Among those speaking at the republican jewish coalitions 2023 Leadership Conference in las watch live at noon eastern on cspan saturday, or online at cspan. Org. Up next, testimony on access to research and treatment for patients with Rare Diseases. Advocates for medical ethics and therapeutic industry professionals also testified to provide insight on the fda Clinical Trial process. This hearing with the Senate Special Legion Committee is about two hours. With the Senate Special aging committee is about two hours. Good morning. Welcome to the committees eighth hearing of the 1 18 congress about Drug Development for rare and serious diseases. As is the tradition of the committee, the aging Committee Ranking member, Ranking Member braun in this case, will offer an opening statement. Ranking member braun thank you, senator. I thank the witnesses for coming and for all the folks from around the country who are here today. There are over 7000 rare and serious diseases known to man. Its est
applause bob schieffer, welcome. Thank you very much. So good to be with you again. Well, you and i have been friends for a long time. Long time. Its nice to see an old friend. Watching what youve done down here and the role that the Texas Tribune is playing in journalism right now. Youre the template right now youre the template right now for what needs to be done. Well, i appreciate you saying that very much. This book is a terrific tale of tales, right . Its a collection of tales of people who are attempting to solve this problem that youve identified, correctly. The world is changing, the Media Business is changing, the Consumption Habits of the public have changed. What did you find in the course of your investigations, your conversations . Well, whats happened here, walt mossberg, the Technology Writer who now is kind of the king of the internet, with the reports on technology and whats happening. He once said that when youre in the middle of something, you sometimes dont realize
applause bob schieffer, welcome. Thank you very much. So good to be with you again. Well, you and i have been friends for a long time. Long time. Its nice to see an old friend. Watching what youve done down here and the role that the Texas Tribune is playing in journalism right now. Youre the template right now youre the template right now for what needs to be done. Well, i appreciate you saying that very much. This book is a terrific tale of tales, right . Its a collection of tales of people who are attempting to solve this problem that youve identified, correctly. The world is changing, the Media Business is changing, the Consumption Habits of the public have changed. What did you find in the course of your investigations, your conversations . Well, whats happened here, walt mossberg, the Technology Writer who now is kind of the king of the internet, with the reports on technology and whats happening. He once said that when youre in the middle of something, you sometimes dont realize
The country. Dean has been in this job since 2014 having earlier served as managing editor and washington. Chief of the times. He also edited the los angeles times, and won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting for the Chicago Tribune and started his newspaper career way back when as a Young Journalist at the time stick you in new orleans. Martin baron, marty to most of his friends come join the Washington Post in 2013 after 11 years editing the boston globe. Both papers under his leadership harvested 12 Pulitzer Prizes. Baron also in order times helped edit the los angeles times, the New York Times and the miami herald. Allow me to start our discussion tonight with a simple proposition, that in a democracy such as ours, if freedom of the press is jeopardized, then democracy itself is jeopardized. Since one is intimately linked to the other. During the president ial campaign of 2016, candidate donald trump routinely criticized the press or the media, humiliating a number of reporters, bul
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