. >> next health and human services secretary sylvia burwell on global health security. the remarks from william adams incoming chair of the national endowment for humanity. after that, the state of the state speech. >> health and human services secretary sylvia burwell says it is time to find common ground on the health care law. she made her comments thursday at the new america foundation in washington, d c she also talked about the need for investments in global health security. this is about 35 minutes. >> good morning. welcome, everybody, two new america. before i introduce secretary burwell, who is here to make remarks about the future of health care on a number of dimensions in the new congress and the year ahead, i just want to make a few quick comments about new america and why we are so honored that we are able to host her here today for these remarks. among the founding principles of new america, which is reflected in the book "the radical center" by people who are among the founders of this organization 15 years ago, was a commitment to get beyond traditional

. >> next health and human services secretary sylvia burwell on global health security.he remarks from william adams incoming chair of the national endowment for humanity. after that, the state of the state speech. >> health and human services secretary sylvia burwell says it is time to find common ground on

after, sylvia burwell on global health security. >> the c-span city tour takes american history on the road traveling to u.s. cities. we partner with comcast for a visit to west virginia. >> there are two volumes. the reason i thought it was important to collect these histories, willing transformed into an industrial city in the latter part of the 19th century. it is kind of uncommon in west virginia and that it drew a lot of immigrants from various parts of europe here in search of jobs and opportunities. that generation is pretty much gone. i thought it was important to record their stories to get the members of the younger generations and ethnic neighborhoods they formed. it is an important part of our history. most people focus on the frontier history and civil war history. those periods are important but there is this industrial immigration that wheeling had. >> wheeling starts as the front tier prayed that river was the western expanse of the united states in the 1770's. the first project funded by the federal government for road production was the national road that extended fro

department of health and human services secretary sylvia burwell in philadelphia this morning.he's participating in a martin luther king, jr. day of service project held by project home. afterwards she will tour the klein wellness center on cecil b. moore avenue. there she will talk about the affordable care act and using the health insurance marketplace. open enrollment runs through february 15th. >>> and today as part of a nationwide effort half a dozen theaters right here in philadelphia are inviting students to attend a free screening of the oscar nominated film "selma." they have to show school id or report card to get in. local business leaders pitched in more than $40,000 to pay the ticket cost for 4700 students. >>> well many of those students will be there to see "selma" for free because, well there's no school today. the federal holiday also means post offices, banks, and government offices all closed. >>> there are a number of dr. king day events happening across our region today including this the philadelphia orchestra's annual tribute concert is at 1:30 at gerard

sylvia burwell was sworn in in june in the 22nd secretary of health and human services, smaller club been secretary of hhs. before that, she served as director of the officer of management and budget she worked with congress to restore order to the budget and appropriations processes. before joining the -- before coming back to government and rejoining this administration, she was president of the walmart foundation in bentonville, arkansas, during a period when that foundation surpassed $1 billion in total giving. for ten years before that president of the global development program at the bill and melinda gates foundation in seattle, washington which is an extremely large foundation. and works on a huge range of issues from vaccinations, children's health agricultural development and the foundation's first chief operating officer. during the clinton administration, secretary burwell served as deputy director of omb chief of staff to the secretary of the treasury and staff director of the economic council. she was born and raised in west virginia, received her ab from harvard and de

we have america's health and human services secretary, sylvia burwell. you can give her a round of applause. [applause] >> we've got our surgeon general. [applause] stand up. our new surgeon general. we haven't had one in a while. we are happy to have him here. he looked sharp in his uniform. we have the national cancer institute. [applause] we have the singing scientists of nih here. [applause] and we have my science advisor who does not sing. [applause] for anyone wondering, is there a doctor in the house, we have you covered. wheels of members of congress who are here. lamarr alexander from the great state of tennessee has been one of the key supporters encouraging medical innovation. i look forward to working with him. [applause] ms. murray couldn't make it hit today, that we have on the house that congresswoman who is here. we're proud of her. [applause] last week in my state of the union address, i focused on what we needed to do to make sure middle class economics helps more americans get ahead in the new economy. help make families make ends meet

