committee hearing last month on the quality and cost of health care across the country. good morning senator murray is on her way, she s asked that i go ahead and begin because snow has double duty today. she s fact is, she s here. you know there was many years ago senator everett dirk sen of illinois was a little theatrical. senator dirksen was theatrical. when he would speak at an event he would wait in the back of the room until he was introduced and people would begin the applause and he would walk slowly to the front to extend the applause for a long period of time. senator murray has double duty todays, she s managing the labor health and human services appropriations bill on the floor and she s here. so i want to recognize that. and compliment her on on that piece of legislation. because it has a variety of good things in it. and again i believe it takes an important step in increasing funding significantly for biomedical research at the national institutes of heal
incumbent governor charlie baker and challenger jay gonzalez. live from our studio, here are our moderators, jim broudy and margery eagan. good evening and welcome to our audience here comes everybody is watching or listening at home. with under three weeks until election we would hope the next 60 minutes will help you decide who to vote for for governor of massachusetts. margery seizes us just the debate. debate. when a man of you see it as the red sox pregame show. regardless would explain the rules for tonight. there are no rules. no opening statements, no closing, no timelines although we will be keeping track of speaking time to keep things even. we want to cover ground for brevity is appreciate, few free to talk to each other as well. we encourage it. center asking our studio artist up to applaud during debate, we elected to commit commit to give charlie baker and jay gonzalez a hand right now. please do that. [applause] gentlemen thank you very much for coming. m
this hour-long debate is courtesy of wgbh boston. this is a wgbh news special presentation. the massachusetts gubernatorial debate between incumbent governor charlie baker and challenger jay gonzalez. here are the moderators. good evening and welcome to our audience here at wgbh. everybody who is watching or listening at home on 89.7 as well as our sister stations, wgp by in springfield and wcai on cape cod. three weeks until the election. we hope the next 60 minutes will help you decide who to vote for for governor of massachusetts. we know many of you see this as the red sox pregame show. regardless, let me explain the rules for tonight. there are no rules. no opening statements, no closing, no time limits, although we will be keeping track of speaking times to keep things relatively even. we want to cover ground, so brevity is appreciated. feel free to talk to each other. we encourage it. since we ask our studio audience debateapplaud during the , we would like to ta
this is about an hour. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the national press club. i m andrea edney an editor at bloomberg news and the 111th president of the national press club. we are pleased to welcome today judge ashley tabaddor. and we thank you thanks also go to those of you here in the room and those of you watching live on c-span. for those of you here in the room i have housekeeping matters. one, if you haven t already silenced your cell phones, please do that right now. and if you are tweeting today, we are press club dc and our hashtag is #npc live. the hashtag for today s event is #npc live. following our guests i will ask a question or two and then we will take questions from the room for about 30 minutes. when you get the mike we have a colleague over here who is going to be passing a mike around. so if you are called on for a question, please introduce yourself, and with your news organization, and please do keep your questions brief. so about our guest.