one of the -- susan collins will be joining us midway through. she has targeted 2025 as a target date that she thinks an alzheimer's treatment should be targeted calling this a vital national issue and moving around. and you have a different approach sort of looking at prevention and treatment and more realistically by 2050. when you look legislatively and you talk to scientists, we had an incredible woman this morning. stacey raised $217 million in the largest biomedical first round ever. when you see that amount of money coming into the private sector, alzheimer's related research and neurodegenerative research and you look at the technology. and are we being too modest with the 2025 target? do you think ten years out we might be able to achieve more. >> it was nixon's war on cancer that we see a 1% decline in cancer mortality on an annual basis. politicians like to set target dates. it gives us some way to measure how we're doing. i think the honest answer is we just don't know. the honest answer. did you see the "fortune" magazine cover story

this is susan collins. may i ask who is calling? no, hello, chairman collins, i am from your staff. >> sand, my phone says that you are calling from the irs headquarters number, which is (202)622-5000. are you calling from the irs? >> no, senator, i'm actually over here. [laughter] >> there you have it. thank you, sam. and here is what the number would look like on a standard landline phone where you have the screen where your caller id shows up. now, the irs of course is part of the department of treasury. my staff was able to spoof that number using a free iphone app rocket in this hearing room. and looking at my phone i would have no way of knowing that it was not really the irs or the department of treasury calling me. obviously these fraudsters have no intention of following u.s. laws. in fact they may use the do not call list as a source of working numbers in their hunt for new victims here if we are going to win the fight against scammers targeting our seniors, we need to get ahead of the technology that they use to generate r

hello, this is susan collins. sam: hello, senator collins. it's sam dewey from your staff again. this isins: sam, getting old. this time, sam is pretending to be from the department of justice, and he has just demonstrated how easy it is to numbers --ple phone not just the irs, the department of justice and virtually any ,ther official sounding number and he has also demonstrated just how annoying these repeated calls can be to the consumer. so, sam, i'm turning off my ringer now. this is a serious problem. it would be one thing if the real number were showing up on the hardline id screen. then callers might have some chance of detecting themselves -- protecting themselves by simply not answering the phone, we haved that -- as advised in many of our hearings, but when you see the irs or the local police department's number upthe f dei's number showing on your screen, you are going to .nswer that call i wish that senator mccaskill were here right now. she will be coming -- ms. mccaskill: i'm here. ms. collins: you managed to miss my very exciting opening statement, which had two s

susan collins chairs this special committee hearing. >> this hearing will come to order. good afternoon. this afternoon's hearing will explore the potentials of new technology to help seniors age safely and to retain their independence. the u.s. population is aging and according to a census bureau projection, 21% of our population will be age 65 and older by the year 2040 and that is up from just under 14% in 2012. every day 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 years old and as many as 90% of them have one or more chronic health condition. americans aged 85 and older, the oldest, are the fastest-growing segment of our population. this is the very population that is most at risk of multiple and interacting health problems that can lead to disability and the need for long-term care. and at the very time that our population is growing older and need for care and support is increasing. the population of professional and informal caregivers is, however, declining. today there are seven potential caregivers for each person over age 80 years old at the highest risk of requiring long-term

there is focus convincing those republicans like senator susan collins of maine and others to lobby more conservative democrats like senators bob casey and joe manchin. there is separate effort in the house aimed suspending any federal funding to planned parenthood while congress investigates there. are at least two committees already commit toed those investigations. we'll watch for the first vote in the senate tonight jon. jon: we'll watch it indeed. shannon bream in washington. thank you shannon. jenna: manhunt in memphis is ongoing right now for the suspect in the deadly shooting of a police officer. authorities say tremaine willbourn is armed and brings. he is stands accused of gunning down officer sean bolton. jonathan serrie has parts story from the atlanta bureau. what do we know about him? >> reporter: police identified him as a 29-year-old by the name of tremaine wilbourn. no stranger to the law. he was on supervised release after serving a federal sentence for robbery. he was a passenger in the car that the officer was investigating saturday evening. he then fled the scene aft

you have susan collins of maine, lucy kowalski of illinois.y competitive senate reelection in 2016 in the state of illinois, tamron, so let's watch where these moderate votes are. i think that will give us an indication of where the political winds are blowing on this issue. >> we'll be watching an event this afternoon. democrats, including barbara balk who will be joined by women who say they benefit by planned parenthood and they would be hurt if that $500 million in aid was taken away. >>> 1250 wealthy conservatives, donald trump tweeting out, i wish good luck to all the republican candidates who travel to california to beg for money pho from the koch brothers. puppets, question mark. >> he says, hey, i'm my own billionaire. i don't need billionaires to gro grovel in front of to support to win. of course, grovelling in front of billionaires has been the biggest change. we see adelson, the famous casino owner in las vegas, and the superpac filings that came out were fascinating, tamron, just given the small number of americans who are really

