Good morning. The health labor on education and pension will come to order. This is another bipartisan hearings, which means senator murray and i have agreed on the subject and the witnesses. In falkt i would say every member in the committee would probably agree on the subject and Witnesses Today because this is a hearing entitled implementation of the cures act. The path forward to hear from dr. Frances collins, the National Institutes of health and dr. Gotlieb, the commissioner of food and drugs. Senator murphy will have a hearing wednesday on another reorganization which they played a major role in. We look forward to that. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then introduce our panel of witnesses. After, senators will have five minutes of questions. In 2007 doug oliver, who is in the front row i believe, a Computer Programmer began to have trouble, had his drivers license taken away and declared legally bliepd. It was a rare form of macular degeneration. He
So doctor, pharmaceutical Development Today frequently involves what is called shooting in the dark, making key decisions can with very limited data. For example, decisions including indication selection, dosage end points and Inclusion Exclusion criteria. The data that informs such decisions lies in inaccessible silence at least to most stake holders. It includes to hire longer time lines. Now the fda already has much of this data, this otherwise siloed information. So my question for you is has the fda taken any steps in ago ri gaiting to improve the process and if not would the fda be willing to analyze the data to accelerate and derisk . I appreciate it. The bottom line is there are situations. Well be taking steps to make it improve it where they can be ago gri ka there are situations we provide from data we use to make decisions particularly around drug safety. The information is confidential. We are looking at how to make it public without because my belief is if we are making r
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Special recollection to the plaintiffs and our good friend mary for her tremendous leadership in the United States Supreme Court but we we saw a culmination of something ive said repeating in the course of 11 years the beauty of making the law to make a difference in peoples lives we saw that over the course but it wouldnt have happened without the human faces of all of you if you han or have the opportunity to go and read judicious kennedys opinion this morning ill encourage you to read the introduction it talks about the history of a marriage the history of discrimination to the Lgbt Community has dealt with and you get a sense of the power of humanity and the ability to change peoples lives today everybody succeeded in bring justice to the thousands and thousands of lgbt families and individuals that have suffered from melissa and today it stops. clapping. thats due to the effort of all of you think about the progress 22 and prop 6815 years ago now how many people have come to the r
Humanity and the ability to change peoples lives today everybody succeeded in bring justice to the thousands and thousands of lgbt families and individuals that have suffered from melissa and today it stops. clapping. thats due to the effort of all of you think about the progress 22 and prop 6815 years ago now how many people have come to the right confliction about understanding that everybody is entitle to equal protection under the law eir respect of Sexual Orientation but the kate has said another brick of the foundation of equality it didnt stop here if were going to build the justice side that is more work in terms of inequality and economic less fortunate to deal with racism to understand that today is a wonderful day to be celebrated we have to understand there are still discriminates we have to fight and we need equal protection under the law in federal employment for lgbt individuals thought this country to make sure the efforts of people like jim harry necessarily and robert