speakers included julian castro and sylvia burwell. this is an hour and 45 minutes. >> good morning, washington d.c.! happy king day! oh, you can do better than that. happy king day! happy king day! [cheers and applause] >> all right, first giving honor to god who is the head of my life to reverend sharpton, the head of this merry band, thank you so much reverend sharpton. i want to thank all of you for coming. my name is nate miles. i'll be your emcee for the morning. i see that happy king day and i mean it very seriously, because there used to be a time when we used to have to sneak and take the day off from work. joe, when we couldn't tell them that we really, when everybody else went to work except us and we secretly protested and had our own king day, but thanks to coretta king and all of the rest of the king family, reverend sharpton, jackson, and all of the other civil rights leaders around the country, we have a day that we can legitimately say happy king day! >> happy king day! >> that's a lot better. as we come today, we have

next up, remarks from sylvia burwell on the health care law and her purse for congress to find common ground as republican lawmakers work for it through appeal. she spoke for about 35 minutes. >> good morning. welcome, everybody, two new america. before i introduce secretary burwell, who is here to make remarks about the future of health care on a number of dimensions in the new congress and the year ahead, i just want to make a few quick comments about new america and why we are so honored that we are able to host her here today for these remarks. among the founding principles of new america, which is reflected in the book "the radical center" by people who are among the founders of this organization 15 years ago, was a commitment to get beyond traditional partisan alignment and specifically to apply that idea to health care to treat it as a matter of both rights and responsibilities, and something that should be vested in in individuals and people not just some jobs and not others, and to improve care and not just coverage. over the following years, the middle of the last decade, ne

later, remarks from health and human services secretary sylvia burwell. i left freshman senator joni e rnst will delete or -- deliver a speech ahead of president obama. >> good afternoon. republicans continue to make the american people's priorities our priority. we have had a great opportunity this year to make progress for families and small businesses, and we look forward to continuing to make progress. we have gotten off to a great start by passing a number of common sense jobs bills to help grow our economy. the president's focus is on the past on the old politics of getting one set of americans against the other, on the outdated ways of bureaucratic control. all top-down washington solutions. what has that produced? record debt and a shaky economy. the country is ready to move on. we need to start growing american economy, not washington's. our challenge and our opportunity is to pass common-sense solutions that will help expand opportunities for middle-class families and businesses solutions that simplify our tax code, solutions that address the tr

together the need to pay attention to health and equities that exist in the black community and sylvia mathews burwellas speaking about those disparities that exist within our community and one of our great partners for that mention was the etna foundation and when we started thinking about this year's awards we wanted to lift up as part of the king day celebration we wanted to lift the that the again because the work week think of in terms of healthy living is so important to us being able to continue the fight the we talked about. we chose floyd green who is vice president and head of community relations and their bidding marketing for etna and is responsible for their philanthropic investment for etna brands and its recipient of many professional and civic awards well-deserved, including a presidential meeting with jimmy carter to discuss foreign and domestic policies in the international global award for excellence and health care marketing. most recently he was honored by blackdoctors.org at johns hopkins university, he is fitting we give today's merit award to floyd green iii. [applause] >> good

health and human services secretary sylvia burwell will speak about the white house's health care priorities. it is that 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> the c-span cities to her takes the book tv and american history tv on the road traveling to u.s. cities to learn about their literary light. we visited wheeling, west virginia. >> i wrote these books. two volumes. the reason i thought it was important to collect them is wheeling transformed into an industrial city in the latter part of the 19th century. the earliest part of the 20th century. it is uncommon in west virginia in that it true immigrants from various parts of europe here in search of jobs and opportunity. that generation of immigrants is pretty much gone. i thought it was important to record their story, give memories of the immigrant generation and the ethnic neighborhoods they formed. it is an important part of our history. most people tend to farkas does focus on the frontier and civil war history to read of equal importance is the industrial time and the immigration that wheeling had. >> wheeling starts as an outpost on the frontier.

