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Im actively working with the chairman and our colleagues on this committee to reintroduce legislation from the last session to tackle the problem of improper payments to dead people. Unfortunately we have more work ahead. Last week the Social Security Inspector General released a report stating that 6. 5 Million People have active Social Security numbers who based on the Social Security own records would be more than 112 years old. I think maybe in our country weve had just a handful of people a...

Of the sanctions it was a cig nif event for the United States as well. I would be happy to entertain questions on that when we get into it. So, theres been an awful lot of listening thats gone on. And what i would say is its broken down into a couple of themes. The first theme being this theme of balance finding the sweet spot. As ive said ive spoken to an awful lot of groups similar to this diverse groups, brookings tends to have a very balanced view of things more centrist so perhaps this prog...

In the United States, the United States government does not own industries. Now, some of the industries that are represented within the aec from other countries are at least partially or wholly owned by if state. Theres a state interest in having those countries in there to be able to develop things within the arctic. We took a different approach. First of all, because of our culture, once again, our government does not own industries. Secondly, if we start getting too close with industry, you s...

A. M. A. M. A. M. Cap i call this meeting to order would you call the roll . Doctor lee . Vice president. Here. And harper. Present. Present as well you do have a form. On communications. Communications. 1over orders we will hold a special meeting june 19th. And official notice will be posted after this meeting. Okay we will get that done. Next item. Board of directors new and old business. Have any . Seeing none. Item five executive directors report. Good morning everyone. Were starting our mee...

The poor, elderly, and most of our liberal in our society pursed first. At a time when indiana is doing all it can to grow its economy the epa proposal proposed that it will slow our economic progress in raise peoples utility bills. In indiana, we are obviously concerned about the Economic Impact of the proposed rules on business and consumers, but we have also filed that he one pages of technical comments. We want to make sure the rule does not result in unintended consequences such as reduced ...

Freedom information act, and they do not try to point any exemptions for National Security or classification reasons, it would be an unprecedented event as far as i know. The state department is incredibly aggressive. All agencies of the federal bureaucracy are incredibly aggressive impacting information that could be classified. The notion that the secretary of state, in the course of her duties, could write 55,000 pages or receive 55,000 pages of email and not one ioda of it is classified, wou...

I had the first interviews with the cuban five spies since theyve gotten released by obama. And we were able to put together a sevenminute video that ran on the web that had really great stuff. Both from interviews and walking the streets of havana with these guys who were celebrated as National Heroes down there. If i had to do that for one of the network news, it would have been, if i could have gotten two minutes, it would have been a real gift. But i was able to do something much more in dep...

Px welcome to culturewire. Today we are at recology. They are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique Artist Residency programs. We are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. Welcome to the show, deborah. Tell us how this Program Began 20 years ago. The Program Began 20 years ago. Our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970s. She started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. She started with kids. They had an exhibition at ci...

That you know those days im talking about philanthropy and trying to get those who have suddenly become overnight resources, if you will and trying to convince them to be you know understanding of people like who don and doris fisher are and the charles swabs of the world and the benny hoffs and sdooushgsz all those wonderful people that led the way and the thing i find the most enlightening governor jerry brown is don was on the board of the boys and girls club 6 years before he and doris start...

Isolated individuals and communities. It gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. It is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. You want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. I felt like at meridian, it could do some good. We did not even talk about price until the day before the show. Of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community. But that was not the first consid...