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Committee. This first portion is just under three hours. [inaudible conversations] the Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Today is a busy day. As we all know very important both will be taking place, republicans of knickers will be meeting in their caucuses so people are going to be coming in and out. I also think that this hearing is important enough that we extend the time for questioning from the usual five minutes to seven minutes, if thats okay with folks. Let me begin by welcoming the ceos of Bristol Myers squibb, chris berner, we thank you for ...

For military construction and the department of Veterans Affairs. During the last congress 3 trillion was spent outside of the normal appropriations process. As spending soared, so did inflation. There was danger, damage done to the economy and the work of the Appropriations Committee changed significantly over those two years. Thats why islanderrier this year i asked subcommittee chairs to evaluate all of the funding in the pipeline. When the president s budget finally arrived, i directed them to review each Agency Budget line by line. I want to thank the subcommittee chairs for their work to...

Buckeye, arizona, says thats rapidly changing the rate of growth. Were number one in the united states. How the desert city is balancing a growing community and its water supply amid a mega drought. Plus, nearly 17 million americans have lost medicaid benefits in the last 11 months. This is an extraordinarily complicated undertaking. We take a look at the ongoing effort to update whos enrolled in the program and whats being done to prevent people from losing health care. They still qualify for and super tuesday is fast approaching. This clerk in colorado is one of many Election Officials worki...

Buckeye, arizona, says thats rapidly changing the rate of growth. Were number one in the united states. How the desert city is balancing a growing community and its water supply amid a mega drought. Plus, nearly 17 million americans have lost medicaid benefits in the last 11 months. This is an extraordinarily complicated undertaking. We take a look at the ongoing effort to update whos enrolled in the program and whats being done to prevent people from losing health care. They still qualify for and super tuesday is fast approaching. This clerk in colorado is one of many Election Officials worki...

Thank you all very much. We have three knowledgeable guests on prescription drugs and pricing, the director to the public assistance and advocating for Strong Public Health and around the world. Members of the committee, thank you. Public citizens a Public Citizen organization, 500,000 numbers for the years advocated with success. Drug prices are high because of monopoly power leading to rationing of treatment and traffic suffering. Diabetes drugs i cant afford it with social security. Theyre trying to before, why do we have to pay so much . We are on social security, does anyone care . What y...