Welcome to the to todays hearing. Pursuant house rules, some members will appear inperson and others will appear remotely via webex. Some members are appearing in person, let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician, all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face mask unless they are speaking. Members who are not wearing a facemask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders to those members appearing in person. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on monitor in front of you when you are speaking in what is known in web ex as active speaker view. A timer is visible in the room directly in front of you. For members appearing remotely, i know you are all familiar with web ex by now but let me remind everyone of a few points. First, you will be able to see each person speaking during the hearing. Whether theyre there in person or remote. As long as you have your web ex set to acti
Ceos testify on Prescription Drug pricing. Members question why the retail price of their drugs frequently increases and at a rate that far exceeds inflation among other issues. This is just under 4 hours. Welcome to the to todays hearing. Pursuant house rules, some members will appear inperson and others will appear remotely via webex. Some members are appearing in person, let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician, all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face mask unless they are speaking. Members who are not wearing a facemask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders to those members appearing in person. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on monitor in front of you when you are speaking in what is known in web ex as active speaker view. A timer is visible in the room directly in front of you. For members appearing remotely, i know you are all familiar with web ex by
Cochairs of the congressional caucus for equal rights amendment, today 35 of the required 38 states have ratified the amendment. This about 40 minutes. We had a full morning talking about the impediments to everyone recognizing era as 28th amendment and so many respects, in any respect equal rights amendment has met the constitutional requirements for being the 28th amendment but not everyone t agrees so you as cofounder and cochair of era caucus in congress have been taking some measures, trying to move through Congress Several different legislative ways of objections . , talk to us a little bit about what your strategy is to get the era finally finished . Got it. All right. So first of all, good afternoon, everyone. And thank you all for waiting. We did, we had chaos on the floor but its congress. You know, i remember in 21 to 22 2022. December december 2022, just thinking about what happens next with the era. Carolyne maloney was about to leave and jackie spear carrying era legislat
Im greg argos, Natasha Brown is off. Tonight, we know that are a woman and two children were killed early this morning when that philadelphia home went up in flames. Hours later, damage to the building is a somber reminder of what happened there. Eyewitness News Reporter anita oh spoke with witnesses and neighbors who watched the fire burn. I look out the window and saw a big ball of fire. Reporter around 4 40, neighbors woke to had a home engulfed in flames in north philadelphia. Like, an oil rig was burning or something. Like huge flumes of smoke. Two parents inside jumped to safety. Fire officials have confirm three people have died in this blaze including one adult and two young children. Sad. Reporter 30 Philadelphia Fire Department vehicles and about 100 firefighters raced to the scene. When our companies arrived, there was fire coming out of every window. Reporter firefighters have been able to rescue one of the kids from the home but he died at Hahnemann University hospital we
Dropped. We need to roll up our sleeves and figure out what can be bought now that were having a pullback from the monster rally weve had for the past three days. For the dow and nasdaq, its the best since august of last year. Were far along in earnings season so we have a real good feel now for how companies are doing. Which means we can figure out what stocks are going to become appealing as the market comes in for profit taking as it almost always does after real rip snorter of a rocket rally. You may ask why is it worth bothering giving there are so many real problems out there. Why not say we missed it, sorry . First, the problems are a little less problematic than they were. For instance, the Federal Reserve is more on our side than we thought. Last night, james bullard, the hawk to end all hawks, the st. Louis Federal Reserve president who was so optimistic back in the fall is now openly questioning the need to even discuss more rate hikes because of all the turmoil out there ma