Department of health and Human Services. While we hold a courtesy hearing on the nomination of the secretary, it finance committee receives his paperwork and will vote hon the nomination. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then former secretary and governor of utah whom we welcome today. Mike, good to see you and have you back. And senator young, whos a member of this committee, will introduce him after mr. Azars testimony, senators will each have five minutes of questions. We already have a good turnout so i anticipate a good vigorous questioning period. Confirmed to leave the department of health and Human Services, youll be leading a 1. 11 trillion budget. That almost equals the totals of the Appropriations Bills that Congress Passes each year to Fund Everything from National Defense to national laboratories. Medicare and medicaid. Our nations government run Insurance Programs for it poor and elderly. Mental hilth health and Substance Abuse. The National In
Secretary, it finance committee receives his paperwork and will vote hon the nomination. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then former secretary and governor of utah whom we welcome today. Mike, good to see you and have you back. And senator young, whos a member of this committee, will introduce him after mr. Azars testimony, senators will each have five minutes of questions. We already have a good turnout so i anticipate a good vigorous questioning period. Confirmed to leave the department of health and Human Services, youll be leading a 1. 11 trillion budget. That almost equals the totals of the Appropriations Bills that Congress Passes each year to Fund Everything from National Defense to national laboratories. Medicare and medicaid. Our nations government run Insurance Programs for it poor and elderly. Mental hilth health and Substance Abuse. The National Institutes of health, where, with francish collins excellent leadership, the leading efforts to disco
Welcome all of you attending this symposium in person. As well as our audience on cspan to this Second Annual symposium on constitutional issues. This year, we examine the 15th amendment and invite a conversation as our Program States on suffrage in light of the hopes and realities of american identity and governance. In many ways, this university is the ideal venue for such a conversation. Envisioned as a Great National episcopal institution by a group of founding bishops in the 1850s, the university of the south by 1860 possessed more than 6,000 acres of land on the Cumberland Plateau in tennessee. It had an endowment half the size of harvards. I often think with my regents about what that would mean for us today. We wouldnt be lamenting an 8 return. And saw itself, in that vision, with colleges of different sizes, schools of law and medicine and business and theology. Saw itself indeed as americas first truly comprehensive private university a half generation ahead of Johns Hopkins
Boys think they can play sports better than girls. I dont think that is true. Like in the old days, the men would go out and could the jobs and the women would have to stay home and do all the housework and stuff. I do not think that was fair either. That is away way it was, i cannot help it. My dear brother, cyrus, today began like any other day. The sun rose over the fields lighting my sweet families ways. I prepared breakfast, took up my sewing andk up gathered my children for our ride into town. My sarah runs around like a little savage. She does not want to wear any of the lovely dresses i made for her. I counted the blessings the good lord bestowed on me and try to remain calm while getting them ready. But all i had accomplished with much impatience and an eye towards the clock, for in event was supposed to take place at 10 00 at the chapel. It was a convention for the discussion of the rights of women. My dear friend and neighbor showed me the notice in the newspaper. Now, i can
[ is distinct conversations ]. And live here this morning on c spann span 3, a discussion about transparency and oversight at the food and Drug Administration. Well be hearing from dr. Scott gottlieb starting off the conference. Introductions under way. Efforts to pass and implement the food safety modernization act, focus on medical devices, especially the potential of using the unique device identifier to improve monitoring devices throughout the product lifecycle. We have successfully worked on products 10 to courage innovation particularly around antibiotics and 10 to sure appropriate use of them. We focused on drug safety and transparency in the supply chain and especially on the safety of compounded drugs. Among other things, pew submitted transparency to the task force back in 2010 if the. They touch on some of the topics well be discussing today. Reading the background papers for todays meet regular mind med of a meeting we convened in a room directly above of us here a few yea