and up until the introduction of h.r. 5247. the aim was to open the door to innovative experimental drugs for terminally ill patients without necessarily compromising the vital work and the mission of the food and drug administration. the current compassionate use program at the food and drug administration does make a

drugs. it requires sponsors and manufacturers to report adverse events to the food and drug administration and provide certain liability protections for parties participating in the new pathway. mr. speaker, this alternative pathway would also be limited to individuals who are suffering from a disease or condition where there is a reasonable likelihood of death thin a matter of months or significant irreversible morbidity who have exhausted all f.d.a.-approved treatment options. lastly, it is essential we do not create additional hurdles in this process so that manufacturers in the drug approval process have the certainty that they need. the revised right to try bill clearly states that the secretary of the department of health and human services may not use a clinical outcome associated with the use of an eligible investigational drug to delay or adversely affect review or approval of such a drug. after months of work and thoughtful discussions, this legislation is a positive step forward and our shared goal of improving care for america's patients. it strikes the proper balance between ensur

drugs. it requires sponsors and manufacturers to report adverse events to the food and drug administration and provide certain liability protections for parties participating in the new pathway. mr. speaker, this alternative pathway would also be limited to individuals who are suffering from a disease or condition where there is a reasonable likelihood of death thin a matter of months or significant irreversible morbidity who have exhausted all f.d.a.-approved treatment options. lastly, it is essential we do not create additional hurdles in this process so that manufacturers in the drug approval process have the certainty that they need. the revised right to try bill clearly states that the secretary of the department of health and human services may not use a clinical outcome associated with the use of an eligible investigational drug to delay or adversely affect review or approval of such a drug. after months of work and thoughtful discussions, this legislation is a positive step forward and our shared goal of improving care for america's patients. it strikes the proper balance between ensur

we heard from the commissioner of the food and drug administration during that hearing. we heard from a number of patient groups and stakeholders who felt that it was in fact in their best interest for us to advance legislation. currently, the food and drug administration conducts an expanded access program aimed at helping patients who do not qualify for clinical trials to gain access to therapies that the agency has yet to approve. while this program makes a good faith effort to help those patients, right to try would create an alternative pathway for those individuals, allowing them to access eligible investigational drugs. the fact is individuals may not qualify for a clinical trial if they do not meet very specific patient inclusion criteria which may include factors such as age, gender, type and stage of disease, previous treatment history, and other medical conditions. there are also many patients for whom participation in a clinical trial is not feasible, especially those who live in rural areas, far from where those academic clinical trial sites exist. most, if n

because it actually creates a dangerous back door around the food and drug administration approval process and ignores that there is a safe pathway for terminally ill patients to get the treatment that they need. but this bill denies patients what they really need, which is safe and effective treatments. this bill strips away important safeguards in the name of helping patients. but it is not patient friendly and that is why 78 patients and doctor groups, like the american cancer society, the national brain tumor society, the leukemia and lymphoma society, the vietnam veterans of america are all opposed to this legislation -- america, are all opposed to this legislation. i ask unanimous consent to put this five-page list of the opposing groups into the record, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. schakowsky: it opens the door for bad actors to take advantage of terminally ill patients. it is the f.d.a.'s jobs to ensure that drugs are safe and effective. we can't trust manufacturers to act as a gate keeper. and the important thing to know is there is already a safe p

the food and drug administration polices shrimp imports. five point five billion pounds of seafood is imported into the united states every year and much of it ends up in a cold storage facility like this one in southern california but only a tiny fraction of all of that seafood is actually inspected so we've come here today to find out exactly how the f.d.a. does. emily morrison is a veteran f.d.a. inspector collected one subsample out of fifteen brando boxes and now i'm in the process of bagging them. put them in coolers. and ship it to the lab a computer system red flags imports believed to pose the greatest risk based on country of origin and the company's past history of violations seafood by nature is a high risk commodity dance elise has inspections at the ports of los angeles so there are many boxes here and they're all packed full what percentage of the sample gets chosen to be taken to the lab so f.d.a. reviews all electronic transmissions and the utilize things like foreign inspection domestic inspection whether it was sample than

