Secretary, it finance committee receives his paperwork and will vote hon the nomination. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then former secretary and governor of utah whom we welcome today. Mike, good to see you and have you back. And senator young, whos a member of this committee, will introduce him after mr. Azars testimony, senators will each have five minutes of questions. We already have a good turnout so i anticipate a good vigorous questioning period. Confirmed to leave the department of health and Human Services, youll be leading a 1. 11 trillion budget. That almost equals the totals of the Appropriations Bills that Congress Passes each year to Fund Everything from National Defense to national laboratories. Medicare and medicaid. Our nations government run Insurance Programs for it poor and elderly. Mental hilth health and Substance Abuse. The National Institutes of health, where, with francish collins excellent leadership, the leading efforts to disco
Vote on the nomination. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then former secretary and former governor Michael Leavitt who we welcome today good to see you and have you back and senator young, a member of this committee will introduce mr. Azar. After his testimony, each will have five minutes of questions. I anticipate a good, vigorous questioning time. Azar, you will be running a 1. 1 trillion organization. That almost equals the total of the 12 appropriation Bills Congress passes each year to find everything from National Parks to National Defense to national laboratories. You would be overseeing medicare and medicaid, our nations Insurance Programs for the poor and elderly. Mental health and substance abuse, where you will have to address the europe your crisis other issues. The National Institutes of health where with Francis Collins excellent leadership the United States is leading efforts to develop a cure for new treatmentd for cancer. The fda, where Scot
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A well come to conflict so welcome during and after the Election Campaign your party said it would not i repeat not enter a Coalition Government against with merkels called so over to lives but thats just what you are headed. When the point was grand coalitions all the time. Strengthen the extreme know that this is the past when the yesterday you said after the election its right no and thats the right thing to do if the voters tell you twenty point five percent for the s. P. D. Minus fourteen percent for the partners of the grand coalition thats their problem well thats our problem too so that the right answer on election day was to say our place is in the opposition but your party leader repeated the no well and this was clear that it was now on you to enter into discussions and he said no but put it this way we made a mistake which is not very often and probably thinks we overestimated the competing parties we thought the conservatives the greens the liberals would come together in