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Obama, since obama has been in office. As a committee there are particular things. I think that of course the administration gave an adequate support in different times ofti the past two or three years but maybe just put it in contextfo uncomfortable for us and not what we were advocating for with the state department and others in thest United States. But this wasnt fortunately a moment where lives were at stake and as would be seen by the rest of the world as a top issue for American Foreign policy or given all the other things going on. So i agree with you that the sort of language they use on several occasions was unhelpful, didnt go as far as we would have liked. W i am not sure whether it ranged alongside some of the things we discussing today for the Foreign Policy issue betweev them. One of the things with the t ....
Perfect, identical rebel. Replica. They want to know that they respect first and foremost that elected official. He or she has a course of principles they wanted to stick with. Secondly, to my larger point, they want to know even if they to people whatn no problem voting for me even though they do not share my belief on that particular issue because that effect that the things i focus in on even on the fiscal issues in my state and that is what they feel they hired me to do. I use example outside of politics. Bei were hiring somebody to the chief executive of a company i had and i said he or she was exceptional chief executive of a smaller company, here are the two things i want him to focus on. Development and sales. If itnot bother me would but i would get over it if they were a vikings are bears fan and i could get over it. As long as they got they do not focus on that. Voters who are different on things like gay marriage and abortion do not really need to worry that you are going t ....
New media caucus and the congressional internet caucus. He joins us for the communicators this week. Congressman latta, not a lot going on in Telecommunications Policy in this congress, is that a fair statement . [laughter] guest actually, if youre on the committee, theres a lot going on. Almost weekly weve been having different subcommittee hearings, and weve been very, very active. And, of course, theres some big issues that have been going on like the spectrum auction, and so theres Different Things out there, and cybersecurity. But sometimes it doesnt make all the news, but the subcommittees been very, very active. Host and were going to talk about some of those issues in this edition of the communicators, but i wanted to ask you about the fcc. Brand new fcc, five be members all coming to see your committee, potentially, in december. Is that correct . Guest c ....
An audible conversations [inaudible conversations] we are going to find a seat and allow us to get started. We will try to do it on time. Good afternoon. My name is ed howard with the alliance for Health Reform. On behalf of senator bond and senator rockefeller, we want to welcome you to this program to take a look at the initial almost eight weeks of experience since the marketplaces or exchange is open for business on october 1. And the major pieces of implementation of the Affordable Care act began taking shape. We want to recognize our partners in this enterprise. The Commonwealth Fund, which is almost four baby just over 100yearsold on the washingtonbased philanthropy devoted to the common good. You will be hearing from Sarah Collins of commonwealth in just a ....
Individual patients through 200,000 visits. So also i would be remiss if i didnt say texas as im sure all of you in this room know, this is not Medicaid Expansion state, so, therefore, only children, the elderly and disabled are still eligible for medicaid. We are also a, on the federal run exchange we did not object to a state exchange. Our marketplace and how people are accessing it, they are coming into our clinic, making appointment or walking in. They meet first with a certified application counselor who starts the process by getting them to walk through the consent. This causes a lot of anxiety for some people, and because theyve heard a lot of bad publicity. Declared about identity theft. Theres also been several groups in houston that have been fraudulent groups out collecting information from people, and basically stealing their identity. Theres been a lot of publicity around it. We have to get over some of that anxie ....