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Were ready to reconvene. Senator klobuchar is next. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I talked a little bit about the Health Insurance consolidation and i know we had some quick answers there from both of you. We have a little more luxury of time now, so if you could, finish up, mr. Swedish. I was asking you, remember, about why you needed the merger to achieve some of these cost goals that you have. Thank you for the followup question. What id like to do is maybe describe to you the various pr...

In the bucket that compares to the challenge that is likely to come. Am i wrong . Is that a strategy thats the wrong way to go about it . Im not sure you would get a majority of votes in this body for it. I think the vote we had about using military force against the use of chemical weapons against civilians barely got a majority in this committee and likely will not get a majority in the senate or in the house. Still if the administration were to advocate strongly for it, there is some bipartis...

Thank you all for being here today and the excellent testimony you have offered so far. I am deeply concerned about these mergers because of the potential effect on competition and the concentration of power in fewer hands. Ive expressed those concerns publicly in some sense. I have a feeling that like the saying about marriage that this merger may be the triumph of hope over experience, the experience that is suggested by a lot of the scholarship done in this area is consolidation is so rapidly...

Street. Weve had cases in which we did testing. In the testing much like during the lunch counters in the 1960s. We sent welltrained people into Police Departments to ask for the form to complain about police misconduct. I can tell you go on the internet and i love google. Go on the internet and google these cases and what youll see is a young man well trained asking nicely for the report to fill out, but when they stood there, first, the desk sergeant said i wont give you a form unless you tell...

Important topics. That is coming up in october. We have a giant delegation, both government and civil society, planning to go. If youre interested, youre all invited. Certainly lots of topics important to us will be discussed. So back to open data and the United States. I mentioned that in 2013, president obama issued an open order eo, executive order, for default information. Accompanying that was the open data policy, which we refer to as m1313 for you government nerds in the room. That direct...

Will take place. Of course, all of this is happening as a result of the current house speaker, john boehner, announcing last friday that hell be resigning at the end of october. This meeting by the House Rules Committee expected to get under way shortly. Theyll consider the rules for debate on a bill that would gave states flexibility in denying funds under medicaid to planned parenthood or other groups that provide Abortion Services. That bill coming to the house floor tomorrow. The legislative...

How does that affect ones thinking about how to measure risk . Well, if you still go back to sources and methods, which is what we most importantly have to protect, i still think there has been an overreliance on technology. Even though it is changing rapidly and we have to continue to improve how we use technology and data, you have to rely on it. There is nothing greater than good oldfashioned human intelligence gathering. It is going to be more difficult. A lot of times it is the human intell...

And ochk that extends beyond the courtroom and the actions that we bring. Working with many members who are sponsoring this wonderful weekend and other members of congress as well, weve promoted legislative proposals to resore the Voting Rights act to its full and proerp. Weve profoesed legislation that would expand access to polling places for those living on indian villages and other tribal lands. We cannot have a situation in this country where the original americans are kept out of the parti...

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Welcome. There are many meanings of transparency. Im not going to get into all of them today, but im sure there will be many different aspects. Their widely divergent opinions on the successes of the Obama Administration and i hope to explore some of those today. President obama made a number of promises when he was running for president. A number are Still Available on change. Gov. During the course of the administration, new issues came up. Everything from Campaign Finance disclosure to dealin...