Away will you have to change the guidelines for Eminent Domain from like the case and rhode island are you going to change the guidelines to say we will take your homes because you cannot afford the mortgage, read develop another community develop another community will you change the laws for Eminent Domain . And two how are you addressing the loss or does everybody have to be a homeowner . Is it ok to beat a renter . Be a renter . There was a piece of that that i wanted to speak to because you got at something i was alluding to earlier. If, in fact, the program does not require that the previous owner has the right to buy a home back, those properties, balloons could be purchased and the homeowners could be out of their homes. That was the concern i was racing. I thought that got your point about what if the government uses its authority to buy those loans and say by definition of this program you are upside down by x percentage and you cannot afford the loan so we purchased it and w
With. So this twisted this in the way of getting it implemented. The Court Challenge actually means by the youth action by congress and the action by the next president says states have until 2018 to file plans. Which of those risks are considered the greatest and what are you doing to counter it . We are committing to getting this done. We have a year to finalize this which they are taking comments and we have a request for a number of senators to extend this to 120 days, which they agreed to do that. And so we have heard about this for the last 120 days. And i said when i came into my position in january 1 of the principal things that i need to do is to make sure that the direction to the epa the president gave last summer as part of the overall action plan and that is to propose this and when i said that i didnt really realize that that was a sunday. And we are committing to finishing the roll to create this implementation by the epa. And he noted that some states can move that back
Their spouse has passed away, they are, in general, tougher and financial circumstances. It is not that i would not have some sympathy for changing benefits, but i would like to do is lower the most for those who are most capable of withstanding the reduction. What do you say . I think the most important point to make about the change cb i is it saves you very little in the long run. It raises you very little on the tax side. If thats the only thing we are contemplating, i guess we talked about eligibility for medicare but we were not talking about sufficient reforms to fix the problem we face. While historically, the chain cpi may have gone up by two or three points less than the cpi w use, there is no guarantee. Is just a forecast. That is just a forecast. We could save more or less depending on how things work out in terms of real reform, i would much rather look at something of this sort that bob discussed, some sort of progress of indexing approach to the problem. That would lower
Later was chief counselor of the Senate Agriculture committee. In 1988 he founded the wellknown Government Relations firm with his brother tony. He served president clinton as to be the chief of staff and then as white house chief of staff until 2001. He was cochairman of obamas Transition Team in 2008. He is the proud father of air force captain gabe podesta. So much for prior review. Now to the process portion of our program. Anga a gas alliance is sponsoring todays breakfast. Our thanks to them, for sitting at the table back there keeping me from the pain of premature retirement. Sponsors or not, we are on the record here. No live blogging and no filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway to give us time to listen to what the guest says. There will be no embargo at the end. As regular attendees know the monitor breakfast is one of the last bastions of fusty folkways. Do the traditional thing and send me a subtle nonthreatening signal, and i will happily call on everyone with
Thank you. Thank you all very much. Lieutenant governor, madam speaker, mr. President , members of our congressional delegation, members of the supreme court, members of our legislator, and fellow nunalance, since George Washington delivered the first state of the union in new york city on this day, in 1790, it has been the tradition of executive leaders to report on the condition of the nation and the state at the beginning of a legislative year. And so today it is my honor and pleasure to give you this report on the state of our state. One year ago, we were scheduled to gather on this second tuesday in january when our friend and colleague alice decroach passed suddenly the night before. Causing us to delay this report. I miss his card work and kind spirit and think of him often in this job. Im so pleased to see his wife here in this chamber as the duely elected member of the Assembly Continues his hard work and does honor to his memory. Thank you. Just three months ago, we were proc