Obviously anything you have in writing, you can enter for the record. We welcome you, we congratulate you and miss granger for bringing all of this together and all of the appropriators, and we will begin with you. I thank you for your congratulations but you have a great team. I will accept the congratulations on behalf of all of my colleagues and all their staff who brought us to this day. I know you are all eager to support this great product. Mr. Chairman those raise funding for Critical National priorities. I am particularly proud we have fully funded a fair and accurate to0 census, provided money states to secure their elections, and appropriated 25 million for gun violence prevention research. These are just a few of the highlights of these bills and our cardinals will provide details on many more examples of investments that will strengthen our nation. Of critical importance, the bill limits the administrations deviateto redirect or from congressionally directed spending levels
Articles of itch peachment, our live coveraging beginning at 11 00 a. M. Eastern. On your screen is tom rice, republican from South Carolina. Theyre wrapping up testimony on proposed legislation dealing with state and local tax provisions. Live coverage on c span. Mr. Rice i dont know how it could be subsidizing for communities and states that are donees rather than doe nor states, said to be subsidizing new york. If theres some way that paying 35 billion more than we receive is a subs die di from other states i dont understand the idea or concept of subsidy. We have 30 appropriators outside here. Mr. Raskin i want to associate myself completely with the remarks that mr. Morelle, the gentleman from new york. I represent the great eighth Congressional District of maryland. Maryland is a state in a very similar posture to new york in that we contribute lots and lots of money, disproportionate amounts of money, which i suppose if were looking at it in a kind of as a rule canized, competit
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
Isterms of how the president able to use his authority and military force. Crippling. Said it is is it crippling on the ayatollah himself . I do not think of him is getting his American Express card out. Is this more symbolic . Evin a little bit of both this is where gets interesting. The u. S. Has already sanctioned virtually every sector of iran. There are not that many additional sectors or even individuals for the administration to target. On one hand, this is very much symbolic. Alsoe other hand, it is maybe even a sanction of last resort. David Michael Mckee is here with us. We have seen sanctions of all sort from this administration and other administrations. What is different about this one . It does strike me as different. Michael only that is the head of government. We have sanctioned about a thousand different entities in iran since this began, including individuals, companies, even ships and aircraft. They have stopped the flow of oil from iran. As kevin says, theres not mu
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