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Icon, a National Hero of unimaginable proportion and a legend whose name will live in history long after all here today have. Forgotten. Fate looked down kindly on us when she chose neil to be the first to venture to another world. To have the opportunity to look back from space at the beauty of our own. It could have been another. Ow it wasnt. It wasnt for a reason. No one, no one, but no one could have accepted the responsibility of his remarkable accomplishment with more dignity and more grac...

Increasingly this complex, global, integrated that oldfield or marketplace. Such is the nature of war and risk we have to understand better. Secondly, cyberspace. My good friend, general mike hayden has talked about the coming pearl harbor in cyberspace and i agree with him. Its going to happen and we are willfully bug prepared. The third area i was stressed is the growing demographic shift worldwide. For the first time as of last year more people live in cities and that trend is accelerating. I...

New media caucus and the congressional internet caucus. He joins us for the communicators this week. Congressman latta, not a lot going on in Telecommunications Policy in this congress, is that a fair statement . [laughter] guest actually, if youre on the committee, theres a lot going on. Almost weekly weve been having different subcommittee hearings, and weve been very, very active. And, of course, theres some big issues that have been going on like the spectrum auction, and so theres Different...

An audible conversations [inaudible conversations] we are going to find a seat and allow us to get started. We will try to do it on time. Good afternoon. My name is ed howard with the alliance for Health Reform. On behalf of senator bond and senator rockefeller, we want to welcome you to this program to take a look at the initial almost eight weeks of experience since the marketplaces or exchange is open for business on october 1. And the major pieces of implementation of the Affordable Care act...

And the disabled and the chronic conditions, we have got to do more than just keep them covered, we have got to cover and then at th to the cost curv. David blumenthal at commonwealth has done a famous job explaining this. This is what the states are doing that i think its is reay exciting news. Im going to do another session on this. Reforming the Delivery System and reforming the way that we pay for care in this country. We have to treat Health Care Just like a bunch of economic and the words ...

I think that is important on the tax side. What we are looking at is not a progrowth or what is best for the economy, and a solution. We are looking at hitting arbitrary revenue targets. We need to be thinking about both sides of the budget, particularly entitlements. There are a lot of weaknesses and challenges in the retirement programs conducted here not a real sentiment. Too Many Americans live under the Poverty Level because of their benefits. Lets fix that. We need to be talking about refo...

Pretty disgusting. When i was elected president of the senate in 2007, i was the first woman ever to be elected to lead the legislative body in massachusetts. And today, only 25 of our legislature consists of women. And in the senate, the number has grown to 13. This is not just a problem massachusetts. 18 of the 500 seats in congress are made up of women. There is not enough progress. We need to support women who have dreams of running for office. Those of us who are female legislators have to ...

People say thank you for what you are doing. I feel guilty. I can never do for this country what it has done for me. I do not know where i would be of my parents have not come to america. I doubt whether i would be in a place like this. Perhaps i would be like this. Wrong with being a bar tender. I believe there are millions of people that want that for their children and grandchildren in america. Our job is to make it easier for them to do that. And government can play a role. The governor is a...

Were concerned about problems nd its puzzling to me why these key people didnt talk to you about it. They gave you no hint this is existed . Perhaps i just was not included in certain discussions. What you knew then have spoken ld you up more with regard to rolling out the website on october 1 . Luxury of a ad the time machine to go back and change things, but i cant do that. I understand that. It is a matter did you ask someone at that time for more time . No. Why not . Because my direction was...

Makes 5. 25 an hour plus tips. How did you find him . Through some friends of his. I was looking for a guy that is struggling through the economy. That all a suggestion workers of his income status for failing. Host you found them to be typical of minimum wage workers . Guest yes. Here is how. He has this difficult situation. He gets off at 1 30 in the morning gets up at 1 30 in the morning to make it in time for a 4 00 in the morning shift. He relies on public transportation. It is not very rel...