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Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the newly refurbished, excuse me, well, i want to call it the oversight Investigation Committee room which is sometimes used by energy and commerce, and what a but beautiful room. It is more conducive to the good hearing. This is the the first one of the 115th congress and welcome here, and welcome in the Witnesses Today. This is the and welcome back to my friend and colleague Ranking Member from colorado. This is our Medicaid Oversight Committee on existing pr...

That is the discussion we need to be having. Is it fair to say most of the people who are in the waiting list who are develop mentally disabled traumatic brain injured people and those with serious Mental Illness are on medicaid, a different type of population and what has been your findings with the governors with respect to how most of them would like to take care of this population if there are consensus among governors, what is the governor, the legislature to deal with respect to the popula...

But the congress and the government created a situation where the states are rewarded for cutting traditional medicare which deals mostly with children and people who are in greater need and that because of that disincentive or incentive to spend it on the new folks, the newly found undermedicaid, under the new categories, we create the situation where states have to make a decision as to whether they quicken the shortage on the waivers, get rid of the waivers as fast as they can or spend money ...

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the newly refurbished i dont want to call it the oversight investigation room. Which is sometimes used by energy and commerce. What a beautiful room. And it will be more conducive to hearings. This is the first of the 115th congress. Welcome here. And welcome to our Witnesses Today. This is our and welcome back to my friend and colleague, Ranking Member from colorado. This is our medicaid oversight hearing on ways to strengthen the problem. The subcommittee con...

There say vote going on. This is the way i handle the meeting. Im going to call on senator durbin because he has another important meeting he has to go to and so i want him to make his statement. Then ill make my statement. And then ill introduce the first panel and then we wont do anything until mrs. Feinstein gets here. So proceed, senator durbin. Mr. Chairman, thank you for doing this, this is out of order and for those that are new, i appreciate the courtesy extended to me by my friend from ...

Off with the subfreezing air. And it might be on miss stick and the cold air is contracting in the northern foothills and that is going to be the trend and where the worst of the freezing rain will end up before this is often. So the winter storm warning in effect and the advisory and is advising you that this rain moving through and you saw evidence it does not take much to create major problems with the eightcar pile up. Meanwhile subfreezing air down into south carolina. We are waiting for so...

[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. Good morning. Our team is here. The subcommittee on Capital Markets and gics will be hereby called to order. Todays hearing is entitled continued oversight of the secs offices and divisions. Without objection the chair authorizes a recess of the subcommittee at any time and also without objection, members of the Financial Service committee who are not members of the subcommittee may still set and participate in todays hearing. At this point i wil...

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Going to go to ray charles and talk them into let me do and authorized biography of him because i wanted to win the Pulitzer Prize and the nobel prize and i didnt know anything about ghostwriting. So i had a hard time introducing myself to him and getting to him but i was able to do it through my tenacity. And when i did this agent said the u. You want to do his autobiography and i said no i dont. And he said e you do. I said i dont know how to do that. I dont know what a ghostwriter does. He sa...

For second correction. There was no one ever charged second quick correction. The judge said yes to testify and she wouldnt testify on defense. You said that when you met on june 23 you were discussing the effort then you set the second and at that point is you said once again as an aside his wife worked at the south agency. So that wasnt correct . That wasnt correct. Those references were in parentheses and i had told Patrick Fitzgerald i used them for two purposes, number one two remember to a...