[inaudible conversations] the committee on Health Education and labor and pensions will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she is asked me too proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure we hear from each of you and we want the senators to has questions of each of you. So patty should arrive at about ten. When she comes we will interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and we will resume the hearing. Good morning senator murphy. Nearly a year ago doctor brent james from the National Academy testify before Senate Health committee with a startling statistic up to one half of the American People spend on healthcare may be unnecessary. Let me repeat that, up to half of the 3. 5 trillion, the United States collectively spent on healthcare in 2017 was unnecessary according to doctor james and many of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. That is 1. 8 trillion, three times as much as we spen
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Tart start. Ms. Collins madam president , i ask unanimous consent that the calling of the quorum be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Collins and, madam president , i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Collins thank you, madam president. Madam president , last week the Senate Passed the National Womens History Museum commission act, a bill that i authored with the dean of the Democratic Women senators, senator mikulski of maryland. It passed finally as part of the National Defense authorization act. Our legislation will create a commission to evaluate and plan the establishment of a Museum Dedicated to womens history right here in our Nations Capital, and i know that the presiding officer shares my view that this is long overdue. I am, in fact, pleased to have had all of the women senators as cosponsors of this bill, and im thankful for the support of many of our other colleagues as well. Sen
The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 325. The nays are 100. 2 3 having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the Senate Amendment is agreed to. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from North Carolina, mr. Hudson, to suspend the rules and concur in the Senate Amendment to h. R. 2719 on which the yeas and nays were ordered. The clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 2719, an act to require the Transportation Security Administration to implement best practices and improve transparency with regard to Technology Acquisition programs and for other purposes. Senate amendment. The speaker pro tempore the question is will the house suspend the rules and concur in the Senate Amendment. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation wit
You get to hear about Upcoming Supreme Court term and hear from some of the top experts we could line up. The order in which our three panelists will speak varies slightly from the program you might have seen and it is reverse alphabetical order. Will introduce the three of them all at once and take a seat. You might even hear from eat later on. From me later on. Elia will always be the one who got away. He is now the director of constitutional studies and a senior fellow. However, probably all of you know him for many years to be spent at Cato Institute culminating in being director of catos center for constitutional studies. He was publisher and published 11 volumes. He has testified oh ok. You are responsible one way or another for 11 volumes. How many briefs have any of you filed . I bet it has not been more than 500. That is the extraordinary accomplishment and distinction he has here. He is associated with many other Nonprofit Institutions and is the author of supreme disorder ju