Wants to do something with immigration. I know he said he doesnt the senate bill or anything like the senate bill on the floor but he has his committee who has reported off some bills. We may not like those bills that but we think when the senate has 68 members of the senate which has otherwise been deeply divided on by partisan lines over twothirds of the United States senate representing the American Public says we need a conference of immigration bill with a path to citizenship. We believe thats a strong indication that the American People want this done and we hope the house acts. We know the votes are there so theres no reason why we shouldnt get this done. If everyone keeps talking and paying attention to the American People let me also say this is not a challenge to the speaker. This is a suggestion and that is why one of the criterion that we established was that it be bipartisan. Everything passed out of the committee of jurisdiction passed in a bipartisan way in the senate. T
In the United States i am sure you are very aware that we are in the midst of significant budget battles and dysfunctions one might say, and for those of us who watched defense we are particularly the implications of that for u. S. Defense strategy and planning. Im wondering how you would describe the cuts in defense in canada. I dont think you have quite the political environment we do right now but surely you must have the same sense of general interest in how canada plans to go forward and again strategically where canada wants to be in terms of its role in the world and how to underwrite that with military capability. I would love to hear a little bit about the efforts underway in canada including your own defense reform initiative. That looks to cut inefficiencies to free up some funds. Good for you youve got the name right. The defense renewal team has worked a year. One of the first tasks in taking on this position was the direction to maintain everyone and the numbers that i ha
One of the rules that i was thinking about is that whoever is in the Minority Party, they be given three opportunities in one year, every year you get three opportunities, the minority speaker can bring a bill before the floor. Because with the tea party and all of the other people who are moving this ship, they are closing the government down. I believe if the minority speaker would be given like three opportunities to bring a bill before the floor, i think this could stop some of this gridlock. Guest they do actually have that power today to allow that. I know as democrats weve tried to make that happen procedurally and its been moved out of order. There has been may be seven or eight opportunities for republicans to put that in order and to allow the clean continuing resolution to come to the floor to reopen government. I think its the right thing to do. When i think about whats happening not just in my district but around the country, its really devastating not just for federal wor
The change that has gone on in the American Economy is such and the growth of the American Healthcare system is such that in communities run the country, hospitals are the major employer or certainly one of the major employers. Cedarssinai is the sixth largest private employer in los angeles county, just as an example. At the same time, all of us have to recognize that as organizations, we are going to have to be more efficient. We are going to have to figure out how to deliver care in ways we have not thought of until now. Technologies are that are coming along, whether that technology is in the form of new discoveries around Molecular Medicine and other things that allow total cost of care. We have to work on the issue of total cost of care, not just the unit cost. We have to work on both, keeping in mind what is the total cost of care. Over time, using the International Comparison that john mentioned earlier, if you look at what are the reasons for that, i think your observation is
Retirement, but in law there is something called a catchup contribution that you can make to your Retirement Plan after age 50, so that is meant to solve that problem, so that is a good thing. The problem in current law is there is also something called minimum distribution retirements which starts at age 70. 1960. S picked in that was really old. 70 is not old now. So law has a lot of adjustments to make in that regard. I think it would help when you go to college or go to grad school, youre not thinking of next year, youre thinking of a whole career. To think it is best to think of these things in terms of the lifecycle. Hello, thank you so much for having this amazing panel and for each of you being here. I am one of the thousands of feds that are furloughed. Youre not allowed to work. I was told that we would not receive any salary for perhaps three to four weeks or more. And many of us are looking to our Retirement Savings for hardship loans, which is the absolute worst thing to d