Has an amendment on the floor under consideration. Would the gentleman yield . The chair recognizes himself and is happy to yield. Thank you, mr. Chairman. After reviewing the bill, i believe that at least for the foreseeable future the 410,000 plus 10 escalator is probably sufficient. I would like to work with the chairman further on defining that so that the safeguards be in place once this bill becomes law but i would ask unanimous consent to withdraw the amendment. Without objection, it is withdrawn. And let me just say to the gentleman, id be happy to work with him. Its important that purpose of the legislation is to assure that american agriculture has the workers it needs to continue to thrive in the United States and not diminish because they can go elsewhere to find laborers and produce Agricultural Products elsewhere in the world so im happy to work with the gentleman in that regard. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you. Are there further amendments to hr 4902 . I have an amend
People listen for more than three minutes is great been talking to a group for whom this really does matter and can make a difference. The question for the title is medicaid did it survive repealed and replaced . The short answer is yes question mark . Now we do questions and answers. [laughter] obviously it has been a interesting year and you had a great session right before this talking about the political angles but it is safe to say we havent ever program asicaid much in the spotlight in the hot seat as we have had over the past year. We certainly expected that that, thinking again about our conference on election day it was a small election day this year with the gubernatorial races. And thee result last year laid out a pretty clear plan for what congress will address in terms of health carere reform and how that impacts medicaid there were two themes and threads of that with repealed and replaced of the Affordable Care act which despite the attention with a focus of premiums and
Both corroborate the story saying that firefighters were in fact inside this building. Im also told that those firefighters spoke derick ion almena the man renting out the warehouse. So far no explanation as to why a visit like the one they are describing does not show up on Fire Department records. It might just be some sort of communication issue. Reporter this wouldnt be the first such communication issue. We know building inspectors were responding to complaints about the warehouse right around the time of that event in 2014. We have video of police poking around inside the building in october of this year. But none of that was enough to produce action by the city something the mayor identified as a problem just days after the fire. Were developing ways to immediately clarify the responsibility of City Employees to properly report any observations of dangerous Living Conditions or illegal events along with a clear process for doing so. Reporter in oakland, wilson walker, kpix 5. An
Let them know where youre at and they will assist you. And with that we are now ready to start the meeting. So im going to very quickly roll call buell here loo low here anderson here bonilla here harriston here mcdonnell here we are now on item to which is the president s report. Given the number of people plan to talk i will be very brief and simply congratulate the staff on a traffic groundbreaking for the new civic center the ground at the helen Denver Dillard family is funding good i think the mayor was very excited about it as well and has some very nice things to say about the department and what is going on. So i add my congratulations and with that i conclude my report. Is there anyone who may wants to make Public Comment under the president s report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We on item to the general managers report. Thank you president buell. For that and thank you commissioner low for being there. As the president noted, we celebrated the groundbreaking of tw
Mcdonnell here we are now on item to which is the president s report. Given the number of people plan to talk i will be very brief and simply congratulate the staff on a traffic groundbreaking for the new civic center the ground at the helen Denver Dillard family is funding good i think the mayor was very excited about it as well and has some very nice things to say about the department and what is going on. So i add my congratulations and with that i conclude my report. Is there anyone who may wants to make Public Comment under the president s report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We on item to the general managers report. Thank you president buell. For that and thank you commissioner low for being there. As the president noted, we celebrated the groundbreaking of two playgrounds at Civic Center Plaza. There were 10 million film philanthropic gifts from the Honduran Foundation of which we are very grateful for. A couple other announcements. On march 3 and fourth sundown cons