i would note the secretary of h.h.s., health and human services, secretary sebelius, most recently before this position, governor of the state of kansas for the past six years in that position and then most recently named secretary at h.h.s., i've worked with secretary sebelius over the years. through her office, they have stated they cannot basically certify the safety of these drugs. and there's a letter that's been gone over with at some depth and length from the food and drug commissioner saying they won't -- it's going to be very difficult for them to certify the safety of these drugs. and yet what the lautenberg amendment does is say okay, if you can certify safety and this is going to reduce price, then they can be admitted. that seems to make sense. that's why four times over the last ten years this body has passed a lautenberg amendment type of equivalent, and i think that's appropriate. i would also note that there is a huge industry in the united states, the pharmaceutical industry, that's quite concerned about the safety and efficacy of what this bill would do in not allowing

as you have heard from secretary clinton and sebelius and ambassador goosby we extend overseas. with the leadership of former president george w. bush members of both parties in congress and the american public including many in our audience today we have made america the world's leader in fighting the global hiv/aids pandemic. the pepfar program and other international efforts have given millions of people access to treatment services were done previously existed. and it may president obama announces the administration will build on the successes bedevilling pepfar funding over the second six years, expanding support for the treatment of neglected tropical diseases, ramping up assistance from internal chaliff khalfan importantly integrating these programs in order to better respond to the lives people live and the health challenges they face. holding the international aids conference in the united states in 2012 will give us an opportunity to reflect on our accomplishments in addressing hiv/aids but also give us an opportunity to learn from our global partners. the president is

the president went on to say that he asked secretary sebelius to move forward on demonstration projects in individual states to test ways to put patient safety first and let doctors focus on practicing medicine. let's face reality, though. there is no doubt that defensive medicine occurs. every day and that the costs to the health care system are staggering. and as i mentioned earlier, tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars are wasted of year due to the prosecute of defensive medicine. largely in an attempt to avoid frivolous, junk lawsuits. so just think of how many uninsured patients we can take care of with that money or how much cheaper premiums will be for those who currently have insurance. we must stop playing games and start doing something real to address this important health care issue. unfortunately, the underlying bill does not meaningfully address medical liability reform. it only contains a toothless sense of the senate. this sense of the senate notes that congress should consider establishing a state demonstration program -- should consider establishing a state demo

the secretary of human services, kathleen sebelius is in the cal tap for this voight. the deputy chief white house chief of staff, jim, m who has been here a lot, trying to negotiate it and through every minute of these talks, to try to bridge the democratic divide that gives me a sense of how incredibly critical this upcoming vote is. despite all of the talk, all of the votes, the rhetoric in terms of what the president really needs going forward and how close they really think they are to finally getting this, this particular senate vote we'll have much more after the break. >>> pursuant to the honest leadership act of 2007 and (announcer) some people just know how to build things well. give you and your loved ones an expertly engineered mercedes benz at the winter event going on now. but hurry - the offer ends january 4th. >> this goes back 40 or 50 years in terms of drafting and efforts that have been made to achieve what we're trying to achieve this evening. at the end of the day, however, the legislation is really about freedom from fears. as i said a moment ago.

research directors joined health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius and dr. anthony fauci who leads the national center for allergy and infectious diseases. from the national institute of health in bethesda, maryland, this is about two and a half hours. >> good morning, everyone, and welcome to nih. i am bill hall. i am with the office of public affairs at the department of health and human services. and i want to welcome you here today for this seminar on for the media and the public on new vaccine, new flu vaccine technologies. we have arranged this session today to offer the media and the public an opportunity to have a little more time to learn about the new technologies that flu vaccine technologies, that our department to a number of our agencies have been working on. as many of you have seen in the news about vaccine, h1n1 vaccine. it has been produced through our tried and true method of using eggs, which has a number of downsides to it, and so we have been working for some time now to develop new technologies, and today's event is a chance to sort of

speakers include hhs secretary kathleen sebelius and dr. anthony fauci director the national center for allergy and infectious diseases. from the national institutes of health in bethesda maryland, this is two one-half hours. >> good morning everyone, and welcome to nih. i am with the office of public affairs at the department health and human services and i want to welcome you here today for this seminar for the media and public on new vaccine, new flu vaccine technologies. we hever range this session today to offer the media and the public an opportunity to have a little more time to learn about the new technologies that flu vaccine technologies, that our departments three number of our agencies have been working on. as many of you have seen in the news about the vaccine or the age one and one vaccine, it has been produced through our tried and true method of using eggs, which has a number of down sides to it. and so we have been working for some time now to develop new technologies and today's event is a chance to sort of learn about the