food and drug administration is threatening to take buy a product off the shelves of a quality control issues and bracks it could force pharma firms to do the splits in the europe doubling up on regulatory approval on both sides of the channel. buyers executives putting on a brave face at the results press conference but perhaps they have at least one reason to be cheerful sources quoted by news agency reuters say the e.u. will soon approve the month santo deal still analysts putting by under the microscope expect the life science companies of the headaches of twenty seventeen to continue this year and it looks like selling toys isn't exactly child's play following the collapse of toys r us in the usa now it looks like the same will play out in the u.k. administrators say they've got managed or they haven't managed to find a buyer and so they'll begin winding up british stores in the coming weeks up to three thousand two hundred workers are affected. only one hundred five of the toys are stores in the u.k. are open but their days are numbered the livelihoods of thousands of workers han

in promotingiduals consumer regulations, better safety for americans area we have the food and drug administration. and americans deceased from inadequate warnings. could he have drawn this cartoon today? i will ask you to be the judge. mr. bloch had suffered a heart attack in 1959 and quit smoking. he never gave up fighting about cigarettes after that. he hated what the industry was doing. here he showed the federal trade commission valiantly. give more controls of what they can say. to protect consumers. most people remember ralph nader . in 1957 he took on the meat industry. in order to have stricter regulations about what it is what went into process foods -- about what went into processed foods. upton sinclair and ralph nader were both brought to washington and offered an award by president johnson in improving consumer safety and food products. 1967 that issues in 's attentionrb block was overcharging americans for drugs. not everybody was treated the same. some markets, more heavily populated markets come up -- markets, pay less. inadequacyouble --ated to how people the captain's look at al

we have the food and drug administration with a pharmaceutical industry and americans deceased from inadequate warnings. could he have drawn this cartoon today? perhaps i'll let you be the judge. mr. block has suffered a heart attack in 1959 and quit smoking. he never gave up fighting about cigarettes after that. he hated cigarette smoking. he hated what the cigarette industry was doing to people to encourage them to smoke. here he's showing the federal trade commission attempting to fight advertisers in order to give more control over what they could say. more truth in advertising about what was in the products that people were smoking to protect consumers. most people remember ralph nader. he in 1967 he took on the meat industry in order to have stricter regulations about what went into processed foods to make them safer for consumers to eat. this cartoon reminds me of sinclair who exposed anticipated meat in his book "the jungle" in 1906. they were both brought to washington and offered award by president johnson for their work in improving consumer safety in food products. one of issues in

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. >>> the food and drug administration has approved a mail-in home test for breast cancer. 23 and meill offer the test for $199. it detects just three of 1,000 mutations in breast cancer genes. women who have the mutations have a 45 to 85% of developing breast cancer. you might recall angelina jolie documented her double mastectomy in "the new york times" after testing positive for a similar mutation. 23 and me plans to offer tests for other harmful mutations in the future. >>> fico reports that debit card fraud was up 10 prs last year. less less than the rise in 2016 but still concerning. fico says the number of hacked atms and merchant card readers raised. they advise you to stay away from an atm where it doesn't look quite right or the card doesn't enter the machine smoothly and to check transactions on your accounts frequently. >>> it's a final day of burgers and beer for the menlo park pub. it's scheduled to close today after more than 60 years. the owners say they were unable to negotiate a reasonable lease so they are turning off the grills. according to an online petition to

. >>> the food and drug administration approved the first at home test to identify gene mutations in type of breast cancer. the test is sold by the genetic testing company 23andme. using data gathered from saliva samples, the company can provide genetic risk information to patients. it's most common among east european jewish descent. >>> and mcdonald's has started serving quarterbacks with fresh beef instead of frozen. so far the fresh quarter pounders are available in about a quarter of its u.s. restaurants. most u.s. mcdonald's will have the fresh beef by may. anne-marie. >> diane king hall at the new york stock exchange. thank you so much, diane. >> thank you. >>> still ahead, bridging the generation gap. how residents of one retirement home are benefittingfrom some youthful energy. and if you have heart failure, entrusting your heart to entresto may help. entresto is a heart failure medicine that helps improve your heart's ability to pump blood to the body. in the largest heart failure study ever, entresto was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital

