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By government, confusion among the public and even confusion among the professionals. This is no different than when we were introducing paper money when the United States was going to paper money folks could be rolling out all sorts of different dollars. The greenback was the federal government trying to come in and thats why we have the secret service. They rolled it back in the 1860s and the secret service was there to nick sure this was the one currency that we had about the different banks could be printing their own u. S. Dollars. And we had lots of other confusions when we rolled out the instruments. The archery stocks. They were in this piece of paper entitles you to a portion of this company. Just like we had Security Issues for thi bitcoin, the stock certificates saw all sorts as one of the classic incidences. I watch a lot of Turner Classic Movies and it seems like every other movie is about someone perpetuating some stock fraud. I worked in hong kong for a while and you wou
Providers to negotiate on a much broader basis . Thats part of the dynamic change in the world were living in. Thank you. My time is expired. Thank you, madam chair. Senator bloomenthal had one followup question, and senator franken and i will leave my questions to the end. I much appreciate that, madam chairman, and thanks also to senator franken. Just a quick question. You and i agree that the cost of sports programming are rising, in fact. They are rising astronomically and should better reflect consumer demand. Really arent consumers the best judge of what a fair price for programming should be and wouldnt prices come down if they had more choice, specifically the way to break this cycle of ever increasing costs for sports programming instead of give consumers some more choice through ala carte programming, and i wonder if you could comment on the potential effects of disciplining the market and bringing down the costs of cable as a result of ala carte. Thank you. I truly believe y
The Ranking Member schakowsky and members of the subcommittee. Im honored to be here today. My focus is going to be on the radiological evidence of both concussions and sub concussions. And if i could add the next slide. What is known as my older traffic brain injury is common in the sports injury and when we are talking about a single my old tv ey i got 80 get better between 15 to 30 go on to have Persistent Systems as they have been described today. What is most concerning is what has been called chronic narrow degenerative disorders. And that is the second one where it is repetitive by a traumatic brain injury that we are concerned with and the evidence comes from postmortem studies if i could have the next slide. Here is a slide that shows protein in the brain and those are the areas that show up and this is in the case of a retired professional Football Player that had symptoms and was presumed to have chronic chromatic at the next. Here are four individuals. What is interesting h
Affected. T baker gave about the zozzi had 215 im not convinced that if we had this place under the facts of that case we would have probably an explosion in the subway new york city. And the reaction that we had 9 11 that you referred to and iay be overstepped understand what you are saying, that is the way congress tends the nfortunately reaction would have been to the opinion,re we where we wouldnt be here today talking about modifying them in a softer way. We be talking about modifying them in a stronger way. Mr. Baker, you at Homeland Security, you were at Homeland Security until 2000 or yes being on the show much access you had to redo any cases that may involve the use of 215. But can you shed any light on this from the standpoint of any, number one, abuses older reasons why Even Stronger reasons why e15 should be maintain . I heard mr. Geithner said he did know of any abuses and i agree with that. I did not see the abuses and i will say, we felt so strongly about the importance