not going ahead with the briefings at the very highest level with the vice president, secretary sebelius and director orszag and my question to you is, isn't this a problem of such magnitude and with our experience with h1n1 that we ought to be moving ahead properly to try to find some way to deal with vaccines should we have a bioterrorist attack? >> senator, i think that the -- first of all, on the vaccine question, we are now catching up in terms of projections and availability of vaccine. and we still to need to encourage the american public to get that h1n1 vaccine. >> but our attempts haven't been too good so far. >> it is now a very robust production schedule. and it is, like a -- we will at some point in december be at the number we predicted at the fall or the manufacturers more effectively, but the real question which is the availability domestically of a manufacturing capacity, a development capacity. an h1n1 episode reveals how useful it would be to have that capacity domestically. and the second part of your question, i think that that is an urgent issue for us with respect

[applause] i want to thank our secretary of health and human services, kathleen sebelius.our surgeon general, dr. regina benjamin. our administrator of the health resources and services administration, dr. mary wakefield, and our deputy secretary of h h.s., bill core, for being here today and for their outstanding work in supporting community health centers. there they are. regina, it's good to see you in your uniform. we've been waiting for that. i also want to thank the many members of congress who are with us today, both in the audience and up on the stage. particularly bernie sanders and representative jim clyburn. we are grateful for all -- [applause] >> and i especially want to recognize the leaders here today from health centers across the country for what all of you are doing in your communities every day, working long hours, to provide quality care at prices people can afford with the dignity and respect they deserve and in a way that takes into account the challenges they face in their lives. for you folks, health care isn't just about diagnosing patients and tre

i don't think governor sebelius is a wind. these are different from what war ii soldiers that were brought to this country, the german soldiers, many of them actually stayed here and became citizens. the issue here is -- we should not be inviting threats to the homeland. that is what i don't understand people say, we can show in our courts, we can show people we can incarcerate them. look at the shop -- case in chicago right in your backyard, between my farm in the county and chicago. where hedley and the other actually organized in the united states with connections to al qaeda the mumbai bombings in india 13 months ago to 150 people. and janet napolitano herself, pick of the head of homeland security, says al qaeda cells are everywhere in this country. then an interesting article that appeared november 29 in "the washington post" about two yemeni brothers. one has been incarcerated in gtmo for eight years, and the other one still lives in yemen. the one in yemen was says his brother, who has been here for eight years -- look

on november 19, secretary sebelius said, my message to women as simple. mammograms have always been an important lifesaving tool in the fight against breast cancer and they still are today. keep doing what you have been doing for years, takfir dr. but your individual history, ask questions and make the decision that is right for you. basically she told women to ignore the task force recommendations. the good news for women aged 40 to 49 is that they can talk to their doctors and determine whether not routine mammograms are best for them. the bad news is that if the house passed health reform bill, h.r. 3962 becomes law a woman in that age range may not be allowed to have a mammogram. the house-passed reform bill renames the u.s. preventive services task force the task force on clinical preventive services. as part of the bills essential benefits package, preventive services including those services recommended with a grade of the a or b by the task force on clinical preventive services must be covered but according to the task force's just released recomm

justice sebelius served on the court almost 25 years, and the talks about the role of the court and the3. she gives a tour of her chambers as she discusses her life before serving. see those interviews tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> it is a three-day weekend on an "book tv" starting new year's day. on "afterwards" day new york times columnist talks about five decades of women's history. the best-selling author takes your calls sunday on "in depth." find the full schedule at booktv.org. >> family friends and former colleagues of the late senator edward kennedy gathered in boston in late august for his funeral mass. in attendance were former president jimmy carter, bill clinton, and george w. bush, along with president obama who gave the eulogy. other speakers included senator kennedy's two sons, edward and patrick. musical performances were provided by a tenor and soprano. this runs one hour 40 minutes. the family, your mother, a sister everyone in the world would love to have in eugene with your devotion. dr. larry in the great team of doctors and nurses and is so many helpe

