ms. burnette: they did an open lung biopsy. it explained how they needed to treat it and what doctors i needed to see. mr. pitts: -- mr. green:? they are treating the whole person ms. burnette: i have a primary doctor and they send me two different doctors for the different diseases i have. mr. green: do you think your condition would be worse? ms. burnette: i believe it would be terribly worse. i was not able to hold a conversation without the program providing me with the medications i needed. mr. green: dr. udasin, why does this cohort of patients need to specialized care provided at the centers of excellence? dr. udasin: we have people with rare conditions like david that need specialist help. we have been able to use our best university resources to get people that have seen many abnormalities on things like cat scans to get patients like the gentleman i mentioned to have the cancer removed. really have someone who looks at the whole person and actually treats all the illnesses that you are subject to. thank you. mr. pitts

ms. burnett thank you for your superb public service, and we certainly honor that public service. ms. nett what position did you play in basketball when you played basketball? >> point guard. >> point guard. i was 5'8", so i never played played basketball. mr. chairman, i have a letter from i think 38 members of the new york and new jersey delegation to speaker boehner and leader pelosi requesting early passage of this bill. i would request that it be submitted for the record. >> gentlemen seeks unanimous consent to put in the record without objection, so ordered. >> thank you. and i yield back seven seconds. >> chair, thank you gentlemen. recognizes the ranking member mr. palone, five minutes for questioning. >> thank you, chairman. doctor, i wanted to get into try to have you explain, if you will, the importance of not only the rutgers center but the center centers in regard to the research and the research component and i want to emphasize if you can how you are developing diagnosis and treatment of disorders that you know people might not even be aware of and how that research and

ms. burnette commit thank you for superb public service. ms. burnette what position did you play basketball? >> point guard. >> i was five-foot eight so i never played basketball. mr. chairman, i have a letter from 38 members of the new york and new jersey delegation to speaker boehner and leader pelosi requesting early passage of the bill. i would request it be submitted for the record. >> the gentleman seeking unanimous consent to put in the record without objection so ordered. >> i yelled back seven seconds. >> we now recognize the ranking member of the full committee mr. pallone five minutes for questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. udasin, i wanted to have you explain if you will the importance of not only the rutgers center but all of the signers that are part of the world trade program in terms of research because there's an extensive research component. i want to emphasize if you can how you are developing diagnosis and treatment of disorders that people might not even be aware of and how that research and the uniqueness of the cent

ms. burnett >> good afternoon commissioner scott bordick deputies either directive in georgia for composition manager. you have before you the monthly activity report. rapid it take any questions back there will be a committee meeting next wednesday the 17th beginning at a special time 2 pm. >> i will state before the budget committee this morning and we are sort of finalizing the evidence in the deferred comp program and between may of 2014 and may of this year is increased active participants by over 1400 folks just significant when the total active contributors are 15,000 anything more significant in that it is a voluntary program and they are still a high level of cost sharing on the pension side, so i was in preparing this material was happy to see that and wanted to report that out back we do not often see a one-year comparison that added over 1400 active contributors. it significant, i believe mack >> on our deferred competition committee meeting just to give you heads up on debbie sql 2 things. first is for those with gilmore get it has been several months since we past the change. ha

ms. burnette for five minutes for your opening statement. >> subcommittee, ranking member grana members ofhe subcommittee on health for inviting me to appear before you today. i name is barbara burnett in bayside, new york. i'm 52 years old i'm a wife, mother and grandmother. with me if my husband and my son. i am a proud former new york city police detective. i retired from the department after 18 and a half years of service. my career came to an end because of an illness that develops the time i served at the world trade centers had appeared i search for more than three weeks about 23 days in total. the morning of september 11th 2001 as working in brooklyn, new york when my fellow officers and i've learned the morning of the terrorist attacks in new york city we rushed to lower manhattan the fastest way possible which was a bow. when we arrived the towers had collapsed. the air was thick with dust and smoke. i put my hands over my mouth in mr. breeze. my fellow officers and i worked all day and well into the night. we evacuated people around the site and directed them away from the disas

ms. burnett, would you respond to that as a patient in the w.t.c. health program. are you satisfied with your access and the care uff a received and compare before and after. >> yes, i am very satisfied with my care because in 2004 i started blacking out at work and nobody knew why. and with the regular doctors i was just being sent out for different kinds of tests. in the program they send me to one doctor who sends me to another doctor to make sure everything is covered. they schedule everything for you and i think it's very important that they follow up in what's going on and how they treat us is very well. >> thank you. my time is expired. the chair recognizes the ranking member. >> thank you, mr. chairman. from your testimony i understand you've been seeing dr. udasin since the permanent world trade center health program was established. would you explain what being able to see dr. udasin at the center. >> when i went to be dr., she would tell me go see doctors asked, why see. her knowledge and skill, what she has been able to put together, she has those tools

ms. universe pageants which are part of a joint venture between nbc and mr. trump will no longer air on nbc. he will no longer be participating in the apprentice. it is licensed through mark burnett's united artists media group and that relationship will continue. msnbc is obviously owned by nbc universal. and a new fox news poll shows that donald trump is actually in second place among republican voters, and the most recent new hampshire poll shows him in second place. joining us now, jerry reid and cynthia littleton, and maria theresa kumar and host of changing america. cynthia, this is, first of all, a show business story. it turns out that trump actually has no ownership position whatsoever in the whole which is why if they can find somebody to host that thing, mark burnett can keep it going, and that's an interesting reveal, that all he was on apprentice was a paid actor. nothing but a salary-paid actor, and he's canceled off of that and the other shows are gone, too. >> undoubtedly he had a profit participation stake. >> he had no profit participation. we found that out today. no profit participation. he was just a hired actor by mark burnett at the start of that show. >> tha