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Care they need. I would just add quickly that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners is currently reworking its model act on Network Adequacy includes addressing the question of provider directories and holding 2 1 2 hours of Conference Calls every week which i think is unprecedented in my experience. The state regulators who are ultimately responsible for this are very aware that there is an issue here that needs to be addressed. Commercial alert. The alliance will be holding webin...

Regulation worked. Well talk about that at another brookings event. Airline regulation, not quite so much. More people can fly now. If you adjust for consumer price, Airline Deregulation has worked, i agree with you, a lot of airlines suck, but that is not because flying sucks, i just was on an airplane yesterday. I know this is going to be tweeted now. No but that line. A lot of people dont like airlines. And its important to talk about this, because people will say, oh, my god, if you do it fo...

Actually say in the beer distributors pockets. It was public money that was supposed to go to promoting recycling but was instead winding up in the distributors pockets just because of an error in the way the law was constructed. They were very active in political campaigns and that loophole of what we knew about it for years and years and years was not corrected. My first term in the legislature in 2009 was the first year the legislature was publicly financed. I cant point to a direct correlati...

That is why we sent you to grow america act last year and why we will send you a new and improved grow america act this year. We certainly know that the grow america act is not the only approach to solving the infrastructure and mobility challenges of the future. We look forward to fully engaging this committee and with others on both sides of the aisle to chart this path together. But we believe there are some essential principles that any bill must have. First were going to need a substantiall...

Great big mansion if we have the resources to build a hut. And i think that our system right now really needs a substantial injection of a longterm bill but also substantial growth to counteract the cumulative effect of the shortterm measures in the recent past. And one followup real quickly on that specific point. Is there a version of that proposal you are talking about that doesnt have the big tax increase on successful folks as part of it . Because going back to the spirit of my comments, im...

Screeria nigeria. R Sherrod Brown who talks about the Affordable Care act. This is an hour and 15 minutes. So this session is the future of Medicaid Expansion and the Childrens Health Insurance Program. And what we want you to get out of this is the best messaging for promoting and protecting the Medicaid Expansion and extending funding for the Childrens Health Insurance Program, which were just going to keep calling c. H. I. P. Let me take a moment to introduce our two speakers. On the far left...

Again, to do it in a way thats environmentally sensitive. I think we can get that done and actually move the ball forward a bit. Thank you mr. Chairman. En in light of the fact we have governs standing governors standing by. We will wait for them. Thank you. This is an incredibly issue for new york state. Mas mass tras it nearly 8. 5 Million People bride the buses and trains in the city. Would you agree that it is important for them to receive money through the trust fund if congress were to cut...

Do. Thank you. Thank you senator. Thank you. We will recognize now senator rounds for his first introduction to this committee and how delighted we are to have him serving on the committee. Thank you mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary, thanks for the opportunity to visit with you just a little bit today. Coming from south dakota it strikes me that in our home state, were between 800 and 9 900,000 accept during the time of the Sturgis Rally and then we bump up considerably. It seems like as a former may...

National debt. I believe your answer to that question was focused on the size of the debt in relationship to the economy. The gdp, which i understand. I understand the argument and i understand the analysis. Its something that we talked about a lot in budget circles over the last few years. The the question i have though is does that really justify a budget that continues to frankly borrow hundreds of billions of dollars every year . And to spend that money in an effort to as you indicated to st...

While this was 2011, i was the School Principal when the first iphone came out. I remember the frenzy at my school with parents buying cell phones. And i knew i was text messaging most of my friends. I thought, im seeing everybody here in this room using cell phones. Why is it possible we cant do a call to action right now with a phone . Teld tell me, dont use technology. Poor parents dont have access to technology. That was the first thing. The second one is because i was so close to the heart ...