This is titled congress and the frank bringing congressional mail standard into the 21st century. I recognize myself to give an opening statement. Happy halloween, everybody. I am dressed as americas most maligned superhero congressman, able to fly across the country in six hours on alaska airlines. We were thinking about titling this hearing Franken Stein how the houses ghoulish mailing standard have haunted members for decades, but i suppose we should go with the official unspooky title for the record. Like most of the issues that fall into this committees mandate, in the work of the House Commission on congressional mailing standard, its very inside baseball. To most people frank is a name or a hot dog or, but the reality is for members of congress, the congressional frank is actually fundamental to how we communicate with our constituents and every time we respond to constituent requests or send news heat e letters or upcoming town halls, we use the frank. Its no surprise with Medi
Impeachment proceedings. It seems like morning, noon, and night the relentless effort to unseat the president of the United States is a toxic strain of potomac fever infecting capitol hill. Now if only congress would channel every waking minute to fix problems in the real world, wouldnt that be wonderful. Let me provide a reality check. For People Living in the real world, impeachment inquiry is not what keeps americans up at night. Its not what wakes up moms and dads worried sick about paying for their childs insulin. Its not what drains the pocketbooks of seniors and takes a big bite out of peoples paychecks. The issue that unites americans from maine to iowa to oregon is the high skyhigh prices that americans and the taxpaying public pay for are paying for prescription medicine. As chairman of the Senate Finance committee, i am working in a bipartisan way to fix whats broken in our drug supply chain. In february we called the heads of big pharma to testify before the finance committ
A discussion of military and civilian National Service programs, from the Brookings Institution, this is just over an hour. 30 seconds. 30 seconds was particularly effective. It is my happy duty to introduce and moderate the second panel. I will begin by introducing myself briefly. I am bill gault, senior fellow in the government studies program at brookings, delighted to be a small cog in the Service Share alliance. And two people in particular, mel sawhill conceding the stand working tirelessly for six months and also john allen, for letting his vast appearance and events moral authority to our enterprise this morning and i think it is a sign that brookings is spiritually aligned with the National Service movement. Let me introduce the question this way. If National Service is the answer, what is the question . And we have heard and i think will hear three very different kinds of answers to that question. It is useful to keep them secret. The first test to do with service as an avenu
Is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan is the unfiltered view of government. Next a look at the congressional mailing rules during a hearing of the House Modernization Committee and experts will talk about how social media is going to affect the way congresspeople communicate with their constituents. This is late yesterday and is about an hour. All right. The meeting is coming to order and without notice the chair is allowed to call this meeting to a conclusion at any time. I now recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Happy halloween, everybody. I am dressed as americas most maligned super hero congress man and able to fly across the country in six hours on alaskan airlines. We were thinking about titling this hearing frankingstein, and how the houses ghoul ishmaeling standards have haunted the members for decades, but i suppose the unspooky title for record, and like most of issues that fall into this committees mandating and the work o
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