I like to call the hearing to order. And id like to recognize the chairman of the committee for a statement. Thank you senator burns. Senator casey members of the committee. How to think senator burr for chairing the hearing today and senator casey for serving as Ranking Member at senator murrays request. Theyre both been leaders. Senator per was the original author of the first passage of the pandemic. He helps protect us from the full range of Public Health threats. Natural disasters and outbreaks of net the disease. Then in 2013, senators bring caseys led the bipartisan authorization of the pandemic and all hazards act. Many can be contributed to that time including senators and see in bennett, war, hatch, roberts, and others. Now it needs to be reauthorized for second time. Todays hearing is the second weve have the sheer. Last week we heard from the administration on recommendations of advance including from the assistant secretary of preparedness and response the senators for the
The hearing today. Senator casey for serving as Ranking Member. They have both been leaders on the subject. Senator burr was the author of the pandemic and all hazards preparedness act. Ill collect all hazards preparedness act. The law helps protect us from the full range of Public Health threats from National Disasters to terror attacks. In 2013, senators burn casey by the bipartisan authorization of the pandemic and all hazards act. Many contributed including senators and sam bennett. Warren, hatch, roberts, and others. Now its to be reauthorized for a second time. Todays hearing is the second for this year. Last week we heard from the administration including from the assistant secretary, the fda and the centers for disease control. In the middle of the flu season is critical we reauthorized the act before many of the provisions expire in september. I hope will do that in a bipartisan way. People are not as aware of the devastation of the flu, and i mentioned. The figures are betwee
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We have five state Insurance Commissioners. Thank you for coming from long distances, some of you, to be with us to give your testimony on how to help the 18 million americans in the individual Insurance Market. To give an idea of how many people are interested in this, senator murray and i invited senators who were not on our committee, which has about a quarter of the senate is on this committ committee, to come to a coffee with the five commissioners that weve just completed for an hour. We had 31 senators there. Thats a remarkable level of interest. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement. Then well introduce our five witnesses. After their testimony, senators will have an opportunity to ask witnesses questions and well do it in fiveminute rounds. This includes 23 United States senators. Nearly onequarter of the members of the senate. It includes senators with the widest divergence of views. It has a republican majority of only one. Yet working together the last tw