Today. Be it medicare, tricare, private insurance, fehpb for those federal employees and when they dropped that they would immediately go into the va system for two years. I want to ask you to stop and think about that for just a second. To a veteran on medicare, theyre going to drop their medicare, go into the va for two years . And then pay the penalty to get back into part b medicare . For an employee who has private insurance, theyre going to drop their insurance and leave their spouse uncovered because they see some advantage to being on va . Its estimated that 90 of those veteran who is are eligible but not enrolled in va have less than 50 disability rating. The threshold to where its va care comes without a copay. These are individuals who have already made a determination that the coverage theyre under is the best coverage they could have. If not, they would be enrolled in the va today. So, the fact that cbo now says with just the execution of this minor reform legislation it w
Recording artists and singer song writers who do value pandora because it is the only outlet, the only Distribution Platform available for them to find an audience that loves their music. Ms. Cash . That is what a lot of us are calling the exposure argument that we are seduced into thinking if we allow these performances without pay that we will get exposure therefore drive consumers to buy our records. That may or may not be true but the point still remains we dont have control over those copyrights and we are not paid fair compensation, we are not paid fair market rates. As i said before, theres no transparency about this. Its somewhat manipulative. And i feel that we end up subsidizing these multibillion dollar companies. They use our music as Something Like a loss leader to draw people in and then they make the money. And to confirm what mr. Williams said, the place that artists have the most control are sync licenses. Ive given my songs for free, my choice, to College Students mak
I am sorry. This was the wrong decision. But i think its right that weve had a Public Inquiry in this country that is right that we have proper investigations. Yesterday, once again showed that no one is above the law in our country. Miliband . Mr. Speaker, today we know that for four years, the Prime Ministers handpicked closest adviser was a criminal and brought disgrace to downing street. We anyhow also know that the Prime Minister willfully ignored multiple warnings about him. On the 8th of july 2009, the guardian published evidence of phone hacking on an industrial scale when coulson was editor of the news of the world. At that time coulson was his director of communications. What action did he take . As i said a moment ago, the assurances i sought and received were the same assurances received by the press complaints commission, by select committee of this house and by police investigations. They were also thoroughly gone into by the leff levison inquir. Specifically, he talks ab
Director of communications. What actions did he take. As i said a moment ago, the assurances that i received were the same that i received by the press complaints commission, by police investigations. They were also thoroughly gone into by the levison inquiry, an inquiry i supported. Specifically he talks about warnings specifically on the warning from the guardian. Levison said this. The editor of the guardian did not raise the issue with mr. Cameron at meetings both in the month after the article was published and the following year. He says this. He says this. Honorable members want to hear. There can be no criticism of mr. Cameron for not raising the issue. We had an exhaustive inquiry. I know he didnt like the result of the inquiry but he should accept it. Mr. Speaker, that is a lo longwinded way of saying when it come to couldon, he didnt want to know the evidence. First warning ignored. Lets move onto may 2010. The deputy Prime Minister warned him in person about his deep concer
Next a british Prime Minister David Cameron takes questions from the members of the house of commons and outgoing president the congressional gold medal and another chance to with a tomorrow on washington journal, the author of 100 victories, special ops in the future of american warfare, discusses u. S. Military options in iraq. John gable examines the impact of the Health Care Law so far on insurance plans, including pricing. Texas congressman henry dont bonilla talks about the attempts to break gridlock in washington. We take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal live on cspan. During this weeks question time, british Prime Minister David Cameron discussed the hiring of former news of the world editor andy colson as his inmunications your back 2010. Mr. Colson was charged with intercepting voice mails, also known as phone hacking. The Prime Minister apologized to members for hiring him, saying it was the wrong decision. Opposition l