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In addition to my responsibilities intimacy, i serve in leadership roles on the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. And as a member of the federal advisory committee. I spent most of my career and insurance regular can, previously serving in kentucky. I have a strong affinity for the statebased oversight. My testimony today will highlight the history of tennessee coops. My comments will focus on events this year that ultimately led to on october 14. They were awarded loans and advan...

To the other plan raise costs . Every plan lost. That is what i understand. They had to underbid. Some survived and some did not. We did not have any company accurately. And so some of our larger established companies could withstand losses, but the coop did not have resources available. What would you say are the top reasons, 1200 the 23 failed . Internal problems, too. Do you have insight into the top reasons why they fail . I do not know what happened in the other groups surprising payments a...

Reviewing all of the state situation on an individual basis. And heres why. And i saw this from my and being in congress where my state things in july that the money is going to be sufficient for risk corridor payments. Then they here in october that no, thats not going to happen. And have a real degree of uncertainty without cms is getting that state coop with them how theyre doing their capitalization, how theyre feeling they are viability and they dont know day today whether theyre going to b...

I decided they were critical questions i wanted to get into about what was the meaning of smoking, its impact, as an american historian, i began to realize there was almost no aspect of 20thcentury american ,ife from advertising to film medicine and science, regulation politics, that in some way could not be encapsulated by investigating the history of smoking the cigarette century. The problem again how best to do that. I added a fifth question as i was getting near the end. So did smoking come...

Significant numbers actually. So, all of you, thank you. Senator cornyn, i do think and i believe you mentioned it miss mcdonald that the ability to have people in prison begin to work before theyre released has real potential. Maybe mr. Tollman you mentioned it. I do think that can work. My observation over the years of attempts to have education and other kind of characterbuilding programs in prison before theyre released doesnt seem to have much benefit. Do you agree with that, miss mcdonald ...

Paul. And that is on the Violent Crime side, we tend to have a lower crime rate than a lot of other states while at the same time keeping our incarceration rate lower by using more probation and using more treatment options. So thats why im a fan of the work thats been done here. And my first question is really along those lines of drug courts. Ive led some. Efforts here on drug courts and getting funding for drug courts carrying on the work of many that came before me, including ted kennedy and...

Stories of americas 45 first ladies. Now, at nixon on first ladies influence an image. This is about 90 minutes. [applause] in i stay in the wings and do not come out too often. This is quite unusual for me. I do want to thank all of you for your friendship and your loyal support and for the planning of this wonderful evening for me. I shall remember it always. And thanks to the young people for this great welcome. Pat nixon, the first republican first lady to address a national convention, miam...

Corridors and they were confident they would get the must be back because i said what are you presuming for the number of healthy subscrapers under age 30 . Well, a third of our subscribers will be young and healthy. And i said you know what are you guys smoking . Thats not going to happen. Whats going to happen when it community . Well, well lose money and the government will make it up to us. This was set up for failure from day one. The Insurance Companies knew it was going to fail. They rele...

I would point out that in a number of these states, for example, georgia North Carolina experienced after the implementation of their Reentry Program something modelled after the corrections act, they saw a 19. 3 reduction in recidivism. Other states, 10 in georgia, 9. 4 , right right. I think rather than take this as a matter of faith or perhaps expressing our hopes and best wishes, we actually have some real results we can point to that demonstrate the workability of some of these programs. I ...

Influence and image. Tonight, well tell you the story of pat nixon, although her time in the white house was really eclipsed by her husbands resignation from office in the wake of watergate. So were going to tell more about her record and learn more about her life before the white house, what she did while she was there, and her legacy. Here are our two guests to tell her story. Tim naftali is a president ial historian and the former head of the Nixon Library. And meet mary brennan, who is a pat...