The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to this morning steering and today were going to consider the nomination of seema verma to serve as administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services. Welcome, ms. Verma, to the we are so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. I see that your family has joined you here today to lend support. I extend a warm welcome to all of them and to you as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer, covering over onethird of the u. S. Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over one trillion dollars and it processes over 1. 2 billion claims a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulnerable citizens. Ms. Verma, having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state Medicaid Programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on daily basis. I suspec
So because of my experience with these patients, ive been working for years to actually help raise money for awareness for muscle disease, treatment for the disease. I served as a local host in wyoming for the multiple sclerosis Associations Annual labor day telethon. Every year i was amazed at the dedication and the generosity of people around the country who were calling in pledges at the pledge center at the love centers in caspar, wyoming. People would call in, wed always raise over 100,000. People were very committed to finding a cure for the muscle disease, to send young people with the disease to summer camp where they found a level of freedom and friendship that they didnt often find throughout the rest of the year. It was a great time for the young people with the disease and it gave their parents a rest as well. I think many of us in this body remember jerry lewis hosting this jerry lewis labor day telethon as it was called for more than 40 years. He would always end the tele
Treated for minor injuries. We are live in east islip, emily smith. Emily, thank you. New information on the self proclaimed red light robin hood, moments after confessing to our cameras last night, the long island map was arrested, and police are warning that any wouldbe copycats would not be tolerated. Carolyn gusoff has more. Carolyn . Reporter alice, he said he was trying to do things legally, lobbying the legislature but it hasnt worked, so he knowingly broke the law. Suffolk police said she is looking at jail time. Stephen ruth, smiling broadly, said he got what he wanted. He cut the wires running dozens of red light cameras. You realize what you are doing a crime . I call it saving lives. Reporter last year, the selfproclaimed red light robin hood was charged with a victim for pointing lights s away from traffic, and in january, he cut down a camera pole. Crews are splicing back together the cut wires on at least 18 cameras across Suffolk County. In Suffolk County, you have the
I would like to remind the members of the public that the commission does not tolerate any disruption or outbursts of any kind, please silence the cell phones, if you care to state your name for the record. I would like to take roll. Woning. Here. Wu. Here. Antonini. Here. Hillis. Here. Johnson. Here. Moore. Here. Richards. Here. And for the recreation and Park Commission. Buell. Here. Low. Here. Lef. And mcdonnell have an excused absence. Thank you, commissioners. Under your special calendar, please note that the joint commissions will hold one public hearing for the public to provide testimony on all items listed below, including consideration of whether to certificate the eir. Following the public hearing, the Planning Commission will consider action on certificating the final Impact Report and the recreation and Park Commission will act jointly to consider raising the shadow limit for the park, and the Recreation Commission will consider making a recommendation to the Planning Comm
To provide testimony on all items listed below, including consideration of whether to certificate the eir. Following the public hearing, the Planning Commission will consider action on certificating the final Impact Report and the recreation and Park Commission will act jointly to consider raising the shadow limit for the park, and the Recreation Commission will consider making a recommendation to the Planning Commission, regarding the possible, adverse effect on the park, and following action on those items. The recreation and Park Commission will adjourn. And the Planning Commission will remain in session, and separately consider, action on all other entitlements. Item one, case number 2011. 0409 eat 925, Mission Street and various parcels known as the 5 m project. Certification of the environmental Impact Report, please note that the public hearing is closed. The Public Comment period for the draft ier ended on january, 7, 2015, the Public Comment will be received when the item is c