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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 contri...

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...

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...

200,000. The best such stretch since the tech boom. Over the months the economy has added 2. 5 million jobs. The Associated Press said the dow jones traded high ahead of the jobs report. And the Obama Administration has called for tighter security measures at foreign airports that have direct flights to the u. S. And al qaeda is trying to develop a new bomb that would go undetected through security. Theres no indication that theres a specific threat to the u. S. A pentagon briefing at 11 35 east...

Understanding that we are doing our kids and grandchildren a great disservice if we dont own up to the infrastructure problems we have right now and we work with the governors around the country to move forward on this issue. So mr. Chairman thank you very much. Snack thank you senator. Let me make this comment. We are very proud to have all of you here. We had some al masai think so the full panel was not here but i appreciate very much your coming. Its important i believe when i look at this p...

And local governments have the tools they need. This is a very important topic. We learn a lot when we got involved with Hurricane Center recovery and we are taking the larynx that we derive from that and trying to build into more of our programs routine resilient construction. For instance we found that stoplights needed to be waged in the ground deeper to be more resilient. And when that local leaders in my state are working hard to address whether its new york city or projects to improve side...

Numbers say two things about what is contrary to what some people thought were the conventional wisdom. One was that the need for and the demand for spectrum was not as great and we hear that often. We hear people say that there is no spectrum crisis and i think the value of what is being given suggested there is a tremendous need for this spectrum and then the other piece of conventional wisdom that i think is interesting to at least think about as we heard a lot about how certain spectrum is m...

Service that will offer cloudbased access to watson supercomputers. I am pleased to have the ceo of ibm at this table for the first time. Welcome. Ginni thank you. Charlie tell me where ibm is today. Where you want to take it. Ginni i have a great company. It is 104 years old. We said we are transforming. I say to everyone, you dont get to be 104 years old by doing the same thing. You talk about the Tech Industry a lot but it is an industry that violently represents itself over and over, and you...

They have focused on the cloud mobile computing, and Artificial Intelligence. They announced a new Business Service that will allow access to watson supercomputers. I am pleased to have the ceo of ibm at this table for the first time. Tell me where ibm is today. Where you want to take it. Ginni i head a great company. It is 104 years old. We said we are transforming. I say to everyone, you dont get to be 104 years old by doing the same thing. The Tech Industry violently reinvents itself, and you...

Mobile computing, and Artificial Intelligence. They announced a new Business Service that will allow access to watson supercomputers. I am pleased to have the ceo of ibm at this table for the first time. Tell me where ibm is today. Where you want to take it. Ginni i have a great company. It is one of four years old. We said we are transforming. I say to everyone, you dont get to be one of four years old by 104 years old by doing the same thing. The Tech Industry violently reinvents itself, and y...