particularity that has been done in the past year, whether it's energy, the internet, food and drug administration, real good stuff has been done. taxes are a regulation. $2 trillion it costs this economy per year. 90% of them are useless, or constrict freedoms. they have done good things on that. ,he judges and the tax bill it's not the flat tax or no tax, but it's progress. which in washington is miraculous. one thing they should do is taxes,- emphasize on this is the first of more to come. the other thing they should do is take the congressional budget law office which says taxes don't -- tax cuts don't do much for the economy, and perhaps send it on a long-term sabbatical to north korea. get it out of the way. [applause] predict what's going to happen in the next 10 years from tax cuts or deregulation or some spending bill, they would not be working for the cbo. they would be buying lottery tickets. more about the future from reading a daily for a script than from the congressional budget office. horoscope than from the congressional budget office. [applause] >> does the cbo still use static s

the food and drug administration is so thoroughly bought off it wouldn't surprise me if they just replaced the top of the food pyramid with krispy kreme donut you know catchphrase. catchphrase g.m. oh my god that's delicious i. try to try to do apple growing past a cider it's to listen to this is great for the kids to snort if they're looking to have a more acute sense of dizziness. number seven three american billionaires are now worth the same as the bottom half over one hundred fifty million americans if it's only three. i think we can take them i really do was a coup was ok. i don't think. he would have been billionaires and bezos had been doing a little lifting i wasn't sure i wasn't sure. but now that it's down to three like one hundred million of us go at the knees all right and then like fifty million dollars it's yes right you can do it. number as a political driver e politicians spend much of their time fund raising which is to say seeking bribes all american politicians are basically on the take and it is the thing i would say that's a bad thing but anything that distracts these

food and drug administration center for food safety and applied nutrition. usda economic research service. the national quorum school network. northeastern university. partnership for food safety education, nsf international and self-help credit union. we also have a table for general information if anyone has reports, brochures or handout. you can use that table. for those of you interested in continuing education or professional development credits, you can pick up your certificate at the conclusion of the program tomorrow at the registration tables. i would like to take a minute to thank our sponsors listed on the back of your program here. we are very grateful to our sponsors for their support. these companies and organizations recognized the importance of supporting an event like this where we can foster an open and vigorous exchange of ideas on important food policy topics. thanks to all of our sponsors listed here. in particular i would like to thank our underwriters and there's, beef products inc., dow, dupont agricultural division, general mills, mo

the food and drug administration which regulates tobacco is still reviewing vaporing regulations travis padgett has been smoking since high school today he veeps to cut down on tobacco use for me it was you know it was just kind of sort of i was like a different you when you're getting now a microbiology major at u.c. riverside travis is babying for science participating in a study that measures his intake puff duration volume and frequency when you get out of here we're going to have a science degree why not wait for science why now before we know if it's safe i mean it's either a vapor a smoke cigarettes and we already know cigarettes are bad so roll the dice exactly it's a roll of the dice so. that people that are choosing a thing over conventional cigarettes are choosing the unknown over the know and they know that conventional cigarettes and give them cancer there's a chance that it's better and so they're rolling the dice with that but they're still gambling with their own how and sometimes adults are making more informed decisions with and you have all these kids well absolutely

whether it's energy, the internet, the food and drug administration, real good stuff has been done. and taxes are a regulation. you know the numbers. $2 trillion it cost this economy a year. 90% of them are useless or constrict our freedoms and constrict the growth of this country. so they have done good things on that. and the judges and the tax bill, it's not the flat tax or no tax, but it was some progress, which in washington is miraculous. but one thing they should do is emphasis, by the way, taxes i can't say this enough, they should say this is the first of more to come. and the other thing they should do is take the congressional budget office, which says taxes cuts don't do much for the economy, and perhaps send it on a long-term sabbatical to north korea, just get it tout of the way and cut the taxes. because if the cbo could actually predict what's going to happen in the next ten years from tax cuts or deregulation or some spending bill, they would not be working for the cbo. they would be buying lottery tickets. and you'll learn more about the few if you're from daily who

the food and drug administration is told thoroughly bought off it wouldn't surprise me if they just replaced the top of the food pyramid with krispy kreme donut. catchphrase. catchphrase g.m. oh my god that's delicious ok try try to do apple drink past a cider it's to listen to this is great for the kids to snort if they're looking to have a more acute sense of dizziness. number seven three american billionaires are now worth the same as the bottom half over one hundred fifty million americans if it's only three. i think we can take them i really do was a god yet thank you thank you thank you thank you would have been billionaires and bezos have been doing a little lifting i wasn't sure i wasn't sure. but now that it's down to three like one hundred million of us go at the knees all right and then like fifty million dollars that shaft can do it. number as a political bribery politicians spend much of their time fund raising which is to say seeking bribes all american politicians are basically on the take and it is the thing i would say that's a bad thing but anything that distracts these ass

