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And in a speech be he delivered on the 10th of december this year, so a couple of days a he said there is no excuse for 750 billion u. S. Dollars in food waste per year. When we only need 80 billion u. S. Dollars to feed the hungry. And this comes from a businessman, one of the biggest businessmen there is. So he is really sincere. Im very convinced he is. Nevertheless, roughly i onethird of our food is waste, and i think others you will have better figures of that, but lets say in kilograms or ...

Overwhelmingly, and it made it with Social Security actuarially sound for the next half century. That was 1983. So, those folks knew how to get along. Chairman nelson, Ranking Member collins and members of the committee, thank you for holding this hearing. And especially for the opportunity to testify about the future of the longterm policy. The perspective that im about to share comes from my work over the past 20 years of the office of management and budget as a person responsible for the Medi...

I think theres a lot of good law there that could solve a loot of these problems. I think that should be the starting point for a larger conversation about bringing our laws uptodate for the new realities. Guest it says that the internet should be unfettered by state or federal regulation. Host and thats the last word. Robert mcdowell, former fcc commissioner now with the hudson institute, and craig aaron, president and ceo of free press. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago a...

Shovelready project. If there were would would have done it. I if we had invested more in modernizing our infrastructure, it wouldnt some of it might still be spending out but thats fine. Maybe we might have been a little bit could have spent a little more. Could have spent more and im not so sure we were all right that it all had to be timely. This was going to be a long slog, and we did need the longer run investment. I think this debate has gone on for a long time but the fact that so many pe...

How much work they are doing. And these charities are doing sort of, you know, they are really the unsung hero of the humanitarian crisis in syria. Over and over again the kuwaitis are the only theyre the ones that are first donor in every case for humanitarian work. I think theres an aspect of this, too, that is sort of i think i mentioned one example that where do you exactly draw the line on this . So, you know, if youre supporting a hospital that is run by a particular brigade is it humanita...

Similar to one that received 53 democratic votes in the u. S. Senate only two years ago and the spending reduction saket serious start toward reducing our deficit and protecting our National Security. Abs president a balanced offer from the president this is our best option and Senate Democrats should take up both of these measures immediately. The president has a choice mr. Speaker, he can support these measures or be responsible for reckless spending and the largest tax hike in american histor...

[inaudible conversations] this airing of the subcommittee will resume. It would have been ten minutes except the senate train broke down. [laughter] we had to walk over the capital. Please proceed. Good afternoon, mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, members of the committee. Thank you for revisiting this pressing issue. Changing the culture in the prisons will change the culture and our cities and states. The disproportionate and arbitrary use of solitary confinement is not only immoral but they misse...

Riders from new york to boston than all other airlines put together. 50 of people that travel this distance. And between washington d. C. And new york city, amtrak carries twice as many passengers as all Airlines Come bind. Today it carries 75 of inner city travel letters between new york and washington. Amtrak has done all this with the threat of funding cuts and privatization especially of the profitable northeast corridor hanging over its head. We know that in other parts of the world privati...

Ohio, he was a guy who would give you great advice and would work to get you an answer for the problem. So whether it was the Appropriations Committee or quite frankly the Transportation Committee where he served much of his career, was an area where he knew more about transportation and transportation issues, quite frankly than anybody in this town. He was a walking book on transportation issues. Pretty hard for a buckeye to talk about a university of michigan graduate this way, mr. Speaker, bu...

There is among a lot of people a consensus as to what the ingredients of a progrowth fiscal policy are. It will be a fiscal policy that yes, did give more confidence in the long run that we have a path on entitlement spending and revenues and were not pushing off unbearable burdens to the next generation. That is very important. Its also part of a progrowth projobs fiscal strategy ensure that you can invest in the things that are important to growth and productivity. If you could hit every singl...