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Chfts approved by congress a year ago this month. This runs about two and a half hours. Order. Chair recognize himself. A monumental achievement. Cures was the product of a by partisan multiyear effort by the energy and Commerce Committee. To brought the laws into a modern era of medicine. It has been one year since cures was signed into law. I remember remarking at that press conference a year ago to imagine a world in which government was not an obstacle but an ally in helping us deliver drugs...

Good morning. The health labor on education and pension will come to order. This is another bipartisan hearings, which means senator murray and i have agreed on the subject and the witnesses. In falkt i would say every member in the committee would probably agree on the subject and Witnesses Today because this is a hearing entitled implementation of the cures act. The path forward to hear from dr. Frances collins, the National Institutes of health and dr. Gotlieb, the commissioner of food and dr...

Good morning. The health labor on education and pension will come to order. This is another bipartisan hearings, which means senator murray and i have agreed on the subject and the witnesses. In falkt i would say every member in the committee would probably agree on the subject and Witnesses Today because this is a hearing entitled implementation of the cures act. The path forward to hear from dr. Frances collins, the National Institutes of health and dr. Gotlieb, the commissioner of food and dr...

We look forward to that. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then introduce our panel of witnesses. After, senators will have five minutes of questions. In 2007 doug oliver, who is in the front row i believe, a Computer Programmer began to have trouble, had his drivers license taken away and declared legally blind. It was a rare form of macular degeneration. He moved to nashville where they told him while there were no cures, he could Search Online for a trial. He found ...

A secret we cant let the people know we cant let the enemy know where our troops are meanwhile as many as forty four thousand american troops are stationed across the world and not being tracked by the pentagon according to the u. S. Military in all stars and stripes and it claims to you that around three hundred thousand u. S. Personnel are operating in more than one hundred and fifty countries we got in touch with Us Defense Department which told us that some personnel are marked as having an ...

Sackur. The fierce argument about the roots of islamistjihadist of islands can sometimes be a matter of life and death. Jihadist violence. I guessed today knows that all too well. Zineb el rhazoui is a french moroccan journalist who was working for the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo when 12 people were murdered in the magazines paris office in 2015. Zineb happened to be on holiday. Now she lives under police protection. She has since written a book on what she calls islamic fascism. To what ex...

In global news, business and sport. Apple confirms what weve all suspected for years. Older iphones get slower each time you update their software. Today were asking, are tech firms too quick to make gadgets obsolete . Tell us what you think. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Catalans will go to the polls in a couple of hours to vote in a Regional Election amidst the worst political crisis in decades. The vote is intended to resolve a stand off between the Spanish Government and the campaigne...

That crisis looks set to continue. Catalonia is barely more than 6 of spains territory. But it accounts for around a fifth of the spanish economy, and almost a quarter of exports, as well as 16 of the population. Last week the bank of spain cut its National Economic growth forecast for next year from 2. 5 to 2. 4 , citing the uncertainty around catalonia as one of the main reasons. Businesses arent waiting to find out the impact. Many are moving their legal headquarters out of catalonia. Some re...

Pressure on israel. The Political Center in dallas hosted this hour 10 hour and 10 minute event. [applause] good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, thank you for being here. It is my privilege to moderate this evenings event. If you housekeeping notes, you saw signs on the door when you came in. We are being recorded by cspan. Be occasionally panning the audience. If there is anybody who does not want to be seen on cspan for whatever reason please go over to the con room, you can see and hear the e...

Please make sure your cell phones are silent. The debate structure this evening will be as follows. We will have an opening from each of our individual guests. We will then have rebuttal for four minutes. Each of them will then have the opportunity to engage one another in dialogue. We have cards for you in your program. You have any questions, please prepare them because we always do want the audience to have the opportunity to participate. I would like for you all to start now and tear off the...