of scientists the earth was warming. And we humans are the only controllable contributors. Given those facts, we all signed an