the house agriculture committee looked at these guidelines attended by tom vilsack and sylvia burwell. the hearing was chaired by congressman michael conaway of texas. >> well, good morning. let's go ahead and get started. mr. keller, would you open us with a prayer, please. >> dear heavenly father, we just ask that you bless this committee. we ask that you bless this government. we ask that you bless all those who lead this great nation. dear lord, we just ask that everything we do honor and please you in jesus' name i pray, amen. >> thank you. this committee of agriculture regarding the developments of the 2015 dietary guidelines for americans will come to order and i want to thank our witnesses for being here this morning. it is no small feat to get two of the secretaries of two of the most important agencies in government to come sit at the same table at the same time so i thank you, secretary vilsack and burwell, for making it ham, we appreciate it. we're going to discuss the development of the 2015 dietary guidelines for americans. it's not our intent to legislate specific guide

hhs secretary sylvia burwell says enrolling i'm this year will be, quote, tougher and goals harder toch. joining us now to tell us what the numbers mean, megan mccardell.discrepancy. 22 million expected, 10 million actual. >> it's a huge discrepancy between what they wanted and what they got and the administration's explanation that items because the employers aren't dumping people into the market doesn't work. the original 2010 march estimate that the cbo did, they only had in 2016 a million people being moved off of employer insurance and into the employer market. later they increased those estimates. >> are these healthy people, sick people who aren't signing up? >> so who is missing? some people that are missing have grandfathered plans we think. that wasn't initially supposed to happen and then there was a huge outcry people were losing plans they like. obama said if you like your plan, you can keep it. so they let the -- the administration let people keep old plans provided that they had them prior to a certain date. >> but what does this mean for the taxpayer in general? does i

the house committee discussed these guidelines with tom vilsack and sylvia burwell.this sa this is about two and a half hours. >>> good morning. let's go ahead and get started. trent, will you open us with a prayer please? >> dear heavenly father, we ask that you bless this committee. we ask that you bless this government. we ask that you bless all those who lead this nation. we just ask that everything we do honor and please you. in jesus's name. amen. >> this meeting committee of agriculture regarding the development of the 2015 dietary guidelines for american will come to order. i want to thank our witnesses for being here this morning. it is no small feat to get two of the secretaries of two of the most important agencies in government to sit at the same table at the same time, so i thank you secretary vilsack, secretary burwell, for making this happen. we appreciate it. we are joined by the secretary of agriculture and secretary of health and human services to discuss development of an important document, the 2015 dietary guidelines for americans. it's not this

want to thank the chair for the opportunity to be here today, and i want to thank my colleague sylvia burwell for the extraordinary work she and her team have done in concert with the department of agriculture and getting us to this point today. i will tell you that i struggle with the dietary guidelines because i think it's important for people to understand exactly what they are and they are not. these guidelines are a set of recommendations. based on a series of well informed opinions that create a framework that is designed to encourage and to educate americans about what they can do to increase their chances of preventing chronic diseases. this is not about treating disease. this is about trying to prevent chronic diseases. as a result the guidelines that we formulate are and should be restricted by law to nutritional and dietary information. the advisory committee report which secretary burwell mentioned is not the guidelines and sometimes there is confusion about that. the report information our work but certainly does not and should not dictate it. only hhs and usda can and should wri

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rudely failed to introduce secretary tom vilsack, secretary of agriculture, and the honorable sylvia burwell, secretary of health and human services. two folks who need no introduction and i didn't introduce you. i apologize for that. members will be recognized for questions at the start of the hearing. after that, members will be recognized in order of awrrivaa. i appreciate the members understanding and i recognize myself for five minutes. ms. burwell, you said in your comments that the guidelines don't change substantially from one set to the next but yet in '95 to 571 pages for this one. i'm not sure we've gotten ten times better information today than we did at that point in time. as i mentioned in my opening statement, the oversight we're conducting today is on the development of the guidelines out of concern for the integrity of the process and its resulting recommendations. the federal advisory committee act defines how they operate. the law put special emphasis on open meetings, chartering, public involvement, reporting. according to statute the federal advisory committee among othe

administration who are here -- first and foremost, our proud daughter of west virginia, hhs secretary sylvia burwell[applause] we have the director of national drug control policy, michael botticelli. [applause] and we have the head of the drug enforcement administration, chuck rosenberg. [applause] where's chuck? he's around here somewhere. and what i want to do is to have a conversation with the panelists here today, take some questions -- because this is something that is not a top-down solution type of problem alone. this is going to have to be everybody working together. and we've got to understand what families are going through, what law enforcement is going through, what our health systems are going through in order for us to wrap our arms around this problem. so instead of giving a long speech, i just want to offer some initial thoughts to frame our discussion. when i came into office, i started studying this issue -- what's called opioids. and i was stunned by the statistics. more americans now die every year from drug overdoses than they do from motor vehicle crashes. more than they do fr

first and foremost, our proud daughter of west virginia, sylvia burwell. we have the director of national drug control policy, michael bad chely. and we have the head of the drug enforcement administration, chuck rosenberg. where's chuck? around here somewhere. and what i want to do is to have a conerversation with the panelists here today, take some questions because this is something that is not a top down solution type of problem alone. this is going to have to be everybody working together and we've got to understand what families are going through, what law enforcement is going through for us to wrap our arms around this problem. so, instead of giving a long speech, i want to offer initial thoughts to frame our discussion. when i came into office, i started studying this issue. of what's called opiads. i was stunned. more americans now die every year from drug overdoses than they do from motor vehicle crashes. more than they do from car accidents. the majority of those overdoses involve legal prescription drugs. in 2013 alone, overdoses from prescript

i'm really proud to be a colleague of secretary sylvia burwell.and secretary, i'm going to start, you can feel free to say anything would you like, however. i know, you know, we're here in your home state of west virginia. i know we have talked, you've been personaly impacted by this. but you've also made this a key priority for all of your h.h.s. agencies. so, maybe you could talk a little bit about your experience and what h.h.s. is doing to deal with this issue. ms. burwell: absolutely. first i'll say i always love coming home. it's great to be home and it's great to welcome the president to the great state of west virginia. and when i became secretary, this was a priority because it ising is that i have personally experienced. everybody i'm sure in this room knows people personally. friends that lost to the addiction and what happens in terms of their children and in terms of their family and the community. and once you experience this personally, i think that is what energizes you to act. at the department what we focused on over the last yea