Anybody else want go ahead, vern. Just to comment on the general direction, in the surveys we have the privilege of doing with the Kaiser Family foundation and namd we have a series of questions on whats going on with the system reform and Payment System reform and so on and if theres one thing that characterizes Medicaid Programs today it is a focus on what they can do to make their programs better in the sense of achieving Better Outcomes and so on. There are just example examples after, you know, many, many examples that you could cite. Its arizona is exemplary. And there are 49 other exemplary states also in terms of what theyre doing in this regard. It is amazing what states are doing now and if you want to look at one place where medicaid is a leader in the health care system, you can look at medicaid. It is definitely, definitely leading. Trying things that other folks havent tried. States are focused and they have the ability to be flexible and one state learns from another. Le
I wanted to note. Number one, theres some photos of you with cigars, with cigar smoke. Long time cigar smoker . Theres the cigar picture right there. I like what i call ponies, peter. Small cigars. At one time i was smoking probably five or six cigars well, strike that. Three or four cigars a day. Now that changed to three or four cigars a week. Then finally i just said to heck with it. Part of the reason was the staff didnt like it. Some of my colleagues didnt like it. The chief of staff, i think, led the fight on that. What the heck . If it is annoying to them, i dont have to have a cigar in my mouth every day. Ive been free of cigar smoke probably in excess of five years. Congressman coble, youve worked on a couple of issues that may not strike your colleagues as positive, such as limiting congressional retirement, term limits, cola increases, being careful about cola increases. Have you gotten so pushback from your colleagues up here on capitol hill . When i came up here, i said i
And supplies all aimed at assad andbashaar al countering russia in the region. House lawmakers this week are spending hours debating and voting on Infrastructure Spending in this country with a six your bill for funding the nations transportation system. We turn to you this morning to tell us what its like in your community. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country mountain pacific you can also join the conversation on twitter. Facebook. Com cspan. What is the condition of infrastructure in your community . Take a look at the debate on the house floor yesterday. The top democrat in the House Transportation Committee talks about how there is not Adequate Funding in this secure bill. The biggest and most glaring omission by the rules committee is any attempt of not allowing any attempt by this house to fund the bill. Thats pretty extraordinary. We probably dont have three years of pretend funding in the bill because of the offsets in the budget deal. I dont know what is lef
And in the department of defense, when people are still in uniform, were focused on this. Letting people know that its not a weakness, its a strength for you to seek out help when you are suffering from severe depression or other, you know, challenges like that. With respect to young people, you know, id be interested this is one where i think id really like to hear from all of you. Because this is a story i hear too often. When i was at standing rock, i mean, it was just the number of stories that i heard was heartbreaking. And we can provide more resources, and we are doing so, ive asked sali and others to really focus on how do we prevent suicide a, addiction, provide more Mental Health services and counseling, but i think id love to hear from you guys who are in it. What you think would make the biggest difference. What you think would be most helpful. Since you asked it, why dont you i feel like its very taboo to speak about it in native american communities, especially the older
Familiar faces are enough to win. I will let you follow up on that. , we have very different characteristics. We have gone through a phase last election where republicans had many more seats that they could challenge. And a date addition to the in addition to the number of seats, republicans did very well last election picking up extremely red states that had democratic senators. There were six states that were rock red republican states and they had open seats. Republicans picked up all of them, plus North Carolina and if you swing states as well. Those of the prompt those are the prime targets than a world that is well aligned for the republicans are Holding Republican seats and democrats are Holding Democrat seats. What does this election look like . 24 big numbers are, republicans of four election, while there are only 10 democrats of your seats. And they just looking ahead, if in thek at 2018, and is opposite direction with only eight republicans and 23 or if 25 count the independ