Asbestos in Johnson Johnsons talcbased baby powder. In response to the announcement, j j issued a limited recall of one lot of its talcum powder. On november 15, 2019, i sent an invitation to the ceo of Johnson Johnson, requesting that he appear before our subcommittee to discuss the Public Health concerns regarding j js baby powder. Hasdisappointed that j j refused to comply with our request. The ceo has not refrained from making multiple public statements on the topic, including authoring written statements and speaking with media outlets. He has now avoided voluntarily testified under oath before congress. In fact, this subcommittees first hearing earlier this year examined possible carcinogens in talcbased products. Johnson johnson objected to the hearing, complaining that it had not been invited to participate. An immediate in a media release, Johnson Johnson stated, the subcommittee did not hear the preponderance of evidence that supports the safety of our products. We gave the c
I welcome every day for the need to reauthorize the Compensation Fund i recognize myself for a opening statement. September 11 is one of the deadliest days with almost 3000 lives lost because the terrorist attacks in the United States on the day with casualty numbers much higher and offsite and the fact that we dont know the full casualty count almost 18 years later, thats because years after 9 11 tens of thousands of First Responders who ran towards the toxic clouds unleashed on that day as well as members of the community surrounding the crash site continue to develop cancers and other diseases that prematurely end their lives. We undermined their employment like prospects with related illnesses and many people may not even be aware of that fact we continue suffering congress and in september 11 and legislation passed in 2010. We found in law and authorized the fund for five years and congress established the original fund 11 days after 9 11 to provide compensation for those physical
Im excited to be here. Host i wanted to start, your entire story has so many emotional movements on moments. As a congressional editor and love the portion where you say people tell me on the first editor to have a baby in office but now, the first to give birth. [laughter] but it tells you the average age for a senator to give birth in office we need more women senators and younger senators. Host the passages are fantastic but i hope we can have a candid conversation what that looks like on the personal level to be a very tradition bound institution. How awkward was that . Talk me through. You use the phrase with abreast on the senate floor. [laughter] as soon as i became pregnant it was through ivf. I was trying. We began having the conversations. The senate even then with democrats in the minority we were pretty evenly divided. I knew we would need every single vote. Senate rule says i cannot take Maternity Leave i can introduce legislation or vote. I cannot even give birth in illin
For a im more a samuels and is my great pleasure to welcome you here this afternoon to the last talk in this years benjamin and Barbara Zucker lecture series. Todays speaker David Deyoung is a correspondent in the middle east where he writes for the dutch Financial Daily among other publications. For the research and writing of nazi billionaires he reported from berlin for four years before that young was a reporter at Bloomberg News in new york where he wrote about hidden wealth and in amsterdam where he wrote about european banking and finance. His work has also appeared in the New York Times the wall street journal and Bloomberg Business week, deyoung was born and raised in amsterdam and currently lives in tel aviv, nazi. Errors is his first book and many of you probably saw his really fantastic hardhitting oped in the New York Times last week. So hopefully well have time to discuss that at well as well. So a word first about how things will work today. David will speak for about 40
My great pleasure to welcome you here this afternoon to the last talk in this years benjamin and Barbara Zucker lecture series. Todays speaker David Deyoung is a correspondent in the middle east where he writes for the dutch Financial Daily among other publications. For the research and writing of nazi billionaires he reported from berlin for four years before that young was a reporter at Bloomberg News in new york where he wrote about hidden wealth and in amsterdam where he wrote about european banking and finance. His work has also appeared in the New York Times the wall street journal and Bloomberg Business week, deyoung was born and raised in amsterdam and currently lives in tel aviv, nazi. Errors is his first book and many of you probably saw his really fantastic hardhitting oped in the New York Times last week. So hopefully well have time to discuss that at well as well. So a word first about how things will work today. David will speak for about 40 minutes and then we will open