that is why i am pleased to announce today that the food and drug administration is going to expand access to medication assisted treatment across america. it is four manufacturers who are trying to develop new formulations of bupomorphine. and as you know, it was the first injection approved which is a a depot injection. that makes it easier to make it a shot once a month rather than everyday. but they also can be more feasible in the rural settings where the opioid crisis has hit especially hard and the treatment options can be especially sparse. fda's guidance is going to help clarify what kind of evidence is needed to gain approval for new depot forums of the medicine and such as data of how quickly it is distributed in the bloodstream. and the second set of guidelines are to encourage more flexible and creative designs of the medically assisted therapy studies. the guidance is going to correct that patients must achieve total abstinence in order for it to be effective. researcher researchers will be invited to the develop new formulations rather than patterns of drug use, they might l

the food and drug administration is so thoroughly bought off it wouldn't surprise me if they just replaced the top of the food pyramid with krispy kreme donut you know catchphrase. catchphrase g.m. oh my god that's delicious i. try to try to do apple growing past a cider it's to listen to this is great for the kids to snort if they're looking to have a more acute sense of dizziness. number seven three american billionaires are now worth the same as the bottom half over one hundred fifty million americans if it's only three. i think we can take them i really do was a god yet thank you. i thank god he would have been billionaires and bezos had been doing a little lifting i wasn't sure i wasn't sure. but now that it's down to three like one hundred million of us go at the knees all right and then like fifty million dollars each yes you can do it. number as a political bribery politicians spend much of their time fund raising which is to say seeking bribes all american politicians are basically on the take and it is the thing i would say that's a bad thing but anything that distracts these ask

because it actually creates a dangerous back door around the food and drug administration approval process and ignores that there is a safe pathway for terminally ill patients to get the treatment that they need. but this bill denies patients what they really need, which is safe and effective treatments. this bill strips away important safeguards in the name of helping patients. but it is not patient friendly and that is why 78 patients and doctor groups, like the american cancer society, the national brain tumor society, the leukemia and lymphoma society, the vietnam veterans of america are all opposed to this legislation -- america, are all opposed to this legislation. i ask unanimous consent to put this five-page list of the opposing groups into the record, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. schakowsky: it opens the door for bad actors to take advantage of terminally ill patients. it is the f.d.a.'s jobs to ensure that drugs are safe and effective. we can't trust manufacturers to act as a gate keeper. and the important thing to know is there is already a safe p

today the food and drug administration gave if and me the okay to sell a test directly to consumers.detects a breast cancer gene. we're joined by the legal officer from 23 and me. >> thank you for having us. >> how does the test work? >> so this is a apology know typing -- genome typing test. it gives you information about certain genetic health risks and with today's authorization from the fda, we're able to report the mutations to our consumers who may want that information to better understand their potential risk for this type of cancer. >> when someone gets the test, how do they take it? >> great question. it's an easy saliva test. we send you a kit. you're showing it on the screen. you spit in the tube and it's processed through a laboratory. and then we return the information to you through your account online. >> and approximately how long before you get the results returned to you? >> it takes about four to six weeks from when you send your sample back in. >> what is is it cost of something like this? >> the cost of the health and ancestry product is $199. >> the fda says th

the meantime the food and drug administration approved a mail in home test for breast cancer process mountain have you the company 23 and me that company will offer the test for $199. it detectors 3 of one thousand mutations in cancer genes. women with the mutation haves a 45% to 85% kmans of developing the cans err. she documented her double mastectomy in the "new york times" after having a similar mutation. >>> all right. let's turn attention now to the weather as we hit midweek. and it really is starting to feel more like spring out there. >> we have the spring showers on the way. drew tuma standing by with the forecast. >> you know what tomorrow once again you'll have the mild air in place. nt as bright as today was. then we track showers late at night live doppler 7 with satellite out there today we have the cloud cover steadily increasing from west to east fashion. but for the time being live doppler 7, it's dry. we'll show you picture a live look from the camera. pointed at jefferson park in san francisco where the temperatures mied enough to get a soccer game on the field. bu

