Restroom at a d. C. Hotel. Shocking allegations against poultry producers. A debilitating disease. I wish it was me. I really wish it was me. Dee smith and her husband taking aim at alzheimers and offering a message of hope. Check it out. We begin with a major mess at one airport that could impact passengers all over the country in to the weekend. Hello, everybody. Im doreen gensler. Thousands of checked bags couldnt be screened and now diverted to other airports out west. Chris lawrence is at the live desk with the latest. We are watching a meltdown at the phoenix airport. A Technical Glitch caused 3,000 checked bags t flights and almost all ended up in a parking lot here at sky harbor. The tsa experienced what they are calling an unprecedented computer issue and could it automatically screen the bags for explosives. They have been bringing in extra k9 units to do it manually but so many bags were stacking up they had to send them to the parking lot. Now passengers are flying 0 it of
Stated that no democrats in aprops would sign onto and that they wanted to vote referred to a block grant. This is dealing for zika. For the funding of Health Services provided by Public Health departments, hospitals are reimbursed through Public Health plans. Seriously . Youre opposed to that . Thats what youre fighting over . Why people every day and the mosquitoes begin to grow and go beyond state by state, this is what were fighting over . That 1. 1 billion added with the other 600 million took place in june. Yeah, we couldnt get to the floor to debate it because you wouldnt give us one microphone. But im sorry. I know theres a lot of political that goes around here but this is not. This is the moment, this is the time that we rise above it. The American People do not deserve that. And i say lets put this paragraph out. Let the public read what the bill says and i will promise you the majority wants you to vote for it and stop playing games. I yield back. Mr. Hoyer i understand the
Earlier today, former louisiana senator attended that House Oversight subcommittee hearing on louisiana flooding and the federal response. She served three terms in the senate and was in office when Hurricane Katrina made landfall in august, 2005. She chaired the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee from 2014 to 2015. If you missed any of todays hearing on the louisiana flooding, well be showing it again tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. Other programming this weekend, book tv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. And here are some of our programs for this coming weekend. Saturday night at 9 00 eastern, new york city principal talks about starting an inner City Middle School in her book the bridge to brilliance how one principal in in a tough community is inspiring the world. She was featured on the humans of new york website which subsequently went viral. At 10 00, former u. S. Attorney general Alberto Gonzalez talks about his life during the george w. Bush ad
These are the goals that the secretary announced. Really focus on the dark circle on the page. The dark circle is the percentage of medicare fee for Service Payments in the alternative payment models. In 2011, they were zero. No medicare payments in the model. In 2014, at the end of 2014, about 20 of the 362 billion of the medicare feeforService Payments, excluding Medicare Advantage. But the numbers are similar. 20 were alternative payment models. The goal is by the end of 2016 30 of the feeforService Payments will be in the new alternative payment models that work and 50 by the end of 2018. So this is the first time in the history of the Medicare Program that we have set Broad National goals, and what is critical to understand is its not just a medicare project. This past wednesday at the white house, you may have seen president obama picked up something called off something called for health care learning Action Network where we have convened a commercial payers medicare organizatio
Diagnosed with early onset alzheimers. The hearing is about two hours. Senator collins this hearing will come to order. We have convened this afternoons hearing to assess our nations progress in combating alzheimers disease since the enactment of the national alzheimers project act which i coauthored with thensenator evan bayh in 2011. I dont need to tell the people in this room what a devastating disease alzheimers is. It exacts a tremendous personal and economic toll on the individual, the family, and our society. In addition to the human suffering it causes, alzheimers costs the United States more than 226 billion a year. Including 153 billion in costs to medicare and medicaid. These costs will skyrocket as the baby boom generation ages. Already, our nations most already our nations most costly disease, alzheimers is projected to cost more than 1. 1 trillion in 2050 if nothing is done to change its current trajectory. Alzheimers is also one of our nations leading causes of death. Th