Bills. 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 a hearing because we have six excellent witnesses, and we want to make sure that we hear from each of you. And we want to senator tuesday have a chance to ask questions of each of you. And so patty should arrive about 10 00. When she comes while well interrupt and let her make her Opening Statement and then well resume the hearing. Morning, senator murphy. Nearly a year ago dr. Brent james from the National Academies testified before Senate Health committee with a startling statistic. Up to one half 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 spend 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 muc
The eagles early the next morning. Theyre on the floor with our appropriations bill. I want to start off the morning to say that leader mcconnell seems to take great pride in calling himself the grim reaper. Its part of his political campaign. Its part of the pride he takes as leader of the senate. As you see [inaudible] voted on. So think of me as the grim reaper. His own quote. E wants to [inaudible] endsing discrimination against lgbtq communities. Dreamers. To protect our dreamers and paycheck fairness. Equal pay for equal work. Gun violence protection. Commonsense background checks legislation. Hes burying that. Climate action now. Climate action now. Lets bury that. Save the internet act. The Net Neutrality legislation, young people are so concerned about. The violence against women act. Wont even get a vote. Lowering health care and Prescription Drug prices, wont even get a vote. Thats what he said about our agenda which encompasses most of our early legislation on what we promi
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
Bring the country together. Im going to bring it together. We all know donald trump sees a different america. An america story of resentment, advantage and retribution. Thats not me. Thats not you. Everything that Joe Biden Touches turns to [ bleep ]. Celebrating the constitution, our country, our economy and our communities. Donald trump is vermin, poison, poison in the blood of america. It sounds a lot lik 2020 you could say it sounds like 2016 as well. While the contours of the campaign feel like deja vu, they already do. Whats happening behind the rallies is noticeably and notably different. President biden is outraising former President Trump which could be especially significant when donald trump is in a personally precarious financial position, which he is. Well explain what that means in a moment. It could also have bearing on what trump expects or demands of the rnc which he now functionally controls through his daughterinlaw and handpicked successor. On the other side of the
Loved ones. State and federal officials now working to find emergency housing for the hundreds of people displaced by this fire. Fema and nonprofit groups bringing in supplies for those who have sadly lost everything. Welcome, everyone, to the four. This afternoon, im Heather Holmes and im alex savage. The death toll in lahaina is expected to climb. And this wildfire already is the deadliest in modern us history. At least 96 deaths have been confirmed, and that surpasses the deadly camp fire here in Northern California, which claimed the lives of 85 people back in 2018. The search and rescue operation is taking painstaking efforts to try to find survivors and victims with thousands of people still waiting to survey the damage, the initial steps toward recovery coming amid a Class Action Lawsuit targeting hawaii electric. Foxs max gordon has the latest details. So much heartbreak, so much sadness on this island and so many people here still searching for answers. Still no official reaso