please join me in welcoming president sylvia burwell to the podium. [applause] >> thank you for those kind words and your leadership at the american university and i also want to thank you for your advice and guidance in the first human as i joined the american university family. i want to thank the american society of ethics for bringing together such a great group of both people and speakers. if i could log one complaint about my previous job, it wasn't one but two lawyers who failed to warn me that once confirmed, all court cases switch to my name. first, the burwell family council, my husband, the second, the 44t 44th president of the ud states of america, and i'm just saying a little heads-up would have been nice. my transition to american university is interesting, exciting and challenging. i've joined a passionate campus, community and thinking, learning and doing things about the world's most interesting and important problems. and one of those, we are talking about here today. i've taken on a new title without ever having gone through a diner

you see it even in king versus burwell, the chief justice referred to it after the uarg opinion. i'll be quicker. two things on this. how major is major? how major is major? money, people, affected, what -- i threw out some things in a dissent i wrote last year. i think it was last year. that should be considered. but that's an important debate. some rules are obviously major under any conception, including the one i was writing about at the time, in my view. so that's one issue that is difficult with the major rules doctrine. but that is a piece of the nondelegation story. the nondelegation doctrine does not, under current supreme court precedent, have much teeth. but the major question doctrine is an important cabining of broad delegations in a way that i think is putting the brakes on some of what some agencies have done with somewhat limited and vague delegations to issue massive rules. >> so there's a certain popular perception that the other branches of government, executive and legislative branches, will sort of do what they want to do and let the courts figure it out and

the former hhs secretary sylvia burwell in california congressman on the health care system. after that, james mattis and rex tillerson on the authorization to use military force. later, a discussion on the trump administration. >> next, officials from twitter, facebook and twitter. the topics included russian use of false advertising and micro- targeting. and suggestions for regulation of political advertising on the web. the subcommittee hearing is three hours. no one know. >> thank you. the subcommittee will come to order. i'll make an opening statement. i think if senator grassley comes he will be allowed to do so. the title is extremist content in russia disinformation online. working to find solution. that's what we want to do. we here to try to find solutions. i want to describe the challenge. i doubt if i would be here if it were base for social media. president trump told fox news. this is the president say that from his point of view, social media was an invaluable tool to help them win. i would daresay everyone uses your service not only to the user, the millions o

it is, i think, one of the great legacies of secretary burwell's tenure, the alternative payment models that we have out there and i'd like to keep driving that forward. that was that third leg of my priority, if i am confirmed as secretary. i just, i think for those of us who care so deeply about improving quality or reducing costs in our health care system, improving integration, coordination, just thinking of ways we can deliver better for our patients than our beneficiaries, there's just so much opportunity for bipartisanship here because we share so much of the same goals on this, and what we have is-- in medicare, it's a central role. it's the only payer, that sits there with enough consolation of lives to change the system. >> correct. >> i think, you know, united health care, as big as it is, i don't think there's a market maybe that has more than a couple of percent of patients, it has to follow what medicare does. i would be so excited to work with you on-- >> i'm going to invite you to rhode island and see this. >> i would love to do that. >> and i look forward to that visit.