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Business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection, so ordered. Mr. Mcconnell i ask unanimous consent the appointments at the desk appear separately in the record as if made by the chair. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President could we have order in the senate . The presiding officer the senate will be in order. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that the filing deadline for seconddegree amendments to s. 17...

Buildings not urge encourage new units in the weaker buildings it may be a possibility to discuss with the supervisor i think there is open channels for discussion about following this we want your support to help spur those cultivations into something meaningful but a possibility maybe a new possibility for an upgrade an added occupant to that building or maybe other provisions that we can workout but the idea is that we really want your support in getting the mess out to the community we want ...

Honorable john roth Inspector General for the department of Homeland Security. Ms. Jennifer grover acting director security and justice of at the Government Accountability office and mr. Rafi ron president and ceo of new Age Security Solutions and also has extensive Airport Security work that he has personally participated in in israel. We welcome you all pursuant to Committee Rules all witnesses will be sworn before they testify so if you will rise and raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swe...

With the legislation and weve accomplished the best in the shortterm and we have got a Good Foundation Going Forward and good on you and you know its gratifying to us up here to have had some of that happen in this forum because sometimes you know were advisory sometimes it can feel thank less and rather lonely up here and you guys are six times the number of people we often have in the gallery and its actually been very comforting to have you here so thank you. We have Public Comment first and ...

65. By 2030 that number will have grown by 30 million. And by 2050, that number will have grown by 40 million. So as you can see, the percentage of the old old as you in the orange and yellow boxes in this chart grows very quickly. Again, if you think back to the chart in terms of the amount of per capita spending that increases as people age you see we are looking at a growing number of individuals who, in fact, will be the most expensive portion of the Medicare Program. At the same time we hav...

We wait until kids get really really sick, and then we take them into the medicaid program. In the next few years, half the countrys going to have either diabetes or prediabetes. The issue is healthy food. And getting healthy food to our citizens. This is one piece of it. And we need to do a better job with the s. N. A. P. Program. But just to cut these benefits and just wait until they drive up costs because theyre eating bad food is not the right approach. I yield back the balance of my time. ...

Thank you for considering this. This is a subject thats been going around and around for a long time. Ive been a professional massage therapist for over 40 years working in San Francisco in the healthcare business cpmc aids patients Ortho Services and working for chiropractors and licensed by the city of San Francisco and they have been in business for 30 years and everything is going along wonderfully and ive provided myself over sixty thousand healing massage sessions in my career so far. Im p...

65. By 2030 that number will have grown by 30 million. And by 2050, that number will have grown by 40 million. So as you can see, the percentage of the old old as you in the orange and yellow boxes in this chart grows very quickly. Again, if you think back to the chart in terms of the amount of per capita spending that increases as people age you see we are looking at a growing number of individuals who, in fact, will be the most expensive portion of the Medicare Program. At the same time we hav...

Essential in in the legislative process is you have found yourself a sponsor in supervisor weiner and a supporter and dare i say a champion at this point and someone who will you know listen to and give you some considered thought and sometimes its hard to pierce the veil and i think you have and we all feel very comfortable working with supervisor weiner hes a very level headed and thoughtful person and i think you have a good person on your side and hes committed to not only these amendments o...

Saying lets give states the ultimate flexibility and to innovate according to our to their unique characteristics. In michigan, in the year 2000, we had between 1 and 8 and 1 in 9 michigan residents on medicaid. Now we have 1 in 4 on medicaid. As we notice across the country, over 30 of physicians are not even accepting new medicaid patients. And this is at the same time when federal reimbursement rates for medicaid are being cut across the country. So it is not a sustainable program. I think wh...