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Committee we rely on is something called nancy which is the National Counselor for local portability and they have made a recommendation for the contract for the entity that will provide that particular service. That is an item that got a lot of press over the last few weeks and that is one of the items on the agenda. You probably guessed i will talk about that as much other than to say we have a recommendation and we will vote on that at the march meeting are there concerns this would go a fore...

Inaccurate information, even though you were going into the office. Correct. Thank you. Miss rivers, thank you for your testimony. I think every member of this committee offers an apology and certainly our commitment well work with the people in the agencies to try and create law create legislation that will prevent this from happening to another american. So, thank you again for your testimony. Youre dismissed. Thank you. Our next witness will be sean bruin. He joins us today from the Social Se...

Even more dialogue and probably more partnership with the government on this. This is a serious issue and will become a competitive issue. Is this deciding i want to be in Computer Science in fifth grade or fourth grade or is this something i can recover from if im 16 or 18 or 20 . I think theres vary opinions on that and i welcome the other panelists opinions on that, but what the data has suggested is that if you dont have the right math and Science Education k through 12 and especially throug...

I would simply say that from personal observation, i was in bud a pest in 1994 when the agreement was signed that the russians have violated, so im very alive to the the possibility that we had then and i think still need to stick up for of independent ukraine able to find its own way politically and economically is the only thing i would say. In the first instance it is terribly important that that occurment and occur. And the other thing i will say is that nobody should mistake that ukraine is...

Im actively working with the chairman and our colleagues on this committee to reintroduce legislation from the last session to tackle the problem of improper payments to dead people. Unfortunately we have more work ahead. Last week the Social Security Inspector General released a report stating that 6. 5 Million People have active Social Security numbers who based on the Social Security own records would be more than 112 years old. I think maybe in our country weve had just a handful of people a...

Also believe it is a goodfaith proposal that i think will serve the people of our state well for many years to come. We will seek the maximum allowable time under the law for that waiver. Let me say as i close, and then i will finish the formal program but i can catch up with some of you afterwards if you want. I served 12 years in the congress and i served the better part of a year and a half i have become more convinced every day that the cure for what ails our country is going to come more fr...

Chase this all day long and go from one extreme to the other and were going to find significant flaws in our ability to hold providers accountable and to support providers to do a better job. And what we havent done in this conversation, im as concerned as anyone else about getting it wrong and overpayments. Im also concerned your part a providers, large providers, and part b providers, hot spot providers, they cant afford go through the process. . That regard your data is skewed. For one group....

Smaller provider versus a larger one. There is different medical record request requirements to try to limit that burden that is being placed especially on the smaller provider. It would be very interesting now particularly i represent rural arizona and so i would like to see some type of movement to try to make that accountable. You know, when you said an overturn rate with part a what about part b . You know, im actually not aware of i dont have the figure in front of me. We can actually conne...

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Mr. Reid mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Reid i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Reid mr. President , this senate is a place where we make friends we have our differences on policy but we really are a senate family. And its just not that way with democrats who work here in the senate. Its also with republicans. When we work together, which we do outside the view of most of the public, we work w...