Subcommittee on health in Human Services, education and related agencies will come to order. Thank you sec. A desire for being here. It has turned out to be a more eventful week than we anticipated but we are grateful you have shown up as we asked to at the time we asked you to. The budget you suggested, the request, many of the same kinds of cuts that occurred in 2020, and i am sure we will have questions about that. It is not unexpected. You will recall when i called you with the final budget numbers from the 2020 budget, my first comment was, the good news is you didnt get what you asked for. Hopefully that will be the case again this time. You propose a 10 cut, similar cut you proposed in the past in programs that we would be very reluctant in the health care workforces and preparedness programs and research programs, all have been about earlier today at the members reading on the current virus. Rural programs we would be reluctant to discuss. We will need more money this year in m
Oklahoma congresswoman kendra horn held a town hall meeting with constituents at the northwest Oklahoma City library. She took questions on the cost of Prescription Drugs, health care reform, border security, investment in Public Education and the impeachment inquiry. Color guard, post your colors. Color guard, honor your colors. Please join she in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Color guard, retreat. Color guard, dismissed. Audience, be seated. Thank you very much. Can we give our girl scouts a warm round of applause . [ applause ] so these young women are senior girl scouts which means they are in high school and they represent a few different troops that are working on learning how to interact with the world, to travel, to they do a lot of Different Things, but to explore the world and then to support younger girls, brin
Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Color guard retreat. Color guard dismissed and audience may be seated. Thank you very much. Can we give our girl scouts a warm round of applause . [applaus [applause]. These young women are senior girl scouts, which means theyre in high school and they represent a few different troops that are working on learning how to interact with the world, to travel, to to do a lot of Different Things, but to explore the world and then to support younger girls, bringing them along. A couple of them i know are working on their leadership award, thats like the equivalent of the eagle award. So let me just introduce myself, let you know how were going to move through this town hall today, but first, i want to say thank you. Thank you for coming out, for participating in the process, for
Mr vice chair. The first order of business is i dont want road called commission members. Please respond when i call your name commissioner kino present commissioner drew present. Commissioner scott press it, madam. Present. Chair bracket is absent. Commissioner bracket is absent and other members of the commission our president , mr vice chair, we have a quorum. The next order of business is item two announcements. The next regular meeting is scheduled on tuesday, september 5th 2023 at one pm be announcement of prohibition of sound producing Electronic Devices during the meeting. Please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person responsible for the ringing of use of cell phone, pager or other similar sound producing electronic device. See announcement of Public Comment procedures. Please be advised
Of drugs for severe illnesses and as a result of this work that i was doing on drug pricing in the United States looking at these issues, i eventually began to get more aware of the International Discussions about the u. S. Could do and what was happening in the countries in 1994, i was invited to argentina and brazil by people that have picked up my name as someone working on these issues and i really became aware for the first time the extent to which the United States and the state department and through the trade office and the whole apparatus of the Foreign Policy was putting pressure on the developing countries to extend and put in place monopolies on pharmaceutical drugs so wha a lf developing companies have excluded the pharmaceutical drugs from the patent system and you could buy drugs from argentina and others and at that point also from brazil and the u. S. Was pushing all these countries to put those in place but also going way beyond that. And i remember when i was at arge