bill that would allow those who are tomorrowally ill to try medication not yet abride the food and drug administration. votes coming up this afternoon, live coverage of the house here on c-span. we also may hear more on the floor of the house about the process forward on the omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2018. here's more from a capitol hill reporter. we understand the omnibus is ready to be released. what kind of pressure is congress under? guest: the stopgap spending bill expired on -- expires on friday at midnight. if they can't pass the omnibus before then or another stopgap spending bill which would be our soisket fiscal year 2018 which began act on october 1, we'll have our third partial government shutdown of fiscal 2018. host: you tweeted earlier about what we're seing so far, the bills not yet come out but what we're seing so far in this omnibus spending package, saying that includes the background check measure, the fix nix package that is working its way -- the fix nics package that is working its way through the senate,

food and drug administration center for food safety and applied nutrition. usda economic research service, the national farm to school network, northeastern university, the partnership for food safety education nsf international and self-help credit union. we also have a table for general information if anyone has reports, brochures or handouts you like to make available, you can use that general table. for those of you who are interested in continuing education or professional development credits, , you can pick up your certificate at the conclusion of the program tomorrow at the registration tables. so it's like to take a minute to thank our sponsors. there are listed on the back of your program. we are very grateful to our sponsors, for their support. these companies and organizations recognize the importance of supporting an event like this where we can foster and open and vigorous exchange of ideas on important food policy topics. so thanks to all of our sponsors listed here come in particular i like to think our underwriters and benefactors, cargill in

this one will hear from food and drug administration commissioner scott gottlieb and later in the day nutrition experts, agriculture reporters, representatives of farmers and state officials will address the gathering. this is live coverage on c-span2 and it should get underway here in just a minute. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good morning. i see we have

we also highlighted two forthcoming food and drug administration guidances that will expand and accelerate medication assisted treatment. one of them will help the development of long acting depot formulations like the monthly shot that was approved this past fall. and one that will open up new ways of assessing medically assisted treatment effectiveness by looking at metrics other than complete abstinence. so alternative endpoints. on recovery, this year and last, we are issuing $500 million in targeted response grants to state governments, which cover prevention and treatment but also recovery supports. these supports are a key piece of successful treatment, including medically assisted treatment. to support that, we announced a new method of technical assistance to use more expertise to provide technical assistance , rathers and grantees than a one-size-fits-all approach from washington. the president's budget also proposes doubling these state grants to $1 billion a year as part of an historic $13 billion package in proposed funding for this crisis. that's just a small sample of the wo

department of treasury, the bureau of industry and security at the department of commerce, food and drug administration and the consumer production safety commission. quite the list of accolades. something to aspire to. prior to entering private practice, miss ski ara served with the office of the united states trade representative in washington, d.c., while in that position she worked in the negotiation and implementation of the north american free trade agreement particularly with respect to services, investment and dispute settlement obligations. she also served as legal counsel during the negotiation of the general agreement on trade services and participated in the drafting of the uruguay round implementing bill. prior to her work at ustr, miss sciara was a trial attorney with the department of justice in the civil division. she represented the u.s. government in countervailing duty laws, custom matters and government contracts. she regularly briefed and argued cases before the u.s. court of international trade, the u.s. court of federal claims and the u.s. court of appeals for the federal circuit

. >>> the food and drug administration approved a fail-in test for breast cancer.r $199. it detects 3 of 1,000 mutations in breast cancer genes. women who have the genes have a ha to 85% chance of developing breast cancer. you might recall angelina jolie documented her mast tekt tomo owe. >>> fico reports that debit card fraud was up last year. that is less than the 70% rise we saw in 2016, but it is sill concerning. fico says the number of hacked atms and merchant card readers also rose in 2017. fico advises you to stay away from at ms that look odd to you or where your card doesn't epter the machine smoothly. check transactions on your accounts frequently, also. >>> all right. we're looking pretty good this morning for the wednesday morning commute. we did just get word of a new crash within the bay bridge toll plaza. haven't spotted it yet on the traffic camera. it's in lane 2. we've got a couple vehicles stopped there who collided into each other. i'm working to get more details how close it is to the toll plaza or if it's further into the maze. a quick look at

