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Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you madam secretary, for being here. There are some questions i want to bring up to begin with. Then we will get to the questions. These are things i want your shop to answer. One are the medicare wage indexes. If you look at those around the country, it was never intended to be like that. 20 of the highest are in california and massachusetts. 14 of the lowest are in alabama and tennessee. For instance, what you get paid in santa cruz, california is 1. 7 with a medicare wage index. And. 73 where i live. Its putting us out of business. That needs to desperately be...

Abide by the rigid man daytodays under the law. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the law results in 2. 5 million fewer fulltime jobs reflecting what we heard over and over again from employers who have no choice but to cut hours or delay hiring because of the laws burden mandates. Prices skyrocket. Health Insurance Companies are seeking rate increases of, quote, 20 to 40 or more. Markets are still adjusting to the quote, shock waves, set off by the Affordable Care act. After nearly 2 trillion in new government spending, its estimated more than 25 million individuals still lack basic H...

Thank you, senator. From my perspective, having joined as a correctional officer in 1988 and around that time the bureaus population was a little more than 60,000. I think historically when you book at the bureau of prisons and go back from 1940 to 1980, the bureaus population pretty much remained flat for many, many years in excess of 20,000. So in 1980, which is the primary target for this discussion, we, as an agency, we had approximately 24,000 inmates in the federal system. We had less than 9,000 employees, 41 institutions and able to operate the entour bur en tour bureau of prisons for 3...

Information with regard to the question of premium cigars and how they are or are not sold to children. That was a part of what we are trying to do. And we are reviewing that. And we are in the middle of that process now. Having said that, as we are in that process, a part of your question was the recognition of small employers. And that is something that will be taken into consideration no matter where the rule ends, its something i think is very important that we do as we think about implementation. And so wherever the rule making comes out, as we are in a process. But i do want to recognize...

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...