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Here. And for your willi in ingness t serve in this important capacity. Mr. Azar certainly has his work cut out for him. Health and Human Services is a massive, Sprawling Department that oversees trillions of dollars in spending and liabilities and encompasses all areas of our Nations Health care system. As a result, if confirmed, mr. Azars work will impact the lives of every single american. Now, thats a big job. It requires knowledge, experience, and most important, strong leadership. Fortunately, our nominee brings all of this to the table, having nearly two decades of experience in the hea...

The committee will come to order. Welcome everybody to this mornings hearing. Today the committee will consider and examine the nomination of vista alex cesar to serve as a sect of health and Human Services, one of the most aboard jobs in any government anywhere in the world. Id like to welcome mr. Azar to the finance committee this morning. Thank you for being here and for your willingness to serve in this important capacity. Mr. Azar certainly has his work cut out for him. Health and Human Services is a massive, Sprawling Department that oversees trillions of dollars in spending and liabilit...

We will have votes in a couple hours. We want to make sure we move quickly through this. Before i start, i want to acknowledge that our good friend and Ranking Member of the committee, frank palone is not with us because his father died. We keep his family in our prayers. I did not personally know his father, i know he raised a good son. So we thank him for that. We will continue on from there. Next, joined today also with my colleague who is wearing Denver Broncos orange. Congratulations for a super they must be a good team, because they beat the steelers. Now on with our hearing. Good more t...

Have had several hearings over the past several years. Just for context, i congressional career goes from sars to zika, long enough for people back on to say, term limits. On the other hand, there could be some value in seeing some of this stuff over a continuum. But, you referenced, and your testimony, about Laboratory Developed tests. Becausemes into focus, you have a primary chain reaction, and only a few places can do it. It is pretty valuable, pretty accurate. But it is hard to get. You have to go three health determined to get it. Theres my gm, antibody. It will crossreact with other vir...

So the Vice President is the only person that can cut through that, talk to the private sector and simultaneously talk to state and local governments. And put all those pieces together. Hes also the only person that can demand a unified budget out of the omb and across the government. This was a bipartisan recommendation. It was a bipartisan recommendation. I have to tell you, i hesitated, as someone who sat in a government agency, a powerful government agency, i hesitate to transfer power to a Vice President or to the white house in general. As you know, cabinet agencies have a certain amount...