Down Prescription Drug prices. The witnesses at the hearing, representatives of the pharmaceutical industry and advocates for patients. Good morning, everyone. The Sub Committee on health will now come to order. The chair now recognizes for five minutes for an opening statement. Last week our Sub Committee held a hearing to essentially follow the money in the drug supply chain. We came away with much valuable information, but we also found there are many secrets. Secret decisions about how drugs are priced. Secret deals between Drug Companies and the pbms and secret agreements between pbms and insurers. Today were considering seven bipartisan bills that essentially unmask the secrets, that secret process, and ensure that low income seniors can afford their medications and build on the drug pricing package passed by the house last week. The first and very important bill ensures that seniors can afford their drugs. Representatives cunningham and bill araukus introduced a creating lower c
Foundation. He is Vice President for the Constitutional Government. Thank you for being here this morning. Brianne and ask you what is your what is your take on the decision that came down in the recent term . There were 2, 1 in the gerrymandering case. Whether the Political Party in power can entrench itself in power to matter what the voters say. Different disappointing decision from the court because the chief justice threw up their hands and acknowledged that extreme partisan gerrymanders are inconsistent with what quit to do anything about them. Justice kagan got it right in her decision when she recognized , when do the courts can do things when can the courts do things . Otherwhat was the decision last week you thought was important . Case, it the sentence challenged the Trump Administrations decision to add a Citizenship Question to the 2020 census. The chief justice got right on this one. I agree with some of his legal reasoning, but he was right to reject the effort to add th
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Congress. Former special Counsel Robert Mueller is set to appear before two committees of congress. The House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee on wednesday, july 17th, at 9 00 a. M. Eastern. Hell testify in open session about his report into russian interference in the 2016 election. Watch live coverage on cspan3 j online at cspan. Org or listen with the free cspan radio app. The house energy and Commerce Sub Committee on health heard from officials from two pharmaceutical trade associations. They testified alongside other policy experts. Good morning, everyone. The Sub Committee on health will now come to order. The chair now recognizes for five minutes for an opening statement. Last week our Sub Committee held a hearing to essentially follow the money in the drug supply chain. We came away with much valuable information, but we also found there are many secrets. Secret decisions about how drugs are priced. Secret deals between Drug Companies and the pbms and s
Ive been asked as you can imagine since mondays announcement about what i think about this candidates or that candidates position and i say they can speak for themselves. Policy, they can talk to themselves. But today, one of the candidates made a comment about john mccain. Now, say what you want about his politics one way or the other. But let me be fundamentally clear. John mccain is an American Hero and i will denounce anyone who speaks ill of someone who has been a prisoner of war, not just senator mccain, but anybody else like that. We need to stand up and defend them. I will make an exception to speak out if someone goes personal against someone in our military. I will always defend other veterans regardless of what their politics are. So im glad to be here today. I had a lot of fun last month in with joni joni, ernst, her husband, gayle we rode into the ride and roast. They tell me if i win this job, i may not be riding for about eight years. So i want to be riding as much as i