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Her decision. Later today, she will have a face to face meeting with the president. The focus has turned to john kerry. The hill will be relatively quiet today. The house and senate not in session. John boehner is back in his ohio congressional district. They did meet last night for about 50 minutes. It is friday, december 14. We are going to begin with your calls and our focus on ambassador susan rice. Her decision to take her name out of consideration. What does this tell you about washington ...

You say repeal it, and if you say keep it as is. You can also make a comment on. Ur twitter page you can send us an email at. Ournal at cspan. Org one of the contractors on the front page, there suspect a lot of time in the witness chair at the energy and commerce committee. Same headline and picture on the front page of the Washington Post. Representative kim murphy is on the committee. He is a republican from pennsylvania. Heres a little bit of what he had to say. As chairman of the Oversight ...

Let me start maybe with secretary husted. Photo i. D. To register but only a signator sigget to vote. Is there a signature to vote. Is there a problem with that . There are a dozen of ways, as long as its accepted within your state. If you can get political peace within your state and people can generally agree what the rules are. Thats why i love the title, balance. Its a balance. Every time that you add something that makes it easier to vote, then you have to balance that with something that a...

With that, i yield to the chairman emeritus of the full committee. Thank you. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to make the Affordable Care act work. I remind my colleagues the last perfect law came off of the top of mount sinai with moses, written on a stone tablet. Nothing so good has happened since. I urge us to use our best efforts to see that this law goes into effect and works and that we carry out our responsibility to the American People. To see to it that we do everything we can to...

Form 1040, they have a pie chart that shows this goes to defense, this goes to social spending, paying interest, but i really think it could be much more detailed. I think that kind of education, letting taxpayers know where their money is going, will make a more informed citizenry and update the debate on where you want your money to go as the tax paying public. That is something that i am strongly advocating. I think that will go far. That is the first step to saying, wait a minute, i do not w...

We started with a waiver to cover individuals who are h. I. V. Positive with incomes below the federal poverty limit. This coverage was extended to individuals who are h. I. V. Positive with incomes 100 below the federal poverty limit. The key to maintaining control of the costs there was cost neutrality. The other piece of let me go back. How do i go back . Oh. We then also took the early option to cover childless adults up to 133 . I mentioned that. Effective july, 2010. We also then received ...

Across the nation more than 82 billion in direct spending in one year. The highest burden is in the south where it cost about 35 billion in one year. Are you concerned not expanding medicaid would exacerbate the disparities and leave more people as the sickest in our nation and increase the financial costs in the end . They are going to come to you at some point without having Preventive Care or Health Care Maintenance when they are very sick and cost the state more. Thank you very much to focus...

Talk to them. G to that is of the way it should be. There is a link between the nsa program and others. There are government surveillance issues that have come up. Let me ask. The post had an exceptional story a few weeks ago about the effect of these leak investigations on the whistleblowers. It catalogued how, going up against the mechanisms of the United States government has one person, can destroy lives, even for those for whom the prosecution fell apart. Do you think these early prosecutio...

Specifically subsection 8 of 1311 would allow the secretary to prevent physicians treating patients in exchanges unless they implement such mechanisms to improve Health Care Quality the secretary may require. Physicians must follow quality directives as defined by the secretary or lose their business. Mr. Smith, are you aware of this provision . I am not familiar with that section. Let me ask you this. In this provision, you may not know this either, but the word quality is not defined in the st...

Support to perform the routine activities of daily living and to maintain their quality of life and their independence if possible. I appreciate you calling this hearing to try to improve our current long term financing and Delivery System. As the senate cochair of the Bipartisan Congressional Task disease, izheimers am particularly concerned and sensitive to the needs of alzheimers patients and their i particularly look forward to discussing ways to more support to the 62 million Family Caregiv...