the food and drug administration took a first step today to lower nicotine levels in cigarettes, making them less addictive. the regulatory process is expected to takeeveral years. it's all part of a major anti- smoking initiative launched last summer.to the goal iut the rate of smoking among americans and prevent tobahso- related de about 15% of american adults rrently smoke and, on wall street, the dow jones industrial avege gained 115 pointso close at 24,873. the nasdaq fell 15 points, and the s&p 500 slippetwo. still to come on the newshour: unpacking the new u.s. sanctions ainst russia. turmoil at the top of the veterans affairs department. a tinderbox in the middle east. the htential for conflict wit israel, hezbollah and its syrian and iranian allies, plus, much more. >> woodruff: we return to thead trumnistration's sanctions on russia announced today. t and why say about washington's relationship with moscow.mc michaeul was u.s. ambassador to russia during the obama administration and is now at stanford university his latest book is "from cold war to hot peace: am american ambas

forms of medicare and medicaid, but to our world-class biotech firms and regulators of the food and drug administration. the emergence of treatment, including preventive treatment on genetic information or even alteration of genetic has sparked the movement called precision medicine. yet as promising firms were making the most progress has sparked the movementagainst superbugs. do we want to have our cake andeat it too? is that ever possible? our speakers today are the two the well-versed issues on health care discussion. the senior vice president of eli company to treat and cardiovascular diseases. she is joined to the far right by dr. tom coburn, former u.s. senator from oklahoma and fellow here at the manhattan institute. dr. coburndr. coburn is himselfa physician and cancer survivor. while in the senate, he authored legislation to renewing reform federally supported aids care treatment programs. in his hometown of muskogee, oklahoma, dr. coburn practiced family medicine. we are fortunate to have to lead the discussion dan goldberg, senior reporter at politico, with a focus on hospitals and health c

they are taking a brief break right now, but we've heard this morning from food and drug administrationcommissioner scott gottlieb and coming up later today nutrition experts, agricultural reporters and representatives of farmers and state officials will be addressing the gathering and we'll continue our live coverage after the break here on c-span2. c-span, where history infolds daily. in 1979 c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and today, we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. provider. >> up next, a discussion on how states can have an independent, nonpartisan redistricting process. representative rod bloom of iowa and alan lowenthal of california join the common cause for the event. this is juster

. >>> the food and drug administration announced an historic plan to regulate the amount of nicotine permitted in cigarettes. they have not decided how much it will reduce the addictive substance. the aim is to reduce nearly 500,000 americans who are killed by tobacco products every single year. >>> and just moments ago, the stock market opened. and as you can see, they're up just a bit. it has been widely reported that the chaos inside president trump's white house is speculation of more departures from the west wing has been causing some volatility. we have been an extraordinary tear. we still are. it's been a bull run, super charged by tax cuts, by deregulation. in large part, the markets have ignored a lot of president trump's rhetoric which often gets talk back. they have ignored chaos in the white house. in the last couple of days, i'm reading a lot of wall street commentary, saying maybe the noise out of the white house, the revolving door, is simply getting too loud. and maybe the president is looking to change some position, in that white house because he wants trump loyalis

finally, the honorable scott gottlieb serves as a commissioner for the us food and drug administration. i want to thank you each for being here. this is a very important topic and we look forward to having this discussion today. are you each aware that the committee is holding an investigative hearing and when so doing we have the practices taking testimony under oath but does anyone have an objection to testifying under oath? none, the chair then advises you that under the rules of house and the rules the committee you are entitled to be accompanied by counsel. do any of you desire to be complete by counsel for the purposes of today's hearing? see none, i in that case if you would please rise. raise your right hand i will spare you in. do you swear that the testimony were about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? you may be seated. you are now under oath and subject to the penalties set forth in title 18, section 1001 of the united states code. you may now each give a five-minute summary of your written statement and we will begin with the doctor and you a

thing they have done in this administration, every president with talking about deregulation and this is the first want to do it whether it is energy, the internet, food and druginistration, real good stuff has been done. taxes are a regulation. on the numbers, to train dollars across the economy in a year. 90 percent of them are useless. for constrict our freedoms and constrict the growth of the country. so they have done good things on that. and the judges and the tax bill, it is not the flat tax or no tax but there was some progress which washington is miraculous. but one thing they should do is emphasize on taxes, i can't say this enough, they should say this is the first of more to come. the other thing that they should do the congressional budget office is taxes, tax cuts don't do much good economy perhaps perhaps in a long-term sabbatical to north korea can get out of the way. [applause] because if they can actually predict what's going to happen in the next 10 years from tax cuts or deregulation or some spending bill, they would not be working for the cbo. they will be buying lottery tickets. and you learn more about the future from reading a daily hor