can vary its to chlorate which is a natural component of blood and urine i have here a printout from the u.s. department of health and human services guide for cloran i'd also states that there are no biomarkers that can be used to quantify exposure to chlorine gas how is it possible that the. austin scientist would so quickly discover something for which a scientific task does not even exist you know i i don't know exxon or if chlorine samples can be taken i'm not a physician i'm not a chemist you mentioned the blood then you're into something else or earlier i did and what they have found is sorry any of you any of your nerve agents leave leave residue. markers in the blood on the bodies in the soil chlorine is very you know is very volatile evaporates very quickly green disassociates very quickly if you but nerve agents do not for the most part it all depends on the weather in the rain and everything else going on at the scene but what i was referring to was blood samples with signs of sara age an attack in it and we've found that over and over again in the country to last year tom and that's when we heard the same claim followi

u.s. department of health and human services to innovate and test new delivery models for telehealth. with leaders like the university of mississippi medical center working to maximize available resources and provide care via telehealth, i believe that this technology offers a promising solution to combating the opioid crisis in our country. i look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues on the energy and commerce committee, to advance these efforts. mr. speaker, i thank chairman walden and chairman burgess for their dedication to this issue and many others, of course. i appreciate the opportunity to speak and i yield back the balance of my time. mr. burgess: again i thank the gentleman from mississippi for participating in our special order tonight. i thank him for his leadership in his subcommittee of oversight and investigations and the work he has done to help control this crisis. i would now like to recognize the vice chairman of the health subcommittee, mr. brent guthrie from kentucky, for his observations. mr. guthrie: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you to the chairman o

u.s. department of health and human services to innovate and test new delivery models for telehealth. with leaders like the university of mississippi medical center working to maximize available resources and provide care via telehealth, i believe that this technology offers a promising solution to combating the opioid crisis in our country. i look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues on the energy and commerce committee, to advance these efforts. mr. speaker, i thank chairman walden and chairman burgess for their dedication to this issue and many others, of course. i appreciate the opportunity to speak and i yield back the balance of my time. mr. burgess: again i thank the gentleman from mississippi for participating in our special order tonight. i thank him for his leadership in his subcommittee of oversight and investigations and the work he has done to help control this crisis. i would now like to recognize the vice chairman of the health subcommittee, mr. brent guthrie from kentucky, for his observations. mr. guthrie: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you to the chairman o

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one is a senior official at the department of health and human services. he phone only worked as u.slogy. he advises the secretary who oversees in charge of creating drug policy. isn't that convenient. another's study found hundred 84 lobbyist including wilson, and housing and urban development. he formally lobbied for the mortgage bankers association and it's not his first time. he also worked in george w. bush's housing department. that's the swamp right there. here's another one, rebecca is an official in the department of agriculture. she lobbied that -- america. before that she is part of the farm bureau federation. it included usta conservation programs. these conflicts of interest are one way there undermined eating that during the swamp agenda. a number of higher-level officials abuse their power and more public ways. let's start with the virginia secretary who had a taxpayer-funded trip to europe. and attending a tennis match at wimbledon. i hope you enjoyed the strawberries and cream that you paid for. elise president trump fire price. then treasuries secretary stephen mnuc

department es of health and human services. is next, cambridge, ohio, independent line. caller: hi, i have a couple pedro.ns, mr. hoagland, were you ever in the u.snate? in the was a staffer united states senate, staff of the senate budget committee for i was also nd then under dr. bill frist, when he leader, budget appropriations staff person. caller: yeah. okay. i kind of read an interview, it like you were in the senate. anyway -- sir. no caller: isn't bipartisan policy soft way of pedalling republican ideas? -- the in point, they budget, the way you talk about like you want osterity for everyone, but, you socialized all the debt, we don't put hat budget.ational we have my own congressman down won't take his office seriously, he won't vote on wars.ization for people know why the participate in your government. guest: thank you for the call. think the you bipartisan policy center is republican-oriented agency. no. established by -- yes, enator howard baker, late, great senator howard baker, senate robert dole on the side.ican bipartisan. george mitchell, and tom are truly bipartisan, republican and democrat. we are not pedalling republican demo

can vary its to chlorate which is a natural component of blood and urine i have here a printout from the u.s. department of health and human services guide for cloran i'd also states that there are no biomarkers that can be used to quantify exposure to chlorine gas how is it possible that western scientist would so quickly discover some. thing for which a scientific task does not even exist you know i i don't know exxon or if chlorine samples can be taken i'm not a physician i'm not a chemist you mentioned the blood then you're into something else or earlier i did and what they have found is sarin and any of you any of your nerve agents leave leave residue. markers in the blood on the bodies in the soil chlorine is very you know is very volatile evaporates very quickly agreed disassociates very quickly if you but nerve agents do not for the most part it all depends on the weather in the rain and everything else going on at the scene but what i was referring to was blood samples with signs of sara age an attack you know and we've found that over and over again in the country coon last year tom and certainly we heard the same claim f