Senate committee on health, education, labor and pensions will please come to order. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then well a introduce the witnesses. After the witnesses testimony senators will each have five minutes of questions. There is a vote scheduled for 10 30. I think what well do is continue right on through until about 10 45. And then well alternate going back and forth to vote. I think well have time for all of us to hear the witnesses testimony before we have to leave for the vote. Today were holding a hearing which is the second in a series on Prescription Drug costs and response to a bipartisan request led by senators cassidy, senator franken, along with senators collins, baldwin, murkowski, whitehouse, cap tow, sanders, enzi and warren as well as other senators interested in the subject. Not only was the request for these hearings bipartisan, but both this hearing and the first hearing on drug prices were bipartisan, which means senator mu
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Lacqu lacquer. Heres what else is happening this hour. Stocks in the green as we get closer to the weekend. S p 500 higher. 25 along with the nasdaq and dow. Led by big gains. Mylan having lows after releetsing a report medicaid grossly overpaid for epipen drug. Young brands seeing a 460 million stake in china unit in a unit of alibaba. Very busy two hours ahead. Including jobs report. Some are calling a dud. Its great. Loved it. The u. S. Economy adding a weaker than expected, 151,000 new jobs last month. Begin with comments from the Federal Reserve and sees the leaseman. Couple guys speaking next week. A week from tuesday, blackout period. Very much on the hawkish side of things. Rates should be significantly higher given look at variety of rules out there. He points out the recent job growth has been about double the population growth. Thats enough when youre at full employment. Inflation he says is the likely to lift. Benchmark rates for the Federal Reserve. The data is consistent
Drug companies have been dreading for a couple of years. President trump promiseed to put the screws to the big pharmaceutical and began that today. In a week with foreign policy, President Trump turned to domestic policies to make good on a Campaign Promise to lower Prescription Drugs costs. My administration is launching the most sweeping action in history to lower the price of Prescription Drugs for the american people. His plan is to attack the problem on multiple fronts. Encourage innovation. The white house claims the u. S. Shoulders an unfair burden of Drug Development costs as other nations force pharmaceutical companies to discount prices. John kelly said a big problem for illegal immigration is many people cant fit into society. They are overwhelming ruler people. 4th to 6th great educations are the norm. They dont have skills. The president s frustration over immigration boiled over in wednesdays cabinet meeting. He berate berated nielsen abou many people were illegally stil
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