Hillbilly elegy of the forgotten workingclass men and women part memoir, part historical and analysis. It is an eyeopening journey of the south past, present and future. Anchored in the hometown of South Carolina it illuminates the things that continue to fertilize the soil of one of the worst states in the nation. He traces his fathers life to Martin Luther king and numbered of the student nonviolent coordinating committee. In the dwindling rural black working class many of whom can trace their ancestry back seven generations. In the poetic personal history we are a weekend to the crisis affecting the other forgotten men and women through the media acknowledges. Family members, neighbors and friends. He humanizes the struggles that shaped their lives to gain access to healthcare as the hospitals disappear into to make ends meet as the factories have shut down and to hold onto precious traditions has the towns erode to forge a path forward without succumbing. My vanishing country is al
She cant be here. This is a strong advocate for universal healthcare. Where we left off i will yield again to miss debbie lesko. Hopefully shes not being held against her will or something. Okay. I just wanted to say we have a long discussion here and members on both sides of the aisle, i can speak for myself on the republican side, we want to solve the healthcare problem. We do believe there are problems in the healthcare now and if improvements can be made, we should do this in a bipartisan fashion because really big issues like this need to be done in a bipartisan fashion. When i was in state legislature in state senate i worked on legislation to address medical bills that were brought up before and i got everybody together in the room and we hashed it out. It was controversial but we got it done. If we did work in a bipartisan fashion we could get things done even though we disagree on certain issues. I believe it can be worked out but this bill is not a bipartisan, this is a very
Theyre out the door. Susan li on what is happening now at one company, just the latest company to say get the shot or get out. Thats right, neil. Get vaccinated by next week or you will be fired by the end of this month. Citi group is the first major bank to implement a strict covid19 mandate. This applies to all of the 70,000 staff, regardless where they live. So that means that those that live in florida, texas, missouri and kentucky where they dont have a vaccine man tate for big businesses, they will also have to get the job. If you dont live in new york, you have to comply. Citi groups Vaccine Mandate goes a step further than others than goldman sachs, j. P. Morgan and Bank Of America requiring vaccines but only if you go in the office. Not all employees are happy about this. Many complaining about the huge overreachthat many have felt where theres a federal mandate for workers to get vaccinated. Mayo clinic fired 700 staff who had to get their shotspy this monday. Others have had
[background sounds]. [background sounds]. Welcome to todays hearing, some members will appear in person and others will appear remotely via zoom and for members this appearing remotely know your all familiar with zoom but let me remind you of the key points and first that house rules require that we be please have the cameras on at all times, and second the members appearing remotely who are not recognize, remain muted to minimize background noise and thought i would recognize members verbally that members retain the right to speak recognition verbally and regular order, the members will be recognized in seniority for questions and lastly if you want to be recognized, outside regular order yousi may identify that in several ways. You may use the chat function it is in a request, you may send an email to the majority, or you may unmute your microphone to seek recognition and we will resume when they tell me they are ready to begin the live stream and let me say that this is a bipartisan
Time and i want to make sure that we have just think our panelists and prepare for our next panel which is terrific and pleasing run join me in thanking the panel. [applause] [applause] [background sounds]. Will come up we will move on to her second panel. Im very excited is actually i want to say that i have a good friend doctor Janet Woodcock sue is the Principal Deputy commissioner has been at the fda for a number of years and is helped reorganize and restructure offices and centers. And is probably one of the best executives i know in the public and private sectors. She has always been willing to do the hard work that others are unwilling to do make the hard decisions. And then continuing have a brain trust doctor mark mccalla, who ran to federal agencies including serving as fda commissioner and so, im an a internal printed so this is fun for me because we are going to spend time talking about how to fit agencies and organizations during the pandemic it, biomedical innovations and