Staff testified about the ssi disability program. And the process for filing disability claims. Sam johnson chairs the ways and means subcommittee on Social Security. This is an hour and 40 minutes. Good morning to all of you. And welcome to todays hearing. On the challenges Social Security faces when deciding if a person should receive disability benefits. Since i have been chairman, we have held 18 hearings including today on the Disability Insurance program. On one topic or another. Now thats a lot of hearings. But the Disability Insurance program is too important for Social Security not to get it right. Americans pay taxes on their hard earned wages for the promise of future Social Security benefits. When the worker retires, and is unable to work unable to disability or dies. These benefits are an important part of a familys financial security. And americans rightfully expect that when they apply for benefits, if they are eligible, that they will receive them quickly. But for those
With the backlog forhose of drawing applyingor benefits. The challenges faces, since i have been chairman we have held 18 hearings including today on the Disability Insurance program. On one topic or another. Now thats a lot of hearings. But the Disability Insurance program is too important for Social Security not to get it right. Americans pay taxes on their hard earned wages for the promise of future social secuty benefits. When the worker retires, and is unable to work unable to disability or dies. These benefits are animportant part of a familys financial security. And americans rightfully expect that when they apply for benefits, if they areeligible, that they will receive them ickly. But for those applying for disability benefits, that isnt the case. Today over 1Million People are waiting for a heing with Social Security admistrative law judges and on the average these folks will wt around 600 days to get that hearing. Thats nearly two years. And thats after waiting almost four m
[inaudible conversations] c good morning. The hearing on agriculture in the state of the Rural Committee will come to order. Bow our heads please. Dear heavenly father we come before you increase to first of all say thank you. We thank you for so Many Blessings as you bestow upon us, many of which we dont even know on this occasion we ask a special blessing on our agriculture industry and that your blessings, upon her new secretary of agriculture, sonny perdue. Dear heavenly father, finally we thank you for your holy spirit. For oftentimes we know not what we should pray for but your holy spirit intercedes for us. We thank you for that and we ask your holy spirit to be in this room today. These and other blessings we ask for your son christ jesus, amen. David thank you. Mr. Secretary welcome. You and i have had several conversations before this party but let me officially congratulate you on becoming our nations 31st secretary of agriculture. We are excited about working with you and c
[inaudible conversations] c good morning. The hearing on agriculture in the state of the Rural Committee will come to order. Bow our heads please. Dear heavenly father we come before you increase to first of all say thank you. We thank you for so Many Blessings as you bestow upon us, many of which we dont even know on this occasion we ask a special blessing on our agriculture industry and that your blessings, upon her new secretary of agriculture, sonny perdue. Dear heavenly father, finally we thank you for your holy spirit. For oftentimes we know not what we should pray for but your holy spirit intercedes for us. We thank you for that and we ask your holy spirit to be in this room today. These and other blessings we ask for your son christ jesus, amen. David thank you. Mr. Secretary welcome. You and i have had several conversations before this party but let me officially congratulate you on becoming our nations 31st secretary of agriculture. We are excited about working with you and c
England patriots taking on the Atlanta Falcons in this years super bowl, but the real winner of the game could just be the advertisers. According to ad age commercial spending last year was nearly 380 million. This year advertisers will shell out a cool 5 million for just 30 seconds of air time, and the big payoff is big. Nearly onethird of the entire u. S. Population is expected to watch the game. Fox sports pulled an ad by 84 lumber because it showed an image of a border wall. Kind of political there, right . Ad Agency Officials said the spot was changed to make it more acceptable to the network. With me now to talk about all of this is steve mourinho, chief creative officer of butler and clark, ab c, a Marketing Agency with offices in pennsylvania and delaware. Welcome, steve. Thanks for being here. 84 lumber said they had to change the ad to be less political. They tried something here that apparently fell flat. This has happened before. Theres so much buildup to the game that adve