price transparency and rebate reform, more competition just as greg walden told you. we have proven we can do that and energy and commerce this year every republican in every democrat voted for it. it would lower the price but before i got to the floor it change the bill, not in committee but change the bill in the speaker's office so cannot become law. we know there's a major problem out there that we want to solve it, not make any political iss issue. >> the president was seen as a ski in this issue and can ask what you messages you talk about this? when he should be supporting and where you need to put his weig weight. >> i get the president trumped a great deal of credit in this. get what he's been able to do in ministry the transparency if you look at the price of drugs today that have gone down but they can go so much lower rate the president has pulled both sides inside the white house that he has tried to drive this and was hopeful that speaker pelosi would work with both sides of the aisle and moved to the socialist we know the party but find a place where bo

new jersey democratic congressment frank pollone and oregon republican congressman greg walden. for being here. thank you for working together on some legislation that would help affect, genuinely affect people's lives. congressman pollone, please just explain what it is. >> well, what is happening now is that a person will go, for example, to an emergency room and, for example, the anesthesiologist or someone else is not in their network so they get a bill that could be for $1,000, $10,000, who knows after because it is not covered by their insurance. we want to put an end to it. i mean it is just ridiculous. this should not be something that the patient has to worry about. you know, the insurance company should deal with it and not the patients. >> a lot of money is being spent, congressman walden, on trying to stop this legislation. doctor/patient unity, a dark money group has spent $13 million. i say dark money because we don't know who is behind the group. why do you believe they're trying to stop this legislation from going through? >> you know, it is what some of the grou

arguing or asserting this evening that there is any kind of a direct causal relationship between walden pond and woodstock. henry david throw or rough water thoreau, oravid ralph waldo emerson were not immediately progenitors of jimi hendrix. gape is a nearly 100 year between the heyday of transcendentalism and the rise of the 1960's counterculture. obviously, a lot happened in between. it is also important that we see in the these phenomenon context of their own historical uniqueness however they may be connected to one another. what i would like to do instead is to point and just kind of rephrase the title of this talk. toent to point to -- i want point to certain ideas, certain cultural impulses and orientations that were part of 19th century transcendentalism and suggest hello these dynamics -- suggest how these dynamics showed up again and showed certain affinities with the counterculture of the 1960's. perhaps a different way to frame the talk, and i will come back to this later, is to ask not so much where the roots of the counterculture lay in relationship to transcendentalism,

i want to bring in oregon congressman greg walden.is leading a charge with this proposal, the no surprises act. thank you for joining us. >> more than welcome. charles: i was astonished at the statistic. one in five? this is huge. >> it is. let me give you an example of a patient this happened to out of colorado, second son, born. she did all the work to make sure the hospital was under her insurance plan, everybody. the child had a medical problem at birth. they had to take him to a neonatal intensive care unit down the hall in the same hospital. he turned out he was hemophiliac. a month later they got a bill for 50,000. even though the hospital was under her insurance, they had contracted out her neonatal care unit. how would you have the heck to know that, a 50,000-dollar bill. this is the kind of thing happening. the system is being gamed. consumers are losing. charles: two of the women our producing team same thing happened with them. similar stories. they had to fight. it is exhausting, but it is interesting that the money ultim

country action against hunger which was accused of aiding or supplying book or are fighters with walden medicines because the nigerian military i said is accusing the organization of doing that which the organization has denied the army is saying that that action supplying backcourt of fighters with medicine and food and other logistics is hampering its operations there and bringing that insurgency quickly to an end after more than 10 years now these organizations and the only ones targeted by security forces in the northeast we've also seen how united nations operations are suspended over a year ago at least for a few hours when the army accused it or accused some of the staff of spying for boko haram in the north east of the cunt. now police all this is coming at a time when new information has emerged a confirmed also but i actually get stung that one of its staff kidnapped by boko haram fighters aligned with it but it's not like stated the islamic state in west africa providence. has been executed in the northeast of the country the man was kidnapped along with others in july this y

walden. upup as the use of digital -- mr. upton: as the use of dig nigget -- digital technology expands across the federal government and technology, there's a growing demand for energy to power our data centers which are at the very center of this digital economy. with this growing energy demand is in fact a growing need to identify areas to use energy more efficiently. hmpt r. 1420, introduced bibi ms. ushue and co-sponsored by a number of energy and commerce committee members on both sides of the aisle, mr. kinzinger, mr. welch, mr. tonko, updates an important provision of the energy and independent security act of -- independence security act of 2007 to increase stakeholder involvement to identify the best practices to improve the energy efficiency of data centers. it also updates provisions to better track federal programs to increase energy efficiency across the federal government's information technology. this is a practical update to an important program that no one should oppose. so i would urge my colleagues to supp