. >> health and human services secretary sylvia burwell will speak tomorrow on the white house healthare priorities. that is live at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> the c-span cities to her takes book tv and u.s. history on the road. this weekend we partnered with comcast for a visit to west virginia. >> there are two volumes, the reason i thought it was important to collect these histories is that wheeling transformed into an industrial city in the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century and it is kind of uncommon in west virginia in that it drew immigrants from various parts of europe here in search of jobs and opportunity. that immigrant generation is pre-much done. i thought -- is pretty much gone. i thought it was important to record their story and the ethnic neighborhoods they had. multiple focus on the frontier history and civil war history those periods are important but of equal importance is the industrial. -- industrial period that wheeling had. >> wheeling starts as an outpost on the frontier. that river was the western extent of the united states in the 1770's. the fi

here at the new america foundation awaiting remarks from health and human services secretary sylvia burwell. she'll speak about health carepolicy. it is hosted by the new america foundation. live coverage when it starts here on c-span. we understand it will still be a few moments before secretary burwell arrives. we'll have live coverage of all her remarks when she gets here and we'll have it for you here on c-span. a conversation on the obama administration's cybersecurity proposals from today's "washington journal." executive document that he put out. we are still talking about information sharing. the president put good focus on it, looking to congress to say listen, you give us the tools to do information sharing and we can help get a better handle on this eshoo. host: so what are the tools that we are talking about? what are the tools he wants in place? guest: well, i think the biggest thing is legislation. there's been a piece of legislation put forth by dutch ruppersberger and former congressman mike rogers that initially when they put it out, and i was on a trip and i got a call fro

. >> health and human services secretary sylvia burwell will speak about the white house's health care priorities at the new america foundation live at 10:00 a.m. eastern. the national coalition on health care yesterday looked at how payments made by drug and medical device companies influenced doctors and hospitals. the new data on payments is the result of the physician-patient sunshine act that requires the companies to report any items given of value. this is an hour and a half. >> good morning. i'm the president and ceo of the national coalition on health care. our mission is health care affordability. one of the key strategies to achieve that is greater transparency. today, we have a chance to look at the physician payment sunshine act, and see how it is doing. this is one of a series of events at the national coalition sponsors to lift up what we see as promising developments in health care. today is one of several congressional briefings. so, i welcome you today. thank you for coming. thank you especially to c-span for being here with us. and those of you watching on tv, i thin

i applaud governor pence and i applaud health and human services secretary sylvia burwell for working together to move forward to continue indiana's successful consumer-driven approach that empowers members and provides access to quality care. this agreement will expand an existing proven program to more than 350,000 low-income hoosiers and allow the state of indiana to end traditional medicaid for all nondisabled adults between ages 19 and 64 who will be transitioned to the new plan just approved through this waiver. the answer to our nation's health care problems is not that the broken status quo of obamacare. indiana has shown and will continue to show that reforming traditional medicaid and offering innovative health care solutions is the right way to empower individual citizens as they seek access to quality health care. once again inn is -- indiana is leading the way by creating state-based innovative ideas for governing. as i serve individuals and hoosiers here in washington, i've often turned to what i call the indiana model as a blueprint for a more efficient and fiscally res

sylvia burr well from the u.s. department of health and human services made a stop in philadelphia she was at kline with theness center for an event hosted by project home which helps local homeless people. burwellbout enrolling for health care before the upcoming deadline, on february the 15th. >>> well, in new jersey governor chris christie tweeted about doctor king today, saying in party ask all in new jersey to observe doctor king's life, mission, of peacefully working towards freedom, through act of of service within our own community. he went onto say doctor king's legacy remains one of try um over adversity and racial injustice to bring the spirit of piece to our country. >>> just a day a ahead of the inauguration pennsylvania governor elect tom wolf takes part in a king day of service event in harrisburg. speaking at the downey school the democrat says that martin luther king day should be more than symbolic, it should be part have the collective movement to a better society. he says best way to honor doctor king toys serve others. >>> of course tom wolf will be sworn in as forty-seventh governor of pennsylvania, tomorrow at noon, watch inauguration live on our web site on our web site a