so contrary to secretary satisfy we'll yus' assertion -- secretary sebelius' assertion, if this billasses, the recommendations of the task force will become government policy. not only that, it will be force odd to private insurers as well. now, i know some may ask: senator, why so cynical, why not trust that these tools will be used only for good, to advance medical science and patient care? and to those folks, i'd like to answer you by showing you this chart over here. it's my favorite chart. dr. azekialy emanuel's complete life system. it's dr. emanuel's complete life system. now, why is that important? as many of you know, dr. emanuel is the brother of white house chief of staff rahm emanuel. he's a bioethist. he's very talented and very smart. maybe he should be the rationing czar. he's published some very disturbing ideas on how to ration care which can be summed up by this brave, new world, humpback whale graph behind me. dr. emanuel's complete lives system basically works off the premise that the older you are -- listen to this -- the older you are, the more you've lived and,

on november 19, secretary sebelius said, my message to women as simple. mammograms have always been an important lifesaving tool in the fight against breast cancer and they still are today. keep doing what you have been doing for years, takfir dr. but your individual history, ask questions and make the decision that is right for you. basically she told women to ignore the task force recommendations. the good news for women aged 40 to 49 is that they can talk to their doctors and determine whether not routine mammograms are best for them. the bad news is that if the

>> secretary sebelius has in fact, she and i talked about this yesterday, i think there is significantfocus on making sure that resources are provided to execute while on this will be a thing but let's get the legislation donner and then we will need to turn to making sure we are executing and implementing well. one of the benefits of having a lead time where the exchange operation does not begin for several years for the exit was that it gives you time to get the details right and it will be hard work you do have the time to do it. >> we hope you'll come back and talk to us about the implementation phase going forward. peter, thank you very much for joining us today. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >>> low dose radiation for mammograms or chest x rays may put some young women at increased risk of developing breast cancer a new study suggests now is one of the topics of the health subcommittee hearing. congressman franks was pallone of new jersey is the chairman. >> the meeting of the subcommittee is called to order and i will fi

in the chamber this morning health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius somewhere in the chamberight now. union, missouri, gregg, republican line. caller: i think the president of the united states and the democratic party is committing a fraud against the american people and i think america needs to wake up and they will see in six months or so what is going on with the economy and so forth. keep in mind, this is just costing us money and they don't have a clue what is going on. thank you. host: 1 state is not happy. -- or city. the mayor of new york's city, disgrace of a health care prescription for disaster. this is the senate health reform bill is packed with a bagful of coal for new york. governor paterson and mayor bloomberg said it would force the city to close 100 health clinics and below the 1 billion all and the state budget and threaten struggling hospitals, nursing homes and other facilities. that is " in your post" this morning. despite that, " the new york times" is endorsing legislation in the editorial section. a bill well worth passing as their editorial. ken on

in a written statement health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius said the guidelines had caused a great deal of confusion and worry among women and families across this country and stressed they were issued by an outside independent panel of doctors and scientists who do not set federal policy and don't determine what services are covered by the federal government. i am here to tell you today and to tell every woman in america that under this bill, h.r. 3962 which has already passed this congress, that statement will not be true. indeed, under this bill, the recommendation would become binding law. and if so, it would be devastating to access mammograms and nothing short of catastrophic for women's health in this country. in their recent report, mammograms for women aged 40 to 49 or given a grade of c. under this bill and the procedure given a grade of less than a or b cannot be covered by the public plan. so the women that my colleague worried about you have no access to care today for mammograms could not legally get mammograms once this bill becomes law. but the panel

briefings at the very th highest levels was secretary high sebelius herself and peter mysel. my question to you, isn't this a problem of such magnitude and with our ptly tonce with h1n1 we to fome waymove ahead promptly with the rori -- way to do with the vaccines to we have a buyer terrorist attack? >> senator, but i think stion of all, on the vaccine p istion, we are now catching up in terms of orojections and availability and we still need to 1ncourage the american public to get that. verow aot been too good so on schand >> but now it is a very .obust production schedule e atome point* in december will be at the number we predicted in the fall or that the manufacturers said quehich ie but the real ticallyn is the availability domestically the t capacturing capacity i think that episode reveals w useseful it would be to have that capacity domestically with the second trt of your question comes s withk that is the urgent issue with respect to other bio agents moving forward. i thinnk you. yourrrenceo have your movurrence and hope that we notherve ahead. i turn to another sub

