Next, a look into advances in research for neurological disorders such as alzheimers, Huntingtons Disease and a. L. S. We hear from health experts on research for treatments and cures as they testify before a house subcommittee. The subcommittee on health will now come to order. Due to covid19, Todays Hearing is being held remotely as well as in person. For members and witnesses taking part in person, or following the guidance of the cdc and the office of the attending physician so please wear your mask when you are not speaking, and i thank you for doing so. For members and witnesses taking part remotely, microphones will be set on mute to eliminate background noise, and youll need to unmute your microphone when you wish to speak. Since members are participating from different locations at Todays Hearing, recognition of members will be in the order of subcommittee seniority. Documents for the record should be sent to megan mullan at the Email Address that weve provided to your staff a
We hear from health experts on research and cures and if that as they describe for the house committee. The subcommittee on health will now come to order. Todays hearing is being held remotely as well as in person. For members and witnesses taking part in person here following the guidance of the Cdc And Office of the attending physician so please wear your mask when youre not speaking and i thank you for doing so. For members and witnesses taking part remotely, microphones will be set on mute to eliminate Background Noise and you will need to unmute your microphone when you wish to speak. Since members are participating from different locations at Todays Hearing recognition of members will be in the order of subcommittee seniority. Documents for the record should be sent to megan mullen, the Email Address we provided to your staff and all documents will be entered into the record at the conclusion of the hearing. The chair now recognizes for herself for five minutes for an opening sta
Held in closed session. Action. President cohen this is an action item. Motion not to disclose. Vice president elias second. President Cohen Motion by Commissioner Brookter seconded by Vice President elias. We do not need to take public comment on this. Clerk we do, yes. For members of the public who would like to make public comment on whether to disclose closed session, please press star 3 now. And, president cohen, we have no public comment. President cohen thank you very much. A motions been made and seconded. Lets take a vote. Clerk on the motion not to disclose, [Roll Call] you have four yeses. President cohen thank you. Clerk Line Item 11, adjournment. Action. Vice president elias motion. Commissioner brookter second. President cohen okay. Motion made by elias, second by brookter. Its unanimous. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. We are done. Good night. This is the Disability And Aging services commission. I am the president. This Commission Meeting is being conducted pursuant th
Microphones when they are not recognized to speak. If theres a Technology Issue during a members speaking time, we will move to the next member until the issue is resolved and you will retain the balance of your time. We will be following the Fiveminute Rule with oneminute remaining in your time the clock on your screen will turn yellow. When your time has expired, the clock will turn red and it will be time to recognize the next member. We will follow the speaking order set forth in the house rules, beginning with the chair and ranking member, followed by members present at the time of the hearing is called to order, in order of Seniority And Alternate by party. Next we go to members who were not present when the hearing was called to order until every Member Present has had the first round. Members can submit information in writing at any of our hearings or markups using the Email Address provided in advance to your staff. Now lets begin. I would like to welcome mr. Troy miller, the
i wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you personally for all the wonderful messages of support and for your understanding once i ve been recovering from surgery. it has been an incredibly tough couple of months for our entire family, but i ve had a fantastic medical team who have taken great care of me for which i am so grateful. in january i underwent major abdominal surgery in london and at the time it was thought that my condition was non-cancerous. the surgery was successful. tests after the operation found cancer had been present. my medical team therefore at vised i should undergo preventive chemotherapy and i m in the early stages of that treatment. this, of course, came as a huge shock, and william and i have been doing everything we can to process and manage this privately for the sake of our young family. as you can fachimagine this has taken time. for me to recover from major surgery to start my treatment but most importantly it has taken us time to expl