. >> so it's only google, it's frontloaded, pro hillary, anti- trump, walden who does it if google doesn't do it, it just happens? somebody has to put information in for information to be prioritized. >> and what google tends to say in these types of situations is, it's an organic phenomenon, organic like organic food meaning it's all generated by users, entirely the fault of users. >> the point is that's nonsense. in the controlled experiments i run, i determine which candidate is favored in search results or i can mix up the search results so they favor neither candidate. so google actually has total control over what users see so to blame this kind of bias on users, it just makes no sense. >> pedestrians, these algorithms, these models that are set up, people set up algorithms, they don't set themselves up. >> well people create the algorithms to begin with for sure, and as one of the recent whistleblowers from google has said, we make them do exactly what we want them to do, but the fact is google also acknowledges adjusting their algorithm at least 600 times. year and we also now know

i appreciate the site tour, and the students at walden bird that took me on a tour of the school. also, what are you doing here? i thought you retired? oh, it was rita, my bad. >> you are not allowed to leave. >> stay put. commissioner norton? >> i want to remind everybody the student assignment committee is meeting on monday at 6:00 o'clock. i am really excited about, i just did a planning meeting with ms. o'keefe who staffs the committee. we have some really good items on the agenda for this year, as we move towards redesigning the student assignment system. this monday were going to talk about particularly about diversity and different ways on how we define that. it really would be great to have attendance from as many of you that could make it. i'm anxious to have as much as possible engage in these discussions before we get to an actual redesign proposal. >> thank you. anyone else? i'm going to announce the next upcoming committee meetings. budget and business services on wednesday, october 2. rules policy and legislation monday, october 7 at curriculum and program monday, oc

it's something bipartisan lawmakers frank palone and frank walden smoke with us about on the show onically, you know, basically reaping the profits. it's not even the physicians, it's these they call this venture capitalists and private equity groups, i call them wall street firms, that is bought the practices and they're running the ads. >> they take the practice, and raise the prices by 90% and then they decide whether they get back into network. so this is an enormous scam. >> sounds like the congressmen were right. the congressmen still hope to get the legislation done this fall. >> and coming up, it's a bit weird but hang with us, putting the fun in funeral. one more thing is next. but first, hold on, we're not going anywhere quite yet. it is not every day you hear metallica enter the white house. mariano was at the white house to receive the presidential medal of freedom, in addition to five world series championships, he is a co-chair of the president's council on sports, fitness and nutrition and also found for his foundation that provides educational resources to disadvantag

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we worked together -- by the way, ranking member walden was not even consulted. but ranking member walden worked with chairman pallone to bring bills out of energy and commerce. for example, to stop a process that currently is legal, that allows drug companies right before the patent expires when the drug is about to become available for generics. companies go and make the generic drug. right now the process of the f.d.a. is for a period of time, usually a rolling six months, one company is given the exclusive rights to provide the generic for a period of time. ultimately other companies are allowed in, but for the first period of months and months, could be years, only one company has the exclusive right to do the generic, and the drug companies are allowed to pay the generic company not to sell the product. so you only have the original drug. you don't have the generic available because the companies can pay the company not to make the generic. we have a bill called, no pay for delay. you can't -- we make it illegal for the drug companies to pay the generics, n

to start, my friend, greg walden and his colleagues on energy and commerce, seem to have the ability to generate a bill almost daily that would truly impact the true problems with climate change. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. he house will come to order. the gentleman may resume. mr. curtis: this motion to recommit will prevent the bill from taking effect until the president certifies that will not result in a net increase of russian oil and gas imports into the united states. the answer to climate change is not making the u.s. more reliant on fossil fuels. vote for this m.t.r. is a vote to support local alaskan natives. i repeat the answer to climate change is not making the u.s. more reliant on foreign fossil fuels. last time i checked ryan zinkey -- zinke was the only one riding a horse. i urge support of the motion to recommit. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. huffman: i rise to claim time in opposition. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five mi

the topic from walden ponds to woodstock, the transcendentalist roots of the 60s counterculture is a rather large one of course for an evening lecture. so, i just want you to know that i'm probably a little bit hyper conscious of the hazards of caricature and oversimplification here and will try to avoid or at least temper these dangers. also, i can't see you distinctly because of the lights, but i suspect there is enough of a like me demographic here that you are going to know whether i am lying or not about the 60s. so, i also want to note by way of an introduction that i am not arguing or not asserting this evening that there is any kind of a direct causal relationship between walden pond and woodstock. henry david thoreau or ralph waldo emerson, they were not immediate progenitors of jerry rubin or jimi hendrix. after all, there is nearly a 100 year gap between the heyday of transcendentalism and the rise of the 1960s counterculture. obviously a lot happens in between. it is also important i think that we see each of these phenomenon in the context of their own historical uniquen