President s would weve ever had. And a grandfather, whirl wind johnson hosted a tennis camp including for Althea Gibson and arthur ashe. My grandfather, a phenomenal physician, but somehow managed to be a student of the tennis game and transform that learning into a program that would, for decades, provide players an opportunity for africanamericans to integrate the sport. Watch the cspan cities tour saturday beginning at 5 p. M. Eastern, sunday at 2 p. M. On American History tv on cspan 3. Working with our cable affiliates as we explore america. Health and Human Services secretary, alex azar spoke before the Senate Finance committee this week about the president s proposed 2019 budget. He answered questions on a range of issues, including funding for medicare and medicaid, the Opioid Epidemic, Community Based clinic training and autism and also discussed the administrations approach for lowering Health Care Costs including Prescription Drugs. Mr. Azar was sworn in as hhs secretary in
Planning and autism. He talked to senator or in chairs the committee. The committee will come to order. Before i begin i wantto discuss on behalf of the committee how we all feel. In light of yesterdays events in florida. I was personally horrified as i watched the news unfold yesterday, that though i was also moved to hear some of the stories of the heroism displayed by some of the students and teachers at the school. In times like these i know that the thoughts expressed by those of us far away can sometimes seem empty and meaningless in the face of such a terrible tragedy. I will simply say i am praying for all those affected by these acts of senselessviolence. That of course includes a member of our committee will i know is mourning the loss in his own state. May they all find peace, healing and a speedy recovery. I welcome everybody here. And todays hearing which will be our third and final hearing on the fiscal year 2019. Currently, we already have the treasury secretary and the
Listening to the jimmy door show it was an Excellent Program on Net Neutrality learned an enormous amount then ok it was probably me let me go back to you one of the things that i find really disturbing in our political discourse is that everyone if you post someone theyre a traitor they act in a treasonous way and i criticize donald trump for that and i certainly i certainly criticize and this n. B. C. And c. N. N. For peddling the same thing go ahead rob. Well one of the things that really used to infuriate me when i was a regular contributor to fox ive always been a democrat is i had people that would suddenly contact me on facebook or via twitter or they are email and say i cant believe youre a traitor and youre on fox and then i will would respond and say well how did you see me when i was on this week no i wont watch it well then how do you know what im saying or what im contributing and really as a result of fox ive met a lot of interesting conservative people that i never would
Report. Good afternoon, commissioners. The president did sign a continuing resolution for a twoyear budget framework into law and that will allow us to not have a Government Shutdown until fiscal year 2019. There are specifically in the measure the funding for extending the Childrens Health Insurance Program for an addition four years. Reauthorizing funding for more than 7 billion to Community Health centers that includes the departments dollars for homeless services. It provides 6 billion dedicated opioid treatment and Mental Health service and funding to National Institutes of health and the child Home Visiting program. We are still tracking the 340b issue as well as the fact we know potential of cuts and future cuts in Services Including in cdc, samis a, nih and other areas and keep you informed as we know. Senator scott wiener announced a new conservatorship for addiction and homelessness as part of the definitions. We hope that we are in support of this with the senator and we can
Sufficient funding we wont have to come back for an ask. It will be a process well have to work through and already started with u. C. So that process is going to be some added layers of oversight and collaborative financial management. So well be looking at enhanced process to evaluate whether those need to be refilled. Well be looking at opportunities both now and through the e. H. R. Revenue process and the fees woul offset the need for an affiliation agreement. We are going to be looking at whether theres opportunities to streamline consolidate, identify efficiency in the affiliation costs and the below the line items in the agreement. Theres layers in this but theyll be putting in plis a process well put through the next 18 months and beyond to make sure were including the same level of i guess certainly or oversight in the projections for the affiliation agreement that we are in other items were bringing before the commission and the Mayors Office and fiveyear Financial Planning