It is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Defense secretary james mattis and secretary of state Rex Tillerson testified be for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the authorization for the use of military force. This hourlong portion of the hearing took place before a break. Stop endless war. Stop endless war. Stop endless war. Sen. Corker the Foreign Relations committee will come to order. Two housekeeping issues, if i could. We have a number of people in the audience, some of whom like to express themselves. We thank you for being here. In the past when there have been interruptions, on occasion, ive been able to have people arrested but we stopped that. So please dont do anything that causes you to have to be escorted out of the room because then the process continues with being arrested, its fairly unpleasant, id hate to see you go through that. Secondly, we have a vote, we have two votes today, which is unfortunate. What weve talked about doing is adjou
[chanting] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the Relations Committee will come to order and i want to deal with two housekeeping issues if i could. I know we have a number of people in the audience, some of whom sometimes like to express themselves and we thank you for being here. In the past, when thereve been introductions p, and ive been able to have people arrested that we stop that, so please dont do anything that causes you to have to be escorted out of the room, because then the process continues with being arrested as fairly unpleasant and i would hate to see you go through without process. What we talked before about abot doing is adjourned the hearing at about seven minutes. There will be no speaking before the second vote and then the secretary has a meeting to attend. I would like to thank them for being with us today to share the administrations perspective on the authorizations
The senate to a halt as the fight over obamacare state enters the key to week stretch. You can read more at the hill. Com today. The defense secretary james mattis and general Joseph Dunford chair joint chiefs of staff testify now about the president s 2018 budget for for the pentagon. The Senate Armed Services Committee Held at this hearing last week. Good morning. In the thin Arm Service Committee meets this one tracy testimony on the department of defense fiscal year 2018 budget request. We welcome secretary mattis and chairman dent for, secretary norquist, i thank you for your many years of distinguished service and your leadership of our men and women in uniform. Before we begin, i want to acknowledge the service and sacrifice of Sergeant Eric houck, Sergeant William bays, and Corporal Dillon baldridge. M these three soldiers from the armys 101st Airborne Division were killed this weekend in afghanistan. The thoughts and prayers of this committee are with their loved ones. The sac
audience laughter this is overheard. audience applauds evan mcmullin, welcome. Great to be here with you. Thank you for being here. So, youre a young guy. Im 40. Youre 40. Its nice of you to call me young. Well, compared to me, youre young. Youre still young too. Therefore, you were pretty young, three or four, during the 1980 president ial election cycle, when roger mudd famously asked ted kennedy, why do you want to be president . And he muffed the answer. Im gonna ask you the same question. Im gonna give you the same opportunity. Why do you want to be president . Because i think its time in this country for a new generation of leadership, leaders who will put the interests of the American People first, and leaders who can unite this country. Weve been divided for too long. We have a government that believes its unaccountable, a federal government that believes its unaccountable to the American People. Were increasingly at risk by threats from overseas. We need leadership who knows h
Morning. Is this the kind you see with your medications as well . Have they increased . If you leave in the in the eastern part of the country. We want to hear from you. Have your medication costs increase . If so, by how much and how is it to pay for them . We have this blog posting. There are a few job jawdropping fact. The average cost of cancer drugs increased from 10,000 to over 100,000 by 2012. This is from a recent study from the mayo clinic. Have you seen the same thing and what is it like . There is little from yesterdays hearing. Ceo arguing and the margins profits and versus how much it costs. How does it go down when you are collect in . 274 dollars and on the paradigm you will collect 300. We will take the cost of goods out. Out take 274 forre collecting two right now, if youre doing the generic to say people money, you are going to charge 300. That will be the wholesale acquisition costs. The only thing you have changed is the name . This is why we dont believe you. 300,