purdue community and beyond. we wish him the very best as he begins this next chapter in his well-earned retirement. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair now recognizes the gentlelady from nevada, ms. lee, for five minutes. ms. lee: thank you, mr. speaker. today i rise to honor the life of retired chief officer daniel peterson. a champion for southern nevada's veteran community. chief peterson was a highly decorated army veteran and unrelenting advocate for those around him. after flying helicopters in the army for more than 20 years, he cage home to -- came home to serve as the commander of the henderson chapter of the military order of the purple heart, to be a member of the henderson vietnam veterans of america, and attend as many unaccompanied veteran burial ceremonies as he could find. he also went to every veteran's treatment court graduation and never hesitated to offer his support to fellow veterans in need. to be clear, it is impossible to sum up chief peterson's decades of service in just on

we talk a lot about the weight loss drugs my youngest son is a geology student at purdue. david: what do you do for relaxation, to stay in shape. you're not on one of these drugs, you look very fit, exercise a lot. >> i'm not but i would never hesitate to be on one if i needed it. but the best medicine is prevention. so you know, paying attention to exercise, something i've always cared about. it's a way i reduce stresstoo. i loved run, now i don't run any more but i do other things. i like hiking. love backcountry skiing and the outdoors. play golf. being outside is is where i find both fitness and peace. david: you've had outstanding success at eli lilly. suppose a president of the united states said you should be secretary of h.h.s. or something, what would you say? >> the company as you pointed out is really doing well. but you know, we really have a strong desire to do even more. we're just at the beginning of this weight loss story. you know. right now there's six or seven million americans who are taking these medicines. 110 million with obesity. we need to build mo

and when purdue came along with oxycontin, they did a market test to see how physician would respond to this brilliant, brand new they come up with and they discovered physicians from what are called the triplicate states were like, i'm not messing this because they have regulatory, which is going to have a record of every time write a prescription for a potentially dangerous painkiller. no way. so produce like, okay, we're going to skip california, new york, illinois and texas and we're going to spend all our time in the states that have this law on the books. so this totally obscure no one had ever heard of this triplicate. it's the most obscure little thing that's buried deep in the regulation of weed and turns out to have an enormous impact on which parts of the country got hit by the opioid crisis. and then purdue then doubles down even further and says, okay, we're going to focus our attention on the non triplicate states and then we're going to go even further. i'm going to figure out it's that not all doctors are equally to this -- message that we're peddling, which is this d

>> last month president-elect donald trump intends to nominate former republican senator david purdue to china. if confirmed purdue will succeed nicolas burns as the facilitator for what chinese president xi has described as the most important bilateral relationship in the world. joining us live from beijing is nbc news international correspondent janis mackey frayer, who spoke to ambassador burns on monday in something of an exit interview. janis, what did you learn? >> willie, ever the career diplomat, ambassador nicolas burns is very careful in his phrasing. it's been a necessary skill here in dealing with chinese officials, as he saw u.s.-china relations hit historic lows. every meeting for him has been intense. i sat down him for a wide-ranging interview at the embassy earlier this week to assess where things are at as he leaves china after nearly three years on the job. he says the relationship is more stable than it was, say, the monday morning after the balloon crisis. there are now official talks on issues like fentanyl cooperation, climate and between militaries, but the peo

. >> the labor department released jobs numbers for december, showing growth of 200 purdue 6000 jobse final month of 2024, up from 212,000 jobs in november. the u.s. also registered a december unemployment rate of 4.1%, and slight drop from 4.2% the previous month and matching the october unemployment rate. the labor department's figures showed continue job growth in health care, government, and retail. >> witness democracy unfiltered with c-span. experience history as it unfolds with c-span's live coverage this month as republicans take control of chambers of commerce -- of congress and a new chapter begins with the swearing in of the united states on monday, january 20. tune in for all-day coverage of the presidential inauguration us donald trump takes the oath of office, becoming president of the united states. stay with c-span this month for comprehensive, life, unfiltered coverage of the hundred 19 congress and the presidential inauguration. c-span -- democracy unfiltered. >> c-span -- markers a unfiltered. we are funded by these television companies and more, including comcast.

mcmahon: about a month ago i spent a day on the road with secretary purdue in his r.v. now, that's an experience in and of itself. it was just a small r.v. we had an opportunity -- and we were in rural ohio. and we visited, we did a town hall, we visited a couple of african americans. farms. and i listened, you know, he's so fluent in the needs and the concerns of the farming community. and i would clearly, you know, defer to him because even though farms, a lot of small farms are small businesses, i have not really addressed with the farming community per se what their issues are. from the small businesses i deal with which really come across my sphere right now, there's really more access to capital and the mentoring. >> gotcha. what about cybersecurity? i have a question here about cybersecurity. and that one of the biggest challenges to small business and of course other american business is from hacking and other i.t. or cyberissues. so what is the small business administration doing with homeland security and ear agencies to protect -- and other agencies to protec