New day with John Berman and brianna keilar. Good morning here in the United States and around the world, it is tuesday, August 10th and this morning american children are caught in the middle of a dangerous standoff, hitting Public Health against politics, all while schools are starting to reopen. So much is at stake here. More than 200 children under the age of 17 are now hospitalized in florida, which is a number that has never been higher, but the States Governor Ron Desantis is threatening to withhold paychecks from superintendents and School Board members who choose to follow Cdc Guidance and require masks in schools. Four School Districts in the state are putting safety first anD Defying his order, including the states second largest School District in broward county. For all the talk about liberty and local control, the florida governor is trying to restrict the freedom of local School Boards to make their own health decisions. In texas its a similar story, the governor has tri
Wildfire year response and Recovery Efforts will come to order. Thank you for joining with the deputy chief for forestry at usda. After brief opening remarks, the hearing will open to questions. Members will be recognized in order of seniority, alternating between the majority and minority members. When you are recognized, youll be asked to unmute your microphone, and youll have five minutes to ask your question and or make a comment. In order to get as many questions as possible, the timer will stay consistently visible on your screen. Thank you for joining us here today in washington and online. For this critical hearing on the wildfires ravaging the western United States. We have all seen the footage from california, oregon and washington. It is surreal, and it is terrifying. I want to talk today about what we can do to meet the needs and face the challenges presented by this unprecedented wildfire season out west and elsewhere. Deputy chief phipps, thank you for joining us today an
What would happen then . If you put that question forward to the jury . Caller theyd have the ability to evaluate the credibility of all of the statements that there were or not adequate announcements of the police being police. And that the announcement was sufficient this hearing of the subcommittee on conservation and forestry titled the 2020 wildfire year response and Recovery Efforts will come to order. Welcome, and thank you for joining todays hearing with mr. John phipps, deputy chief for state and private forestry at usda. After brief opening remarks, the hearing will open to questions. Members will be recognized in order of seniority, alternating between the majority and minority members. When you are recognized, youll be asked to unmute your microphone, and youll have five minutes to ask your question and make your comment. In order to get as many questions as possible, the timer will stay consistently visible on your screen. Thank you for joining us here today in washington
Questions about her decision to attach another spending bill to this Disaster Relief bill. Congressman jim mcgovern chairs this committee meeting. The rules committee hr 268 ultrashort committees recovering from Natural Disasters have the resources they need to rebuild. It provides within 12 billion in Disaster Relief for communities that experience events like hurricanes, floods and Deadly Wildfires and also helps farmers suffering from losses, coastal communities rebuilding and preparing for the storms and people like veterans and students who are hard hit by disasters. It funds the priority is the infrastructure improvements, social services, nutrition assistance and resiliency and i am especially proud t of provids 600 million for nutrition assistance to puerto rico. These are fellow american citizens. We have an obligation to help them. The residents were shortchanged under the bill put forth by my republican colleagues. I call for a more accommodating process for the kennedy and
Nonfederal average Manufacturer Price for small molecule drugs in the 12 years, 65 of the 2021 nonfederal manufacture price for blah, blah, blah, 40 of his 2021 nonfederal average manufactured that doesnt sound like much of a negotiation to me. These other countries where they have negotiations they dont have access to the drugs we have here. And they dont have forgive me, im just figuring it out. I want to highlight there is negotiation for drugs within Medicare Part d right now. It is done by the companies. Right. And when Medicare Part with whom . With the plans. With what plans are made available for seniors within it. So theres a competition and the c. B. O. Score for Medicare Part d when we passed Medicare Part d the Prescription Drug benefit for medicare, it has actually come in much lower because its a more effective negotiation thats taking place than what the government thought they would be they would be able to negotiate. C. B. O. Thought was id love to see more detail from