I want to thank everyone for their adherence to the guidelines as we continue to do our work while protecting the health and safety of our staff, families and communities. Thank you for joining us today. In pursuant to notice, todays hearing is taking place in our ways and Means Committee hearing room, with members permitted to attend remotely in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings, pursuant to House Resolution 965. We currently have 33 members logged in and participating via the webex platform. For those members who arent here in washington and plan to participate in person, we have a limited number of available seats to ensure that we adhere to social distancing guidelines. I encourage members to watch from their office and only come to the hearing room when it is your turn for questioning. Before we turn to todays topic, i want to remind members of a few procedures as we navigate this hybrid hearing setting. First, consistent with regulations, the commit
Good morning and welcome. Consistent with the guidelines released last night by the ho e attending physician and the speaker all present today in the hearing room are required to wear face coverings. Brief removal of the masks for the purposes of speaking on the record is permitted. I want to thank everyone for their adherence to these guidelines as we continue to do our work protecting the health and safety of our staff families and communities. So thank you for joining us today. Pursuant to todays instance n our hearing is taking place in the ways and Means Committee room with members able to attend remotely with compliance with proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 965. We currently have 33 members logged in and participating via the platform. For those members here in washington and plan to participate in person we have a limited number of available seats at the dias to ensure we adhereby to social distancing guidelines. I encourage members to watch from their office and only co
I want to thank everyone for their adherence to the guidelines as we continue to do our work while protecting the health and safety of our staff, families and communities. Thank you for joining us today. In pursuant to notice, todays hearing is taking place in our ways and Means Committee hearing room, with members permitted to attend remotely in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings, pursuant to House Resolution 965. We currently have 33 members logged in and participating via the webex platform. For those members who arent here in washington and plan to participate in person, we have a limited number of available seats to ensure that we adhere to social distancing guidelines. I encourage members to watch from their office and only come to the hearing room when it is your turn for questioning. Before we turn to todays topic, i want to remind members of a few procedures as we navigate this hybrid hearing setting. First, consistent with regulations, the commit
Factors we accept that Economic Cost like in high value pharmaceuticals and the margins will bear out the cost of development but right now for the Industrial Products or products for the ag sector the same costs still exist today but the margins are not there for the products. So it creates an imbalance and were seeing more capital flowing towards medical products with high margins than some of these industrial applications. Dont get me wrong, the cost will come down as technologies increase but the funding cycle we are right now with the markets being like they are impact some other than others. I seem to remember and i could be corrected later but i think senators grassley and ernest had spoken out about amino acids and other Biotech Products produced in china, many of them Food Additives and i think vitamin k and others that are necessary for the strength of our livestock, our food supply. What visibility do you have in that from the commission and what are you doing, is that accur
this is cnn breaking news. hello, outpost in jordan near the border with syria and iraq. this is the first time u.s. troops have been killed by enemy fire in the middle east since the beginning of the war in gaza, october 7th. it also marks a significant escalation of an already precarious situation in the middle east. president biden reacting a short time ago, vowing the u.s. will hold those responsible to account. we have got full coverage of this breaking story, natasha bertrand is in washington, priscilla alvarez is with president biden in south carolina, and ben wedeman is in beirut. natasha, you first. what are we learning about the attack? reporter: a very serious moment for the u.s. military, for president biden, for the administration writ large because this is the first time u.s. service members have actually been killed from hostile fire since the war in gaza began. and sparked all of these tensions throughout the middle east. now, we re learning that these thr