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Senate special aging committee. This is an hour and a half. Good afternoon. It is my great pleasure to call to order the very first hearing of the Senate Special committee on aging. In the 114th congress i have had the honor of being a member of this committee since my very first days in the United States senate and i am delighted to now assume the chairmanship. This is the first time that a maine senator has chaired the committee since the mid1990s when my predecessor and good friend senator bi...

From the Justice Department regarding what has transpired in terms of their examination of what the appropriate measures are to be taken by Police Officers and whether Civil Liberties are being properly protected and that would certainly provide the committee doing further work on this. In the meantime we can study this and i personally continue to believe and i think most members believe our Police Officers do very important work to protect our citizens from crime, keeping this safety as well b...

Together i am proud to look back and all the b have achieved with new jobs in the response of the balanced budget and smart reform to testing with a stronger mentalhealth system a greater equality of opportunity all across the commonwealth weve made great progress together but serious challenges remain i have every confidence we can beat them but only if we Work Together and though the if we start today division i have shared with you tonight it does not originate from confrontation or partisans...

Its infancy in terms of understanding, but it gives you the breadth of the impact Climate Change can have on our lives and particularly on tribal nations. In terms of what were doing concerning some of the steps were taking on the Climate Action plan that the president developed is i think as you all know and secretary jewell mentioned is weve moved forward with the Clean Power Plan which is our plan to regulate Carbon Pollution from our live resources which are our power plants. We have had con...

Good morning, everyone. My name is nirra tanden president and ceo of the center for american progress, and im really honored to be joined by our esteemed Commission Members for the new report from the Inclusive Commission a commission convened over a year and a half ago. Im very honored to be joined by our cochairs, dr. Larry summers, former treasury secretary, and ed ball shadow chancellor of the exchequer for the u. K. We convened this commission because we at cap are very focused on the chall...

There are group van jones are involved with are somewhere else and then there in the middle is the constitution project which tries to bring these groups together and this panel today really represents a cross spectrum view of this problem and, i will introduce the Panel Members as we go on but i have to say from the beginning, our representative from koch, represents a group that has been in interested in criminal Justice Reform from the beginning, families against mandatory minimums was really...

Times the 1st resort for insurable property that was not insured and those losses again it is a decision that we have to look at how to best ensure communities are able to rebuild but at the same time dont support or continue growing the risk. We have to understand there is a a certain amount of risk out there. The exposure for just south florida for a repeat a repeat of the great Miami Hurricane would be in the hundreds of billions of dollars with federal cost exceeding both sandy and katrina. ...

Include the opt out clause within the next ten days . Has any insurer participating in the 2015 Affordable Care act exchanges expressed any concern at any time to anyone to your knowledge in the executive branch regarding the lack of an appropriation of funds to make cost sharing reduction payment  you made this comment about tortured scoring. Lets go through it very quickly. Isnt it true that the Affordable Careuw act received revenue in years in which it was paying nothing out which allowed i...

The National Freight Advisory Committee had 81 recommendations that they gave to us. A lot of those we can act upon with an existing authority, including thinking about freight multimodally. Our National Freight Strategic Plan really takes that tack. Some of the other things is that theyve recommended to us is figuring out where our data gaps are. Thats where youll see in our conditions and performance report thats upcoming a real emphasis on where our data gaps are. Also theyve aggressed theyve...

Draw attention to. Id be really interested in hearing about places where people have done Creative Things specifically on this question of Building Trust between police and communities. I share your concerns on the broader issues. Because were not talking about them i dont want you to feel like youre not being heard. The questions of gun access and drug policy are very big issues that Law Enforcement have to bare the brunt of but im interested in any recommendations that youd like to endorse eit...