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To order. Today the finance committee focuses its attention on what in my view is the biggest challenge ahead for medicare and the future of Americas Health care system. That is managing chronic illness. To understand why this is a growing issue, one need only to look at how medicare has changed over the years. When the Medicare Program began, in those early days i was codirector of the cancer, full head of hair and rugged good looks. Medicare was mostly about caring for seniors who needed to go...

Vibrant, where the Public Media Service which would now be along the public media, it wasnt sustainable. We appeared before congress and have this report if any of you are members, we are happy to provide it. It really put to us the idea that public media could exist without the federal appropriation and change the nature of this service to americans. Host can people find a report you and your web site . Guest yes. Host cpb. Org. Guest alternative funding is a longer title. Host jack from manche...

Is that something that you want to speculate on . I think at already speculated. I will note that there is into the record and analysis. Looking at future power costs and actually anticipates their reaction. That is maybe for another hearing or another debate and discussion. Lets turn to our second panel if they could come forward. [inaudible conversations] welcome. It is great to have you all. Happy to introduce our second panel of witnesses. A Diverse Group including three individuals who will...

Water, theres no guarantee. Itll destroy our tourism which brings in to northern minnesota about 200 800 million per year. How many jobs will be lost when it leaks . How many . Doesnt matter which party you are, but we have to do the right thing. Both my opponents here Say Something completely different short term. I dont. I look for a long term. We need that here in northern minnesota. We need someone looking after our children and after our future generations. It may not happen in our time, bu...

When votes are called, well reset for a short period of time, then come back and finish up with questions. This is the Energy Policy health care and entitlements hearing on medicare mismanagement part two. The chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Id like to begin by stating the mission statement. We exist to secure two fundamental principles; first, that americans have the right to know that washington takes from them is well spent, second, americans deserve an e...

A wall. What i need to do is have as much finger pointing as possible to say this is what will solve it knowing that im not asking you to throw anybody under the bus. As the chairman pointed out, were looking for legislative fix for appropriations that need to be done so that we can help this to quit being a problem and so we can obey the law the way that it is written. So i thank the chairman, and i yield back. Thank you, mr. M. D. Does. Meadows. I have additional comments for an Opening Statem...

Africanamerican voters and also africanamerican candidates . Let me share with you, jesse holland, this is from a democrat, he worked for president bill clinton as a speechwriter and he says to t Voting Rights nationwide on heading on inattention by the American People, emboldened by the recent Supreme Court case limiting the reach of the Voting Rights act, they have worked weeklyo cut voting samed is not a paradox because often the africanamerican voters are those who cast their ballots early a...

The first and so far only debate in the senate race monday night. Live on cspan networks joining on the phone is joe gerth who covers politics for the journal. Thanks for being with us. Get a sense of where this race is three weeks out. Guest i think its safe to say that race is very close. The polling in recent months has been trending towards mcconnell asked month up by four points in the bluegrass poll along with two television stations in the newspaper here in kentucky. We recently showed a ...

Conditioned on various things in state cooperation in state enactment and regulations on federal requirements. In the finance committee, the origin of the aca 2002 with the tax credit offered and put in place in that year. The statutory provisions identified in the chairmans mark of the aca as the statutory precursor language that would be modified and build upon in enacting the statute. In fact, the structure of using coverage month as a basis for the part of how you define eligibility wasnt no...

Being made available and not just take this approach. I think the principle of the greater good applies. And there will always be some risky judgments of the data and there will always be a position that is unfairly singled out when in fact that person has been. But as jacob said, you have to look at those and the weigh the benefits against the costs. And i think that we keep in mind the benefits that we are receiving and certainly privacy is part of that. We use our credit cards all the time ev...