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Item 3, approval of the december 6, 2017 meeting minutes, motion to approve . Any comments or questions . To the public . Hearing none, all in favor . Any opposed . Thank you. The motion carries. Item 4, reports, the director report, thank you, shireen. Director mcspadden thank you, commissioner, and i want to extend a special welcome to commissioner papas very happy to have you working with us. I was at the National Association on aging board meeting. I mentioned before, but for those of you wh...

Which is a nice change of pace for me. I will take those tough questions later today. I am very happy to tag and some of the brightest and best that the administrator should have. As the president has said we are all focused on making our economy a place where women can work, succeed in a private like never before. The president has the power to so many women throughout his career in the private sector and now he is doing that here at the white house. Im excited to join here on stage by several ...

Well be reporting out on those. The bills where there was no action, they could come up again, but today is the first day to the legislature reconvenes. So we dont know what bills theyre going to bring up or what new ones they may add. Senator weiner has a bill, sb 1103, on bicycle yielding, similar to the legislation we have here in San Francisco where you can yield the rightofway. You can yield and dont have to come to a full stop. The joint ledge committee has been opposed to that and thats i...

Abigail . Another roller coaster ride, earlier up more than 1 , and then down more than 1 . Right now we are down about 1 . The volatility we have seen all we continue. This started last week, major averages put in their worst Weekly Performance since january 2016, extending into this week. Lets see this fiveday chart of the doubt. This is monday, where stocks were holding in, and then all of a sudden at the lows, down 1600 points. Buy the did action, frenzied buying, resulting in wednesday bein...

This budget deal will be the best thing weve done for our economy, our military, our middle class for a long time. I yield the floor. Can b you believe the medicaid money that was given to puerto rico in a lump sum called a block grant is going to end, its going to run out next mont month, but, the 4. 8 billion in supplemental for puerto ricos medi Medicare Program along with the 100 federal match for two years, we can guarantee that a million of our fellow u. S. Citizens on the island wont be d...

I am the Deputy Director of the Human Services agency for administration. And i guess id like to start off by talking about our process and where we are in the process and then we will go into the substance of this presentation. So, the department of aging and Adult Services is of course part of the Human Services agency. And the Human Services agency has within it a sort of a large support staff area. It does a number of things, but one of the things we do is we develop the budget for the agenc...

Look forward to your testimony. Of the past year our committee has been working to improve, strengthen, and streamline health and welfare programs under our jurisdiction. We have taken action to cut needless red tape, and make it more difficult for providers to deliver highquality care to their patients. We recently advanced targeted bipartisan reforms to improve medicare for the American People. Continuing the drive to strengthen a quality and care coordination. A role intee played developing c...

Health and Human Services secretary took questions on the president s proposed budget for 2019. He was asked about funding for medicare and medicaid, combating the Opioid Epidemic and the cost of Prescription Drugs. He testified before the Senate Finance committee. The committee will come to order. I want to express the sadness we all feel in light of yesterdays events in florida. I was personally horrified as i watched the news unfold yesterday though i was also moved to hear some of the storie...

We know you are only two weeks into this job, but we expect you to know everything. We are still reviewing the effects of the recent reforms in the budget caps adjustments that were included in last weeks bipartisan budget act and we look forward to your testimony. Over the past year our committee has been working to improve, strengthen and streamline health care and welfare programs under our jurisdiction. In health care we have taken action to cut needless red tape. It makes it more difficult ...

President s would weve ever had. And a grandfather, whirl wind johnson hosted a tennis camp including for Althea Gibson and arthur ashe. My grandfather, a phenomenal physician, but somehow managed to be a student of the tennis game and transform that learning into a program that would, for decades, provide players an opportunity for africanamericans to integrate the sport. Watch the cspan cities tour saturday beginning at 5 p. M. Eastern, sunday at 2 p. M. On American History tv on cspan 3. Work...