Debate managed by part of the ways and Means Committee. Might consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts. Mr. Neal im pleased to join with the speaker and other Committee Chairs to have introduced the Patient Protection and Affordable Care enhancement act and welcome consideration of the measure in the house today. Hearing the former chairman of the Energy Committee a few minutes ago, decent guy, he said that there was room for bipartisanship. In the health care debate. I mean, ive been here for a long time. Where was the bipartisanship, and im going to submit something republicans in all the years i have been in this house they have not agreed amongst themselves on health care, never mind agreing with democrats on health care. So for years, weve worked to expand access. Thats what this argument about is about today. We want to make sure that Affordable Health care exists for the American Family and to build on the coverage gains of the Affordable Care act. The c
And allowing the government to negotiate medication Prescription Drug prices. And for residents and homers to stay in their homes during the pandemic. Live coverage of the house. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God, thank you for giving us another day. Those who omfort suffer from coronavirus. Healing. Bless and comfort those who mourn the loss of loved ones in wake of covid19. Psalmist, we turn to you. Have mercy upon us, o god, for treated harshly. Harshly all t us the day. Attackers. Re our almost high when we are afraid place our trust. We praise the word of god. Not fear. N god and do all the day our enemies foil our plans. Their every thought is of evil against us. Lie in wait for our lives. Our threats are many, o god. Unrest in Police Reform, aggressive russian and policies, a struggling economy. Our time of need. Bless the peoples house and may that is done be for your amen. R honor a
This hearing will come to order. Thank you all for being here today. One year ago today lion air, flight 610 crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff from jakarta, indonesia. All 189 people on board perished. Five months later Ethiopian Airline 302 departed out of ethiopia just like lion air flight 610, ethiopian flight 302 experienced problems shortly after takeoff and crashed. All 157 persons on board died. Both of these accidents were entirely preventible. We cannot fathom the pain experienced by the families of those 346 human beings who were lost. Many family members are here today and we appreciate their attendance. I appreciate many of them meeting with members of the committee over time. As chairman of this committee i promise their loved ones that we are working to obtain a full answer as to how to prevent future tragedies. These families deserve answers, accountability, and action, and the public deserves no less. The type of aircraft involved in both accidents is a 737 max
Things that will be valuable to the pilots its not always the case that more information adds to safety. Though in this case we understand this, this is one of the additions going forward. Brazil thought it added to their safety i want to touch a little bit on senator fisher, the question that she raised earlier. All these changes have taken place, of course over the years. And this plane is still working off its original certification from 1967. This is despite the fact that pilots have told me the max 8 is in no way functionally similar to the original 737s that took to the skies 52 years ago. I said in the last hearing that we had, seems to me like theres been so many significant modifications, its almost as if you took a canoe and turned it into a cruise ship mr. Hamilton, can you tell me how many derivative certificates boeing has received for the 737 since initially being certified over 50 years ago . I senator, i dont have the exact number in my head. Its approximately 14. 14 or
Administrations budget request and a number of other of other issues that are before us. I would say one of the Key Takeaways the last few months has been the growing number of threats to our technological superiority. We have had classified and unclassified sessions on that and to me, it is one of the key challenges that we chase that we face. As i mentioned secretary, i was perusing my bookshelf, and i came upon a very brilliant edition called keeping the edge, looking towards the future and that was managed by Ashton Carter written by Ashton Carter and essentially it said two of the things that we had to maintain a technological edge was to align our defense procurement practices with market forces, and secondly, to remain the worlds fastest integrator of technology into the defense system. I kind of wonder how we are doing these days. I think that is very relevant for today. I just had a medium meeting with one of the defense thinkers last week talking about the challenges of integ