Good afternoon and welcome, everybody. We are in for certainly an important and informative discussion. Im the president and ceo of the u. S. Global leadership coalition. U. S. Glc is really honored to cohost todays event. I want to welcome a very special guest, ivanka trump and us aid administrator mark green. Todays Program Marks the first public event in the u. S. Of Womens Global Development and prosperity initiative. Today youll hear more about the launch of wgdp fund. This is an opportunity to highlight a Game Changing initiative dedicated to unleash the full potential of women in the developing world and to hear about some innovative activities and inaugural partners. Now, for the men in this room, no offense to you, but a topic like this, who could go wrong . The usglc has been really pleased to be part of this initiative almost from the beginning. Ivanka, i remember early on when our board had the opportunity to meet with you over in the white house compound, and your inspirin
Mark, we have been pleased to join you in discussions with you and your team for bringing your expertise on Global Development to the table. I know i was pleased to join both of you at the oval office at the signing of w gdp and we were very proud to work with capitol hill on the passage of the womens entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment act and we have some members of congress who will be talking about that shortly. The truth is there are a few agendas that bring together people and that are as compelling and as unifying as the one we are going to talk about today. In this town it is quite nice that we have a topic that does that. Gathered here is a wide array of stakeholders that have come together because they believe in the initiative we will be talking about. I see friends from the administration, from the white house, state department, friends from capitol hill from both sides of the aisle. The leaders are also known as the strange bedfellow coalition because we bring togeth
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The committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Senator murray has an important meeting right now and she has asked me to proceed with the hearing because we have six excellent witnesses and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you, and we want the senators to have a chance to ask questions of each of you. So patty should arrive about 10 00. When she comes, why, well interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and then we will resume the hearing. Good morning, senator murphy. Nearly a year ago dr. Brent james from the National Academies testified before our Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up to onehalf of what the American People spend on Health Care May be unnecessary. Let me repeat that. Up to half of the 3. 5 trillion the United States collectively spent on health care in 2017 was unnecessary according to dr. James, and many of the other witnesses at our hearings agreed with that. Thats 1. 8 trillion, three times as much
Doctor subcommittee will come to order at ask unanimous consent the chair could declare recess in a timer that objections order. Good morning everyone thank you for we are here today to discuss one of the most with the u. S. Arsenal. That is software. It is crucial to our ability very in the air, the sea come , onlinein space anderspace. Aircraft carriers will be able to leave our pier they can deliver a payload over its target we expect the system and code we rely on work whenâ– j needed. Despite this was seo dartmenterg and prioritizing software. Congress do know when something is wrong and something is right or in something is working or w. We read the studies repeatedly noting the department struggles with software findings that are remarkably consistent the 1980s untilin today. Its fundamentally amiss. My hope is for the witnesses to not only describe the problem but contextualize where possible what is being done to date with the largest barriers have been to address these issues