Springs. He offered his condolences to the families of the victims and shared some of his experiences with survivors. Texas Governor Greg Abbott introduces the Vice President and karen pence follows her husbands remarks with a prayer. Would you sing with me now as we direct our attention heaven ward to our heavenly father who sees, who knows and who cares. Oh ive heard a thousand stories of why they think youre like but ive heard tender whisper of love in the dead of night and you tell me that youre pleased and that im never alone youre a good, good father its who you are im loved by you thats who i am thats who i am thats who i am ive seen many searching. Ive seen many searching for answers for and wide but i know were all searching for answers only you provide because you know just what we need before we can say a word youre a good, good father its who you are its who you are and im loved by you its who i am its who i am its who i am you are perfect in all of your ways you are perfec
Of. Welcome back sorry for the extra read ted minute delay but we were voting and hopefully we have an opportunity to get through the last panel with the opportunity to conclude the hearing before we have another round of votes. This second panel is more technical with several witnesses present about modern development on the north slope and joining us today we have the president and ceo komen thanks for being here you also brought your seven with zero your son with you. And also bought the ring back the Arctic Program director from the Wilderness Society and then also a frequent flier to the committee the executive Vice President for land and Natural Resources from their Regional Cooperation is good to have you back Richard Perle and then known to many alaskans here in washington d. C. The former assistant to alaska n. Affairs during the previous administration. Welcome back and blast is the biologist and former Research Professor at university of alaska some of us know him as the ker
A group of folks for whom this really does matter and who can make a very important difference in the things were talking about. So, i guess the question or the title of the session was, medicaid, did it survive repeal and replace . Is that what we are going with . I guess the short answer is, yes, and do questions and answers now . Okay. Well say a little bit more. So, we its obviously been a very interesting year in the Health Policy sphere and you had a great session before this talking about the political angles on it from a couple of great speakers but its been i think its safe to say we have never or certainly not in i recent memory had the Medicaid Program as much in the spotlight in the highlight, in the hot seat, if you will, as we have had over the past year. We certainly expected that, because im kind of thinking about our conference which is conveniently time to be on election day every year, and its a small election day this year with two gubernatorial races but a very big
Thank you so much chairman, smith, Ranking Members for organizing this hearing and for inviting me. Im a researcher and officer of Political Science at columbia university. Over the past two years dip mats, politicians have focused mostly on the political crisis around general elections and on the struggle for power. Were so preoccupied with the up coming elections that were diverting our attention awae from the many other issues that are causing violence in congo. And were wasting the opportunity to tackle these issues. Based on peace building and several years of working in congo, i believe and i will show you in my state, theres a better way to help revise these conflicts. There are many other caws of violence beyond the electoral political issue. And by acknowledging democracy and peace do not always go together. The two most important measures congress can take are to increase the United States support to peace building and to put local actors in the drivers seat. The delay of Hol
Movement and shares her thoughts on how to move the president s agenda forward. [applause] now to the main event. Its now my pleasure to introduce todays key note speaker, americas most listened to woman in political talk radio, laura ingram. She can be heard between 10 and 12 on am 850. Laura is a former white collar defense attorney and Supreme Court law clerk. Her nationally syndicated talk show is ranked in the nations top ten rated shows and heard coast to coast in nearly 250 markets. Shes the editorinchief and cofounder of lifedebt. Com and the author of several New York Times bestsellers including the obama diaries, power to the people, shut up and sing and the hillary trap. Laura has been a guest host on many of fox news channels programs as well as a contributor to abcs this week. It was also recently announced that she would be headlining fox news new prime time tv show which will debut in the 10 00 hour one week from today. [applause] fox news has said that laura aims to cut