Trump 2021 budget request for his department. This is two hours and 15 minutes. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. Good morning everybody. I think before i give my statement, we have several visits and 30 and i think we worked it out with senator white biden, and other people that we will keep this meeting going. So i am going to believe that the 1030 and vote once and then come back and i think the first vote always takes a long time. And then when he gets back, then he will vote. In other words, i will vote for the second there but i will stay over there and do them together. You know how it works out. I may not explain it very good. I want to welcome our witness, our secretary of health and Human Services. Honorable alex i appreciate the secretary a czar, your pairing before the committee to discuss the budget. The new budget, he oversees very Strong Department with programs that are crucial to the health and wellbeing of Many Am
[inaudible]. [inaudible]. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. Good morning everybody. I think before i give my statement, we have several visits and 30 and i think we worked it out with senator white biden, and other people that we will keep this meeting going. So i am going to believe that the 1030 and vote once and then come back and i think the first vote always takes a long time. And then when he gets back, then he will vote. In other words, i will vote for the second there but i will stay over there and do them together. You know how it works out. I may not explain it very good. I want to welcome our witness, our secretary of health and Human Services. Honorable alex i appreciate the secretary a czar, your pairing before the committee to discuss the budget. The new budget, he oversees very Strong Department with programs that are crucial to the health and wellbeing of Many Americans and maybe all americans. The budget represents the administrations recom
Education is number one and that is why i am voting. Voices from the road on cspan. Health and Human Services secretary alex azar testified before the Senate Finance committee on president trumps 2021 budget request for his department. This is two hours and 15 minutes. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. Good morning everybody. I think before i give my statement, we have several visits and 30 and i think we worked it out with senator white biden, and other people that we will keep this meeting going. So i am going to believe that the 1030 and vote once and then come back and i think the first vote always takes a long time. And then when he gets back, then he will vote. In other words, i will vote for the second there but i will stay over there and do them together. You know how it works out. I may not explain it very good. I want to welcome our witness, our secretary of health and Human Services. Honorable alex i appreciate the secre
Have to have at least three hoosiers on the committee, its a rule. Were satisfying that rule. But we also got three wisconsinite this is year, so thats cool. We have tom rice of south carolina. Jackie what horsekey from indiana. And Roger Williams from texas. I want to yield to mr. Van hol ton introduce their new members of the committee. Let me start, mr. Chairman, by thanking you for the way youve conducted business in the Budget Committee both in the last session and i look forward to working with you in the same manner in this session. As you indicated we have very sharp differences on policy issues but in this committee, we have always been able to have that exchange of views in a civil way. I think that helps the debate Going Forward. Thank you for that, mr. Chairman. We have welcome to new members on the republican side. Were pleased to have some new members as well on our side. Not all of them are new to the congress. Some of them are, some of them arent. We have mr. Mcdermott,
Because ronments thank you but that is a whole other topic. But i also think that we dont in america we are more into john wayne than john dewey. John wayne gets the headlines, not john dewey. You take a School District in southern l. A. County, even through austerity, it has done extraordinarily well. Actually, that is how i got to this. Hey solve problems and what they have done is they have done this through the transitions of a retiring superintendent and a retiring union president. So this has really become baked into their culture. Talked about this story to you guys a lot, and nobody wants to write about it except in orange county. The same in terms of cincinnati, new haven. Places, montgomery county, there are actually places where through thick and real when people have respectful relationships with each other and they start thinking about how they solve problems rather than arguments, you see real collaboration and working through a bunch of issues because teaching children i