[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] trained to on a robbery committed by his cousin and other a very eventful and wonderful day so far at the savanna book festival. Youre at the Trinity United Methodist church United Methodist church which has been our venue here all day long. We feel very fortunate to have this space for the 11th annual savanna book festival. This venue hasy been made possible by the generosity of jackie mary romanos. My name is roger smith and at the pleasure of serving as a volunteer for the savanna book festival and im delighted with your participation. The savanna book festival is presented by georgia power, david and nancy st. John, the Sheehan Family foundation and the american pet suing. We would also like to thank our wonderfuler literati members as well as individual donors whose contributions have made in the past and continue to make saturday at the savanna book festival a free and public event. Inueor fact, 90 of the revenuer the book festi
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] and. A leg to welcome everyone to do this mornings hearing for tom price to be the next department of health and Human Services. With his willingness to serve in this magnitude with obamacare was pushed through republicans in congress was warned the new Health Care Law would harm patients and families not to put too fine a point on it but the next hhs secretary as we work to repeal obamacare replacing with patients under reforms this is an important endeavor this should not be the sole purpose of the next hhs secretary. Having an annual budget of 1 trillion. I will be pete that. Blood department 1 trillion this centers for Disease Control and prevention is no exaggerations to say to affect the daily life in any other parts of u. S. Government. Dr. Price has the experience and quali
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] and. A leg to welcome everyone to do this mornings hearing for tom price to be the next department of health and Human Services. With his willingness to serve in this magnitude with obamacare was pushed through republicans in congress was warned the new Health Care Law would harm patients and families not to put too fine a point on it but the next hhs secretary as we work to repeal obamacare replacing with patients under reforms this is an important endeavor this should not be the sole purpose of the next hhs secretary. Having an annual budget of 1 trillion. I will be pete that. Blood department 1 trillion this centers for Disease Control and prevention is no exaggerations to say to affect the daily life in any other parts of u. S. Government. Dr. Price has the experience and quali
Obama should have been more loyal to tom daschle. And President Trump is going to be loyal to tom price. And that they fundamentally believe, to your point, that tom price is the best person for this job, since he has spent so many years in congress, thinking about the policy change, if they ever had the chance to repeal obamacare. They want someone who understands what needs to be done. And he has been there. You also have susan collins, has proposed a new plan to deal with the repeal and replace part of it. So look, theyre going to stick by tom price. But these are not minor questions that have been raised. The question is whether you have to believe that he made a mistake in good faith, or whether he omitted in bad faith. Well hopefully hear that. These are live pictures coming in from the Senate Finance committee. Well hear shortly from the chairman, orrin hatch, and the Ranking Member, ron wyden. They will be opening up the arguments, presumably for and against, tom price, nominat