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Not housing, food, travel, transportation. 100,000 in financial assets. Houston, we have a problem. So, theres good news and this is where i want to focus this going forward. And the good news is the culture of aging is changing. I bet if i had time to spend with each one of you what id find is that your attitudes are different than they may have been earlier in your lives. Frankly different than those attitudes that might have existed with your parents and grandparents. The majority of baby boomers want to continue to work or work past age 65. Thats a very good thing. Why . Because work is go...

And committee member, marty sabo. Marty dedicated over 47 years of his life to public service, 28 of which was in this house, including two years as the first Ranking Member of this subcommittee. David, im correct on that, arent i . When we started this subcommittee on Homeland Security in 80, and 03, marpty was Ranking Member, i was the first chairman. We worked together beautifully and i think effectively for those years. He was a true patriot. He was a great legislator, former speaker of his home state house, and many other things. My condolences go out to his family, silvia, his wife, and ...

Back in the early 60s, medicare and medicaid combined were. 1 of gdp. Gdpal security was 2. 6 of and Discretionary Spending was 11 and a half percent of gdp. Medicaid arere and 5. 6 of gdp, Social Security is 4. 9 and discretionary expenditures has shrunk to six and a half percent of gdp. Why is that important . Are reallyyments consumption and you do not get that much return on your investment and i want to highlight the blue line. Back in the 60s, investments as a percentage of the federal budget was higher than transfer payments. They were 32 . They have gone down to 15 . For the republican...

Isis is a predator on that human misery and they will continue to do that. Especially in europe. We have to be thinking much more longterm, unfortunately, about how to deal with the masses, the scale of the refugee crisis, and confront that. Because what we end up with is a bunch of refugee camps where kids have been out of school for 10 years. There is no prospect for your children to have a better life. We are creating a situation in which isis can have an easier time radicalizing communities. Host what about the recently struck deal between europe and turkey. Does that help . Michael i dont...

Democrats, democrat line. Republicans, republican line, and you can tell us what you think on cspan on twitter and on facebook. The phone lines are open. Discourse, thel kind that we see on tv, and the kind that we experience among each other, it did not used to be this bad. And it does not have be this way. Now, a little skepticism is healthy. But when people distrust distrust they come to institutions. They lose faith in government. They lose faith in our future. We can acknowledge this. But we dont have to accept this. And we cant enable it. That was the speaker of the house yesterday, a li...