i'm fred upton. welcome to the first of what will be a number of round tables of our 21st century cure's initiative. a collaborative, bepartisan effort to names to accelerate the pace of cures of medical break-throughs in the united states. as my colleague in the video that we released last week, as part of this bipartisan initiative, we are going to spend the next number of months, 6, 9, whatever to review the fulling arc that determine what steps we need as a nation to accelerate new treatments and make sure we keep america as the innovation capitol of the world. we cannot do it alone we need the support of those here today and watching online. we are going to hold round tables in washington and perhaps around the country as well. we will solicit feed back from experts in here. we need a lot of answers and we need to listen. no idea is to too big. no idea is auto small. the only way we will akblish our goal is if work to cover this conversation. we hope to hear from you during this process. for tho

the house energy and commerce committee chairman fred upton issued the following statement regardingwo new reports by the department of health and human services officer inspector general. what he's saying is they've completely pointed to ip competence when it came to rolling out health contain.gov and other parts of obamacare. i'm surprised montana didn't have that in the top two. >> there's a long list as jessie pointed out so we have a lot of things to cover. probably couldn't get it all in their little section of the newspaper. >> those controversies to another big controversy over a very large cross. a landmark could be in jeopardy and toronto crack smoking, bad dancing -- >> i think he's a good dancer. correct that. >> he's back for fr rehab. how much did his time away from the spotlight, what did it do for his image? will he get up to his old antics again? >> he's a good dancer. your 16-year-old daughter studied day and night for her driver's test. secretly inside, you hoped she wouldn't pass. the thought of your baby girl driving around all by herself was... you just weren't

fred upton who deals with taxation issues, the irs, a little oversite there. these guys are no schmos. >> dave camp. >> i'm sorry. these are serious people, they have not been out calling for everybody's impeachment or anything like that, these are measured people who are part of the process, and they're high leadership, this is them saying, you've got to do something about this. the problems with the irs are too significant and the responsible from the administration has been inadequate, and they're not accusing them of obstructing the law, but what they're accusing them of doing is not being forthcoming and not doing what they're supposed to do, which is seek the truth. >> with the -- with benghazi, john boehner resisted and resisted and resisted having a select committee, until that one e-mail came out, that was the straw that broke the camel's back, finally he said, i give up, let's do it. is that the way the irs is likely to do? eric holder is no john boehner? no, that's fair. the -- there administration, republicans have been going broke for years, betti

i'm working on a bill with chairman fred upton, chairman of the energy commerce committee. >> republican? >> actually a republican from michigan. it's called 21st century cures. it's going to be a very big attempt to restructure our health care system. to get it to the patient as fast as we can. we've been under taking all summer and last spring, too. there are some things happening in a bipartisan way. i think there should be a lot more. with respect to question you asked about the border, i think you're right. which is why i support comprehensive immigration reform which will both give regular order to the 11 million people who are here who are not on a documented status but also will give strong border enforcement. i think both of those things are important. that's why i was very disappointed that speaker boehner decided not to bring up the comprehensive immigration bill that the senate passed on a bipartisan basis. and so that is something that i think could really help. central america throughout the spring and summer and many of them were escape iing cartel violence, servitude or w

i'm working right now, and i'm happy to talk about it, i'm working on a bill with chairman fred upton, chairman of the commerce committee, a republican. and it is called 21st century cures and it is a very big attempt to restructure our health care system -- health care research at the national institutes of health and then drug and device approval at the food and drug administration so that we can get cures from the lab right to the patient as fast as we can. and this has been a very big bipartisan effort that we've been undertaking all summer and last spring too. so there are some things happening in a bipartisan way. but i think there should be a lot more. with respect to the question, jean, that you ask about the border, i think you're right. any sovereign country has got to have a strong border. which is why i support comprehensive immigration reform that will both give regular order to the 11 million people who are here, who are not on a documented status. but will also give strong border enforcement. i think both of those things are important. and that is why i was very disappo

i'm fred upton.lcome to the first of what will be a number of round tables of our 21st century cures initiative, a collaborative, bipartisan effort that aims to accelerate the pace of cures and medical breakthroughs in the united states. as my colleague, diana degette, and i mentioned in the video that we released last week, as part of this bipartisan initiative, we are going to spend the next number of months, six, eight, nine, whatever, to review the full arc of delivery, development and delivery process to determine what steps that we need to take as a nation to accelerate new cures and treatments and insure that we keep america as the innovation capital of the world. we cannot do it alone, for sure. we need the support of and the ideas from those of you that are here today or certainly watching online. we're going to hold round tables in washington and perhaps around the country as well as we hold hearings in chairman pitts' subcommittee, and we'll solicit feedback from experts and interested par

i am working on a bill with chairman fred upton, chairman of the commerce committee, republican from michigan. the bill is called 21st century cures. it is going to be a very big attempt to restructure our health care system, health-care research at the national drugtutes of health, and and device approval at the fda so we can get yours from the lab right to the patient as fast as we can. this has been a very big bipartisan effort that we have been undertaking all summer and last spring. there are some things happening in a bipartisan way. but i think there should be a lot more. with respect to the questions that you asked about the border, i think you are right. any sovereign country has got to have a strong border, which is why i support comprehensive immigration reform that will give regular order to the 11 million people who are here who are not on a documented status but will also give stronger border enforcement. i think both of those things are important, and that is why i was very disappointed that speaker boehner decided not to bring up the comprehensive immigration bill tha