Assist and help in preserving our agricultural production, and expand new uses and opportunities for agricultural products. And we will also focus on an effort to do a better job of addressing the challenges that the poultry industry in particular face with disease. We have antiquated facilities, which is, frankly, true of our entire Agricultural Research service. We need a new and creative way to address the challenges of our infrastructure, and one way we can do that is by taking a look at our unobligated balances as representative farr had suggested, allowing us to retain those balances, that are within a budget thats been approved by this committee, and use them to upgrade our facilities. This would also give us an opportunity to better manage and perhaps reduce the 70 million square feet of space that we currently operate, lease or own. As i shared with you earlier, yesterday, mr. Chairman, i think there is an opportunity for us to save significant resources by rightsizing our ren
Yes. Mr. Lau. Yes. Did your Companies Meet as a group with h. H. S. Before you started the process . Anyone . Did your Companies Meet together with h. H. S. To discuss the integration . Mr. Lau, go ahead. Yes, the security people from c. M. S. And others have coordinated this. All right. Let me ask each of you a question. How many people in each of your companies have physical access to the database servers storing the enrolling information . We have zero access to the database. Zero. I believe the also zero for our qssi. We have no access to c. M. S. s servers. Ok. Mr. Lau. 2,000 people. 2,000 people have access to the database . Through the key entry of the applications. Ok. You know, under hipaa regs, no one is supposed to have direct access to that database. Ok. Under the Current Technology infrastructure, how many separate servers or virtual servers in the cloud are being used to host and store data for healthcare. Gov . And ms. Campbell, mr. Slavitt, i think thats primarily to yo
To consumers. And then it deceived the United States government. Ive already spoken on the floor about section 612 of the agreement that g. M. Signed that indicated there were no material adverse facts at the time that it was bailed out, 2009, as part of a reorganization. That deception is bad enough. But what happened as a result of that reorganization was a shield from liability, a form of immunity against legal accountability that was granted only because g. M. Failed to disclose to the United States and to the Bankruptcy Court that at that might well be liable and in fact was responsible for these defective vehicles. That shield from liability still bedevils the victims of injuries, death, and economic damage as they seek to hold g. M. Accountable, because g. M. Itself is invoking that shield in courts today aren around the cy and seeking to dismiss actions brought against it, seeking to return them to the Bankruptcy Court where the black hole of discharge will prevent recovery. I
Caterpillar had been reporting most of the income from the sale of its Replacement Parts outside of the u. S. On its u. S. Tax return. Is that correct . That is correct. That is when it sold parts to caterpillars nonu. S. Dealers. Is that correct . Yes. 85 or more of its nonu. S. Income is included on caterpillars u. S. Tax return. Is that correct . That is correct. After caterpillar executed csarl transaction starting in 1999 is the correct that caterpillar basically reversed those percentages and allocated 15 or less of the nonu. S. Parts and come to itself in the United States and 85 or more to csarl in switzerland which had an effective tax rate between four and 6 . Is that correct . Thats correct. In terms of their arrangement that caterpillar had with respect to his relationship with caterpillar csarl that was in fact a business arrangement that included a license for more than just the parts activities themselves and included the entire Business Activities undertaken by caterpil
Its not the memories that are dying hard here but that a lot of folks are hardly getting by. They dont have the money to invest and i suspect that the cost of running the new Health Care Law are not helping matters any. Theres an old housing rule of thumb that a realtor friend of mine passed along. If youre feeling that her home, youre thinking about a nicer home. But she also implied was if you are not feeling at home, youre not thinking about a nicer home but youre worried an uptight and i really think what ails this recovery is how tepid it has made our expectations. We are grateful for so little because its never amounted to much because for a lot of folks this economy hasnt done much. It hasnt made them whole or heal their financial wounds or restore their confidence or hope that their kids will have a better life. It hasnt made the americans confident enough or much of anything. But that is hardly the stuff of what dreams are made. So back to the survey and hes one of three want