justice sebelius served on the court almost 25 years, and the talks about the role of the court and theustices follow and reaching a decision. ruth bader ginsburg has served since 1993. she gives a tour of her chambers as she discusses her life before serving. see those interviews tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> it is a three-day weekend on an "book tv" starting new year's day. on "afterwards" day new york times columnist talks about five decades of women's history. the best-selling author takes your calls sunday on "in depth." find the full schedule at booktv.org. >> family friends and former colleagues of the late senator edward kennedy gathered in boston in late august for his funeral mass. in attendance were former president jimmy carter, bill clinton, and george w. bush, along with president obama who gave the eulogy. other speakers included senator kennedy's two sons, edward and patrick. musical performances were provided by a tenor and soprano. this runs one hour 40 minutes. the family, your mother, a sister everyone in the world would love to have in eugene with your

as the washington examiner notes, health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius would be awarded unprecedented new powers under the proposal, including the authority to decide what medical care should be covered by insurers as well as the terms and conditions of coverage and who should receive it. the reid legislation lists 1,697 times where the secretary is given the authority to create, determine, or define things in the bill. i know that my colleagues will point to language that says, well, the secretary can't make these decisions on rationing care solely on the basis of comparative-effectiveness research. whoopee. i'm not sure if that is a word we can ute on the senate floor. but big deal. you can't make it solely on the basis, but you can use comparative-effectiveness research to ration care. that's wrong. and that's what this bill permits. and despite numerous times to get a simple amendment that i've offered to say no comparative-effectiveness research can be used by a federal agency to deny care or treatment. simple. the other side says, no, we've already got it covered.

that is because health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius with be awarded unprecedented new powers under the proposal including the authority to decide what medical care should be covered by insurers as well as the terms and conditions of coverage and who should receive them. i am going to repeat that. in this bill this secretary has the authority to decide what medical care should be covered by insurers as well as the terms and conditions of coverage and who should receive it. now, we saw a precursor of that just the other day with the recommendations concerning mammograms. the board recommended that women under 50 should not get routine mammograms. well, of course, the response was incredible and justified. when all over america who are now alive today because they had mammograms prior to the age of 50. the secretary of health and human services said that would not be carried out. well, we are creating a situation where the secretary of health and human services and a board would decide that. the legislation lists 1,697 times when the secretary of health and human services

mike cash, lauren enderson, kathleen sebelius, left the governorship of kansas, has come here to be head of the health and human services agency and has done a magnificent job. jim mussina who worked with max baucus for years and has been the deputy chief of staff at the white house and done a tremendous job. phil shilera and sean moch worked to defend the administration, done a tremendous job. and dana singheiser as well for her work. we'll make these lists available for the record, madam president. but i wanted to thank these individuals again for their fine, fine work. madam president, i want to speak, if i can today about, not as my capacity as a senior member of the health, education, labor, and pensions, nor in my capacity as one of the coauthors of the underlying legislation, but rather in my capacity, as i said at the outset of these remarks, as a senator representing 3.5 million residents of the state of connecticut. the neighboring state, my good friend and colleague, the presiding officer represents new hampshire in new england. if you travel my state, madam president, you wil

and current secretary kathleen sebelius from kansas has committed to preventing a drug importation system of the united states until he can be proven that the safety standards of the imported drugs are, quote, at or above american standards, and of course. the fda doesn't believe they can get that done at this time. now many have argued that the parallel trade in europe has proven drug importation across the nation boers have resulted in prescription cost savings and is not increased risk to consumers or general public health. however, these costs and safety assertions do not correctly reflect the european experts with the drug importation through what's called parallel trade. the study by the london school of economics on drug importation are concluded that safety savings from imports from vendors that buy and resell the imported drugs and do not get passed under the patients in the form of lower prices. they say this, quote, although the overall number of parallel imports is continued to increase, health care stakeholders are realizing few of these effective savings. profits from parall

secretary sebelius has supported it, president obama supports it, broad base of support for the class act. mr. president, today we received some letters from people around the country. i don't have time to read them all, but just a couple much here's one from -- couple. here's one from arkansas. my wife has a journalism degree, cerebral palsy and brings money from state of arkansas with a stay-at-home job. she can still earn money under the class act with an assistance of an attendant rather than having to go to a nursing home. here's virginia, i don't currently need the services under the class act, but having been born with a disability, i have always been acutely aware of the possibility of serious issues downs the -- down the road. it would be a good thing for me, a 30-year-old working person to be able to put some money away. i beg my colleagues for the sake of people with disabilities in this country, let's not adopt the amendment of the republicans to take away the class act. it was senator kennedy's premier goal -- the presiding officer: the senator's time has expired. all tim