With that, i yield to the chairman emeritus of the full committee. Thank you. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to make the Affordable Care act work. I remind my colleagues the last perfect law came off of the top of mount sinai with moses, written on a stone tablet. Nothing so good has happened since. I urge us to use our best efforts to see that this law goes into effect and works and that we carry out our responsibility to the American People. To see to it that we do everything we can to defend the laws of the u. S. I have heard some unfortunate things on the other side. They said we have to do everything in our power to prevent obamacare. Obamacare, get rid of it. Our friends on the other side have forgotten that. I hope they will continue to forget it. We have a chance to see to it that the American People get health care as a matter of right, not financial privilege. I am very frustrated, at least as frustrated as anyone else in this room, about the problems facing healthcar
Colleagues to work with us and work with these witnesses to get it right. Thank you. I yield back. Thank you for being here today. I have a series of quick questions i will like to get to. How many change orders have your received by estimate, either formally or informally leading up to the launch, and what function do they want you to perform . We have received approximately eight change orders. When was the most recent . I believe as recent as august of this year. Ok. I dont know the answer to that, but i think was a low number. Ok. Are you both making changes now with code in order to fix any of the socalled glitches or nonperformance issues question mark that would be yes. How many organizational boundaries between the piece of information traveling from the United States government to the web portal, how many boundaries, how many organizational boundaries, including the states and their access to information does that piece of art man cross does that piece of information cross . I
To matter. For everybody we have to address that question. We need to take care of all of our people. I look forward to seeing how the website can be fixed in this hearing today. I look forward to working with my republican colleagues and democratic colleagues to see that we do a constructive job of making this work i would remind all that when we are dealing with Medicare Part d, not something that originated on the side of the aisle, we Work Together to see to it that it worked. Now is an accepted conclusion to a significant problem. That is improved by the Affordable Care act. I thank you for your courtesy. I hope we can work constructively on this matter. The gentleman from michigans time has expired. I would like to introduce the witnesses for todays hearing. Our first witness is Cheryl Campbell, senior vp for cgi federal health in compliance program. She was appointed to this position in 2009. She is the driver of strategy and execution for the practice to serve the needs of prov
So theres been a concerted effort in ac 21 to continue to focus on these issues. The labeling issue is a challenging one because historically our labeling has been for either nutrition or because of a known hazard or something that requires a warning. I think its fair to say that this isnt about nutrition and at least from my perspective, its not about any kind i have safety hazard. This is more about consumers right to know. Candidly i think the debate is a 20th century debate in the 21st century. There was mention of bar codes and other ways, necessarilies in europe is currently using a ur code. It could be Something Like a bar code that would allow folks with smartphone or the ability in Grocery Stores to have reading devices that would allow folks to have all the information they need and want about a product without necessarily creating a label that might accepted the wrong message about the safety of the product. We are engaged with the fda in discussions how we might be able to
Billion in crops. Billionl protect 165 in livestock, poultry, and specialty crops as a result of this budget. Ag will continue to support 140 billion in agricultural exports which helps to support one million jobs at home. The food and nutrition Assistance Programs will benefit nearly 47 million americans under the snap program. 8. 7 women, infant and children under the wic program. Thellion children under summer feeding programs. The food safety budget will provide assistance in detecting our food supply and reducing foodborne illnesses by estimated 52,000 illnesses. Nrcs will provide conservation assistance that will add 23 million acres of land to our conservation programs, helping half a million producers do a better job of conserving soil and protecting water. While it is not related to this budget, it does have an impact on this budget. Our overall budget will also million acres of forest and grasslands under the u. S. Forest service, which will protect 70,000 communities that ar