Welcome. Welcome to the september meeting of the Lincoln Group of the district of columbia. Im david j. Kent on the president of the Lincoln Group of district of columbia. And this is kind of a special night because not only is our first meeting since june, but we also have zoom. We have a video being recorded and this is my official book launch for my new book, lincoln the fire of genius. So thank you. I know a lot of people like when are coming in and i really appreciate that. Im going to give a talk tonight about about lincoln and the fire and basically look at well, i just let me look at just the the the subtitle because that i think that really describes the book. Its however ham lincolns commitment to science and Technology Helped modernize america. So thats what im going to talk about tonight. And just to give you a little background, im going to talk about, i guess start with the book is really kind of the kind of piece set out in the three different sections. The first is like
Welcome. Welcome to the september meeting of the Lincoln Group of the district of columbia. Im david j. Kent on the president of the Lincoln Group of district of columbia. And this is kind of a special night because not only is our first meeting since june, but we also have zoom. We have a video being recorded and this is my official book launch for my new book, lincoln the fire of genius. So thank you. I know a lot of people like when are coming in and i really appreciate that. Im going to give a talk tonight about about lincoln and the fire and basically look at well, i just let me look at just the the the subtitle because that i think that really describes the book. Its however ham lincolns commitment to science and Technology Helped modernize america. So thats what im going to talk about tonight. And just to give you a little background, im going to talk about, i guess start with the book is really kind of the kind of piece set out in the three different sections. The first is like
Government company was privatized in britain. The British Government did that for the same reason weve got problems with our u. S. Yes. Declining mail volume and deed for greater efficiency in the market economy. So britain has done. Iselin note i see no reason why this country cant privatized its postal system. Thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Arnold. Minus Brandon Arnold and the Vice President of Government Affairs for the National Taxpayers union. Thank you to the committee and the chairmen and ranking ever for having me today. Lef. By myself i would include a heck of a lot more, but you know, when you are cooperating there is a lot to talk about bipartisan cooperation. We are very pleased to work to find stuff that we both agreed upon. I dont have time to go through all 65 recommendations in this brief period but the report is included in some entire dna binder and i hope that without objection the entire binder be placed on the record. I hope he will share it with your staff an
Affordable care act demanded that coverage at policies have minimum coverage requirements, and thats why because the cost of many of those policies have gone up and people have been notified and then they cannot get those policies january 1 of 2014 because the there demandedo include some an additional things. Why would Medicare Advantage not cost more . Because there are more things in it, more provisions, Preventive Care, annual physical examinations, a nurse checking up to make sure that the patient got the medications filled, return for their appointment and timely follow up. So together that program and thats what this is all about, im looking forward to what the witches has to say about it. It made no sense to cut 300 billion out of a program that 29 of Medicare Beneficiaries had chosen, and its gone up over the years, each and every year but i just about. The gentlemans time has expired. The chair recognizes the Ranking Member americas mr. Dingell five minutes for an Opening Sta
The appendices about what, how to design and make manageable your local and state election website. These are developed by david, for those who know her. And expert who is develop these field guides, and one is state voter websites. [inaudible] mentioned two states that have gone to all mail voting. Is any discussion among the commissioners of the test and received or in the report about the virtue of each state retaining is one option among these other early voting options or things like that, but retaining as one option the voting day, you know, first tuesday after the first monday, at least for federal elections as provided in title ii. Retaining that one day for voting just because of the civic virtue value of having that opportunity to exercise that one day. I know ms. Patrick talked about not reducing the resources that are needed for that one day, and i think some of us feel its very important to have that one day, but going to all mail is a mistake. I was wondering if you discu