[applause] jew maall right. [applause] as speaker of the house of delegates and president of the joint assembly, its my pleasure to present to you his excellency, the governor of the commonwealth, the honorable terence mcauliffe. [cheers and applause] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Speaker howell, leader norment, ladies and gentlemen of the virginia General Assembly, thank you for inviting me to speak to you this evening. And to the people of virginia who are with us tonight or watching from home, thank you for the honor of serving you as this commonwealths 72nd governor. [applause] we are joined here this evening by Lieutenant Governor ralph northam. [applause] and attorney general mark herring. [applause] these two virginia leaders have been great partners as we work to build a stronger, more open, and more prosperous virginia. I thank them. And of course, our first lady is with us this evening. Dorothy. Your work expanding access to healthy nutrition, promoting National Service an
Association of the association of american medical colleges issued a report calling for much stronger conflict of interest standards, leaders standards, leaders with individual schools saying we just cannot keep going. All of all of those things came together, and the law passed in 2010. But the other piece of context that i think is not proximal to the laws passage but is important to understanding how it fits is this sort of much wider recognition that we really need to understand in this country that drivers of Health Care Costs and where the dollars go, and if you go back to 2,007 it would be close to unimaginable that cms would be publishing individual physician payment records. And so we now have the 1st report from the sunshine act 3. 7 Million Dollars in payments. Thats around nine billion a year, funds that that are either going to research and Product Development which is important and important for the public to understand are going to drive uptake of particular products whi
Good evening. It is my pleasure to welcome you to cedar creek and Belle Grove National Historical park. It has been a very busy day here havee anniversary events unfolded. But now it is time to pause and take a moment to reflect on the magnitude of what happened here 150 years ago. To set the stage for this ceremony, i would like to welcome superintendent jim nort hrup to say a few words. [applause] well, good evening. Norty said, my name is jim hrup. It is my great privilege to serve as the superintendent. Im here to join with amy and ou r hosts to welcome you and thank you for coming to this very important element in the 150th anniversary events here at cedar creek. Activity that is taking place around us, we are gathered at this place in this moment to remember exactly what happened here. And to remember all of those who were killed or wounded on this battlefield. All of you know, on october 19, 1864, a great battle was fought here. Secure theat Shenandoah Valley of virginia for the
But now it is time to pause and take a moment to reflect on the magnitude of what happened here 150 years ago. To set the stage for this commemoration ceremony, i would like to welcome superintendent jim northrup to say a few words. [applause] well, good evening. As amy said, my name is jim northup. It is my great privilege to serve as the superintendent. Im here to join with amy and our hosts to welcome you and thank you for coming to this very important element in the 150th anniversary events here at cedar creek. Amidst all the activity that is taking place around us, we are gathered at this place in this moment to remember exactly what happened here. And to remember all of those who were killed or wounded on this battlefield. As all of you know, on october 19, 1864, a great battle was fought here. A battle that secured the Shenandoah Valley of virginia for the union, and a battle that is credited with propelling president Abraham Lincoln to reelection. We also talk a great deal abou
Congress is back in session today. The house gavels in at noon eastern for general speeches. 2 00 eastern for legislative work. The senate is also back at 2 00 p. M. Here is a preview of the week ahead on the hill. We want to take a step back and talk more broadly about congress. It is going to be a busy week. Is on therowicz phone. He is a reporter with the hill. Thanks for joining us. Budget us about the first. Weve been waiting for the larger omnibus spending bill to be unveiled. Is that happened has that happened yet . And has not as of last night. That is the big mission of the week for congress. They will have to do it in two stages. They will have to pass a short term bill through saturday and that will give them time to wrestle through the giant, a little bit more than 1 trillion spending bill, for the rest of the year. It seems like theres is a lot of agreement just to do it that way. And then that will fund it and give them three or four days to figure out the spending bill.