John considering ge does business in every country on the planet. Jeff people see globalization from 30,000 feet dont know how globalization works. John and immelt even talked about his own future. Have you thought about life after ge . John all that and all that and more coming up in my conversation with jeff immelt. Trumps ban on people from some muslim countries being able to visit your head office. What is your reaction to it . Jeff i sent something out to all of our employees because we have a lot of people who live outside of the United States and they are afraid of what is going on. We speak out to say, gosh, we understand that safety is really important. But we also want to be able to be but we also want to be able to work with the people of ge, and still travel in and out of the United States. And we dont want to lose our contact us with customers around the world that want to buy products, not just from ge but boeing, caterpillar, u. S. Manufacturers. Again, we set our peace
We did have a lot of major media that came into this event and this room has been bursting through the seams. When you go back to the newsroom please insist your editors like you do their job. [applause] thank you for coming we have a special treat for you. Those red tickets, those are for a complimentary beverage that are served over at the bar. Appear they should have been here, seek them out and talk to them. The important part of the conference is about to begin and we want to remind you the audio of all of these presentations will be available on that website. Thank you so much for coming. [applause] one more thing i would like to thank the washington report publisher whos been sitting here and his whole generation of leaders, ralph nader who is here come the Harriet Fulbright and others in this room and the many students that came to. Audience members, exhibitors and advertisers we couldnt have had this without your help. Thank you. Enjoy your drinks. [inaudible conversations] [i
Senator orrin hatch chairs the subcommittee. This is just over an hour. The meeting will come to order. Its a pleasure to welcome everyone here this morning. Well be talking with representatives from the office of Inspector General, and from the Government Accountability office about their ongoing oversight work with respect to health care. Gov. And enrollment in the federal Health Insurance marketplace. I want to thank both entities for their hard work on these issues and acknowledge the contributions they made to help this committee perform more accurate and timely oversight. No secret ive been a fan of the socalled Affordable Care act. The evidence overwhelmingly shows that i and the many others oppose this from the beginning has been right all along. The facts speak for themselves. Republicans signed into law, hhs, lig and gao have released at least 6 dozen reports detailing various operation and information issues. Detailing the numerous areas where the law has fallen short. These
The drug costs patients 129,000. The same cost for patients in other countries about a third of that amount. I realize the pharmaceutical Companies Invest their researches, they bring a new drug to market, they should profit from that innovation, but why are the u. S. Patients getti getting gauged for drugs. Can you better explain why u. S. Taxpayers are paying for Biomedical Research at the front end and paying exorbitant prices at the back end . Ill just say that 50 of my colleagues and myself sent a letter to you and secretary burwell requesting that they write when taxpair funded research leads to patent product not available to the public on reasonable terms . What are reasonable terms . A drug shouldnt cost 129,000 for people to get access to it. I know this is a topic of great interest, and while it should be and my heart goes out as all of us do to patients who are in need of a therapeutic which is outside of their financial means to be able to gain access to. That ought to be
Have an obligation and a mandate given to us by the citizens of this country to go on course, to put those reforms in place, to get the country back on track. Thats something i can control. Thats something i can be involved in. Thats something i can help deliver. Thats what im focused on. Thank you very much. Whos your final four pick . [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] House Minority nancy pelosi held her briefing at the capitol. She discussed several issues including the 2017 budget, the zika virus and the flint, michigan, water contamination water issue. This is about 20 minutes. Ms. Pelosi i see some wearing green here. Good morning. What a week, huh . Yesterday, president obama presented his nomination for the next justice of the Supreme Court, judge Merrick Garland. Hes a widely respected jurist who embodies wisdom, judgm