one in hss, department in department of justice. senior adviser, senior counsel. they will provise oversight and coordination for health care fraud wind the federal government. second, the second section, b, even though we do have in place already a health care, fraud and abuse control program known as hcfac, we retain obviously that structure but we add to that what's known as the program integrity coordinating council. now, all that does is add to the responsibility of the program, meaning more coordination or responsibility for coordination as well as strategic planning, and also there's a provision that requires that this council provide or promulgate guidelines for federal agencies. section c is about false statements. we tighten that up because right now, the prohibition against false statements is rather narrow. if you have a false statement that's in erisa documents, that can be prosecuted. we broaden that beyond just the fraudulent statements within the documents of erisa. the next section broadens the number of federal health care offenses in the multi-e

subcommittee had made a point to prioritize reducing health disparities through a friday programs at hss. we further focus their reducing health disparities by supporting many of these programs to contribute to diversity in the healthcare workforce. if you could, and i to understand the budget lays out specifically in the other three ended 54 million for combating these issues, could you lay out for us your thoughts and overtime we will get to more specificity, your thoughts on how the department will approach the issues of health disparities? thank you mr. chairman, thank you betton secretary. >> thank you of 11 and again thank you for your leadership on that critical issue of health disparities, and i have been working on it for a long time, and the work has hit off to some degree but there is a lot more work to be done. and my first week as secretary, we really to this year's report on health disparities, which is continues to be pretty grim in terms of the proper treatment, really by ethnicity is very disparate of around the country. i think that is one effort that can be actually en