Contest, into the convention and general election. That of course, is what this seminar will focus on. Withrocess, the politics the candidates and their campaign, and the policies. Houseth to the white still depends on 270 Electoral College votes. Many of you have probably seen the website, 270 to win. That, are interested in what is the path to victory in the white house . Today,270 votes, as of january 4, 217 of those are viewed as safely democratic. That means that the democratic candidate needs to get 53 more votes. If you think, essay states could could the safe states change, let me tell you what the safe states are. The republicans have 191. California, 55 votes. New york state, 29 votes. Votes. S, 20 michigan, 16. New jersey, 14. Washington, 12. Massachusetts, 11. Maryland 10, oregon seven, connecticut seven. That gets us to 191. Four. Maine, three, anddc, hawaii, four. Once you get to 17, how do you get to 270 . Votes. Ennsylvania is 20 florida is 29. Ohio is 18. 217, a candid
Chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Thompson, for five minutes. Mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the 25 fund act of 1980 required 25 of the tax receipts from timber harvested from the u. S. National forest to be returned to the counties where the tax receipts originated. Since local property taxes cannot be leffveed on federal lands, these dollars along with payment in lufe taxes, or pit funding, are critical in National Forests and other federal lands. This is because the 1908 law specifies that they directly support local schools and road activities in National Forests. Unfortunately
Anyone else want to give us a killer idea, maybe something that has already been mentioned once or twice . Maybe not . I think the improper payment act do not pay hold agencies accountable. When you are measuring that its going to hold them accountable to make it a priority. I also think electronic verification at the state level i think it has proven that those death reports are highly accurate and moving in that direction. I would agree with mr. Brune thats prudent and it would allow them to look at other verification processes that perhaps moves resources to those other areas and i go again to verification of family members and funeral homes. We look at some data of 82 corrections in 2012 and 13 and we pulled a small case sample 46 cases. 35 of those cases, those folks were in fact alive but what . 35 of the 45 pieces we looked at. They were erroneously placed in the file. When you look to the source of those reports it was family members and those are typically regarded as being hi
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 Security administration where he serves as a Senior Adviser for audit in the office of budget finance quality. Mr. Bruin. Thank you chairman johnson, members of the committee. Thank you for inviting me to discuss steps to strengthen the integrity of federal payments. I am senior advicer to the Deputy Commissioner for budget finance quality and management at the Social Security administration. My remarks will focus on our collection of death informationits accuracy, and how we share it with other a
No, i dont think there are there is additional ver figureation. Gherting information that they believe to be true and correct. There is no additional verification. This is agency policy; correct . Senator mccaskill . The agency is not permitted to spend trust fund dollars or a limited administrative tax account on items that dont have a Program Purpose and thats the basis on which we dont verify nonbeneficiary reports senator mccaskill okay. I completely get that but you understand the commonsense argument. Tell you me you do. I do senator mccaskill okay. We have a bill. This is an agency we call it let me google that for you because this is an agency that the vast majority that theyre supposed to be distributing is easily Available Online and they are the Distribution Source for the public desk master file. Have you all given thought if we get rid of it which we should because its a waste of money. We have not considered an alternative distribution method because at present they serve