Minutes. Subcommittee on health will now come to order. Ill recognize myself five minutes for an Opening Statement. Todays hearing marks the Health Subcommittees first public discussion on modernizing the Current System at the United States food and Drug Administration to review, approve and update overthecounter drugs. This hearing provides us and the American Public with an opportunity to better understand the food and Drug Administrations Regulatory Framework to regulate overthecounter drugs and to consider a proposal to reform the monograph system. Today we will convene two panels of witnesses. First i want to welcome dr. Woodcome back to our subcommittee woodcock back to our subcommittee. Later we will hear from other key stakeholders, and i would like to commend all for their efforts throughout the negotiation process and for offering their insight to the committee. Both the energy and Commerce Health subcommittee and the full committee have a strong record of bipartisanship on i
Cspan s, where history unfolds daily. Now a Senate Finance Committee Hearing about ways to over haul the tax code. [ inaudible conversations ] we will discuss ways to improve the business provisions of the u. S. Tax code. With an eye towards creating jobs and boosting wages for American Workers and improving over all business climate. This part of the ongoing effort following years of tax hearings and last weeks hearing on individual reform. To draft and report tax reform legislation later this year. Members of both parties recognize the need to reform the way we tax business in the United States. As a former president obama noted when discussing his own frame work, the Current System quote does too little to encourage job creation and investment in the United States while allowing firms to benefit from incentives to low cat production and shift profit over sea. Unquote. Many elements of a particular business tax burden depend on the companies organizational forum. For example, sea cor
Importance that should he be confirmed, that we are going to expect from the standpoint of the russia investigation the cooperation, to work with the investigation and terms of access to materials, access to information, but we obviously deconflict with investigator mueller. It is important we have a strong working relationship with christopher wray. In public just as testimony yesterday that he would be independent and not abide political interference. It is an unfortunate fact that 2017 we have to get these kind of assurances since we have seen this administration and president in particular ask for the type of loyalty oaths from director comey and reports of similar efforts to undermine the investigation in terms of other conversations. I feel comfortable with the assurances i received and i look forward to actually supporting mr. Wray when his nomination comes to the floor. I also raised another item of importance, and perhaps more parochial to the region, but over the last number