they found the republican that was going to work with them and susan collins so there are some things that fell into place. it makes you wonder why didn't they always have these strategies like this? >> host: what is the flip side? what is the one that points out how he has not been an effective leader? is the one that stands out in your mind? >> guest: there are couple. i make a bigger deal out of it than most deal when he went ahead and signed this early on that the spending bill and the viewer knows what i'm talking about but it was a leftover spending bill from the bush era. the democrats wrote it and they decided to hold it for the democratic president. they knew they would get a democrat as president he said we can wait. it was loaded up with earmarks. >> host: 9000 earmarks. >> guest: 9000 earmarks and this to me was the first test of washington versus obama. what was he going to do in the chicago campaign types it guys wanted him to stick to his guns and you said we would not sign pledges with earmarks in them. why don't you veto it and then there were the washington hansen sa

ladies and gentlemen susan collins. thethey also have senator from maine. good to see you.[applause] >> senator thank you, steve. this has been a remarkable morning. we talked about the critical topic of the economic and emotional costs of caring. before you leave today i have one request, which is in your e-mail you have for me a survey about today. we would love your feedback on your experience. is also a hard copy implement the i want to thank steve and mary louise are monitoring. -- moderated giunta thank all our speakers dr. johns and alzheimer's association for supporting this important conversation. even if one of audience engaged. thank you so much. give yourselves a round of applause. [applause] and have a wonderful, wonderful day. [inaudible conversations] >> earlier today during a senate foreign relations committee hearing on human trafficking chairman bob corker and democrats ben cardin had comments on the iran nuclear deal and yesterday's speech by president obama. >> the white house had a veto threat against us weighing in on the iran deal veto threat. up unti

senator susan collins who chairs a special committee on aging and senator dick durbin does urge a biggerrole for the federal government to play in treatment research. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, everyone. i am margaret smith president of atlantic lad i then sat the atlantic and i'm here to welcome you. we are here to talk about a disease that steals language and memory in the presence of the person we want to. one in three people over the age of 65 guys with dementia. we do not know the impact of the disease of massive with family and friends. how many people in this room have a parent or a padded parent or loved one? i see very few hands not up and i think it's not surprising that i have my own story too. my late father was a theoretical physicist. he led a life of the mind and in the end had profound dementia and we watched his mind betray him. i remember he was trying to get into an assisted living facility and he had to take a test in the test was can you name three animals and he could only come up with the name of insects. and spider, fly. it was a painful moment for

and it won't be susan collins that will be in favor of that, but there will be some.those are the people you need to focus in on no hear what party they are. and i think that is the issue that some of my colleagues on our side were discussing, that not everyone is as reasonable as the chairman of this committee in terms of working in a bipartisan way. some just want to dismantle public funding of everything from many of the long term care programs to in fact nih funding. not you. but others. >> senator nelson, great to have you here today. >> well, it's great to be back, madame chairman. and thank you for the great partner that you were in leading this committee over the last couple of years. now, to those of you in the audience, you applauded to two things. you applauded higher money spending for nih for rye seares. and certainly that graf indicph indicates that more is needed. you also applauded bipartisanship. well, i want to give you an assignment. this committee is bipartisan. that's the way it's been run the last couple of years and the way it's being run you nn

senator susan collins chairs this special aging committee hearing. >> this hearing will come to order. good afternoon. this afternoon's hearing will explore the potential of new technologies to help seniors age in place safely and to retain their independence. the u.s. population is aging. according to census bureau projections, 21% of our population will be age 65 and older by the year 2040. that is up from just under 14% in 2012. every day 10,000 baby boomers turn 65. as many as 90% of them have one or more chronic health conditions. americans age 85 and older, our oldest old, are the fastest growing segment of our population. and this is the very population that is most at risk of multiple and interacting health problems that can lead to disability and the need for long-term care. at the very time that our population is growing older the need for care and support is increasing. the population of professional and infornal care givers is however declining. today there are seven potential caregivers for each person over age 80. at the highest risk of requiring long-term care. by the y

among the speakers, senator susan collins, the chair of the smeshl committee on ageing and senator dick durbin, who both urge bigger roles for the federal government to play with regard to special research for treatment. >>> good morning, everyone. i am margaret low smith, i'm the president of atlantic live, the live events division of the atlantic and i'm delighted to welcome you here for alzheimer's: the cost of caring. we're here to talk about a disease that steals language and memory and the presence of the person we once knew. one in three people over the age of 65 dies of dementia so we know the impact is massive, affecting family and friends too. how many people in this room have a parent or have had a parent or loved one with alzheimer's? i see very few hands not up. and i think it is not surprising that i have my own story too. my late father was a theoretical physicist and he led a life of the mind and in the end had profound dementia and we watched his mind betray him. i remember he was trying to get into a assisted living facility and he had to take a test and the test was c

nordman: chairman collins, ranking member mccaskill, distinguished members, thank you for inviting me to testify. my name is susan nordman. i'm the owner of a small manufacturing company and maker of handbags. i grew up in rural maine in the 1960's in an agricultural community. i left home for college and employment. i settled in the new york city area and built a life with a family and several successful businesses. it has always been my intention to return home to maine. in 2006, my husband and i headed north, planning to retire. we settled outside of portland. in 2012, a business broker sent me a listing on a small company in northern maine. the company was intriguing but the location was not. too far north, too remote, too rural. the idea was dropped until a year later, when i saw a display of handbags in a gallery. the bright colors and quirky shapes demanded further investigation. the facility was in an old barn in the middle of nowhere. as soon as i walked in, i was hooked. the smell of leather, bright roles of fabric, and a group of women stitching, was mesmerizing. the company had fallen into disrepair a