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Mr. President, on April 17, 1961, 1,500 individuals from the United States and Cuba valiantly volunteered in the Bay of Pigs mission to liberate Cuba from Fidel Castro's grip. They were a diverse group from all backgrounds of Cuban…
The 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic similarly caused us to turn inward and review the successes of our public health response as well as our failures.
I am pleased to be here to discuss the acquisition and development of medical countermeasures to protect the public health.
We are here today to discuss the ways we can and must be proactive, not just reactive, to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats.
Even though you've announced your retirement from the Senate, that service that has been, as we say in the south, 'in your bones,' will continue.
It's that inequity that I want to address and that I have addressed each year that I have been here.
I want to ask you two gentlemen, Dr. Maisel and Dr. Nexon, if you would comment on the tension between safety and the need to innovate new technologies.
I think, when we talk about performance, and I am sure you will agree, we need to talk not just the speed of getting things to market, but making sure they are safe when they get there.
Is there earlier testimony on the record as to the increased cost as a result of these delays?
We ask Congress to allow medically-retired servicemembers and their families to maintain the Active Duty family TRICARE benefit for a transition period of 3 years following the date of medical retirement.
We are also grateful to Senator Bill Nelson his sponsorship of S. 260 to remove the SBP/DIC offset.
The Coalition supports S. 260, Senator Nelson's bill, to end the Dependency and Indemnity Compensation offset to the Survivor Benefit Plan.
We must completely eliminate the SBP/DIC offset.
never in our history have so few borne so much of the burden of war for so long.
Obviously, we are in a tough fiscal environment, and obviously, there are many worthy pieces of legislation to be funded.
Has their matter been presented in some of the testimony here?
I have never seen the degree of angst and upset that we have right now.